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  • edashtav
    Full Member
    • Jul 2012
    • 3670

    HighlandDougie writes of Turangalila in Edinburgh:” I’m still not sure that the music isn’t just on the wrong side of being trashy but it makes a glorious noise.”

    I wonder how many other Boarders share his worry? I do, for sure.

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    • richardfinegold
      Full Member
      • Sep 2012
      • 7666

      Originally posted by edashtav View Post
      HighlandDougie writes of Turangalila in Edinburgh:” I’m still not sure that the music isn’t just on the wrong side of being trashy but it makes a glorious noise.”

      I wonder how many other Boarders share his worry? I do, for sure.
      Count me in

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      • Joseph K
        Banned
        • Oct 2017
        • 7765

        Originally posted by edashtav View Post
        HighlandDougie writes of Turangalila in Edinburgh:” I’m still not sure that the music isn’t just on the wrong side of being trashy but it makes a glorious noise.”

        I wonder how many other Boarders share his worry? I do, for sure.
        I love it, and while I do not find it at all trashy, I did notice the similarity between The Joy Of The Blood Of The Stars movement and 'We're off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz' song from that film. But I don't think it's a problem.

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        • Bryn
          Banned
          • Mar 2007
          • 24688

          Originally posted by Joseph K View Post

          I love it, and while I do not find it at all trashy, I did notice the similarity between The Joy Of The Blood Of The Stars movement and 'We're off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz' song from that film. But I don't think it's a problem.
          I wish you had not mentioned the similarity. It had never struck me. Now I will be unable to disengage the two.

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          • french frank
            Administrator/Moderator
            • Feb 2007
            • 30279

            From The Guardian archive, Eric Blom's 1953 review of the symphony, broadcast on the BBC Third Programme:

            "Being well seasoned to that sort of thing, I could bear the harsh sounds that must have made many listeners in their homes turn off their sets precipitately; but the “beautiful” passages of a lushness never experienced before outside a cinema during the organ interlude, were not easily endurable."

            The whole review is fascinating.
            It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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            • Serial_Apologist
              Full Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 37671

              Originally posted by richardfinegold View Post

              Count me in
              I'm with Boulez on this work. It would be fine had the composer just kept the opening movement and the ones numbered Turangalila and ditched the rest, especially the godawful Song of Love.

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              • Dave2002
                Full Member
                • Dec 2010
                • 18014

                Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post

                I'm with Boulez on this work. It would be fine had the composer just kept the opening movement and the ones numbered Turangalila and ditched the rest, especially the godawful Song of Love.
                Now you have me wondering. From recollection I like almost all of it - but there might indeed be sections which could be excised - though which I can't think straight off. The ending could perhaps be described as trashy - but I don't care - I like that.

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                • silvestrione
                  Full Member
                  • Jan 2011
                  • 1707

                  We went to a marvellous concert at Snape with Hyeyoon Park and Benjamin Grosvenor, playing, amongst other things, 'The Lark Ascending', and ending with the Franck Violin and Piano Sonata. And then an encore! Thrilling! But we did not know what it was..just wondering if anyone else was there, and knows what it was?

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                  • HighlandDougie
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 3090

                    Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor, Op. 30/Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op. 44

                    Evgeny Kissin (Piano)/Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo/Kazuki Yamada

                    One might have thought that one was at a concert in St Petersburg, given the Russian being spoken in the hall but glad to see that Kissin, no friend of Putin or his siloviki cronies, wasn't being boycotted as a result of his outspoken opposition to Mad Vlad. As expected, a dazzling display of virtuosity but the first encore, one of the Melodies, emphasised that there is so much more to him than seemingly effortless pianism. Fine performance of the symphony from Yamada, who is an energetic conductor. Orchestra was in good form. Lots of botox and Chanel on display (the plush seats have a hook on their back so that one might hang one's bag from it - and "out-bag" one's neighbours). It is Monte Carlo, after all.

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                    • Pulcinella
                      Host
                      • Feb 2014
                      • 10921

                      Originally posted by HighlandDougie View Post
                      Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor, Op. 30/Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op. 44

                      Evgeny Kissin (Piano)/Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo/Kazuki Yamada

                      One might have thought that one was at a concert in St Petersburg, given the Russian being spoken in the hall but glad to see that Kissin, no friend of Putin or his siloviki cronies, wasn't being boycotted as a result of his outspoken opposition to Mad Vlad. As expected, a dazzling display of virtuosity but the first encore, one of the Melodies, emphasised that there is so much more to him than seemingly effortless pianism. Fine performance of the symphony from Yamada, who is an energetic conductor. Orchestra was in good form. Lots of botox and Chanel on display (the plush seats have a hook on their back so that one might hang one's bag from it - and "out-bag" one's neighbours). It is Monte Carlo, after all.
                      Do the people sitting behind not have a good rummage through the bags to look at what's inside?

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                      • Beresford
                        Full Member
                        • Apr 2012
                        • 555

                        Huddersfield (hcmf) - 18th November - Rebecca Saunders - SKULL - first UK performance. Oslo Sinfonietta - about 20 instruments - making some wonderful noises. I still don't feel I know how to listen to this music, but it certainly gets into me, in a good way. She makes the loud climaxes without any of the bombast of other composers - not sure how she does it.

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                        • LMcD
                          Full Member
                          • Sep 2017
                          • 8457

                          Originally posted by Beresford View Post
                          Huddersfield (hcmf) - 18th November - Rebecca Saunders - SKULL - first UK performance. Oslo Sinfonietta - about 20 instruments - making some wonderful noises. I still don't feel I know how to listen to this music, but it certainly gets into me, in a good way. She makes the loud climaxes without any of the bombast of other composers - not sure how she does it.
                          This lunchtime - Haydn's Piano Trio No. 21 and Beethoven's 'Archduke' Trio. The piano part in the 3rd movement of the latter is a striking early indication of the direction in which LvB was heading.

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                          • gurnemanz
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 7386

                            A first for us recently was a Lieder recital in the Ustinov Theatre, Bath. A very enjoyable and originally programmed evening from Sophie Bevan and other half, Ryan Wigglesworth, on piano in early songs by Schubert, Johanna Müller-Hermann and Mahler.

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                            • Pulcinella
                              Host
                              • Feb 2014
                              • 10921

                              Can anyone point me to the 'Future concerts you're excited to have tickets for' thread?
                              My searches have proved fruitless, so I might be misremembering its title.

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                              • prb
                                Full Member
                                • Jan 2018
                                • 23

                                Can anyone point me to the 'Future concerts you're excited to have tickets for' thread?
                                My searches have proved fruitless, so I might be misremembering its title.​
                                Here you go:


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