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Topic: Selections from the Opus Clavicembalisticum  (Read 3065 times)

Offline steveie986

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Selections from the Opus Clavicembalisticum
on: May 05, 2006, 02:26:53 AM
With a wracking head and literally my whole body shaking as with ague I write this and tell you I have just this afternoon recorded a few passages from the Opus Clavicembalisticum.

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Re: Selections from the Opus Clavicembalisticum
Reply #1 on: May 05, 2006, 03:13:13 AM
where?

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Re: Selections from the Opus Clavicembalisticum
Reply #2 on: May 06, 2006, 10:01:16 AM
Could you post them please? Or did you forget to from the 'shaking head'?
Currently learning:<br />Liszt- Consolation No.3<br />J.W.Hässler- Sonata No.6 in C, 2nd mvt<br />Glière- No.10 from 12 Esquisses, Op.47<br />Saint-Saens- VII Aquarium<br />Mozart- Fantasie KV397<br /

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Re: Selections from the Opus Clavicembalisticum
Reply #3 on: May 06, 2006, 07:06:38 PM
If it's improvised, I'll come over there and...

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Re: Selections from the Opus Clavicembalisticum
Reply #5 on: May 07, 2006, 09:25:57 AM
That's great that you recorded it... however, saying you recorded them and actually posting it are two totally different things... ::)
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Re: Selections from the Opus Clavicembalisticum
Reply #6 on: May 07, 2006, 01:27:13 PM
mmm... some mp3s would be lovely... unless you are extracting the michael...
Tom
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Re: Selections from the Opus Clavicembalisticum
Reply #7 on: May 07, 2006, 06:09:02 PM
:D Hahaha I love that saying! But I swear me and my friend came up with it whilst impersonating a russian accent! Or did we see it somewhere...Trigger Happy TV maybe?? I don't know...
Currently learning:<br />Liszt- Consolation No.3<br />J.W.Hässler- Sonata No.6 in C, 2nd mvt<br />Glière- No.10 from 12 Esquisses, Op.47<br />Saint-Saens- VII Aquarium<br />Mozart- Fantasie KV397<br /

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Re: Selections from the Opus Clavicembalisticum
Reply #8 on: October 14, 2007, 05:06:45 AM
Thats hilarious. All you guys know that that was what Sorabji wrote to a friend when he finished composing except he put "recorded" instead of composed. ;D

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Re: Selections from the Opus Clavicembalisticum
Reply #9 on: October 14, 2007, 06:41:14 AM
Thats hilarious. All you guys know that that was what Sorabji wrote to a friend when he finished composing except he put "recorded" instead of composed. ;D
Er - not quite! In place of "recorded a few passages from the Opus" Sorabji wrote "early finished"...

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Re: Selections from the Opus Clavicembalisticum
Reply #10 on: October 14, 2007, 05:08:13 PM
Er - not quite! In place of "recorded a few passages from the Opus" Sorabji wrote "early finished"...

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Alistair


yeah. sorry. I was being abstract.

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Re: Selections from the Opus Clavicembalisticum
Reply #11 on: October 14, 2007, 09:48:13 PM
I'm curious, too. So as soon as your body has stopped shaking, please share... ;)
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