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  • seabright
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    • Jan 2013
    • 625

    This is for any lovers of English music who happen to have in their collections Andre Previn's recording of the Vaughan Williams 4th Symphony and also Jeffrey Tate's of the Elgar 2nd, both with the LSO. On You Tube the two conductors play each work in radio broadcasts with American orchestras, the Houston Symphony in Previn's case and the San Francisco Symphony in Tate's. One member of the RVW Society has already told me that the Houston RVW4 is "stupendous," not an adjective one usually hears in relation to the Previn / LSO recording, whilst a comment under the San Francisco Elgar performance declares it to be "better than Tate's studio version in London."

    If you'd like to see if you agree, here is the Houston RVW4 from 1969 ...

    André Previn died on 28 February 2019, only a few weeks before what would have been his 90th birthday on April 6th. He was born in Germany but the family mov...


    And here is the San Francisco Elgar 2 in 1987 ...

    When Leopold Stokowski gave the US Premiere of Elgar's 2nd Symphony in Cincinnati on 24 November 1911, the local critic was unimpressed. "Elgar does not conv...


    I seem to recall that Tate was criticised for several passages in his LSO recording which slowed down to tortoise-like tempos and you get that in this performance too. Still, the SFSO is a great US orchestra and their excellent playing brings much vitality to the work.

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    • Edgy 2
      Guest
      • Jan 2019
      • 2035

      Originally posted by seabright View Post
      This is for any lovers of English music who happen to have in their collections Andre Previn's recording of the Vaughan Williams 4th Symphony and also Jeffrey Tate's of the Elgar 2nd, both with the LSO. On You Tube the two conductors play each work in radio broadcasts with American orchestras, the Houston Symphony in Previn's case and the San Francisco Symphony in Tate's. One member of the RVW Society has already told me that the Houston RVW4 is "stupendous," not an adjective one usually hears in relation to the Previn / LSO recording, whilst a comment under the San Francisco Elgar performance declares it to be "better than Tate's studio version in London."

      If you'd like to see if you agree, here is the Houston RVW4 from 1969 ...

      André Previn died on 28 February 2019, only a few weeks before what would have been his 90th birthday on April 6th. He was born in Germany but the family mov...


      And here is the San Francisco Elgar 2 in 1987 ...

      When Leopold Stokowski gave the US Premiere of Elgar's 2nd Symphony in Cincinnati on 24 November 1911, the local critic was unimpressed. "Elgar does not conv...


      I seem to recall that Tate was criticised for several passages in his LSO recording which slowed down to tortoise-like tempos and you get that in this performance too. Still, the SFSO is a great US orchestra and their excellent playing brings much vitality to the work.
      Many thanks for taking the trouble to post these links.
      Thoroughly enjoyed listening to both today,the RVW especially is thrilling
      “Music is the best means we have of digesting time." — Igor Stravinsky

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      • seabright
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        • Jan 2013
        • 625

        I'm glad you like the Houston RVW4, Edgy 2. If you'd like to hear another fascinating non-British RVW performance, here's the 'Sinfonia Antartica' in what was presumably it's Argentinian premiere with the Buenos Aires Philharmonic conducted by Carlos Prazeres. I wonder when it was last played at the RFH?! ...

        video, sharing, camera phone, video phone, free, upload

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        • seabright
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          • Jan 2013
          • 625

          We're all familiar with "Jerusalem" from the Last Night but it could hardly have been all that familiar to the youngsters who made up the West Point Cadet Glee Club. Here they are, singing in all heartwarming earnestness, though the organist rather over-indulged himself between the two verses, I thought. Anyway, this video has had nearly 2 million views, which is not bad going! Sir Hubert ought to be pleased ...

          I included this song in the repertoire of "Stand Ye Steady" to honor our steadfast friends and allies from the UK. If ever a song embodied a call to action, ...

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          • Edgy 2
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            • Jan 2019
            • 2035

            Thanks again seabright (belatedly for the RVW 7)
            “Music is the best means we have of digesting time." — Igor Stravinsky

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            • seabright
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              • Jan 2013
              • 625

              For those of you who know what a Melodica is, here's The Rite of Spring, somewhat abridged, played on two of these free-reed keyboard instruments. They are similar to the pump organ and harmonica and are played by blowing air through a mouthpiece, or two mouthpieces in this particular case ...

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              :)

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              • Joseph K
                Banned
                • Oct 2017
                • 7765

                Chanced upon this:

                Harrison Birtwistle in conversation with Julian Anderson

                AHRC OWRI project ‘Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community'A series of talks on the relationship between music and language, created as part of the AHRC...

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                • seabright
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                  • Jan 2013
                  • 625

                  If you've ever wondered what Buxtehude sounds like when played on the Ondes Martenot, here is Cynthia Millar to supply the answer ... ;) ...

                  Maurice Martenot is best known for inventing his 'electrical instrument,' the Ondes Martenot. He introduced it to America in 1930 in a Philadelphia Orchestra...

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                  • Flay
                    Full Member
                    • Mar 2007
                    • 5795

                    I stumbled on this. Incredible

                    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                    • Flay
                      Full Member
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 5795

                      It must be her party piece!

                      Rattle's howl at 4.59 is very apt

                      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                      • LHC
                        Full Member
                        • Jan 2011
                        • 1555

                        Originally posted by Flay View Post
                        It must be her party piece!

                        Rattle's howl at 4.59 is very apt

                        I was at that performance in 2015. A fabulous concert that also included Webern‘s Six Pieces for Orchestra, Berg’s Three Fragments from Wozzeck and The Rite of Spring
                        "I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
                        Lady Bracknell The importance of Being Earnest

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                        • Flay
                          Full Member
                          • Mar 2007
                          • 5795

                          Barbara Hannigan is my current hero! These (sensible this time) videos are worth a watch.

                          Barbara Hannigan – Taking Risks: Casting and mentoring young professional musicians for the The Rake’s Progress

                          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                          • Bryn
                            Banned
                            • Mar 2007
                            • 24688

                            Alerted to this via Twitter:

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                            • gradus
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                              • Nov 2010
                              • 5604

                              Odd sometimes how you notice things that previously escaped you. On Youtube today, I came upon the 60's recording session Solti/VPO video of Siegfried's Funeral March. It is a truly astonishing performance as thunderous as ever but I'd never noticed the firsts standing to play - why?, nor the placement of the harps behind Solti and the cymbal technique used by the percussionist. Perhaps this is old hat but I thought it interesting and the performance is something else: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkOiKy6sXfM

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                              • Petrushka
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 12234

                                Here's a fascinating 36 minute analysis of the Meistersinger Prelude.

                                Please support this channel on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/RichardAtkinsonRichard Atkinson analyzes the elaborate counterpoint in the Prelude to Act I of...
                                "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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