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  • MrGongGong
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    • Nov 2010
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    PRS "Resonate" pieces

    Some interesting discussion about this on FB at the moment

    UK orchestras to champion 11 of the best pieces of British orchestral music from the past 25 years through PRS Foundation’s Resonate programme. Orchestras supported include City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Dunedin Consort & Scottish Ensemble,  and the London Symphony Orchestra Pieces selected include Oliver Knussen’s The Way to Castle Yonder – Pot-pourri […]
  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
    Gone fishin'
    • Sep 2011
    • 30163

    #2
    Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
    Some interesting discussion about this on FB at the moment
    https://prsfoundation.com/2019/04/23...ac-iU-TkFsqgRg
    It's a very "Radio 3" interpretation of "outstanding", isn't it. (And of "from the last 25 years" come to that - Skempton's Lento was written in 1990 and premiered the following year - and, to be picky, the Macmillan Seven Last Words was premiered 25 years AND ONE MONTH ago! )

    Heigh-ho - time to play

    I've already posted a downloadable excerpt from this recording, which is of the only performance so far of this piece (in February 2005, by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tadaaki Otaka). Here


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    Quite a number of orchestral works by Birtwistle from the past quarter-century, too, of course - perhaps their more frequent performances abroad disqualifies them from inclusion in the PRS criteria, in spite of their neglect by British Orchestras?
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    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
      Gone fishin'
      • Sep 2011
      • 30163

      #3
      Good to see the RLPO choices, though.
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      • Dave2002
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        • Dec 2010
        • 18009

        #4
        I'm not sure that I like too much of James MacMillan's music (some is very good ...) - the Dunedin Consort are usually worth hearing. What is the Seven Last Words from the Cross like?

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        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
          Gone fishin'
          • Sep 2011
          • 30163

          #5
          Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
          I'm not sure that I like too much of James MacMillan's music (some is very good ...) - the Dunedin Consort are usually worth hearing. What is the Seven Last Words from the Cross like?
          Slightly less unpleasant than the events it depicts.

          I found it a dreary sequence of note-spinnings, uninteresting, and predictable (in the sense that, when I first heard it, it sounded familiar - when I heard it the second time, I couldn't remember much from the first, but there was still that sense of having heard something like the bits I couldn't remember somewhere before). But that's how I feel about most of MacMillan's output.
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          • Dave2002
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            • Dec 2010
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            #6
            MMm. I have heard some, but very little, of JM's output which was lovely. The rest I could happily give a miss.

            The musicians who play and sing are his music are often (if they're the Dunedins plus ensemble, particularly) very good.

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            • Bryn
              Banned
              • Mar 2007
              • 24688

              #7
              Anyway, never mind Skempton's ubiquitous Lento, I'm going to this.

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              • Dave2002
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                • Dec 2010
                • 18009

                #8
                Eusebius even manages to get into this thread! (Buggered or otherwise ...)

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                • Richard Barrett
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                  • Jan 2016
                  • 6259

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                  Anyway, never mind Skempton's ubiquitous Lento, I'm going to this.
                  Very interesting. Are those recent pieces by MC?

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                  • Bryn
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                    • Mar 2007
                    • 24688

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Richard Barrett View Post
                    Very interesting. Are those recent pieces by MC?
                    The 2nd dates, IIRC, from 2010 (performed on May 1st that year). I'm not sure when he composed the 1st and 3rd. I will ask him.

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