David Matthews SYMPHONY NO. 8 First Performance 17/04/15

[Beef Oven!]

How long have you got?
Or rather, how long have I got?
No Byrd, no Tippett, no Howells (that might please Richard Barrett!).
Will that do for starters (Starters for 10, perhaps? No, wrong thread!)

Any Bob Simpson, Sibelius, Vaughan Williams, Nono, Stockhausen, Laibach?

[Pulcinella]

Any Bob Simpson, Sibelius, Vaughan Williams, Nono, Stockhausen, Laibach?

No, lots (can I say that?), a bit (can I say that as well?), no, no, (that's no Nono and no Stockhausen), and no!

[Beef Oven!]

No, lots (can I say that?), a bit (can I say that as well?), no, no, (that's no Nono and no Stockhausen), and no!

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[Colonel Danby]

Hope for loads of rvw!

[Beef Oven!]

Hope for loads of rvw!

A bit.

[Pulcinella]

A bit.

Two bits, in fact!

[Beef Oven!]

Two bits, in fact!

Is Symphony #1 the opener!!!!????

[Pulcinella]

Is Symphony #1 the opener!!!!????

No!
What made you think that that was one of the two bits?
Neither of them is The lark or the Tallis Fantasia, by the way.
But the writing is on the wall twice on the opening night!
Perhaps we should continue these exchanges on the Proms thread?

What did you make of the symphony?

[Beef Oven!]

No!
What made you think that that was one of the two bits?
Neither of them is The lark or the Tallis Fantasia, by the way.
But the
Perhaps we should continue these exchanges on the Proms thread?

Yes, proms thread.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A very respectable piece, I thought - the most immediately attractive work (IMO) from this composer, written in a Musical language not far removed from, say, Rubbra or Martinu - with flavours from the post-RVW pastoralists and Mahler #10 at various points. Well worth hearing.

[Boilk]

...he most immediately attractive work (IMO) from this composer, written in a Musical language not far removed from, say, Rubbra or Martinu...

I once heard it said that Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy was Tchiakovsky's most attrative work – so the acccolade is double-edged. Rubbra was doing his thing from the 40s to the 70s. As direct and digestible as DM's music often is, I don't think history will be kind to someone doing this sort of thing in the early 21st century.

[Barbirollians]

Ah Belshazzar's Feast - always fun for an opening night .

[Nick Armstrong]

no, no, (that's no Nono...)

[ahinton]

No Byrd, no Tippett, no Howells (that might please Richard Barrett!).

But is there any Richard Barrett, I wonder?...

[Pulcinella]

But is there any Richard Barrett, I wonder?...

Wonder no more: no!