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What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III
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Originally posted by Pulcinella View PostWas it reworked for two pianos because it was deemed too difficult for one player, I wonder?
I love it to bits in either version!
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Originally posted by umslopogaas View PostThanks Cloughie, that is true. I suppose that we should be thankful to know that our memory is nearly full, because if we dont know that, then the memory is not only full, but failing.
I have been commanding my memory to reveal itself for the last few years, so that I can put down on paper what is there. Fascinating. I would urge anyone of any age to do so, because it will be source information. Historians need source material to do their job. It will always be unreliable, but at least, its available.
And yes, I have read Proust in the english translation and he does have a lot to say about memory. Wonderful, wonderful writing.
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostCyrill Smith and Grace Sellick were involved in this - was this also arranged for three hands after Cyrill's stroke?
Don't know of a 3 hand arrangement.
It's a wonderful piece with a slow movement of heart wrenching beauty.
No,Boult conducted the premier of the original not the 2 piano version.
Bartok was apparently impressed with the concerto,not surprisingly
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Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View PostJoseph Cooper (of face the music fame,showing my age) helped to arrange the 2 piano version,Phylis Sellick and Cyril Smith gave the premier (under Boult ?).
Don't know of a 3 hand arrangement.
It's a wonderful piece with a slow movement of heart wrenching beauty
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Originally posted by Petrushka View PostSir Vivian Dunn wrote a terrific march for the film Cockleshell Heroes. The Farnon Derby Day March is a regular fixture for me on this day, a typical tuneful bouncy number that really gets me in the mood.Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750
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Karl Böhm - The Early Years - 1935-49
Works by Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Johann Strauss II, Richard Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Humperdinck, Gounod, Verdi, Puccini, Berger, Leoncavallo, Smetana, Pfitzner, Lortzing, Berlioz, Reger, Bach, Wagner & Weber
Böhm in Dresden complete edition (CDs 1-14)
Böhm with Berlin Philharmoniker (CD 14)
Böhm with Wiener Philharmoniker (CDs 15-18)
Böhm with Philharmonia Orchestra (CD 19)
Warner Classics - Icon Series
I'll be dipping into this set today.
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Beethoven
Symphony No.9 in D minor, Op.125.
Karita Matilla, Vicieta Matilla,
Thomas Moser, Thomas Quasthoff,
Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericsson Chamber Choir,
Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado.
Brahms
Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor, Op.16
Piano Concerto No.2 in Bb, Op.83.
Maurizio Pollini, Berliner Philharmoniker,
Claudio Abbado.Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750
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In Memoriam Jiri Belohlávek (2)
Martinu Symphony No.2; Symphony No.3.
BBCSO/Belohlávek, Barbican Live 2009/10. Onyx CDs.
Returning to these once again, the Barbican sound is as ever spatially-constrained, rather anonymous at lower levels, but - the sheer spontaneity and sense of fun in No.2, and the darker, more searching and exploratory reading of No.3 (not to mention the superb orchestral response) has won me over; yes, my response is a little intensified by the maestro's passing, but having listened to the gloriously opulent late-Supraphon CD of 3 and 4 I had a clearer perspective on the live cycle: it has a warmth and fullness unusual in Martinu recordings (which naturally tend to focus on greater textural clarity and rhythmic bite) a Romantic lift to the soaring melodies, and above all that sense of discovery in the live moment. The quieter, coloristic episodes are never going to be as telling as one would prefer, or the rhythms as sharply articulated; but the cycle's own unique qualities are musically persuasive.
Thank Goodness he completed this cycle after two incomplete ones (Chandos & Supraphon), especially as it includes Belohlávek's only extant 2nd in as serene and joyful a reading as you could wish for. Not for the first time I was compelled to encore the lovely andante.
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Olga Neuwirth: Clinamen/Nodus
London Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Boulez
[interval]
Mahler: Symphony No 9
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Rafael Kubelik
Given in the Barbican, London, January 27 2000 (Neuwirth) and the Bunka Kaiken Concert Hall, Tokyo, June 4 1975 (Mahler)"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Originally posted by Stanfordian View PostKarl Böhm - The Early Years - 1935-49
Works by Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Johann Strauss II, Richard Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Humperdinck, Gounod, Verdi, Puccini, Berger, Leoncavallo, Smetana, Pfitzner, Lortzing, Berlioz, Reger, Bach, Wagner & Weber
Böhm in Dresden complete edition (CDs 1-14)
Böhm with Berlin Philharmoniker (CD 14)
Böhm with Wiener Philharmoniker (CDs 15-18)
Böhm with Philharmonia Orchestra (CD 19)
Warner Classics - Icon Series
I'll be dipping into this set today.
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostI have a lot of Bohm recordings 50s to 80s, most of which I like very much. What is the sound quality like on these earlier recordings, are they worth adding?"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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