Jurassic Shark 11,956 Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 Lack of vibrato is indeed refreshing. Check out Szell's studio recording of B's 9th. It's the best there is. Marian Schedenig and bollemanneke 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 The composer and pianist Timo Andres today released his piano transcription of Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments, one of my favorite Stravinsky pieces. He also wrote a nice little blog entry about the piece here: https://www.andres.com/2020/10/28/symphonies-of-centenarians/ Quote It’s famously cryptic music, put together from lots of little stylized, angular gestures, which recur and evolve in intricately nested patterns. But the core of it is the last few minutes—a spacious, mournful chorale based around plainspoken minor-7th chords that casts the preceding music in an entirely different light. I think it’s one of the most moving passages in all of Stravinsky—not in a heart-on-the-sleeve way, but more like the feeling of walking from a small room into a vast cathedral. KK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,268 Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 I just discovered this incredibly fun piece today (probably old news for a lot of you): karelm and Loert 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,304 Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Sibelius Tom Guernsey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis sounds like every Thomas Newman score Taikomochi and SteveMc 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,304 Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 Definitely strains of it. All that modal writing. It's also pretty much the entire foundation of Zimmer's The Da Vinci Code. Disco Stu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Disco Stu 15,495 Posted November 1, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 1, 2020 I'm completely unfamiliar with Alexey Shor, a contemporary Ukrainian composer, but I randomly came across this new album and was immediately taken with the colorful, "old Hollywood by way of Prokofiev" writing. From some of the sections, I get the feeling he could write a tinkly Christmas score to rival Home Alone. SteveMc, ragoz350, Maglorfin and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 11,956 Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 The LSO on Naxos? Huh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Tom Guernsey 2,220 Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 Thanks @Disco Stu, I think I'll be checking out the Shor! Naxos posted about Howard Hanson earlier in the week for his birthday and realised that I only had a couple of recordings of his symphonies but Naxos had released recordings of all of them performed by the Seattle Symphony under Gerard Schwarz (originally on Delos I think) and discovered that Presto were selling the entire set of symphonies for download for less than a fiver (the same price as a single disc). Too good a bargain to miss so purchased there and there and been working through them, in amongst listening to some of the great scores from movies starring the late, great Sean Connery (man, he had a tremendous roster of composers behind him and some of Jerry Goldsmith's best scores to boot). Anyway, back to Hanson... I highly recommend anyone who likes their film music sweeping and romantic to check his stuff out, the Nordic (no 1) in particular. The second is probably the most infamous, featuring two significant film music connections. The first movement was, as most will know, used for the end credits of Alien. It works pretty well but obviously thematically and tonally disconnected from Goldsmith's classic score. Then there's the final movement which is uncannily similar to the bicycle chase from ET. The way Williams adds beats resulting in odd length bars (measures if you're American!) makes his, erm, interpretation(!?) rhythmically more interesting and propulsive. However, the Hanson is still worth checking out. Disco Stu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 11,956 Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 OK. Not that I have anything against Naxos - they have a lot of good records and I own many of their CDs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,220 Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 5 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said: The LSO on Naxos? Huh. It might be a re-release. A number of Stravinsky albums with Robert Craft conducting the LSO have appeared on Naxos (well worth picking up, especially for the less well known works such as the Symphonies in C, in Three Movements and Psalms, all of which are absolutely superb). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 Just now, Jurassic Shark said: OK. Not that I have anything against Naxos - they have a lot of good records and I own many of their CDs. I edited my post because I was looking at a page of albums they were streaming on their Library website when I said dozens, not albums they released. For the sake of accuracy, I went through and counted which ones were originally released by their own label and came to about 25. Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 11,956 Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 1 minute ago, Tom Guernsey said: It might be a re-release. A number of Stravinsky albums with Robert Craft conducting the LSO have appeared on Naxos (well worth picking up, especially for the less well known works such as the Symphonies in C, in Three Movements and Psalms, all of which are absolutely superb). Weren't the Craft recordings on Sony, or am I mixing up conductors here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,220 Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 2 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said: Weren't the Craft recordings on Sony, or am I mixing up conductors here? They may well have been originally, but whoever they were originally for, Naxos definitely rereleased a number of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 11,956 Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 1 hour ago, Tom Guernsey said: They may well have been originally, but whoever they were originally for, Naxos definitely rereleased a number of them. I can confirm that Robert Craft's recordings are part of the old 22 CD Stravinsky box on Sony, conducted by Stravinsky and by Craft under Stravinsky's supervision. I believe these recordings are now public domain in most of Europe, so I'm guessing Naxos aren't paying a cent to Sony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,888 Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 A nice big juicy late romantic symphony for huge orchestra. Langgaards Symphony No. