revelmusic.org http://revelmusic.org Mon, 07 May 2012 12:43:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Track 1: Maurice Ravel • Pièce en forme de Habanera (excerpt) http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/track-1-maurice-ravel-%e2%80%a2-piece-en-forme-de-habanera-excerpt/ http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/track-1-maurice-ravel-%e2%80%a2-piece-en-forme-de-habanera-excerpt/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:50:52 +0000 admin http://revelmusic.org/blog/?p=490 “The rather clinical title belies the piece’s sensual tone world, which evokes a languid, sultry afternoon. A Habanera was originally a dance, and not an altogether reputable one…” –Joel Becktell, from the REVEL CD Program Notes

Photo of Joel and Carla by Nathan Russell. In the farm house at Greengate Farms, Austin, Texas.

]]> http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/track-1-maurice-ravel-%e2%80%a2-piece-en-forme-de-habanera-excerpt/feed/ 0 Track 2: Manuel de Falla/arr. Maréchal • Suite Populaire Espagnole • El paño moruno (excerpt) http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/track-2-manuel-de-fallaarr-marechal-%e2%80%a2-suite-populaire-espagnole-%e2%80%a2-el-pano-moruno-excerpt/ http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/track-2-manuel-de-fallaarr-marechal-%e2%80%a2-suite-populaire-espagnole-%e2%80%a2-el-pano-moruno-excerpt/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:50:15 +0000 admin http://revelmusic.org/blog/?p=488 “This song is a cautionary tale in the form of an allegory. The title refers to a piece of beautiful and valuable Moorish cloth that is being sold at a discount because it has a stain on it. The inference is about feminine virtue and the fate of any woman who loses hers…” –Joel Becktell, from the REVEL CD Program Notes

Photo of “Studio Mike” at Blue Rock.

]]> http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/track-2-manuel-de-fallaarr-marechal-%e2%80%a2-suite-populaire-espagnole-%e2%80%a2-el-pano-moruno-excerpt/feed/ 0 Track 3: Manuel de Falla/arr. Maréchal • Suite Populaire Espagnole • Nana (excerpt) http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/track-3-manuel-de-fallaarr-marechal-%e2%80%a2-suite-populaire-espagnole-%e2%80%a2-nana-excerpt/ http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/track-3-manuel-de-fallaarr-marechal-%e2%80%a2-suite-populaire-espagnole-%e2%80%a2-nana-excerpt/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:49:44 +0000 admin http://revelmusic.org/blog/?p=486 “This is the saddest lullaby I have ever heard. I often wondered why, with a text that consists entirely of the murmured endearments of a mother putting her baby to sleep, it should be tinged by tragedy. The answer appears where so many answers do: in the music…” –Joel Becktell, from the REVEL CD Program Notes

Photo: An atmospheric REVEL moment at The Church House, Austin, Texas.

]]> http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/track-3-manuel-de-fallaarr-marechal-%e2%80%a2-suite-populaire-espagnole-%e2%80%a2-nana-excerpt/feed/ 0 Track 4: Manuel de Falla/arr. Maréchal • Suite Populaire Espagnole • Canción (excerpt) http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/track-4-manuel-de-fallaarr-marechal-%e2%80%a2-suite-populaire-espagnole-%e2%80%a2-cancion-excerpt/ http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/track-4-manuel-de-fallaarr-marechal-%e2%80%a2-suite-populaire-espagnole-%e2%80%a2-cancion-excerpt/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:49:14 +0000 admin http://revelmusic.org/blog/?p=484 “…The protagonist is in love, but his beloved only flirts with him. She’s not serious about him, and he feels rejected. Without the words, the song depicts her coquetry with barely a hint at pain, aside from an occasional hesitation in the rhythm…” –Joel Becktell, from the REVEL CD Program Notes

Photo: In the kitchen at Blue Rock. Left to right: Andy Murphy, Bryan McElhaney, Dodee Crockett.

]]> http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/track-4-manuel-de-fallaarr-marechal-%e2%80%a2-suite-populaire-espagnole-%e2%80%a2-cancion-excerpt/feed/ 0 Track 5: Manuel de Falla/arr. Maréchal • Suite Populaire Espagnole • Polo (excerpt) http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/track-5-manuel-de-fallaarr-marechal-%e2%80%a2-suite-populaire-espagnole-%e2%80%a2-polo-excerpt/ http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/track-5-manuel-de-fallaarr-marechal-%e2%80%a2-suite-populaire-espagnole-%e2%80%a2-polo-excerpt/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:48:36 +0000 admin http://revelmusic.org/blog/?p=482 “Short, but definitely not sweet: this is the enraged shriek of a woman scorned. Boy is she mad! You can’t miss it.” –Joel Becktell, from the REVEL CD Program Notes

Photo of Carla and Joel by Nathan Russell (www.nathanrussellphotography.com). Greengate Farms, Austin, Texas.

