Free Rattle concert from Berlin tonight at 7 pm UK time.
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Struggling to get in, as I haven’t received the confirmation email link yet :(I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
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Friday Concert no. 10
Friday Concert no. 10
Matthijs Vermeulen: symphony no. 7 "Dithyrambes pour les temps à venir" (1965)
Eyvind Alnaes: piano concerto in D major, opus 27 (1914)
Eduard Erdmann: symphony no. 2, opus 12 (1924)
Encore - Antonín Dvořák: symphony no. 8 - third movement
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Friday Concert no. 11
Friday Concert no. 11
Sir John McEwen: The Demon Lover (third of Three Border Ballads, 1908)
André Jolivet: Piano Concerto (1950)
Benjamn Frankel: Symphony no. 2, opus 38 (1962)
Encore - Frederick Delius: Brigg Fair, an English rhapsody (1907)
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Friday Concert no. 12
Friday Concert no. 12
Jean Absil: Symphony no. 2, opus 25 (1936)
Ruben Liljefors: Piano Concerto in F minor, opus 5 (1899)
Julius Weismann: Symphony no. 2 in B flat major, opus 130 (1939)
Encore - Oscar Straus: Concert Waltz from "A Waltz Dream" (1907)
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It's a long time ago but I wonder if anyone remembers Sir William Walton's 70th Birthday Concert in 1972 at the RFH conducted by Andre Previn. It got off to a highly amusing start when six British composers all paid tribute to Walton with 1-minute musical greetings based on a certain well-known tune. The most amusing of these came from Malcolm Arnold and Robert Simpson but the audience much enjoyed the others too. Thanks, as ever, to YouTube we can hear the broadcast again, so here it is ...
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Brilliant find, seabright, many thanks!Originally posted by seabright View Post"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Yes, I just came across this channel which calls itself "LSO live recordings" but which states that "it is not associated in any way with the London Symphony Orchestra, or its own CD label, LSO LIVE. These are audio recordings made by LSO fans over a period of some 60 years, and are not rips of LSO LIVE recordings. We have greatly enjoyed these performances over the years and just wish to share them with other music lovers."Originally posted by Caliban View Post
This link below takes you to their main page and there'll you see that they've uploaded loads of historic broadcasts, taped off the radio, featuring Previn, Jochum, Celibidache, Colin Davis, Stokowski, Haitink, Rostropovich and many others. They've even got a Prom performance of "Brigg Fair" conducted by Basil Cameron in 1957! ... I've just been listening to Pierre Monteux conducting Vaughan Williams's "London" Symphony in 1963 and wonder why on earth he wasn't asked to record it commercially.
So yet again, YouTube comes up with a channel featuring some excellent 'live' performances from the past which you can hear nowhere else. Here is the aforementioned RVW2 from Monteux with a note under the video that states it to be "swift and exciting" and speedy it certainly is! ...
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Many thanks seabright for these latest links
“Music is the best means we have of digesting time." — Igor StravinskyComment
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Le Boléro de Ravel par l'Orchestre national de France en #confinement #ensembleàlamaisonI will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
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This is Khachaturian's Sabre Dance. I include it here not for the music or performance but one of the comments on it that I find hard to believe.
The rest of the orchestra is playing in 4, whilst [the tambourine] is playing in 3. Making it sound and feel ridiculously difficult. And I happen to understand because I played this with the National Youth Orchestra and needless to say it took me a very long time to master.
Would the tambourine alone be playing in a different time signature from the rest of the orchestra? There is a glimpse of him at 1:03. Maybe one of you out there has the score, has played it or can tell from the player whether he's beating three to everyone else's four.Comment
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Mystery solved. The middle section of the Sabre Dance when the saxophone has a solo is in 3/4 time for the whole orchestra. I'm surprised anyone playing in the NYO thought everyone else was in 4/4 time while he was in 3/4. Did the conductor ever say anything?Comment
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If the conductor was Gergiev, for example, there would probably have been no recognisable beat to follow anyway, just that fluttering of fingers. How any orchestral player knows how to respond is beyond me!Originally posted by Oakapple View PostComment
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I just checked Gergiev and in this video of 'Bolero' he seems to be conducting with a matchstick! ...Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
I was wondering how many 'baton-less' conductors there have been ... Boulez was one, here in the 'Firebird' ...
Stokowski of course was the most famous, here in a rehearsal of 'Leonore' No.3 ...
On the other hand, I love the lengthy Boult baton, here seen in Elgar's 'Gerontius' ...
Any more 'baton-less' conductors?Comment
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