Problem Works By Composers You Love

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius. Just can't get into that work in spite of several attempts!

It took me a few years, but I got there when I heard the Britten/Pears recording.

[BBMmk2]

Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead; most of Mozart(unlest it's a really top notch recording)! Grieg's PC......

[LeMartinPecheur]

Perhaps the problem is the forced arrangement for violin, 'cello and piano, since, as in the case of the arpeggione, it is now impossible to find a triple?

I trust you're not going to go harping on about the impossibility of finding a triple? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_harp

[hmvman]

It took me a few years, but I got there when I heard the Britten/Pears recording.

I have that recording and it's still a struggle. It's probably time for another go soon, though!

[Bryn]

I have that recording and it's still a struggle. It's probably time for another go soon, though!

Where the DoG is concerned, I have taken the path of "If at first you don't succeed, give up, it's probably not worth the effort".

[MrGongGong]

Where the DoG is concerned, I have taken the path of "If at first you don't succeed, give up, it's probably not worth the effort".

[Beef Oven!]

Always loved it, meself. Along with Can, The Velvet underground etc. But then when it comes to music, I'm open minded and non-judgemental

[amateur51]

I'm open minded

You mean your brain air-cooled like a VW Beetle?

[Petrushka]

Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius. Just can't get into that work in spite of several attempts!

The Barbirolli recording is the one that did it for me over 20 years ago. I love the piece. Who can't feel the goosebumps at the mighty choral outbursts at 'Go forth' and 'Praise to the Holiest'?

[MrGongGong]

The text

[Beef Oven!]

The text

"The lyrics, man, listen to the lyrics"

Are you into concept albums then, MrGG?

Don't tell me you don't get goose-bumps at that final 'Amen' ...You have no soul....

[MrGongGong]

Don't tell me you don't get goose-bumps at that final 'Amen' ...You have no soul....

I have no soul

[Beef Oven!]

The Barbirolli recording is the one that did it for me over 20 years ago. I love the piece. Who can't feel the goosebumps at the mighty choral outbursts at 'Go forth' and 'Praise to the Holiest'?

But I prefer Boult, just.

I bought Handley's when it was released in the 90s and was disappointed. Especially as he'd been knocking out a great RVW and Bob Simpson cycle just before that (or around the same time, memory fails).

[Flosshilde]

I'm sure you're right, as Alan Bennett once wrote to me on a postcard ( You have to hear the voice) Nevertheless I've just checked the labels on half a dozen CDs, and they all use 'AT' so I'm afraid it's hands up and march away.

Perhaps it be a difficulty in translating from Russian that's the root, with the Russian translating as either 'from' or 'at'.
Wikipedia -
Pictures at an Exhibition (Russian: Картинки с выставки – Воспоминание о Викторе Гартмане, Kartínki s výstavki – Vospominániye o Víktore Gártmane, "Pictures from an Exhibition – A Remembrance of Viktor Hartmann"; French: Tableaux d'une exposition)

[Petrushka]

But I prefer Boult, just.

I bought Handley's when it was released in the 90s and was disappointed. Especially as he'd been knocking out a great RVW and Bob Simpson cycle just before that (or around the same time, memory fails).

Yes, Boult is equally fine but it was the Barbirolli that really made me love the work and it is to his version that I would turn. I never heard the Handley as it got poor reviews but I've heard it live several times now, mostly, it seems, under Sir Andrew Davis.