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Photo: Carla at The Church House, Austin, Texas.

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Photo: Keith Gary and Carla in the control room at Blue Rock.

]]> http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/track-7-manuel-de-fallaarr-marechal-%e2%80%a2-suite-populaire-espagnole-%e2%80%a2-jota-excerpt/feed/ 0 Track 8: Sergei Rachmaninoff • Sonata in G Minor for Cello and Piano, Op. 19 • I. Lento – Allegro moderato – Moderato (excerpt) http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/track-8-sergei-rachmaninoff-%e2%80%a2-sonata-in-g-minor-for-cello-and-piano-op-19-%e2%80%a2-i-lento-allegro-moderato-moderato-excerpt/ http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/track-8-sergei-rachmaninoff-%e2%80%a2-sonata-in-g-minor-for-cello-and-piano-op-19-%e2%80%a2-i-lento-allegro-moderato-moderato-excerpt/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:46:49 +0000 admin http://revelmusic.org/blog/?p=476 “Rachmaninoff produced very little chamber music, and somehow this work remains relatively obscure despite the fact that to know it is to love it. One of the most common reactions from people who hear it for the first time is along the lines of “How could this amazing piece not be fabulously popular!?” –Joel Becktell, from the REVEL CD Program Notes

Photo: Keith Gary wearing his prescription shades in the control room at Blue Rock.

]]> http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/track-8-sergei-rachmaninoff-%e2%80%a2-sonata-in-g-minor-for-cello-and-piano-op-19-%e2%80%a2-i-lento-allegro-moderato-moderato-excerpt/feed/ 0 Track 9: Sergei Rachmaninoff • Sonata in G Minor for Cello and Piano, Op. 19 • II. Allegro scherzando (excerpt) http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/track-9-sergei-rachmaninoff-%e2%80%a2-sonata-in-g-minor-for-cello-and-piano-op-19-%e2%80%a2-ii-allegro-scherzando-excerpt/ http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/track-9-sergei-rachmaninoff-%e2%80%a2-sonata-in-g-minor-for-cello-and-piano-op-19-%e2%80%a2-ii-allegro-scherzando-excerpt/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:45:33 +0000 admin http://revelmusic.org/blog/?p=472 “…Not surprisingly, this Sonata has a virtuosic piano part. Rachmaninoff was one of the 20th century’s epic pianists, a player with a range that encompassed textures from delicate to massive, and moods from gloomy to ecstatic…” –Joel Becktell, from the REVEL CD Program Notes

Photo by Patti Aldridge. Carla at the Aldridge REVEL IN THE HOUSE Steinway.

]]> http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/track-9-sergei-rachmaninoff-%e2%80%a2-sonata-in-g-minor-for-cello-and-piano-op-19-%e2%80%a2-ii-allegro-scherzando-excerpt/feed/ 0 Track 10: Sergei Rachmaninoff • Sonata in G Minor for Cello and Piano, Op. 19 • III. Andante (excerpt) http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/track-10-sergei-rachmaninoff-%e2%80%a2-sonata-in-g-minor-for-cello-and-piano-op-19-%e2%80%a2-iii-andante-excerpt/ http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/track-10-sergei-rachmaninoff-%e2%80%a2-sonata-in-g-minor-for-cello-and-piano-op-19-%e2%80%a2-iii-andante-excerpt/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:45:07 +0000 admin http://revelmusic.org/blog/?p=470 “Rachmaninoff approached musical performance – and composition – with an unusual notion regarding pacing and expression. He felt that any work, no matter its length and scope, had a single dramatic moment that was the goal of all that came before it, the dramatic and musical raison d’être of a piece, and that a proper interpretation was one that made this clear to the listeners…” –Joel Becktell, from the REVEL CD Program Notes

Photo: Carla and Joel in the recording studio at Blue Rock.

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Photo: In the control room at Blue Rock. Left to right: Carla, Andy Murphy, Joel, Keith Gary.

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Photo: The audience listens to REVEL at The Church House, Austin, Texas.

