tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post1114321455856151502..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Music for four accordionsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-44345717933498718832009-02-14T21:41:00.000+00:002009-02-14T21:41:00.000+00:00I have the same Tilson Thomas Tchaikovsky suites r...I have the same Tilson Thomas Tchaikovsky suites recording, but the original LP not the CD. I love the Suite No.2 and the first time I heard it, years before, it was definitely those accordions that charmed me.Sergiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12477611506706892253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-23330026824965524312009-02-14T13:31:00.000+00:002009-02-14T13:31:00.000+00:00A couple of useful links here -http://roberthanks....A couple of useful links here -<BR/><BR/>http://roberthanks.typepad.com/zoo_in_the_head/2009/02/squeeze.htmlPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-6120799476554514472009-02-14T09:28:00.000+00:002009-02-14T09:28:00.000+00:00It's never seemed to me that the 'musical elite' a...It's never seemed to me that the 'musical elite' are particularly snotty about the instruments of Western 'folk' music, or the music itself, but perhaps AS is right and it has escaped me. Anyway, this discussion reminded me of a disc I came across browsing in the library. It bears the title Bach Sonata and Partita No. 1 for Violin adapted for 5-string Banjo, and the performer is one Eugene Chadbourne. I rather liked the idea of Bach on the banjo, though I thought the choice of works rather odd, so I gave it a listen. Quite horrible, really, and in parts sounding very much like something which, unaware, you might suppose third-drawer Japanese. It can be sampled by googling 'Bach Chadbourne Artist Direct' and as an example of a real curio it's worth a listen.Philip Amoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11739418522974972567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-18519566191864013252009-02-13T15:19:00.000+00:002009-02-13T15:19:00.000+00:00This brings up the subject of how anything "folk" ...This brings up the subject of how anything "folk" is perceived by the supposed musical elite -- both music and instruments. See: John Jacob Niles, for instance.<BR/><BR/>The only exception to this seems to be if it comes from somewhere else -- i.e., the performer is always been if they're from a long ways away. "Folk" instruments are respected if, say, they're a Shakuhachi, but not, say, the nearly identical Native American instrument. <BR/><BR/>I guess it's because the assumption is that "folk" music and instruments aren't "educated" properly, and therefore can't possibly contribute anything to the realm of "proper" music? I don't know. <BR/><BR/>All I know is that the best composers pretty much all appropriated folk tunes and sometimes folk instruments...even Mozart.La Cowntessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11373178747064421890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-15989290747708202702009-02-13T13:44:00.000+00:002009-02-13T13:44:00.000+00:00Is the absence of works including accordion from p...Is the absence of works including accordion from programmes today (except for the ubiquitous Osvaldo Golijov) due to the credit squeeze?Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-21254256320573854742009-02-13T13:39:00.000+00:002009-02-13T13:39:00.000+00:00Email received:Years ago, I found a recording of B...<I>Email received:</I><BR/><BR/>Years ago, I found a recording of Beethoven's Fifth played by an accordion orchestra from the States. It was not a transcription. Each orchestral part was accorded to an accordion. It was interesting, I must say. <BR/><BR/>And if Tchaikovsky's 2nd Suite is hard to recorded because you need four accordions, how on earth did we get more than a handful of recordings of Arnold's A Grand Grand Overture? I guess there are more Hoovers out there than squeeze boxes. <BR/><BR/>Cheers<BR/>David Cavlovic<BR/><BR/><I>Quite so David. But you try getting Arnold's A Grand Grand Overture performed today.</I>Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-47374239905960903862009-02-13T11:51:00.000+00:002009-02-13T11:51:00.000+00:00Another little-known cracker is Tchaikovsky's Suit...Another little-known cracker is Tchaikovsky's Suite No. 3 for Orchestra.<BR/><BR/>Back in the 1970s EMI's Douglas Pudney suggested to Sir Adrian Boult's producer Christopher Bishop that the Suite No. 3 was worth Sir Adrian recording. The result was a gem of an LP.<BR/><BR/>It is still available as part of a 2 CD Tchaikovsky compilation. Worth buying for the Orchestral Suite alone.<BR/><BR/>http://www.emiclassics.co.uk/release.php?id=5099951762421<BR/><BR/>The late Douglas Pudney was the catalyst for many fine recordings. I hope to publish a tribute to him later in the year.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com