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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Some really FUN Brandenburgs posted by andy evans on December 18, 2006 at 13:32:46:
andy evans,Several years ago a friend of mine in Italy who's a record producer in France sent me a VHS tape- I had to have the damnable thing converted from PAL- and she wanted me to see if this group might be a candidate for the Music in Historic Sites" the fantastic recitals in historic places series here in Los Angeles. My friend and I had heard Andrew Manze and Richard Egarr in the old May Company building on Wilshire. They should hook Andrew Manze up to the grid- he could make us energy independent.
The group on the tape was one I'd never heard of, "Il Giardino Armonico" but as my friend- the only person playing jazz slap viola da gamba in Italy was so excited by them I gave it a serious listen. The music was Vivialdi and I dreaded another dizzy, vibrato-free, polite "Seasons". But, not at all- it sounded like a clown orchestra that was sent to a good but casual conservatory- humour, sparkle, show-offing, messing around, and actual exceitement from ol' Tony Vivaldi- it was, in short, actually fun! I'll bet with a couple of decades under their belts they can even wake Brahms from the dead! I wanted to hate it actually, but it is so quirky and unpredictable I couldn't resist. Of course, you should consider that some of my favourite keyboard composers wrote distintly eccentric music: Sweelinck, Froberger, Alkan, Satie, and Prokofiev.
Digression: [Sorry but the joke about Vivaldi writing the same concerto 600 times is partly true- the problem is that there is occasionally genius, but you have to go through all 600 pieces to find the 20 really interesting ones- and those are not the 8 we always hear. The thing that bothers me perhaps is that Vivaldi seems so unadventurous harmonically- very conventional chord progressions used again and again. I want some bump and grind- chromaticism and fugues!]
I had a radio programme then, but that didn't hold sway with Mary Ann Bonino- Dr. Bonino to me- the organizer- or rather the schedule was already for completed for two years ahead, so I was not the impresario that introduced "Il lGiardino.
I haven't heard their "Brandenburgs", but I'm quite sure it will be compelling and fresh and goofy enough to make me sing along, tap my toes and hum the bass line in falsetto. Everything is wrong and yet I have to hear it- just play along!
And mates: a "Yay" from clarkjohnsen- especially for something as eccentrically new as Il Giardino is something not to my knowledge herein previously bestowed- a "must buy" recommendation if I ever saw one..
Try something fresh- go for a ride without your helmet, jump off a high place with only an unmbrella- that ol' Karajan/Berlin Phil version of the Brandenburgs will always be there waiting for you, like a sleepy elephant asking you to waltz,..
Cheer,
Bambi
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- "Il Giardino Armonico": translated: "The Guards' Harmonicas" - Bambi B 21:23:28 12/18/06 (0)
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