This is just a general comment of profound appreciation — I’ve left similar comments before, but I want to reiterate how in debt I am to your efforts: thanks to you, I’ve been able to get a handle on Dillon, discovered Tansy Davies and Julia Holter and, most recently, broken through a long-standing aversion to Harrison Birtwistle, all because of your advocacy and the Proms (and Huddersfield) broadcasts.
Many many thanks —- also for the Finnisy Second Piano Concerto and the “13 self-portraits”. Strange how subjective the human ear is: the Finnisy string quartet was an immediate “hit’ for me, just the opposite of your reaction on first hearing the piece.
And I’ll never be able to thank you enough for one of the first programmes I encountered at 5:4 — the concert containing Cardew’s “Bun No 1” and Tilbury playing Feldman’s “Piano and Orchestra”.
Thanks.
Vincent Thurgood
8 years ago
Thanks for making so much of James Dillon’s music available. I was in Glasgow in 2010 for the premiere of Nine Rivers so really pleased the recording is here for people to access.
Liberdade
8 years ago
I’ve heard rumours of a recording of all of the Dillon string quartets by the Arditti Quartet waiting for release. I wonder if anyone has any more substantive information on this?
I know that the Arditti performed all of them at HCMF a couple of years ago – perhaps this is where the recording was made, if the rumour is true?
i was at the HCMF concert when the Ardittis performed all the Dillon quartets (review here) and it was definitely not recorded. When i was chatting with Dillon on that occasion he mentioned about a planned recording of all seven quartets (by the Ardittis), but i haven’t heard anything further so far.
Ben
6 years ago
There are 9 quartets now!
Alas, the 9th drifts along in a less than distinctive fashion.
Not this composers finest hour I’m sad to report ( I admire his work) , and nothing to denote “Scotland’s most brilliantly inventive living composer”
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Thanks. Thank You for so exciting music. I look forward to your every post. Some little selection of Polish music for you: http://www.polmic.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=32&Itemid=58&lang=pl
This is just a general comment of profound appreciation — I’ve left similar comments before, but I want to reiterate how in debt I am to your efforts: thanks to you, I’ve been able to get a handle on Dillon, discovered Tansy Davies and Julia Holter and, most recently, broken through a long-standing aversion to Harrison Birtwistle, all because of your advocacy and the Proms (and Huddersfield) broadcasts.
Many many thanks —- also for the Finnisy Second Piano Concerto and the “13 self-portraits”. Strange how subjective the human ear is: the Finnisy string quartet was an immediate “hit’ for me, just the opposite of your reaction on first hearing the piece.
And I’ll never be able to thank you enough for one of the first programmes I encountered at 5:4 — the concert containing Cardew’s “Bun No 1” and Tilbury playing Feldman’s “Piano and Orchestra”.
Thanks.
Thanks for making so much of James Dillon’s music available. I was in Glasgow in 2010 for the premiere of Nine Rivers so really pleased the recording is here for people to access.
I’ve heard rumours of a recording of all of the Dillon string quartets by the Arditti Quartet waiting for release. I wonder if anyone has any more substantive information on this?
I know that the Arditti performed all of them at HCMF a couple of years ago – perhaps this is where the recording was made, if the rumour is true?
i was at the HCMF concert when the Ardittis performed all the Dillon quartets (review here) and it was definitely not recorded. When i was chatting with Dillon on that occasion he mentioned about a planned recording of all seven quartets (by the Ardittis), but i haven’t heard anything further so far.
There are 9 quartets now!
Alas, the 9th drifts along in a less than distinctive fashion.
Not this composers finest hour I’m sad to report ( I admire his work) , and nothing to denote “Scotland’s most brilliantly inventive living composer”