What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Pulcinella]

- I have absolutely no room to talk: I missed Petrushka!

Some interesting different textures revealed there, I thought, though the brass were a bit dodgy at times.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

sticking with pedantry just for a moment, exactly how much room does a person need to talk ?

Just enough?

I would think so - definitely more than "none".

[Pulcinella]

Missed it . Worth listening again?

And well done on the whole score following thing . I should have thought you could do that in your sleep. Not that anybody would want to sleep through such a fine work, obviously......

( I was Tippetting myself today, Sym #4....)

Have you seen the score, ts? How a soloist can ever learn and remember such music is utterly beyond me.
Some symbols in it (arrows) that I don't fully understand, and a curious use of both French and Italian instructions.

A very good performance of one of my favourite Piano Concertos - the soloist excellent, the orchestra/conductor not sounding quite at home in Tippett's sprung rhythms: two or three more rehearsals to get those "upbeat" shorter notes a little lighter, more of a skip in the step, I felt. In compensation, the "edge-of-the-seat" sense of danger had its own rewards and insights (but, if these were intentional, they hadn't been discussed with the pianist). And the joy of hearing this cubist pastoral, with its wonderful positionings of timbre, resonance, and register - it would have had to have been a much worse performance than this to stop it being a delight.

Perceptive comments as usual, ferney. Yes, it didn't quite spring, did it?
And perhaps filigree would be better than arabesques, but you'll know a better musical term for the piano writing.

[Stanfordian]

Copland
Symphony for Organ and Orchestra
Orchestral Variations
Short Symphony (Symphony No. 2)
Symphonic Ode
Jonathan Scott (organ)
BBC Philharmonic/John Wilson
Recorded 2016, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, (Organ Symphony) & BBC Philharmonic Studio, MediaCity, Salford Quays (other works)
Chandos

Shirley Verrett in Opera
Arias from Gluck, Donizetti, Berlioz, Gounod, Massenet, Saint-Saëns, Verdi
Shirley Verrett (mezzo-soprano)
RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra / Georges Prêtre, Thomas Schippers & Erich Leinsdorf
Recorded 1964-67
RCA Victor Gold Seal

[BBMmk2]

Brahms
Symphony No.4 in E minor, Op.98.
LSO, Sir Bernard Haitink.

Richard Strauss
Eine Alpiensinfonie.
BBC SO, Semyon Bychkov.

Midnight at Notre-Dame Organ Transcripstions.
Olivier Latry, organ.

[vinteuil]

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de la Revolution a l' Empire

http://amzn.eu/grZGyTq

Gossec
Marche Lugubre

Paisiello
Musique funebre pour la mort du general Hoche
Marche du Premier Consul

Le Sueur
Marche du sacre de Napoleon 1er

Gossec
Symphonie a 17 parties

Mehul
Symphonie 2 in D

[teamsaint]

Have you seen the score, ts? How a soloist can ever learn and remember such music is utterly beyond me.
Some symbols in it (arrows) that I don't fully understand, and a curious use of both French and Italian instructions.


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I'd like to see it very much. Must be tricky to have you at full speed to keep up !!

Cheapest I can see a copy is not far short of £20, so it might have to wait .

[Pulcinella]

I'd like to see it very much. Must be tricky to have you at full speed to keep up !!

Cheapest I can see a copy is not far short of £20, so it might have to wait .

My copy cost £6.50 on 27 August 1982 (bought from Schott in London; I wonder if I was 'in town' for a Prom that day?).
And I've worked out what the arrow signs in the second movement mean: where the second and fourth beats of the 4/8 bars fall in the triplets that the piano, cellos, and double basses are contending with, apparently!

[teamsaint]

My copy cost £6.50 on 27 August 1982 (bought from Schott in London; I wonder if I was 'in town' for a Prom that day?).
And I've worked out what the arrow signs in the second movement mean: where the second and fourth beats of the 4/8 bars fall in the triplets that the piano, cellos, and double basses are contending with, apparently!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ec4rzc

Looks like you may indeed have been in town for a Prom .

When I get to see a copy of the Tippett score, I'll know what you are on about.
I'm tempted by the challenge, actually....

[Pulcinella]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ec4rzc

Looks like you may indeed have been in town for a Prom .

When I get to see a copy of the Tippett score, I'll know what you are on about.
I'm tempted by the challenge, actually....

Yes, I discovered that the Pulcinella suite was on the menu, but I have no memory of the concert; I must have been there for something else.
Sadly, I threw my diaries away as part of the great decluttering before the move to York, so can't now check.

[EdgeleyRob]

Copland
Symphony for Organ and Orchestra
Orchestral Variations
Short Symphony (Symphony No. 2)
Symphonic Ode
Jonathan Scott (organ)
BBC Philharmonic/John Wilson
Recorded 2016, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, (Organ Symphony) & BBC Philharmonic Studio, MediaCity, Salford Quays (other works)
Chandos

What do you think of this Stan ?

I was at Media City yesterday to hear John Wilson and the BBC Phil in the 1st Symphony,Dance Symphony,Outdoor Overture and Statements for Orchestra.
Very impressive I thought.
Some of this will be on the next Chandos cd

[visualnickmos]

'Festival of symphonies' - Day 3

Mendelssohn
Symphony no. 3 "Scottish"
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, A.Davis (Sony) 1980

Martinu
Symphony no. 5
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Neumann (Supraphon) 1978

[BBMmk2]

Lutoslawski: Orchestral Works iii
Little Suite; Cello Concerto*;
Grave, for cello and string orchestra*;
Symphony No.2.
*Paul Watkins(cello) BBCSO, Edward Gardner.

Mike Oldfield
Tubular Bells, Pts1 & 2.
Tubular Brass, Sandy Smith.

[Petrushka]

Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No 1*

[interval]

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4

Leonidas Kavakos (violin)*
Maryiinsky Orchestra
Valery Gergiev

[Pianoman]

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