Pieces that set your teeth on edge

[french frank]

But great to play!!

I think there may be a disconnect [OED from 1982] between what some people like to perform and others like to listen to.

I just find Troldhaugen too jolly.

[VodkaDilc]

I think there may be a disconnect [OED from 1982] between what some people like to perform and others like to listen to.

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To by mind a good example is the piano duet repertoire. I can't think of many I'd willingly listen to - but there are few better ways to spend a winter's afternoon than playing them.

[Don Petter]

To by mind a good example is the piano duet repertoire. I can't think of many I'd willingly listen to - but there are few better ways to spend a winter's afternoon than playing them.

I think that might be very true with respect to arrangements. However I do think there are some original compositions which can please both camps - Milhaud's Scaramouche comes to mind.

[ahinton]

I think that might be very true with respect to arrangements. However I do think there are some original compositions which can please both camps - Milhaud's Scaramouche comes to mind.

Not quite teeth on edge - at least not yet - but someone ysterday sent me links to Rachmaninov's first piano concerto (1917 revised version) and various other works of his including Symphonic Dances; all pieces that I love and have done for years but, in this case, the orchestral material was all transcribed for organ. The concerto did at least sound intriguing for a few minutes and both players were doing well with it, but the lack of orchestral subtlety already present even in that early and less than mature (yet delightful) piece soon persuaded me to turn it off....

[Serial_Apologist]

I think that might be very true with respect to arrangements. However I do think there are some original compositions which can please both camps - Milhaud's Scaramouche comes to mind.

But, the three dances from Petrushka must surely count among the most exciting piano duet arangements!

[Beef Oven!]

Great fun both to perform and to listen to - and I can't hear the politics in the music

Indeed. Whether it's the ground-breaking music of someone like Helmut Lachenmann, or quasi-pastiche of likes Burana, it matters not a jot about the politics!

Here's a song for ya!.................

[french frank]

But, the three dances from Petrushka must surely count among the most exciting piano duet arangements!

The Rite of Spring?

[ahinton]

Indeed. Whether it's the ground-breaking music of someone like Helmut Lachenmann, or quasi-pastiche of likes Burana, it matters not a jot about the politics!

Here's a song for ya!.................

Ah, yes - with the utterly wonderful Sarah Leonard!...

[Lento]

A clarinettist friend of mine, now sadly departed, once performed "S-on-the Rock" and got hopelessly lost: he kept "coming in" at the wrong times, but the resulting "arrangement" was quite refreshing in an avant garde sort of a way - a real shot in the arm!

(Sorry about "S-on-the-Rock", by the way - sounds like something seabirds do).

[Prommer]

I remember once borrowing a copy of it from a friend when all I knew of it was the Old Spice theme tune. It was an HMV Greensleeves record with Fruhbeck de Burgos which I understand is a renowned recording and even the sleeve note writer evidently didn't like its motor rhythms with their jackboots and tanks on the move !

I have always disliked it - once foolish enough to be persuaded to go to a concert with David Atherton conducting it on HK in the 1990s - never again I swore after that .

I am surprised Reggie Goodall didn't take it up - right up his street .

What a daft non-sequitur... by this logic RG would often have tried to spring the Horst Wessel song on us, etc etc. Really...

[Barbirollians]

What a daft non-sequitur... by this logic RG would often have tried to spring the Horst Wessel song on us, etc etc. Really...

Reginald Goodall was a fascist. Orff's music has fascist overtones and his betrayal of his friends and wartime conduct was reprehensible in the extreme. It is a piece to appeal to Goodall's sentiments if not his musical tastes .

On the other hand perhaps it would not have been up Goodall's street after all - he would probably have conducted it at such a slow tempo that the jackboots and tanks would have ground to a halt .

[Beef Oven!]

What a daft non-sequitur... by this logic RG would often have tried to spring the Horst Wessel song on us, etc etc. Really...

Don't take this seriously, it's only a good-natured wind up. But the thought of Reggie doing Burana is mouth-watering! Just imagine how well-coached the singers would be

[jean]

Orff's music has fascist overtones...

Can someone please explain to me how I can recognise these?

[Beef Oven!]

Can someone please explain to me how I can recognise these?

Whenever Burana is played on Network East, the trains run on time.

[MrGongGong]

Whenever Burana is played on Network East, the trains run on time.

The rice is included ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIwrgAnx6Q8

(sorry about this again but wonderful stuff )