Great concept. I’m looking forward to my download of the Feldman piece. One minor annoyance: Download isn’t automatic after payment. Approval is manual, which means I have to wait for someone to get around to clicking okay on my Paypal account.
Thanks for this. i’m surprised that they’ve setup the website in that way – i would find it very annoying too. Might be worth you dropping the label an email about this, so they know how their customers are responding to the site.
Thanks for this feedback. We’re aware of this annoyance and are working to make the purchase process fully automatic in the near future. Hopefully you found it worth the wait!
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[…] “… a mesmerising, almost hypnotic performance that seemingly brings the world to a stop for 74 minutes. … ‘Playfulness’ is an important word in [Mark] Knoop and [Aisha] Orazbayeva’s performance – the interplay between them throughout always feels light and unplanned, as if the whole thing was a game … Sometimes they oscillate, or imitate, other times they argue, or ignore each other; and then there are the moments of transparency where it’s as if an uncanny external agency had made its presence felt, briefly transporting both players into another realm … There’s also something of the same kind of play as in Ligeti’s piano études on display here, though it’s matched by a rigour in the performance that keeps the music and the listener ultra-focused from start to finish. i genuinely never wanted this recording to end – and not just because Feldman’s material seemingly wants to do just that, and carry on forever: it’s an amazing performance, beautiful and alien, distant yet comforting, that even when it ends (as all things must), leaves one feeling suspended, transfixed.” (reviewed in October) […]
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Great concept. I’m looking forward to my download of the Feldman piece. One minor annoyance: Download isn’t automatic after payment. Approval is manual, which means I have to wait for someone to get around to clicking okay on my Paypal account.
Thanks for this. i’m surprised that they’ve setup the website in that way – i would find it very annoying too. Might be worth you dropping the label an email about this, so they know how their customers are responding to the site.
Thanks for this feedback. We’re aware of this annoyance and are working to make the purchase process fully automatic in the near future. Hopefully you found it worth the wait!
[…] series, and Muzak, a piece for voice and orchestra dedicated to the late David Bowie. Having written recently about one contemporary approach to muzak, it’s interesting to encounter another one, although straight away there are some issues with […]
[…] “… a mesmerising, almost hypnotic performance that seemingly brings the world to a stop for 74 minutes. … ‘Playfulness’ is an important word in [Mark] Knoop and [Aisha] Orazbayeva’s performance – the interplay between them throughout always feels light and unplanned, as if the whole thing was a game … Sometimes they oscillate, or imitate, other times they argue, or ignore each other; and then there are the moments of transparency where it’s as if an uncanny external agency had made its presence felt, briefly transporting both players into another realm … There’s also something of the same kind of play as in Ligeti’s piano études on display here, though it’s matched by a rigour in the performance that keeps the music and the listener ultra-focused from start to finish. i genuinely never wanted this recording to end – and not just because Feldman’s material seemingly wants to do just that, and carry on forever: it’s an amazing performance, beautiful and alien, distant yet comforting, that even when it ends (as all things must), leaves one feeling suspended, transfixed.” (reviewed in October) […]