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^Hmmm. I'm being a grumpy sod about the festival.

Firstly the website is nearly as bad a disaster as it was last year.
Secondly, everytime I book festival tickets, there is a family crisis and I don't get to go.
Lastly, there's nothing in the programme that really looks interesting apart from MacMillan's new percussion concerto. The rest of it is all very predictable same old, same old.
 
Conlon Nancarrow player piano box

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Erm, what can I say?

I think that the Edinburgh Festival is far too conservative this year, I hope that the new director, Mr Linehan, gets a bit experimental next year. Hint, this would be a cheap show in the Queen's Hall. The Hub? I see that funding has been frozen for a few years at £4.7 million.
 
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A CD replacement of my much loved vinyl copy of Handel's Water Musick conducted by Nicholas McGegan on Harmonia Mundi USA recorded by Peter McGrath.
 
Martha Argerich & Friends' latest Live from Lugano (2014) as recommended on CD Review last week. An absolute delight as always: old favorites plus new (to me, anyway) pieces to expand one's horizons, and I haven't got as far as cds 2 & 3 yet.
 
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Maria Joao Pires solo box, nice recordings.

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I saw her close up playing a Beethoven concerto once, I don't know what she was singing to herself, but it was not Beethoven. Very odd, but a memorable performance which went down very well with the Usher Hall crowd.
 
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David Watkin Bach Cello Suites

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I have enjoyed his playing so many times live with the SCO, he also featured in Gardiner's TV programme - Bach, a Passionate Life.

This is sadly his last Cello recording having had to give up due to scleroderma. I certainly wish him well with his conducting and academic career.
 
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alanbeeb said:
Firstly the website is nearly as bad a disaster as it was last year.
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I tend to agree. Most visitors are 40+ and don't like this cheap-looking animation stuff.

What I further don't understand is that there is a Lucerne Festival, an Easter Lucerne Festival, and a Piano Festival. You have to subscribe to all three newsletters on order to keep informed, the result is an avalanche of e-mails.

BUT the venue is first-rate just like the artists.
 
Opened the Muti, Chicago live Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet. Not a great recording- the strings are an amorphous lump, winds and percussion fair better. Good reading of the score but not as good as his Philadelphia from decades ago. That recording woke me up to this work.
 
gustavm said:
You can blame that on Schubert - his 7th is even more unfinished than the Unfinished (no 8)
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Depends how you look at it <grin>. The 7th was fully 'written', but not orchestrated, the unfinished has two movements missing completely.

A score draw perhaps?
 
Oh no, it's as bad as Bruckner 0 and Mahler 10 then? Thanks, I must do some research, the booklet is rather confusing - Schubert is new to me,
 
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I really enjoyed this, good performance of the overshadowed 2nd symphony, and the Cello concerto performance was R3 Building a Library top choice. But the Improvisation on a theme by Benjamin Britten is completely new to me - its a superb mini-symphony.
Performance are excellent and the recordings are sumptuous.
 
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