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,220 Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 38 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said: I can confirm that Robert Craft's recordings are part of the old 22 CD Stravinsky box on Sony, conducted by Stravinsky and by Craft under Stravinsky's supervision. I believe these recordings are now public domain in most of Europe, so I'm guessing Naxos aren't paying a cent to Sony. Oh right. I have the Sony set so will have to check. I’m pretty sure I bought the Craft recordings separately but perhaps they were grouped differently on the Naxos release. I’ll have to dig out the box (packed away now it’s all ripped!). An absolute bargain though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 11,956 Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 5 minutes ago, Tom Guernsey said: Oh right. I have the Sony set so will have to check. I’m pretty sure I bought the Craft recordings separately but perhaps they were grouped differently on the Naxos release. I’ll have to dig out the box (packed away now it’s all ripped!). An absolute bargain though... Yeah, an absolute bargain indeed! This was one of my first big boxes of classical music, back when such affordable releases were scarce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc 2,674 Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 Florence Price's First Symphony is a quite worthy work. Lots of great rhythms and such in the outer movements. Nicely stormy first. Lovely little orchestration touches throughout. The second movement is my favorite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0oRsqkq0J0 KK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,304 Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 Cheers Steve! Great find. SteveMc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc 2,674 Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 I dip into Price's work rather regularly. Really like her compositional voice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 11,956 Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 @Disco Stu, what do you think about Copland's only academy award winning film score? I just purchased the film on blu and look forward to watching it. And it doesn't hurt that it stars Olivia de Havilland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Disco Stu 15,495 Posted November 13, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 13, 2020 Rozsa! Tom Guernsey, SteveMc and ragoz350 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,304 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 Discovered this absolutely lovely new Mass by Sarah Kirkland Snider. It's a colourful splash of Renaissance liturgical writing, Pärt-esque mysticism and 21st century tonality. Have a feeling @Disco Stu will dig this one. Disco Stu and karelm 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 11,956 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 1 hour ago, KK said: 21st century tonality. What would you say defines this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,304 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 15 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said: What would you say defines this? I mean, no one definition will probably be sufficient at this point. But I think a lot of younger contemporary composers in the concert hall are harmonically drawing more freely from popular music, leaning more towards pop-inflected tonal writing and post-minimalist figures, while working within classical repertoire forms and structures. Composers like Caroline Shaw and Nico Muhly come to mind. And you're starting to see more crossover musicians and performer-composers who work both in the concert hall and pop spaces. That's just one circle, of course. While there are obviously others that are still playing with more modernist and "uber-academic" ideas. But 21st century music in general is becoming more and more divergent and harder to define, which can be both a good and a bad thing. Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,082 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 Happy centenary! Tom Guernsey and karelm 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 11,956 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 I've got three of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,082 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 18 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said: I've got three of those. I've got eight of those. Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,456 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 3 minutes ago, Marian Schedenig said: I've got eight of those. Are you talking about STIs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,304 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 There are worse things you can catch at JWFan... Fabulin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post karelm 2,888 Posted November 16, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 16, 2020 The best way to hear Holst's Planets is to perform Holst's Planets. Observations: 1. Wow, what an incredible work! 2. What I thought would be difficult wasn't that hard and what I thought would be easy was much more difficult! 3. Mars is very, very loud! Very hard for endurance reasons. Not technically difficult but physically difficult. Lips hurt after it. Thankfully, low brass doesn't play in Venus. 4. This was one of the very rare times I've ever heard the conductor look directly at the trombones and say, "you need to be louder" when we were playing as loud as possible. 5. I apologized to the poor contrabassoonist directly in front of my bell. She said "I'm used to it". 6. Saturn chords made my instrument resonate. Those loud chords created an incredible physical vibration aura when harmonized. 7. Jupiter's much harder at tempo than I first thought it would be when practicing. 8. Every note of Neptune is meaningful even though I might only play a few notes. They matter and feel like solos. It felt so satisfying to play some of those desolate ominous chords. 9. What a fantastic work this is. Extremely fun to perform! 