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John W
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« on: 01:45:34, 29-06-2008 »
Forget Ali G Borat whatever...............

On two occasions June 27-28,  I've seen the Kazakhstan National Conservatory on the Performance Channel, recordings from Barbican performances, stunning performances, but with my eyes straying from the TV screen, I don't know what music works I've been listening to. I was very much impressed by the excitement in these works, particularly from the wind players, and everything else too, the conductor was Christophe Mangou.

What were the works?

I've checked the website but it only says:

The Symphony Orchestra of the Kurmangazy National Conservatory of Kazakhstan makes its London debut after
much successful worldwide touring.

Can someone tell me the works performed at the Barbican, that were broadcast on Friday/Saturday this week?


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« Reply #1 on: 10:10:29, 29-06-2008 »
This may be it

http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=4630
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« Reply #2 on: 10:33:13, 29-06-2008 »
Thanks autoharp,

I expect the main work I heard was Tles Kazhgaliev's The Steppe. The other piece was quite short and maybe it was an encore, it had quite a comic ending with trombones and trumpets, the latter making horse-neigh noises ! Unfortunately the channel has ended it's broadcast of the Kazakhstan National Conservatory,

This week there's a series of performances by young musicians from Guildhall 2006, but confusingly right now sounds/looks like Beethoven's 6th Symphony by the the Berlin Phil has just finished which wasn't on the channel schedule  Huh


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« Reply #3 on: 15:33:26, 29-06-2008 »
Kazakhstan is the second-largest of the ex-USSR nations after Russia, covering a vast expanse of territory (which, for trivia fans, completely cuts-off all the other "stans" from Mother Russia these days - a source of much annoyance for those from Uzbekistan or Tajikistan trying to get to Moscow to study, as they have to shell-out for huge visa fees in both directions.  Not to mention a Consulate that sets a new standard in jobsworthy penpushing).

The Kazakh President-for-life´s daughter (strongly rumoured to be the Heir Apparent in what Dick Cheney called "a model of the democracy we wish other nations would adòpt") is actually an opera singer herself (mezzo-soprano), and a graduate of the National Conservatory.  In Moscow we sometimes get televised broadcasts of song recitals given by this lady,  and I´m afraid they wouldn´t set the world alight - but perhaps I just have an old-fashioned approach to intonation.

There are a lot of good musicians coming out of the Kazakh National Conservatory,  but since career opportunities in Kazakhstan are severely limited,  they´re mostly going abroad to find work.  There are heaps of them in Moscow, especially string players, and they´re often very good.  The KNC was also training a lot of emigree performers from the adjacent country of Turkmenistan (which makes Kazakhstan look like a liberal democracy by comparison).  Banning classical music, and closing the Conservatoire, Philharmonia and Opera House - along with banning beards and renaming Mondays after his mother - were among the many curious habits of Turkmenistan´s late-unlamented leader, "Turkmenbashi".  His successor, Mr Berdymukhamedov, has said they will reopen the Conservatoire and Opera-House, but hasn´t said when.  Locals joke that it will be "on Monday", but since Monday never comes in Turkmenistan any longer, this is a witticism wasted on those outside the country...
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