Through the Night

[subcontrabass]

Marjan Mozetich (b.1948)

06:06 AM
Marjan Mozetich (b.1948)
Affairs of the Heart: a Concerto for Violin & String Orchestra (1997)
Juliette Kang (violin), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)

Anybody heard this? I believe I heard it this morning for the second time - knowing TTN, it was probably the same recording.

I find it an interesting work, very rhapsodic, a bit minimalist, and intriguing. I've had a quick look at his bio on Wikipedia: he's quite prolific.

I would be interested if others agree with my very provisional description, and interest

Previously broadcast on TTN 21st February 2013

[greenilex]

There was a weird bit in the middle when it went all deliquescent..but maybe I was asleep? My heartbeat got a bit muddled.

[Serial_Apologist]

There was a weird bit in the middle when it went all deliquescent..but maybe I was asleep? My heartbeat got a bit muddled.

Yoko Ono - Beat Piece: Listen to your Heartbeat.

[Bryn]

Yoko Ono - Beat Piece: Listen to your Heartbeat.

Have a Pamplemousse, that man.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

There was a weird bit in the middle when it went all deliquescent..but maybe I was asleep? My heartbeat got a bit muddled.

I had to look that one up, too - I thought for a minute a post had strayed from the "Bread" Thread.

Sort-of "Arvo-Part-meets-Sibelius Concerto", I felt (and a bit too long to hold my interest). Sorry - but hope this nudges others to listening and making comment. (The performance starts at 5:36:30 on the kernel's link.)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00020s5

[Bryn]

I had to look that one up, too - I thought for a minute a post had strayed from the "Bread" Thread.

Sort-of "Arvo-Part-meets-Sibelius Concerto", I felt (and a bit too long to hold my interest). Sorry - but hope this nudges others to listening and making comment. (The performance starts at 5:36:30 on the kernel's link.)

Nothing like putting the dampers on it.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Nothing like putting the dampers on it.

Well - judging from the number of responses to my enthusiastic H&N comments, I thought ...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

And, if anyone is put off by the idea of scrolling through the TtN programme, the same performance is available on YouTube, where the comments are a lot more positive than my own:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWc62xO2O2c

(Well, if you count "I had to pull over in the car, tears streaming down my face" as "positive"!)

[Serial_Apologist]

And, if anyone is put off by the idea of scrolling through the TtN programme, the same performance is available on YouTube, where the comments are a lot more positive than my own:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWc62xO2O2c

(Well, if you count "I had to pull over in the car, tears streaming down my face" as "positive"!)

If her windscreen wipers weren't working, she'd have had to.

[Bryn]

If her windscreen wipers weren't working, she'd have had to.

"Just heard it on CBC Radio 2 Tonic. Ugh, so moving. I too stopped the car and sat to listen to it in complete silence."

i.e. with the volume knob turned down to zero. Hmm. That's the way to really appreciate it, I reckon. Insipid, rather then deliquescent, I'd venture.

[kernelbogey]

Sort-of "Arvo-Part-meets-Sibelius Concerto", I felt (and a bit too long to hold my interest). Sorry - but hope this nudges others to listening and making comment. (The performance starts at 5:36:30 on the kernel's link.)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00020s5

I too caught whiffs of Arvo Paert.
Wiki says

From 1976 to 1981, his style shifted toward a lyrical minimalism with strong harmonic definition.... After 1981 his music became diatonic and post-romantic.

I remember being more moved by it on my first hearing, presumably that 2013 broadcast (thanks scb).

[Beresford]

On TTN 7th Feb 2019, my favourite performance of the Debussy violin & piano sonata, by Peter Oundjian and William Tritt. Finely shaded, it is to me more palatable than Kyung Wha Chung and more humorous than Isabel Faust, both brilliant in their own ways.
Now I am in search of a performance of Debussy's Saxophone Rhapsody in a similar style - if such exists. Suggestions?

[doversoul1]

St John Passion from the 2017 BBC Proms

Friday 19th April

The Dunedin Consort and John Butt perform Bach's St John Passion from 2017 BBC Proms. John Shea presents

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000486s

[Serial_Apologist]

Friday 19th April

The Dunedin Consort and John Butt perform Bach's St John Passion from 2017 BBC Proms. John Shea presents
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000486s

I sang in that at school. It may be nice but it isn't as good as the Matthew Passion.

[kernelbogey]

This morning, just before Breakfast:
06:02 AM
Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse (1774-1842)
Symphony No.6 in C minor
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Adám Fischer (conductor)

I had never heard of Weyse. John said that (like Kuhlau) he was a German expat in Denmark. I thought the symphony a good piece, Adam Fischer giving it plenty of wellie. Such experiences always bring the thought how much better this composer might be known now if he had not had the (relative) misfortune to be a contemporary of a musical giant like Beethoven.