What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III
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A few weeks ago Robin Holloway's second concerto for orchestra was mentioned. I thought I'd give it a spin, for the first time in years, to see what I make of it now...
I still think it's pretty good. I think it has something of the Messiaen about it, parts of it are decidedly surreal. There are certain aspects I'm not so keen on e.g. some of the harmonies smack of an unappealing corny nostalgia... sometimes he gets away with it...
… and film music is there for sure...
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Originally posted by Joseph K View PostA few weeks ago Robin Holloway's second concerto for orchestra was mentioned. I thought I'd give it a spin, for the first time in years, to see what I make of it now...
I still think it's pretty good. I think it has something of the Messiaen about it, parts of it are decidedly surreal. There are certain aspects I'm not so keen on e.g. some of the harmonies smack of an unappealing corny nostalgia... sometimes he gets away with it...
… and film music is there for sure...
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Originally posted by ahinton View PostI think that might have been me. I do think that it's a very fine work. I can't say that I'd particularly noticed anthing Messiaenic about it, although it's now quite a while since last I heard it. Do you have the wonderful performance conducted by the late and much missed Olly Knussen?
Just dug them out for a spin later.
Any thoughts on the third, ah?
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Originally posted by ahinton View PostI think that might have been me. I do think that it's a very fine work. I can't say that I'd particularly noticed anthing Messiaenic about it, although it's now quite a while since last I heard it. Do you have the wonderful performance conducted by the late and much missed Olly Knussen?
I guess you could say it's superficially Messiaenic - some of the chords, often triadic, but seen through a prism or context of post-tonality. Again for some reason Star Wars music was there....
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Originally posted by Pulcinella View PostEven if Joseph doesn't (is there another recording?) I do, as well as the Third, also on NMC, but this time with MTT conducting the LSO.
Just dug them out for a spin later.
Any thoughts on the third, ah?
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Originally posted by Pulcinella View PostEven if Joseph doesn't (is there another recording?) I do, as well as the Third, also on NMC, but this time with MTT conducting the LSO.
Just dug them out for a spin later.
Any thoughts on the third, ah?
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César Franck
Psyché
Czech Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra, c. Jean Fournet
(from 3-CD album Jean Fournet in Prague, Supraphon SU 4122-2)
[This is one of my favourite current boxes: sumptuous, yet lithe and never over-heavy performances of five Franck symphonic works - not the Symphony though, which the Czech PO did with Barbirolli instead - plus four similarly virtuous Debussy readings. In case you don't know it, Psyché is a neglected 45' tone poem of intense beauty, and this performance has everything you'd want, with the chorus most naturally integrated. The recordings date from the mid-1960s and sound great.]
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