]]> http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/track-12-joseph-kosmaarr-becktellmcelhaney-%e2%80%a2-autumn-leaves-excerpt/feed/ 0 Ravel Habanera http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/ravel-habanera-excerpt/ http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/ravel-habanera-excerpt/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:44:11 +0000 admin http://revelmusic.org/blog/?p=350 “The rather clinical title belies the piece’s sensual tone world, which evokes a languid, sultry afternoon. A Habanera was originally a dance, and not an altogether reputable one…” –Joel Becktell, from the REVEL CD Program Notes

Photo of Joel and Carla by Nathan Russell. In the farm house at Greengate Farms, Austin, Texas.

]]> http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/ravel-habanera-excerpt/feed/ 0 Rachmaninoff Mov’t 4 http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/rachmaninoff-movt-4-excerpt-3/ http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/rachmaninoff-movt-4-excerpt-3/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:42:58 +0000 admin http://revelmusic.org/blog/?p=346 “…I think that if a performance includes enough color and dynamic range, enough expressive intent, the true expansive qualities of the piece become clear. It’s equally clear to me that this particular piece expresses something quite specific; it’s something of a tone poem in four movements with an inferable dramatic program…” –Joel Becktell, from the REVEL CD Program Notes

Photo: In the control room at Blue Rock. Left to right: Carla, Andy Murphy, Joel, Keith Gary.

]]> http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/rachmaninoff-movt-4-excerpt-3/feed/ 0 Rachmaninoff Mov’t 3 http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/rachmaninoff-movt-3-excerpt/ http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/rachmaninoff-movt-3-excerpt/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:41:58 +0000 admin http://revelmusic.org/blog/?p=343 “Rachmaninoff approached musical performance – and composition – with an unusual notion regarding pacing and expression. He felt that any work, no matter its length and scope, had a single dramatic moment that was the goal of all that came before it, the dramatic and musical raison d’être of a piece, and that a proper interpretation was one that made this clear to the listeners…” –Joel Becktell, from the REVEL CD Program Notes

Photo: Carla and Joel in the recording studio at Blue Rock.

]]> http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/rachmaninoff-movt-3-excerpt/feed/ 0 Rachmaninoff Mov’t 2 http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/rachmaninoff-movt-2-excerpt/ http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/rachmaninoff-movt-2-excerpt/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:41:09 +0000 admin http://revelmusic.org/blog/?p=340 “…Not surprisingly, this Sonata has a virtuosic piano part. Rachmaninoff was one of the 20th century’s epic pianists, a player with a range that encompassed textures from delicate to massive, and moods from gloomy to ecstatic…” –Joel Becktell, from the REVEL CD Program Notes

Photo by Patti Aldridge. Carla at the Aldridge REVEL IN THE HOUSE Steinway.

]]> http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/rachmaninoff-movt-2-excerpt/feed/ 0 Rachmaninoff Mov’t 1 http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/rachmaninoff-movt-1-excerpt/ http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/rachmaninoff-movt-1-excerpt/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:40:09 +0000 admin http://revelmusic.org/blog/?p=337 “Rachmaninoff produced very little chamber music, and somehow this work remains relatively obscure despite the fact that to know it is to love it. One of the most common reactions from people who hear it for the first time is along the lines of “How could this amazing piece not be fabulously popular!?” –Joel Becktell, from the REVEL CD Program Notes

Photo: Keith Gary wearing his prescription shades in the control room at Blue Rock.

]]> http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/rachmaninoff-movt-1-excerpt/feed/ 0 Manuel de Falla Polo http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/manuel-de-falla-polo-excerpt/ http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/manuel-de-falla-polo-excerpt/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:34:19 +0000 admin http://revelmusic.org/blog/?p=333 “Short, but definitely not sweet: this is the enraged shriek of a woman scorned. Boy is she mad! You can’t miss it.” –Joel Becktell, from the REVEL CD Program Notes

Photo of Carla and Joel by Nathan Russell (www.nathanrussellphotography.com). Greengate Farms, Austin, Texas.

]]> http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/manuel-de-falla-polo-excerpt/feed/ 0 Manuel de Falla Nana http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/manuel-de-falla-nana-excerpt-1/ http://revelmusic.org/2011/08/manuel-de-falla-nana-excerpt-1/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:33:40 +0000 admin http://revelmusic.org/blog/?p=330 “This is the saddest lullaby I have ever heard. I often wondered why, with a text that consists entirely of the murmured endearments of a mother putting her baby to sleep, it should be tinged by tragedy. The answer appears where so many answers do: in the music…” –Joel Becktell, from the REVEL CD Program Notes

Photo: An atmospheric REVEL moment at The Church House, Austin, Texas.

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Photo: Keith Gary and Carla in the control room at Blue Rock.

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