American Classics

[teamsaint]

I was resisting
but this is excellent stuff


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPOIy4Kb9M4

I love it when covers are better than the original.......

[MrGongGong]

I love it when covers are better than the original.......

I'm sure I started a thread about that a while back ?
but yes indeed ..........
pricks the pomposity nicely

[Beef Oven]

perhaps, or perhaps not......

Incidentally, Beefy, do you remember the Sid Presley Experience / The Godfathers? Came from your neck of the woods, I thought, they covered Sun Arise (which incidentally Rolf didn't play at Wickham 2 years ago to my great disappointment) !

Hup two three four!!

[teamsaint]

I'm sure I started a thread about that a while back ?
but yes indeed ..........
pricks the pomposity nicely

You did.
i might revive it. I won't bore folks with stories of my teenage musical years, but there are certain songs that nobody should hear second hand, that many times in one lifetime. Stairway, Smoke on the Water, Show me the Way........AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGG GGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH.

[Beef Oven]

I love it when covers are better than the original.......

I actually prefer this to to Zep and Zappa versions!

Btw, I never liked this song, even back in the day when I thought Jimmy Page was God.

[Beef Oven]

I imagine that following a big plug on the Breakfast Specialist Chart, this is rarely off your turntable, Beefy old sport?

Classic stuff Cally

[teamsaint]

Hup two three four!!

YES. Loud, unsubtle, but fun."Come out with your hands in the air, the place is surrounded....."

Badly OT now. Apologies.

[Beef Oven]

Some have lebelled George Antheil as the American Shostakovich. I actually think they have a point. I've not played this CD in quite a while, so here goes!

[BBMmk2]

What are these orchestras like Beefy?

[Nick Armstrong]

What are these orchestras like Beefy?

You typed my very thought, BBM!

[Beef Oven]

What are these orchestras like Beefy?

IMHO, I think they are very good indeed and can give most British Orchestras a run for their money http://www.classicstoday.com/review/...4075/?search=1

The National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, formerly the Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra, was established in November 1918 by the Ukraine Council of Ministers. The first conductor was Oleksander Horilyj. Natan Rachlin was artist director of the orchestra from 1937 for 25 years, and Stefan Turchak, Volodymyr Kozhuchar, Fedir Hlushchenko, Igor Blazhkov and Theodore Kuchar went on to serve as principal conductors. Other distinguished conductors have worked with the orchestra and there have been collaborations with leading soloists. During its long history the orchestra has given the first performances of works by Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitry Shostakovich, Aram Khatchaturian, Boris Lyatoshynsky, Valentyn Silvestrov, Myroslav Skoryk, and Evgen Stankovych. Since April 1999 Volodymyr Sirenko has been artistic director and chief conductor, with Alexander Hornostai, from 2006, as managing director and producer.

From the Naxos website

[Beef Oven]

You typed my very thought, BBM!

Please open your minds, this is not a UKIP forum. Foreign people have talent too.

[Nick Armstrong]

Foreign people have talent too.

And we are interested to know if you can describe how, for instance, the Ukrainians get on with the music

[MrGongGong]

Some have lebelled George Antheil as the American Shostakovich. I actually think they have a point. I've not played this CD in quite a while, so here goes!

Ballet Mécanique is a classic of the American experimentalists
so if your taste is for Metal Machine Music as arranged by Shosty then he is your man ......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Antheil

[Suffolkcoastal]

The Ukrainian orchestra, actually play quite well in their recordings of American music and in the recording of the Piston Violin Concertos very idiomatically, that recording in particular is highly recommendable. The recording of Harris 7th isn't too bad, the side drum player is a little heavy with the rhythm and the oboe's tone is a little thin at times, and it takes a few bars for the orchestra to get into the 11/8 rhythm in the variations in assymetrical meter section of the work plus someone has added a cymbal roll on the final chord which isn't in the score. Their performance of Harris's 9th Symphony is pretty good, but not quite the equal of the Albany recording. I've commented on the two Antheil symphonies above during my symphonic journey, Antheil is certainly influenced by Prokofiev in particular in these works and the orchestra seems very much at home in them.