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Discussion: Bartok: Violin Rhapsodies, Hungarian Folksongs - Csaba/Frankl

Posts: 8

Post by zeus August 6, 2003 (1 of 8)
This is one of the best discs from my last batch (and priced keenly as well). These are very approachable works with wonderful playing. A nice recording too ... it doesn't say but I suspect DSD as it was done by Lyrinx in France. Two winners out of two from Praga Digitals thus far!

Anyone else have this?

Post by pann August 6, 2003 (2 of 8)
zeus said:
Anyone else have this?

Where did you get this one? Thanks in advance.

Post by zeus August 6, 2003 (3 of 8)
pann said:

Where did you get this one? Thanks in advance.

I got it from MDT (http://www.mdt.co.uk) but I note that Acoustic Sounds now have this in stock as well.

Post by dovenestedtower August 7, 2003 (4 of 8)
That's exciting news. Was just listening to the Rhapsodies last weekend (from an old Hungaroton CD). Bartok is one of my favorites.

It's sort of like the early days of CD all over again. At first, it's just the mass-appeal stuff, then they start getting into more and more of the music I really love (Stravinsky, Bartok, jazz singers, Vaughan Williams, etc.

Extra credit and a virtual Van Dyke Parks autograph (hint) to anyone who can explain the derivation of my moniker above.

Post by nucaleena August 12, 2003 (5 of 8)
dovenestedtower said:

That's exciting news. Was just listening to the Rhapsodies last weekend (from an old Hungaroton CD). Bartok is one of my favorites.

It's sort of like the early days of CD all over again. At first, it's just the mass-appeal stuff, then they start getting into more and more of the music I really love (Stravinsky, Bartok, jazz singers, Vaughan Williams, etc.

Extra credit and a virtual Van Dyke Parks autograph (hint) to anyone who can explain the derivation of my moniker above.

noticed your autonomenclatural challenge while looking at Stephen's recommendation of the bartok disc, - despite your reference to Van Dyke Parks it sounds nineteenth century, a la Wordsworth, Scott, Tennyson, but you're probably going to tell me that it came instead from Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys or a Procol Harum or a 70's prog rock album or, god forbid, Tolkein, any one of which could have bneen influences. Okay, I give up, - fess.

Post by dovenestedtower August 13, 2003 (6 of 8)
Well, you stumbled very close to the truth:

"Dove nested tower the hour
Was strike the street quicksilver moon.
Carriage across the fog, two-step to lamplight's cellar tune.
The laughs come hard in auld lang syne."

-from Surf's Up, words by Van Dyke Parks, music by Brian Wilson (1966)

Originally recorded in rough form as part of the aborted Smile project, song was eventually completed by the rest of the Boys and released on the Surf's Up album (apppropriately) in 1971. See complete lyrics at cabinessence.com/brian, or simply pick up the CD. Would love to hear that in SACD. Pet Sounds is out in DVD-A, and there's a possibility of same treatment for Surf's Up, but no mention of SACDs of any of the BB catalog, alas.

But you're right, the quote (and most of the song) do sound rather 19th century. A+ for perception.

Post by nucaleena August 13, 2003 (7 of 8)
dovenestedtower said:

Well, you stumbled very close to the truth:

"Dove nested tower the hour
Was strike the street quicksilver moon.
Carriage across the fog, two-step to lamplight's cellar tune.
The laughs come hard in auld lang syne."

-from Surf's Up, words by Van Dyke Parks, music by Brian Wilson (1966)

Originally recorded in rough form as part of the aborted Smile project, song was eventually completed by the rest of the Boys and released on the Surf's Up album (apppropriately) in 1971. See complete lyrics at cabinessence.com/brian, or simply pick up the CD. Would love to hear that in SACD. Pet Sounds is out in DVD-A, and there's a possibility of same treatment for Surf's Up, but no mention of SACDs of any of the BB catalog, alas.

But you're right, the quote (and most of the song) do sound rather 19th century. A+ for perception.

I think we both have to get out more, dove.

Post by Beagle September 17, 2006 (8 of 8)
I won't bump the quoted Amazon review, with which I largely agree. Just an explanatory note about the Curate's Egg mentioned there:

The humble Curate is served a boiled egg by his wealthy landowner employer. When it is noticed by all that the egg is obviously 'bad', the subservient Curate covers over the embarrassment by saying that 'No, it is not entirely bad, some parts of it are really quite good'.

This disc is not a Curate's Egg, since MOST parts are quite good. However the first three tracks (Rhapsody no. 2) are marred by bad acoustics: they sound like they were recorded in a YMCA shower-room. But at track four, the sound tightens up into a cozy, intimate space, and continues warmly thereafter with mood-enhancing folky dance tunes. Also in the first piece, Frankl's piano is squeezed into the left channel with Csaba's violin, but moves back to the right at track 4, giving the violinist more room.

I don't know whether the disparate acoustics here are due to venue or miking, but this disc is still a worthwhile acquisition. I tried this disc on my hungarian something-or-rather-in-law, and he beamed with pleasure....

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