I think we can probably hear why Copland's Vitebsk apparently seldom gets an outing (Lunchtime Concert Fri 21st Feb). Let's hope it doesn't catch on .... O dear, perhaps it already has! Give me Schnittke any day, who at least seems able to pull off this kind of stunt with a bit more panache. This comment is not meant to be anti-Semitic in any way, and is purely a musical reaction.
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Apologies in advance: Wedding Day at Troldhaugen. Can't explain why.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. -
As with others, On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring. Don't know why, but it does.Comment
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I like Vitebsk a lot, Copland's early edgy and brittle style is great and full of nervous energy like the Piano Variations and Short Symphony.
As for putting my teeth on edge: Brahms: Hungarian Dances, horrid little pieces: Saint-Saens: Tarantella, a rotten little piece that drives me up the wall; Mahler: Symphonies 3,7 & 8, makes me shout in anger and really set my nerves on edge; Shapero: Symphony for Classical Orchestra is it a bad joke gone wrong, or just a bad work?; a number of works by Arvo Part, anything by Einaudi or ALW, K Jenkins, Whiteacre, N Hess etc. That'll do for starters!Comment
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Bach's Cantata: Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen BWV12 as sung by Cantus Colln on R.3 last Tuesday Evening/
I with Suffolkcoastal on the topic of Vitebsk and other early Copland works, and will buy him a pint any day to miss one of those three Mahler porpoises.Comment
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Gluck's 'Dance of the blessed spirit' and Massenet's 'Meditation' from Thais. However, much as I'll turn off the radio if the Meditation comes on the radio, I actually quite enjoy playing it.Comment
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Tavener's In Alium comes to mind. Also, anything by Steve ReichDel boy: “Get in, get out, don’t look back. That’s my motto!”Comment
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Farewell to b****y Stromness!Comment
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Anything by the Moody Blues.Comment
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Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring.Comment
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If I'd thought of that one first ... variations on Mull of Kintyre.Originally posted by Don Petter View PostIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Literally - setting one's teeth on edge - Isobel Gowdie (just switched the radio off in time), Minotaur, and other pieces with similarly gruesome subject.
And of course mincing poetry of whatever description.Comment
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Don't knock it, it's the only PMD piece my missus will play me on her pianerOriginally posted by Don Petter View Post
I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!Comment
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Aren't you fed up waiting for the tune to start?Originally posted by LeMartinPecheur View PostDon't knock it, it's the only PMD piece my missus will play me on her pianerComment
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