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A tribute on BBC 4 would be nice, but at the moment 'Every Night Is Snooker Night'
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I have found all three TV recordings on YouTube, the Tallis, the Feast and the Programme Called Belshazzar's Feast (documentary and performance) and I also picked up the BBC music magazine CD for the princely sum of 80p from a charity shop.Originally posted by Cockney Sparrow View PostHere he is conducting the Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis - the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Gloucester Cathedral at night time, no audience.
How I wish the BBC would broadcast again the TV programme in which it featured - I can't find the details at the moment but it was a series of British or English composers and their music. The Elgar programmes was published as (IIRC) a video tape - but not the Vaughan Williams (The performance audio was issued as a BBC music magazine CD (labelled Belshazzar's Feast with a photo of Leeds Town Hall on the cover).Comment
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I shall play my favourite recording of his - Delius concertos with T.Little and P.Watkins.Comment
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A performance of Bruckner 9 was put up on YouTube yesterday, highly recommended.
Proms 1977, New Philharmonia Orchestra.Comment
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One of the obituaries says that he was orchestrating some of Bach's organ music, presumably for a recording project, having already made a start some years ago with his own colourful arrangement of the Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor. That's on You Tube from a Radio 3 broadcast in 2004 when he and the BBCSO visited Bad Kissingen in Germany. Bach transcriptions weren't new to Sir Andrew, as gave Proms performances of arrangements by Stokowski, Elgar and Wood - and quite splendid they all are too! ...
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A belated RIPOriginally posted by Quarky View Post
(And there will sadly have to be a personnel change to one of the Proms…)
"...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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Also to a December 2024 BBC SO concert and a January 2025 Toronto SO concert:Originally posted by Nick Armstrong View Post(And there will sadly have to be a personnel change to one of the Proms…)[/COLOR]
BBC SO:
Toronto SO program:
More tributes:"SIR ANDREW CONDUCTS EMANUEL AX + MOZART
Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 8:00pm
Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 8:00pm
Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 3:00pm
Sir Andrew Davis, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano
Tippett: Concerto for Double String Orchestra
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25, K. 503
R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra"
Toronto SO:
Melbourne SO:
Glyndebourne:
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Sir Andrew's last Prom can be heard tomorrow (Thursday) evening at 7.30 p.m. - 4th symphonies of Vaughan Williams and Michael Tippett.Comment
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As part of a tribute to Sir Andrew, Linton Stephens played the first movt of Sir Andrew's recording of the Elgar Serenade, I thought it deeply moving.Comment
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Some additional tributes:
The Arts Desk:
The one slight gaffe is that Caroline Harrison slightly misremembered the RVW symphony in his final Prom (she recalled No. 9, when it was actually No. 4 - an understandable slip, in its way).
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, with a list of his guest-conducting appearances:
According to the official obit from his website (my guess is that his son Ed Frazier Davis maintained the website):
Thus, by inference, the December 23, 2023 Chicago Symphony concert was Sir Andrew's final concert appearance."Following in the tradition of English forebears he made a new orchestration version of Handel’s Messiah – which he recorded with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and was his last public appearance in December with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra."
YT has a video of his guest-conducting appearance at the Royal College of Music, live-streamed on October 27, 2023, with this program:
Britten: Violin Concerto, op. 15
Lili Boulanger: Psalm 130, 'Du fond de l’abîme'
Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Stravinsky: Symphony of PsalmsComment
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