Sunday Morning: Praise where praise is due

[Thropplenoggin]

Hope Qobuz provides suitable audio quality to appreciate the disc. At the start of the Elgar orchestration, there are soft Bass Drum taps that always make me think of the big guns in France that were audible from Southern England in the 1914-18 war... softly chilling...

ZOUNDS! GADZOOKS! EGAD!

Just gave Respighi's transcription of the C minor Passacaglia and Fugue (BWV582) a spin. I was not expecting something so utterly bouleversant! I was rooted to the spot for the entire duration. Verily, the stuff of mysterium tremendum.

Many thanks for pointing me in the direction of this - I hesitate to proceed, it's so powerful!

[Nick Armstrong]

ZOUNDS! GADZOOKS! EGAD!

Just gave Respighi's transcription of the C minor Passacaglia and Fugue (BWV582) a spin. I was not expecting something so utterly bouleversant! I was rooted to the spot for the entire duration. Verily, the stuff of mysterium tremendum.

Many thanks for pointing me in the direction of this - I hesitate to proceed, it's so powerful!

I am gratified to have been of assistance in so powerfully shivering Sir's timbers

There is more - much more - pleasure to come on that album

[seabright]

Stephen Walsh ignored Stokowski's superb recording of Tchaikovsky's 'Hamlet' in yesterday's BAL, so it's nice that Rob C is making amends this morning by playing Stokey's orchestration of 'Pictures at an Exhibition'. I see from the Wiki entry that it's been recorded by a few other conductors besides LS himself, including Rozhdestvensky, Knussen, Serebrier and Bamert, so it will interesting to hear this Philadelphia broadcast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictures_at_an_Exhibition_(Stokowski_orchestration)

Incidentally, there's an astonishing list of all the non-Ravel versions of this work in another Wiki thread and the extraordinary thing is they still keep coming ! ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictures_at_an_Exhibition

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Incidentally, there's an astonishing list of all the non-Ravel versions of this work in another Wiki thread and the extraordinary thing is they still keep coming ! ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictures_at_an_Exhibition

And not one of them (I've heard all of them several times, of course!*) an improvement on Mussorgsky's piano original; the best orchestration of the lot!

(* = Do any of the hosts know where I can get a "bare-faced-liar" emoticon?)

[cloughie]

And not one of them (I've heard all of them several times, of course!*) an improvement on Mussorgsky's piano original; the best orchestration of the lot!

(* = Do any of the hosts know where I can get a "bare-faced-liar" emoticon?)

I think Stoki's Great Gate of Kiev takes more liberties than most - it's good musical fun! There was reference on the Hamlet thread that Stoki reorchestrated bits - isn't that what he did and why so many back in the sixties chastised him and now they love him? I think he tinkered quite a bit with Beethoven and did some big-band Vivaldi and Messiah excerpts!

[BBMmk2]

I really enjoyed the orchestration of Bach's 'St. Anne' fugue today (BWV 552) - I missed who the performers. Anyone recall who it was?

I missed this!

I do have that Naxos cd as well plus the Chandos one with ledonard Slatkin and the BBC PO. Hmmm, I am toying wiuth the idea of a brass band transcription of this.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Hmmm, I am toying wiuth the idea of a brass band transcription of this.

Time to put the toybox away, Bbm, and get down to doing this: it's a brilliant idea!

[Bax-of-Delights]

Playing "Pictures at an Exhibition" so often on R3 may be considered unfortunate but playing it TWICE in one day and within the space of 4 hours may be interpreted as being a little more than careless. And I don't care if they were two different orchestrations. Hearing the damn thing on kazoo and spoons would only be slightly less tedious than being bored to death by the innumerable times it gets trotted out on R3.
And yes, you may assume I never really liked this piece.

[BBMmk2]

Playing "Pictures at an Exhibition" so often on R3 may be considered unfortunate but playing it TWICE in one day and within the space of 4 hours may be interpreted as being a little more than careless. And I don't care if they were two different orchestrations. Hearing the damn thing on kazoo and spoons would only be slightly less tedious than being bored to death by the innumerable times it gets trotted out on R3.
And yes, you may assume I never really liked this piece.

Until you heard Black Dyke Band play this piece. Then you would think differently!!

[vinteuil]

Until you heard Black Dyke Band play this piece. Then you would think differently!!

... yes, I rather expect I would.

[Anna]

Playing "Pictures at an Exhibition" so often on R3 may be considered unfortunate but playing it TWICE in one day and within the space of 4 hours may be interpreted as being a little more than careless. out on R3.
And yes, you may assume I never really liked this piece.

At our single sex school we had to perform a stage version. I was 12 years old and dressed as a chick in yelliow tunic and matching knickers. I have never liked it since.

[EdgeleyRob]

Until you heard Black Dyke Band play this piece. Then you would think differently!!

Or Emerson,Lake and Palmer,my favourite version. (Probably wrong thread).

[Nick Armstrong]

I was 12 years old and dressed as a chick in yellow tunic and matching knickers.

[Nick Armstrong]

Playing "Pictures at an Exhibition" so often on R3 may be considered unfortunate but playing it TWICE in one day and within the space of 4 hours may be interpreted as being a little more than careless. And I don't care if they were two different orchestrations. Hearing the damn thing on kazoo and spoons would only be slightly less tedious than being bored to death by the innumerable times it gets trotted out on R3.
And yes, you may assume I never really liked this piece.

Happily I missed both

Like you, I really wouldn't mind if I never hear it again - piano, orchestra or whatever...

[mercia]

I liked the Henry Wood version they did at the proms in 2010 with the added scrap metal