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« Reply #135 on: 22:32:17, 15-04-2008 » |
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Advanced notice of a wee two-day archive fest of RVW has come my way: if the information is correct, then this is not the performance of the 5th Symphony recently issued by Somm from the 1952 Proms, but the other one from 1950, long rumoured to exist, but not previously verified, AFAIK.
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 5. London Philharmonic/Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Bless'em: it certainly wasn't the same performance, its longer-limbed lines borne out by more expansive timings. A very rare treat. There's something very satisfying, having lived for the last thirty years or so believing there to be only one composer-led recording of a Vaughan Williams symphony, to discover the existence of a second, and then to hear rumours of another version of that same symphony which is at last also in my possession. Now there's rumours that the premiere may still exist somewhere, too....  |
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« Reply #136 on: 22:55:53, 15-04-2008 » |
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Out of interest, Ron, where do you rank the 5th among VW's symphonies? It always makes a deep impression on me. So different from the 4th. This performance was a real treat - even down to the music stand falling over!
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #137 on: 23:53:21, 15-04-2008 » |
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My standard answer is that my second favourite is whichever one I've just heard, but the one that speaks to me most deeply is the third (especially in the Previn recording). The fourth was the first symphony I ever saw performed live, so that has resonances, too, and the strangeness of the ninth is intriguing. I probably listen least to the Sea Symphony, but even without the present cycle on R3, all the others have had a spin several times in the past year, including two days when I went pretty exhaustively through every sixth in my collection: four Boults, Abravanel, Barbirolli, Previn, two Handleys, Thomson, Marriner, Slatkin, Davis and Haitink, so I should be pretty ready for Stephen Johnson on BAL, next Saturday morning. Bet you wished you'd never asked, prawn.  |
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« Reply #138 on: 01:44:03, 25-04-2008 » |
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Coming up on Monday, Donald Runnicles in his first concert with the BBC Scottish since being named chief conductor designate: Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde and McMillan's 3rd symphony. Having been at the recording this evening, I can attest it was cracking stuff (can't wait until he take up the post in a season or so).
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #139 on: 08:17:18, 25-04-2008 » |
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Thanks for the heads-up, Tam - long time no see! Somehow I guessed that you might be there....
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« Reply #140 on: 08:23:32, 25-04-2008 » |
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... I went pretty exhaustively through every sixth in my collection: four Boults, Abravanel, Barbirolli, Previn, two Handleys, Thomson, Marriner, Slatkin, Davis and Haitink, ... .
Only just noticed that there is no mention of Norrington and the LPO there, Ron. I think you should get to hear it. Whether it will be to your taste is another matter, of course. |
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« Reply #141 on: 17:50:23, 25-04-2008 » |
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... I went pretty exhaustively through every sixth in my collection: four Boults, Abravanel, Barbirolli, Previn, two Handleys, Thomson, Marriner, Slatkin, Davis and Haitink, ... .
Only just noticed that there is no mention of Norrington and the LPO there, Ron. I think you should get to hear it. Whether it will be to your taste is another matter, of course. I think that's been solved now, Bryn! |
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« Reply #142 on: 18:33:46, 25-04-2008 » |
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Funny you should say that, IGI Bryn: I'd omitted Berglund from that list as well. At some point I suppose I'll have to listen to the Hickox from CC on Monday, but I'm not all that excited by what I've heard so far.... Don't forget there's a Colin Davis NYPO RVW 4 tonight! |
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« Reply #143 on: 11:42:54, 26-04-2008 » |
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Thanks for the heads-up, Tam - long time no see! Somehow I guessed that you might be there....
Yes - where Runnicles goes (so long as it's not too far away) I'm not far behind. (Actually, someone I know who is involved with the BPO offered me tickets to hear him play the Berlioz Requiem with them next month, but annoyingly I just couldn't make the dates, flights and costs work). The sound he got from the orchestra was stunning. In the Mahler, orchestrally, I think it was the finest reading (live or on disc) I've heard. Cargill sang beautifully and came close the the kind of haunting tone that marks out Ferrier for me in this work. Simon O'Neill was the weak link to the extent there was one. However, in fairness to him, he was a last minute substitution for Johan Botha. But I found his voice rather thin and nasal and he didn't always ride over the orchestra as well as he might have. You're right, I haven't posted here in a while. I'm afraid I find this forum a bit user unfriendly, due to the sheer number of different boards (as far as websites go, I think a little simplicity goes a long way). |
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« Reply #144 on: 10:33:38, 25-05-2008 » |
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Just a heads-up for the first hour or so of TTN tonight/tomorrow morning, with (IMHO) one of the best British Choirs, Polyphony, under its conductor Stephen Layton, in a collection which looks suspiciously like a Prom from last year with its Shakespeare theme, and finishes with the wonderful RVW Shakespeare settings, as well as starting with less familiar ones.
1.00am
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958): O Mistress Mine Song (Three Elizabethan Songs for chorus)
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Vaughan Williams: The Willow Song (Three Elizabethan Songs for chorus)
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Vaughan Williams: Come Away, Death for chorus
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Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976): Chorale after an old French carol - Our father, whose creative will)
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Britten: A Shepherd's Carol for chorus
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Tavener, John (b 1944): The Tyger for chorus
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Tavener: The Lamb - carol
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Holten, Bo (b 1948): Spring (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell for soprano and chorus)
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Mantyjarvi, Jaakko (b 1963): Four Shakespeare Songs for chorus (Come Away, Death; Lullaby; Double, Double, Toil and Trouble; Full Fathom Five)
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Martin, Frank (1890-1974): Full Fathom Five (5 Ariel Songs for 16 voices - The Tempest)
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Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs for chorus
Polyphony
Stephen Layton (conductor)
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« Reply #145 on: 11:11:35, 25-05-2008 » |
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Thanks, Ron. I shall make a point of recording these - a delightful programme. I agree that Polyphony are very good. I saw their St John Passion at SJSS a couple of years ago.
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« Reply #146 on: 18:29:30, 25-05-2008 » |
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R3 Wednesday, 28 May at 19.00 hrs
Mark Padmore launches, with Till Fellner (piano), his series of three great Schubert cycles with Die
schone Mullerin.
Recorded last week at the Wigmore Hall and presented by Suzy Klein - at The Wiggie, or using the
dead-hand of a studio at Portland Place for the intro? How long, O Lord, how long, before these
concerts are presented 'LIVE'?
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« Reply #147 on: 19:13:31, 25-05-2008 » |
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Intriguing how the Pregardien / Staier version broadcast last night (the one currently with............gaps) lasted exactly an hour, and yet Padmore can apparently make it stretch the full 1h45m  |
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« Reply #148 on: 20:27:11, 25-05-2008 » |
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Standby for the customary fillers, Eru.
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #149 on: 14:36:31, 26-05-2008 » |
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Tonight's Po3 lists three Britten 'rarities': Les Illuminations, Movements for a Clarinet Concerto, and In Memoriam Dennis Brain: but, if you're thinking, as I was, that this is a deliberate 'spot the mistake' listing, then further research has turned up an interesting clarification: the version of Les Illuminations is with 'three newly found movements'.
Over thirty years after the composer's death, there's still new music....
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