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What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III
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Sibelius: En saga op. 9
BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Thomas Søndergård
Kalevi Aho: Clarinet Concerto (2005)
Martin Fröst, Lahti Symphony Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä
A terrific work, given a brilliant performance
Einojuhani Rautavaara: Symphony No. 7 ('Angel of Light', 1994-95)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä
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Originally posted by Beef Oven! View PostJust finished listening no.7 while washing up and waiting for the rain to pass. Now moved on to No.6
...Seems to belong to a different, more innocent world now...)
There were plans to record the 8th with Chandos in Manchester c/w A Vision of the Sea, but it hasn't appeared so far....
Whilst the 6th is the most ambitious, achieved and impressively epic, I love the 4th and 5th most of all, for their deftness, subtlety and range of mood. There's an "unpredictable inevitability" within their striking concision. They're the closest to "neo-classical" Matthews Symphonies, though as individual as ever...
As with Mendelssohn's best music, lightness-of-touch doesn't preclude depth or profundity...
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Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View PostWell there are 9 David Matthews Symphonies now, but the 8th and 9th (premiered 9/18) lack recordings, and AFAIK there've been no broadcasts since the 8th's Bridgewater premiere in 2015...(I fondly remember our epic "whither modern music" debate after that..(with RB, fhg, AH etc)...
...Seems to belong to a different, more innocent world now...)
There were plans to record the 8th with Chandos in Manchester c/w A Vision of the Sea, but it hasn't appeared so far....
Whilst the 6th is the most ambitious, achieved and impressively epic, I love the 4th and 5th most of all, for their deftness, subtlety and range of mood. There's an "unpredictable inevitability" within their striking concision. They're the closest to "neo-classical" Matthews Symphonies, though as individual as ever...
As with Mendelssohn's best music, lightness-of-touch doesn't preclude depth or profundity...
I'm not as familiar with 4 & 5 as I am with 6, but I can't put them in the same class as 6.
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Originally posted by Beef Oven! View PostI remember that ill-mannered, but very informative, nay, educational debate
I'm not as familiar with 4 & 5 as I am with 6, but I can't put them in the same class as 6.
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Originally posted by ahinton View PostAs my recollections of that are somewhat hazy, I can only hope that my own contributions, such as (and whatever) they were, did not fall into the "ill-mannered" category. For me, whilst there's no such thing as a duff David Matthews symphony, like you, I would value no. 6 above all of the others were someone to put a gun at my head and say "if you could take only one..."...
Your oft-used gun at the head scenario is macabre!
Do we know if Dutton or others have any intentions regarding 8&9?
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Originally posted by Beef Oven! View PostIIRC, you were well behaved!
Your oft-used gun at the head scenario is macabre!
Do we know if Dutton or others have any intentions regarding 8&9?
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Originally posted by ahinton View PostI don't know but I cannot imagine that recordings of these works will need to be be long awaited. He has just completed a Concerto for Orchestra that will be premièred next May, by the way. I don't know whether he yet has any plans for a 10th sympohony...
Regarding the 10th, if he's not superstitious, he needn't plan for it. But if he is superstitious, he needs to get onto writing it!
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Originally posted by Alison View PostWhere do you folk ‘source’ your BPO/Rattle CD’s may I ask?"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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