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  • rauschwerk
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 1481

    Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
    I'm sure most on here can remember that this coming Monday, Feb 15 is the 50th anniversary of Decimal Day, when the UK switched to decimal currency. Remember it well...
    I also remember it well. I drove from Portsmouth to hear Peter Grimes at the ROH - Jon Vickers in the title role and Colin Davis in the pit - and had a brief altercation with a bartender concerning the value of half a crown (whether it was 12½ or 25 new pence).

    As for listening, I have been reminding myself of the later Shostakovich, beginning with the 6th quartet (1956). Last night it was the second cello concerto (1966). This is now seen as the first piece in his late style. I heard the broadcast of the UK premiere and remember how bewildered at least one critic was. Last night it was Mischa Maisky/LSO/Michael Tilson Thomas, recorded in demo quality sound at Abbey Road. I still don't understand that ending!

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    • gradus
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 5607

      The Gloria from the Missa Solemnis in the new Rene Jacobs recording played on CD Review this morning, but what happened to the final exultant shout of Gloria, a sort of half-hearted mumble took its place.

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      • Bryn
        Banned
        • Mar 2007
        • 24688

        Originally posted by gradus View Post
        The Gloria from the Missa Solemnis in the new Rene Jacobs recording played on CD Review this morning, but what happened to the final exultant shout of Gloria, a sort of half-hearted mumble took its place.
        Well, the first crotchet of that fianl bar is marked sforzando in the instrumental parts but not the voices. The secons crotchet, the "a" of "gloria" is a capalla and again no change in dynamic marking. I guess Jacabs was taking that as his cue.

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        • gradus
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 5607

          Originally posted by Bryn View Post
          Well, the first crotchet of that fianl bar is marked sforzando in the instrumental parts but not the voices. The secons crotchet, the "a" of "gloria" is a capalla and again no change in dynamic marking. I guess Jacabs was taking that as his cue.
          I also looked at the score but I've never heard it interpreted that way before, it just sounds wrong to me but I wonder if anyone else has recorded it that way.

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          • Suffolkcoastal
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 3290

            Score following - Days 260-263

            W A Mozart:
            Rondo in D major for Piano & Orchestra k382
            Symphony No 35 in D major k385 'Haffner'
            Symphony No 36 in C major k425 'Linz'
            Symphony No 38 in D major k504 'Prague'
            Symphony No 39 in E flat major k543
            Symphony No 40 in G minor k550
            Symphony No 41 in C major k551 'Jupiter'

            Mussorgsky:
            Night on the Bare Mountain (arr Rimsky-Korsakov)
            Pictures at an Exhibition (orch Ravel)

            Carl Nielsen:
            Hymnus Amoris op12 (vocal score)
            Symphony No 2 op16 'The Four Temperaments'

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            • jayne lee wilson
              Banned
              • Jul 2011
              • 10711

              Bruckner
              Symphony No.5.
              Wiener Symphoniker/Volkmar Andreae. Music & Arts CD 2009 rec. 1953.

              A sacrilege to say anything after such music, but it is an astounding feat of musical time travel that a 1953 mono recording should fill my room with such splendour in the finale here. The sound restoration opens out with such space and scale as to be a broad, single centre-channel, occupying at least a third of the soundstage.

              A triumph for conductor and orchestra but perhaps above all - for the remasterer, Aaron Z. Snyder.

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              • BBMmk2
                Late Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 20908

                Yesterday’s listening.

                Debussy
                Nocturnes
                Ravel
                Daphnis et Chloe Suite No.2
                Scriabin
                Le Poème de l’Extase
                Boston Symphony Orchestra
                Claudio Abbado

                Ravel
                Complete Orchestral Works
                London Symphony Orchestra
                Claudio Abbado.
                Don’t cry for me
                I go where music was born

                J S Bach 1685-1750

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                • Bryn
                  Banned
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 24688

                  For once, I will be listening to Sunday Morning, having been tipped off that tributes will be paid not only to Chick Corea but also to a mutual friend, the musicologist and clarinettist Virginia Anderson. Both she and Sarah Walker cut their doctoral teeth on the English Experimental Music tradition. Virginia, married to the composer Christopher Hobbs, died recently after a short illness.

