There are several recordings on youtube of Delius' 'Winter Night (Sleigh Ride) ' .
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Prompted by this morning's Start the Week on Radio 4, by Jupiter:
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Far too New Agey to be Otomo Yoshihide!Originally posted by Bryn View PostPrompted by this morning's Start the Week on Radio 4, by Jupiter:
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In a 20-minute concert interval talk back in 1969, Andre Previn and John Georgiadis were interviewed by BBC producer Anthony Friese-Greene who, in his loquaciousness, clearly much preferred the sound of his own voice to theirs. In fact, he became so long-winded towards the end that he got his well-deserved comeuppance from Previn, much to Georgiadis's amusement ...
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It's fascinating to hear Bach's reworking of Vivaldi in these two excellent performances ...
Vivaldi's Concerto for 4 Violins, with Isaac Stern, Ivry Gitlis, Ida Haendel and Shlomo Mintz, the Israel Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta ...
Bach's arrangement for 4 Keyboards, pianos in this case, played by Martha Argerich, Evgeny Kissin, James Levine and Mikhail Pletnev, the direction of the performance evidently undertaken by the soloists themselves ...
Presumably copyright wasn't an issue in Bach's day! ... And where else would you see / hear these two performances, one straight after the other, except on YouTube? ... :)Comment
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"The Lost Chord" is a real tear-jerker of a song but the expressions on the faces of the male members of this US choir take quite some beating. Talk about a multitude of performances! ... Tear-jerking indeed ...
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Percy Grainger enthusiasts might like to hear the seven pieces that were given brand new orchestrations by the composer in 1949 at Leopold Stokowski's request. These were intended specifically for a recording project and the resulting release was highly successful. Oliver Knussen discovered the scores and parts in the Grainger Museum when working in Melbourne in 1988 and the following year he conducted the complete set in a BBC Philharmonic programme. I should think this is the only extant broadcast of all seven Grainger / Stokowski arrangements played sequentially in a public concert ...
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Thanks for posting that, seabright. I heard Knussen talking about those arrangements and how he came across them in old RCA 45 rpm EPs, but I didn't know a recording survived of his performing them. I'll look forward to hearing it. Like many people I first heard them in the 1970s RCA LP reissue with the Grainger piano-roll of the Grieg Concerto on the other side, accompanied in a modern recording by the Sydney SO and John Hopkins (an expatriate Pom, by the way, not an Aussie despite the years he spent in NSW.)Comment
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Here's what I think is a first-rate performance of The Planets all the way from Norway. The Bergen Philharmonic is conducted by Maestro Litton from the USA, evidently somewhat rather over-fond of pork pies and cream doughnuts, with some spectacular kettle-drumming in 'Mars' from the duo timpanists at the back ...
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Sheila Armstrong, now in her 80th year, is the only surviving principal member of the 1973 Proms Premiere of Rachmaninoff's "The Bells," with Previn, Tear and Shirley-Quirk all having departed the globe. It's odd that with four movements, Rachmaninoff only used three soloists, though he could easily have used a contralto in the one movement which didn't include a part for a soloist. Anyway, here's Sheila Armstrong singing about Edgar Allan Poe's 'Mellow Wedding Bells' ...
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Some interesting social commentary from Frank Zappa a couple of years before his death:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoayhbHElMA)Comment
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