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Thanks for the link - I shall definitely give it a listen should I happen to find myself stuck at home for an extended period!
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I'm sure there was a video posting of this on YT but can't find it now!Comment
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You mean the Previn/LSO Prom? I've a half recollection of seeing video of that but it could be a false memory. Can't find it now.Originally posted by Lordgeous View Post
The BBCPO/Wilson was recorded in Manchester last September - no cameras present.
I remember being literally on the edge of my seat - takes an awful lot to do that these days. Constant ratcheting up of tension and almost malevolent enough to meet my probably unattainable ideal in this.
It probably helped that the BBCPO have played this piece a lot over recent years - with Yutaka Sado, Vasily Sinaisky, Juanjo Mena and possibly others. Really laying into it in the way it demands must take guts given the rhythmic challenges and limited rehearsal - I've heard more than a few slightly nervy performances from top rank orchestras. It also helps having Paul Turner's undiminished brilliance driving the orchestra from the timps...
It sticks in the mind for being on the Saturday in September which was the very last day of glorious weather before someone flicked a switch suddenly tipping us into 6 months of rain. Who'd have thought our troubles were only just beginning?
Not that long before, Wilson did the Walton with the Philharmonia - it was ok but all a bit pedestrian by comparison. Such is the mercurial nature of live performance. I'd happily sit through a second rate one right now!Comment
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Envious, Simon B! Would love to have attended that performance. Thanks for your description.Originally posted by Simon B View Post"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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...EG in the Gramophone:
“a version of this much-recorded symphony that competes with the finest ever, and outshines most”
And it still is - obvious from the first few bars really.
But about which, often overlooked recording, did he say that, d'you think?Last edited by jayne lee wilson; 02-04-20, 02:46.Comment
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Bryden Thompson?Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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...Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again....Originally posted by Caliban View Post
Intending a mere sample I just played [***] - right through - WOW! Sounds even more astonishing than I remembered!
So nervous energy at peace. Off to bed now. If sleep may only come....ravell'd sleeve, balm of hurt minds, etc...Comment
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Andrew Litton/Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra? Great recording - and very good performanceComment
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Ah yes! I even have that CD!Originally posted by Bryn View Post"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Colin Davis/LSO Live (2006)?Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
The Naxos recording mentioned above is also admirable.Comment
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Um... but Bryn’s link sources the quote from Gramophone mentioned by Jayne...Originally posted by LMcD View Post
(I also have the Davis / LSO but recall it being somewhat uninvolving - one of the ‘dry Barbican’ LSO Live recordings, iirc)"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Yes. I cheated and just stuck the quote in an Internet search engine.Originally posted by Caliban View PostComment
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Nice one, SherlockOriginally posted by Bryn View Post"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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......thats the way to do it...!Originally posted by Bryn View Post
There are a few Walton 1sts that hit the spot in their different ways, Previn perhaps sui generis, but there is something truly special about the Daniel...it glows out of every bar. Shows there's more to rhythm than just being on the cut-and-button.
The full G-review is in 2/98.
The same performers followed it up with a marvellous Hindemith Variations a few years later, which I soon came to prefer to the Szell...Last edited by jayne lee wilson; 02-04-20, 12:43.Comment
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