Comments on: Finishing Touches http://www.soiveheard.com/2009/05/finishing-touches/ Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:01:17 +0000 hourly 1 By: CK Dexter Haven http://www.soiveheard.com/2009/05/finishing-touches/comment-page-1/#comment-48 CK Dexter Haven Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:43:47 +0000 http://soiveheard.com/?p=3049#comment-48 I find the Berio edits/completions to have various levels of enjoyability at first hearing. Something like "Contrapunctus XIX" is pretty obviously Bach and therefore easier to digest, but most of the other stuff I try to appreciate (whether I like it or not) at face value as a Berio work inspired by Composer X. On first hearing, I found "Rendering" interesting if not entirely compelling . . . Based on Alan's comments, I'll have to give it some more chances. I find the Berio edits/completions to have various levels of enjoyability at first hearing. Something like “Contrapunctus XIX” is pretty obviously Bach and therefore easier to digest, but most of the other stuff I try to appreciate (whether I like it or not) at face value as a Berio work inspired by Composer X.

On first hearing, I found “Rendering” interesting if not entirely compelling . . . Based on Alan’s comments, I’ll have to give it some more chances.

]]> By: Alan Rich http://www.soiveheard.com/2009/05/finishing-touches/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Alan Rich Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:20 +0000 http://soiveheard.com/?p=3049#comment-47 That was my first reaction, but I grew to accept what Berio was trying to do: a kind of paraphrase-plus-commentary. He's done this before, in a big choral piece called "Coro" and in "A-Ronne," a very wise piece for small vocal ensemble that's a sort of word-game. You'll probably recoil from his Monteverdi rewrites, too; I don't. I admire the quality of his mind. That was my first reaction, but I grew to accept what Berio was trying to do: a kind of paraphrase-plus-commentary. He’s done this before, in a big choral piece called “Coro” and in “A-Ronne,” a very wise piece for small vocal ensemble that’s a sort of word-game. You’ll probably recoil from his Monteverdi rewrites, too; I don’t. I admire the quality of his mind.

]]> By: DB http://www.soiveheard.com/2009/05/finishing-touches/comment-page-1/#comment-46 DB Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:30:13 +0000 http://soiveheard.com/?p=3049#comment-46 A listening to the Berio left me with the very strong desire that he should dashed well keep his grubby hands off Schubert. A listening to the Berio left me with the very strong desire that he should dashed well keep his grubby hands off Schubert.

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