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thompson1780
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« on: 23:03:18, 16-04-2007 »
I just heard the end of Nicholas Maw's Violin COncerto (Joshua Bell, with Norrington - couldn't hear who the orchestra were) on this excellent station:

http://www.radio.rai.it/filodiffusione/

I was quite taken.  I had to sit up and listen.  Maybe part of this was the playing (Bell, for once, didn't seem too agressive or slapdash), but a lot was to do with teh work.

Why don't we hear more of Maw?

Other people's thoughts on this composer?

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« Reply #1 on: 23:10:49, 16-04-2007 »
I think he's underrated. Odyssey is one of those exponential projects that you'd expect to sag in the middle but
it never flags. Likewise the concerto. He went to the states I guess to guarantee the money to write and put these things on. Thea Musgrave likewise -sheer musical intellligence.
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« Reply #2 on: 23:28:24, 16-04-2007 »
I'm less sure about his operas, but I remember vividly the impression that the première of the concerto from the Proms made on me towards the end of the long drive North from the Thames Valley for a family wedding one glorious summer evening, and how I actually made a detour so that I could hear the end of the piece before I arrived at the house. I'd set the timer on the recorder before I'd left, so I still have that performance on tape. Somewhere in storage, of course, like so much else...

Must listen to Odyssey again; a tad too long perhaps, but apart from opera perhaps I'm not attuned to 90 minute spans of music.

From what I remember, Mr Grew may very well have some points to make on the subject of this composer.....
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« Reply #3 on: 23:51:11, 16-04-2007 »
Funny - I was only thinking about Maw today.

Scenes and Arias is a piece I must revisit - long time since I have heard it; the set of piano pieces, Personae, is also worth exploring; on the whole I have been less impressed by the few more recent things I have heard.

Hard to believe he has turned seventy - for some reason I think of him as much younger than the Manchester trio.

I was amused to see at the foot of his Wiki entry a link to other "people from Grantham"...
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