5 Pieces

[jayne lee wilson]

Among my less obvious recollects....

Kancheli 4
Gorecki 3
Messiaen Eclairs sur l'au-delà
Max Davies Worldes Blis
Martinu 6

[Wychwood]

Copland - Appalachian Spring
Martinu - Concerto for double string orchestra, piano and timpani
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No 1 Winter Daydreams
RVW - On Wenlock Edge
Hahn - A Chloris

[ahinton]

Sorabji Piano Sonata no 3

Presumably played by the late and much lamented Yonty Solomon, yes?

[Beef Oven!]

Ooer - I could name so many others!

So could I, and so I will!

Bartok - Music For Strings, Percussion & Celesta - at home having bought a CD one Saturday afternoon in the late 80s*
Bridge - Enter Spring - driving home after work, one spring evening in the early 90s. Classic FM
Messiaen - Turangalila Symphony - at a concert in RFA with Mrs Oven! many years ago
Beethoven - Symphony #6 - one Saturday afternoon on R3 in the 70s
Gorecki - Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs - in HMV Oxford Street over the house system, the week of its release

*actually, this doesn't count because it wasn't the first time I heard it

[cloughie]

Stravinsky - Symphony in 3 Movements (thanks for the reminder, Bryn!)
Koechlin - Symphony No 2
Bartok - Musaic for Strings, Harp, Celesta & Percussion
Bridge - Enter Spring
Schoenberg - Erwartung

Ooer - I could name so many others!

Your typo leads me to think that muzak would be brilliant if Bartok’s compositions were used! Also you seem to have added a harp - again Bartok played on blues harmonica would be interesting!

[edashtav]

Presumably played by the late and much lamented Yonty Solomon, yes?

Yes, I was there, was it 50 years ago, and... was it my first trip to the Wigmore, or what KS would have termed the Bechstrin Hall?

[edashtav]

Copland - Appalachian Spring
Martinu - Concerto for double string orchestra, piano and timpani
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No 1 Winter Daydreams
RVW - On Wenlock Edge
Hahn - A Chloris

Ooh, you’ve given me the shivers, Wychwood. I promoted the first local performance of the Chamber version of Appalachian Spring with Melvin Tan and students of the RCM back in the early 70s, gosh did I enjoy that experience!
I bought the Martinu as a thick, weighty Supraphon LP when I was a poor student at Brum Uni...I loved it and that started ...
I was introduced to Tchaik’s first by the late, lamented cellist, intellectual and fellow Schnittke Enthusiast, Alexander Ivashkin, ... oh dear he taught me so much... he remains my musical muse!

I remember my first encounter with Wenlock , RVV out of Ravel on a 10” LP. I loved it because it wasn’t “cowpat” RVW.

As for A Chloris... Je l’aime énormément.

[Wychwood]

What memories, edashtav -- thank you for recounting them.

Apart from the Hahn, my first encounter with these works was in the mid/late 1960s and early 70s, and the music is entwined with the circumstances in which it was first heard. Yes, it must have been that very same recording of the Martinu that made such an impression when I first heard it on the radio. What a treasure trove those Supraphon LPs were back then, retailing for 17/6, IIRC. Another that could easily have made it on to my list was the Ancerl Janacek coupling of the Sinfonietta and Taras Bulba. Just thinking about it still produces a tingle of excitement.

But that's enough nostalgia for now.

[vinteuil]

... Another that could easily have made it on to my list was the Ancerl Janacek coupling of the Sinfonietta and Taras Bulba. Just thinking about it still produces a tingle of excitement.

... nice!

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[Serial_Apologist]

What a treasure trove those Supraphon LPs were back then, retailing for 17/6, IIRC.

10/6 when I first encountered them in my local WH Smiths in 1965; then up to 12/6 a year later. That's how at 19 and just on £8 a week wage I managed to afford that wonderful set of the Bartók quartets with the Fine Arts Quartet, and Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire, incongruously coupled with Stravinsky's Dunbarton Oaks.

[Wychwood]

10/6 when I first encountered them in my local WH Smiths in 1965; then up to 12/6 a year later. That's how at 19 and just on £8 a week wage I managed to afford that wonderful set of the Bartók quartets with the Fine Arts Quartet, and Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire, incongruously coupled with Stravinsky's Dunbarton Oaks.

Forgive me if my memory is playing tricks, but I think those were issued here on the Saga label. Yes, I do recall those Saga LPs as being a few shillings cheaper than the Supraphons!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Forgive me if my memory is playing tricks, but I think those were issued here on the Saga label.

... the LP that I learnt both works from.

[edashtav]

Yes, I remember that Saga LP.

[Bryn]

... the LP that I learnt both works from.

Moi aussi. I bought it (12/6) from the then Singer Sewing Machine shop in Windsor, using school Lunch money. I still have it, along with Harry Newstone's Brandenburghs.

[Beresford]

Inspiring thread - lots of thrills to seek out from others' experiences.

Mine are mostly recorded;

Monteverdi: Vespers 1610 - Paul McReesh - Liverpool Cathedral - Live
Kodaly: Cello Sonata (Danjulo Ishizaka) - car radio on a wild Scottish moor
Messiaen: Et Expecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum - Boulez 1965
Cendo: Introduction aux Ténèbres
J.S.Bach: Violin Sonatas - Grumiaux; (actually All of Bach)

These blew away my wife (always live performances)

Praetorius: Terpsichore - David Munrow ott, Liverpool Phil c1976
Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts - Bridgewater Hall opening
Britten: Quartet 1, Cassia Quartet (RNCM)
Andriessen: Hoketus, Glasgow 2012
Reich: Music for 18 Musicians - RFH c2013

Interesting that Brahms doesn't seem to blow or tingle anyone.