10. Overall, the work sits well in each instrument. It is popular for a reason. See a few posts down for audio and pictures. Marian Schedenig, Fabulin, SteveMc and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,304 Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 What do you play Karelm? I loved playing Jupiter back in my concert band days. Desperately trying to keep up with all those runs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 11,956 Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 14 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said: I've got eight of those. You're missing Mehta's CE3K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,888 Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 12 hours ago, KK said: What do you play Karelm? I loved playing Jupiter back in my concert band days. Desperately trying to keep up with all those runs... The bass trombone. Here are some pictures from the rehearsals. Disco Stu and KK 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 11,956 Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 2 minutes ago, karelm said: Geez, you were basically playing the same notes all the time, and you didn't even bother to play during Venus and Mercury! karelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,888 Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 7 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said: Geez, you were basically playing the same notes all the time, and you didn't even bother to play during Venus and Mercury! Yep, I'm greedy like that. Those are the hammering ending chords at the end of mars. Everyone plays the same thing for a few measures but very, very, very loudly. I uploaded an excerpt of us: https://clyp.it/m5l0t4wq Of course you must play this at obnoxiously loud volume to get the effect. Imagine in my spot this onslaught of sound was coming from all directions! Two tubas to my left, trombones, trumpets, six horns to my right. Drums behind me. Ouch! Just like how a mother can hear her kid, I can hear my playing in all that. Jurassic Shark and Fabulin 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 In honour of The Land Before Time and Willow (and Red Heat, of course) - Horner knew no ideological boundaries! Notable appearances: Whispering Winds i. e. in 'Victory', (after 00:26),the evil army motif from Willow in 'Interlude' (after 00:10). The cantata is a great piece, with or without those connections, of course. karelm and Jurassic Shark 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 An interesting playlist perhaps: From 1927-1939, Aaron Copland taught open enrollment, adult education night courses on music appreciation at The New School in NYC. Below is the syllabus for his "Masterworks of Modern Music" course that he taught 1928-29. Unsurprisingly for Copland, Stravinsky is the only composer to get two works covered. It's interesting to note that 6 out of the 10 pieces featured are vocal works (operas or song cycles). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc 2,674 Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 karelm and KK 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,888 Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 Damn these people where on fire. This is Johnny's friend, Andre Previn, conducting the LSO in 1979 in a blistering performance of one of Shostakovitch's greatest symphonies...the No. 13 "Babi Yar". This is a work of great darkness, power, and depth. The title is from the 1941 massacre by Nazis of Jews at Babi Yar (then a taboo to speak against in the Soviet Union resulting in this work getting banned). Shostakovitch transcends the work into a paean beyond any specific massacre but to be a denunciation of racism and sexism against the establishment. A dark and deeply moving work heard here in a blistering performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,306 Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 I hope you reimbursed the Holst ' estate' r at least obtain a permission to perform PLANETS. 😎;) On 11/16/2020 at 1:24 PM, Disco Stu said: An interesting playlist perhaps: From 1927-1939, Aaron Copland taught open enrollment, adult education night courses on music appreciation at The New School in NYC. Below is the syllabus for his "Masterworks of Modern Music" course that he taught 1928-29. Unsurprisingly for Copland, Stravinsky is the only composer to get two works covered. It's interesting to note that 6 out of the 10 pieces featured are vocal works (operas or song cycles). ....and probably no recordings available to reference! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oomoog the Ecstatic 314 Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 Williams makes an appearance in one of the melody mash-ups: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJA 19 Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 The absolute greatest among the not so well known piano concertos. It's available on the excellent Azerbaijani Piano Concertos disc on Naxos, which I cannot recommend enough. That opening is particularly wonderful (for whatever reason I'm unable make it play from 0:00, so please drag the timer back). Another great Amirov piece: Speaking of piano concertos, does anyone have any recommendations regarding the "Romantic Piano Concertos" series on Hyperion? Been really thinking about getting the Arensky/Bortkiewicz and Moszkowski/Paderewski discs (are these good?), and obviously other recommendations would be welcome as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,456 Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 Some great late Beethoven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,306 Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 Glad to see him ' credit' Diabelli. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,304 Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 Discovered this lovely cello concerto written by Anna Clyne. The opening movement is sublime: karelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,306 Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 This is my favorite piece of all- time and the best performance. Klemperer does Wagner better than just about anyone ( I bet JW loves this piece also Avoid any performance that goes beyond twelve minutes- many conductors take this WAY too slow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,216 Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 Speaking of cellos, I haven't heard the rest of this Duet for Cello and Orchestra by Cassandra Miller, but would like to. Same goes for her About Bach: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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