                  Note: This thesis now appears at H Commons: https://hcommons.org/deposits/objects/hc:24014/datastreams/CONTENT/content This thesis examines the relationship of the ‘approved’ avant-garde culture to the ‘outsider’ culture of experimentalism. This


                  Last edited by Bryn; 14-02-21, 09:28. Reason: Links added.

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                  • BBMmk2
                    Late Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 20908

                    Originally posted by BBMmk2 View Post
                    Yesterday’s listening.

                    Debussy
                    Nocturnes
                    Ravel
                    Daphnis et Chloe Suite No.2
                    Scriabin
                    Le Poème de l’Extase
                    Boston Symphony Orchestra
                    Claudio Abbado

                    Ravel
                    Complete Orchestral Works
                    London Symphony Orchestra
                    Claudio Abbado.
                    Have on now

                    Ravel
                    Daphnis et Chlöe, cpte ballet.
                    Valse Nobles et Sentimentales
                    Le Tombeau de Couperin
                    Menuet antique
                    Une barque sur l’ocean
                    La Valse
                    Fanfare from “L’Eventail de Jean”
                    Stravinsky
                    Le Sacre du Printemps
                    The Firebird
                    Jeu de Cartes
                    Petrouchka
                    Pulcinella
                    LSO Chorus
                    London Symphony Orchestra
                    Claudio Abbado.
                    Don’t cry for me
                    I go where music was born

                    J S Bach 1685-1750

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                    • Pulcinella
                      Host
                      • Feb 2014
                      • 10921

                      Originally posted by BBMmk2 View Post
                      Have on now

                      Ravel
                      Daphnis et Chlöe, cpte ballet.
                      Valse Nobles et Sentimentales
                      Le Tombeau de Couperin
                      Menuet antique
                      Une barque sur l’ocean
                      La Valse
                      Fanfare from “L’Eventail de Jean”
                      Stravinsky
                      Le Sacre du Printemps
                      The Firebird
                      Jeu de Cartes
                      Petrouchka
                      Pulcinella
                      LSO Chorus
                      London Symphony Orchestra
                      Claudio Abbado.
                      Great day's listening there, BBM.
                      Hope you've found time to give Mrs BBM a Valentine Day hug!

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                      • BBMmk2
                        Late Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 20908

                        Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
                        Great day's listening there, BBM.
                        Hope you've found time to give Mrs BBM a Valentine Day hug!
                        Very enjoyable! Me and MrsBBM don’t bother with Valentine’s Day.

                        Today I have embarked on a new theme, for a new week. The conducting dynasty of the Järvi family. I’m starting with dad.

                        Weber - Overtures
                        Hindemith
                        Symphonic Metarmorphosis on themes by Weber.
                        Philharmonia Orchestra
                        Neeme Järvi

                        Prokofiev
                        Divertissement, Op.43
                        Sonata No.4 in C minor, Op.29bis. Andante
                        Symphonic Song, Op.47
                        The Prodigal Son, Op.46
                        Royal Scottish National Orchestra
                        Neeme Järvi.
                        Don’t cry for me
                        I go where music was born

                        J S Bach 1685-1750

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                        • MickyD
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 4756

                          I love the Prokofiev cycle that Jarvi did for Chandos with the RSNO - and the recorded sound is amazing.

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                          • Pulcinella
                            Host
                            • Feb 2014
                            • 10921

                            Originally posted by MickyD View Post
                            I love the Prokofiev cycle that Jarvi did for Chandos with the RSNO - and the recorded sound is amazing.

                            With both versions of S4 included.

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                            • cloughie
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2011
                              • 22119

                              Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post

                              With both versions of S4 included.
                              ...and a lot of Prokofiev’s other music besides the symphonies.

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                              • Pulcinella
                                Host
                                • Feb 2014
                                • 10921

                                Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                                ...and a lot of Prokofiev’s other music besides the symphonies.
                                Not in the (repackaged) symphonies-only 4CD set I have!
                                or ?

                                Perhaps the original fillers got reissued, like Chandos did when they issued the Rubbra symphony set.

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