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« Reply #2595 on: 12:16:12, 04-04-2008 » |
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Karajan: The Great Recordings on EMI. At the moment, Sibelius's Nos 4 & 5 symps(Berliner Phil)
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« Reply #2596 on: 22:06:10, 04-04-2008 » |
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Hi BBM
i think Karajan has special affinity for Sibelius and imo brings out all the poetry and atmosphere of the music - certainly not the cosmetic gloss usually associated the maestro !!
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« Reply #2597 on: 06:26:03, 05-04-2008 » |
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'Antar' by Rimsky-Korsakov. (Goteborgs Synfoniker, conducted by Neeme Jarvi).
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« Reply #2598 on: 09:35:59, 05-04-2008 » |
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Maybe our Moscow correspondent would like to comment, after his promotion of R-K's operas.
(You'll find out who I mean, JP, if he rises to the bait.)
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« Reply #2599 on: 09:44:25, 05-04-2008 » |
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Hi BBM
i think Karajan has special affinity for Sibelius and imo brings out all the poetry and atmosphere of the music - certainly not the cosmetic gloss usually associated the maestro !!
Yes indeed. I especially find that the sound of the Berliner Philharmoniker was a lot more different than it is today. I liked, especially the the sound of the lower strings. Quite natural, I thought. Now spinning Mahler Symphony no.9/BPO/Rattle. |
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« Reply #2600 on: 13:42:48, 05-04-2008 » |
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Liszt - works for 2 pianos - on Hungaroton. Includes the Grandekonzertstuke on Mendelssohn's Songs without words.
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« Reply #2601 on: 20:54:41, 05-04-2008 » |
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Henry Brant's orchestral transcription of Ives's second piano sonata, "A Concord Symphony", which was on the doormat when I got home from work. It is all I had been led to expect - a considerable disappointment.
Also on the doormat were a couple of 4th symphonies, Mahler's (Tonhalle/Zinman) and Shostakovich's (Stuttgarters/Boreyko), and Del Tredici's "Vintage Alice", etc. I think the Brant had better stop spinning now and go far a rest in its case, (perhaps another day). I think the Boreyko will be next. The programmme notes are quite illuminating. I had not grasped that the original score was destroyed by fire during the siege of Leningrad, and that Shostakovich had to reconstruct it from the particella and what orchestral parts survived. The 'fill-up' on the CD is Shostakovich's own original suite from Lady Mackbeth of the Mtsensk District".
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« Reply #2602 on: 20:58:50, 05-04-2008 » |
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Well there's a coincidence, Bryn - that DSCH No.4 landed on my doormat today and I'd just put it into the CD player when you posted!
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« Reply #2603 on: 21:00:33, 05-04-2008 » |
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My goodness IGI, I wonder what the bookies would've made odds with that happening. Well this is what Ive spinning at the moment - \\\\\\\\\\\\\
Richard Strauss: Don Quixote,Op.35(Slava, BPO, HvK).
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« Reply #2604 on: 21:17:32, 05-04-2008 » |
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Well I suppose that it's not that much of a coincidence, given that the response to the NYPO/Boreyko performance was so positive. Anyway, in case Ron's copy has not yet turned up, the timings are 27'51", 9'52" and 27' 39".
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« Reply #2605 on: 22:41:25, 05-04-2008 » |
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Mightily impressed with the Boreyko DSCH 4 (I've posted some thoughts on the Shostakovich thread).
A lighter end to the evening now, with the Miklós Rózsa Violin Concerto spinning away (thanks to Baz for using it in Syd's snatch test).
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« Reply #2606 on: 22:42:34, 05-04-2008 » |
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The programmme notes are quite illuminating. I had not grasped that the original score was destroyed by fire during the siege of Leningrad, and that Shostakovich had to reconstruct it from the particella and what orchestral parts survived.
Careful there, Bryn, do they give chapter and verse for that? According to my sources, the score was actually restored by B.G. Shalman from the (complete) parts in Leningrad, not by the composer himself, who had in the meantime also lost the original manuscript, and didn't even have the two-piano version when Kondrashin came to see him about the possibility of giving the symphony its belated premiere. Kondrashin himself relates how he had to take a copy of the two-piano version to Shostakovich's flat for him to look over, since "....so many years have passed, I have forgotten a great deal, and I have lost the score". When KK returned two days later he was told...."You can play it. I will phone Leningrad and you will be sent the score. Nothing needs to be rewritten. This symphony still has something dear to me." [Quoted from K. Kondrashin, "My Meetings with Dmitri Shostakovich" in Dmitri Shostakovich: Articles and Documents, ed. G. M. Shneyerson, Moscow, 1976, and taken from the notes to the New Collected Works, Vol.4.] I've not ordered the Boreyko yet since I'm still waiting for my Ormandy version to turn up from the States. Boreyko's obviously pretty consistent in his approach, since his NYPO timings were 28'30", 9'59" and 27'39". I have to admit that I find his second movement less convincing on repeated hearing: it really is considerably slower than nearly everybody else, and I can't see that he justifies it, much as I appreciate his handling of the outer movements. |
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« Reply #2607 on: 23:42:57, 05-04-2008 » |
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No chapter and verse offered, Ron, the wording of the relevant section is:
"The manuscript of the Fourth was burned during the siege of Leningrad in the Second World War. Shostakovich reconstructed the work later on the basis of the particella and the parts written out."
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« Reply #2608 on: 00:22:26, 06-04-2008 » |
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Jazz on 3 from 28/3: Ingebrigt Haker Flaten Quintet recorded at the Seven Arts Club, Leeds on Friday 14th March 2008. Good stuff.
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« Reply #2609 on: 00:39:14, 06-04-2008 » |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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