Originally posted by makropulos
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Thanks, but your compliment seems to have served as a kiss of death. Please remember this forum thrives on negativity..:p -
Luciano Berio - specifically his Circles, broadcast in the early 60s. I made a tape and was able to hear it quite a few times but never really liked it. Actually, parts of it made me laugh but I could never be sure if that was the composer's intention.
Roberto Gerhard - his Collages. A friend of mine recorded the broadcast of the unsatisfactory premiere (tape track much too loud) and was amused when a member of the audience shouted "Rubbish" at the end before the applause got going. Hearing this piece led me to explore the composer's other works with much pleasure.Comment
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I suppose the only composer that I had never heard before and to whom I was introduced via R3 (this was back in the 60's) was Paul Hindemith. I cannot recall the piece of music - I am presuming it was Mathis der Maler - but sad to say this composer has subsequently never risen much over my musical horizon.
R3 did broadcast Schoenberg's "Jacob's Ladder" around the mid-60's just after the premiere of "Moses Und Aaron" at Covent Garden. One could send off to the BBC for a free libretto. I still have it here - somewhere amongst this stack of papers!O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!Comment
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I think the first Hindemith I heard (I had already read his Craft of Musical Composition, which fact will tell you what a teenage anorak I was) was the very entertaining Kammermusik No. 1 in a broadcast which I taped. I had read an essay on Hindemith by Norman del Mar and was particularly keen to hear this piece. It was a very cautious performance (Jacques-Louis Monod was the conductor, if memory serves) and there was no siren at the end! I wonder how much rehearsal time there was?Comment
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Oh, and Philip Cannon's Concertino for piano and strings (who knows of his work nowadays, I wonder?) which I liked a lot; and something by Arthur Butterworth which I thought very weird.Comment
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