King Crimson - Larks Tongues in Aspic

Boy, this thread reminds me that I don't listen much any more, for the sake of listening. Everything is work-oriented -- some MIDI version of a piano piece a composer wants me to hear (and consider playing, of course), multiple takes and edits for recordings I'm working on, etc.

Now and then I put on something to really listen but I end up using it as background while I'm chopping veggies for dinner. So I don't pay enough attention.

If we're off somewhere in the car, I actually listen to stuff. Lately, that means a CD of 2-piano works by Christian Wolff, and some Perotin (organum) sung by the Hilliard Ensemble.

Joe

joe - ever heard the hilliard ensemble's transcription of Bach's Chaconne (from the violin partita). Its hauntingly beautiful.

Van McCoy, "The Hustle" on Netscape Radio... boy does that take me back!!!

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Originally posted by jon-nyc:
joe - ever heard the hilliard ensemble's transcription of Bach's Chaconne (from the violin partita). Its hauntingly beautiful.

No, I haven't. Wow...wonder how they handled the transcription. I love the Hilliard's approach and musicianship in general, BTW. I think I have them doing Ockeghem's Missa Prolationem and motets, too.

Joe

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Originally posted by RealPlayer:
Ockeghem's Missa Prolationem

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!









Runs away screaming in terror.....

There's just too much trauma associated with that one to allow me to listen to it ever again.

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Originally posted by Nunatax:

Hey M! My teacher is a Zimerman FANATIC. Gaga-nuts over the guy. SHe saw him at Carnegie last month has nearly needed to be hospitalized.

The Whistling Guy I work with is whistling Guantanamera this morning.

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Originally posted by Matt G.:

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Originally posted by RealPlayer:
Ockeghem's Missa Prolationem

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Runs away screaming in terror.....

There's just too much trauma associated with that one to allow me to listen to it ever again.

Huh? Do explain. Did somebody tie you to a chair and force you to transcribe it from a recording or something?

Joe

Joe, maybe I could try listening again 19 years later.... Ockeghem's Missa prolationem was apparently my music history professor's favorite composition of all time, polyphony's sine qua non in her book. The undue amount of time we spent listening to and studying that piece forced us to nearly ignore studying music of the late Renaissance, as it got short shrift at the end of the semester due to time constraints. That fact still bugs me after all these years.

Those of you who are Madeleine Peyroux fans will find this quite nice.