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Author Topic: Holst, Stravinsky .. recommendations please  (Read 507 times)
grahamwebb2000
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« Reply #15 on: 07:16:03, 20-08-2008 »

Reiner, thank you for pointing me towards Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky. I bought a cheapo Naxos recording with Irina Gelahova and the Russian State SO. Wow! Great stuff. I particularly enjoy The Field Death.   
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owain
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« Reply #16 on: 09:53:17, 20-08-2008 »

Try Holst's Egdon Heath - it has the same other-worldly element as Saturn and Neptune.
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Notoriously Bombastic
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Never smile at the brass


« Reply #17 on: 21:27:17, 20-08-2008 »

Another personal favourite among Respighi works is the suite he drew from his ballet Belkis, Queen of Sheba - big, 'hollywood' score which requires huge orchestral forces.


I call your Belkis and raise Three Church Windows!

GW, you may also enjoy the Strauss tone poems.  They are generally big and good, with all sorts of interesting things going on.  In particular, look up Eine Alpinesinfonie , Also Sprach Zarathustra, and Ein Heldeleben (the others are almost tasteful in comparison)

If you fancy brass players worshiping pagan gods - and who doesn't - try Walton's Belshazzar's Feast.

And for completely over-the-topness, try Schönberg's Gurrelieder.

NB
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pim_derks
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« Reply #18 on: 11:21:28, 21-08-2008 »

Here's a fragment from Stravinsky's Frankenstein Suite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTscRFiDTos

They really knew how to create a scary television programme in those days. Hear the little boy scream: "Let me go! No! Mister!"

Cheesy
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richard barrett
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« Reply #19 on: 11:26:26, 21-08-2008 »

Here's a fragment from Stravinsky's Frankenstein Suite:

These days you can get into trouble for that kind of thing. Plagiarism AND violence against children!
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Ruby2
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« Reply #20 on: 12:44:53, 21-08-2008 »

I think I'm going nuts - I could have sworn someone mentioned Scriabin but I can't find it now - maybe nobody did.

In any case, Scriabin is often listed as a prime synaesthete because Prometheus was first performed accompanied by a light show (originally I think he had an instrument that was meant to project the colours as they were played) that was theoretically based on his "coloured hearing", although that in itself has been subject to debate.  His spectrum of colours seems too ordered and complete, ie he's got pretty much every colour of the rainbow in there and it comes across as too thought out and artificial rather than spontaneous, as though he's starting with the colours and trying to find somewhere to slot them in.  As it happens, Scriabin slated Rimsky Korsakov, implying that his synaesthetic interepretations were association-based, although to me looking at their two charts, Rimsky-Korsakov's looks the more genuine just on the basis that it's a bit more arbitrary.

Richard Cytowic's "The Man who tasted shapes" is a good read.
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