What classical music did you listen to today?
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giovannimusica
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Bortnyansky's Choral Concertos - They are all great pieces for a capella choir.
Ouled Nails
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To a lot of music since my last post. I have sought religiously-inspired music for the Holy Week and Easter, from Gretchaninov in Russia to Messiaen in France. This was preceded and succeeded by music from the United Kingdom, from Charles Villiers Stanford, to Arnold Bax and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Much of the music I have listened to was intended to ask myself the fundamental question why some composers today are so much perceived as superior beings, as super-human composers.
Manuel
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I suppose that's not the case of Charles Villiers Stanford. :grin:
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Ouled Nails
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Ernest Bloch:
Concerto Grosso No.1 for String Orchestra and piano obbligato (1925), and
Concerto Grosso No.2 for String Orchestra and String Quartet (1952), Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, 5 May 1959. LP Mercury Golden Imports.
Ernest Bloch:
Schelomo. Hebraic Rhapsody for 'Cello and Orchestra (1916), Sir Charles Mackerras, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Ofra Harnoy, cello. CD RCA Red Seal (1991).
Ernest Bloch:
Baal Shem, for violin and orchestra (orchestrated by Nico Richter)(1939), Serebrier, Royal Phil. Orch., Michael Guttman, violin. CD ASV.
Ernest Bloch:
Symphony for Trombone and Orchestra (1954), L. Segerstam, Swedish Radio Symphony Orch., Christian Lindberg, trombone. BIS (1992).
Ernest Bloch:
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1938), Poems of the Sea (1922), Suite Symphonique (1944), Sakari Oramo, Malmo symfoniorkester, Oleh Krysa, violin. BIS (1995)
Concerto Grosso No.1 for String Orchestra and piano obbligato (1925), and
Concerto Grosso No.2 for String Orchestra and String Quartet (1952), Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, 5 May 1959. LP Mercury Golden Imports.
Ernest Bloch:
Schelomo. Hebraic Rhapsody for 'Cello and Orchestra (1916), Sir Charles Mackerras, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Ofra Harnoy, cello. CD RCA Red Seal (1991).
Ernest Bloch:
Baal Shem, for violin and orchestra (orchestrated by Nico Richter)(1939), Serebrier, Royal Phil. Orch., Michael Guttman, violin. CD ASV.
Ernest Bloch:
Symphony for Trombone and Orchestra (1954), L. Segerstam, Swedish Radio Symphony Orch., Christian Lindberg, trombone. BIS (1992).
Ernest Bloch:
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1938), Poems of the Sea (1922), Suite Symphonique (1944), Sakari Oramo, Malmo symfoniorkester, Oleh Krysa, violin. BIS (1995)
Manuel
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That's quite an over-bloch you have had today...
My list for today
Schumann: piano sonata Op. 11 (Pollini)
Tchaikovsky: Grand Sonata Op. 37 (Postnikova)
Schubert: sonata in a minor (Pollini)
Giordano: Andrea Chenier
(a bit of Rigoletto right now)
Ouled Nails
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The violin concerto sounded a little too long to me, at 35 minutes. Most of the other pieces are shorter works which, taken together, amount to an opera :grin: But if you are suggesting by "over-bloch" that I should be saturated by the music I assure you that it is not the case. He's a fine composer who easily belongs in my non-pyramidal conception of "great" composers. :smirk:
Ouled Nails
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With the vast number of worthy composers in the twentieth century alone, it's possible, indeed probable, that composers such as Shostakovich or Bartok or Prokofiev don't visit my CD player more than five or six days per year.
Edit: Oh, and in stating that the violin concerto was long at 35 minutes I did not suggest it was the musician's slow interpretation; I meant that the piece itself sounded long.
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Ouled Nails
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Quiet a few string quartets by Villa-Lobos (roughly half of his 17), the sixth symphony by Bruckner (Nagano, conducting), a guitar "symphony" by Alan Hovahness and his Katahdin Sonata (most relevant for a Mainer). A very strange "mix" if you ask me. It's like flying with a great deal of formality on Air Force One (Bruckner), enjoying company on a flight back from a conference where lots of passengers know each other (Villa-Lobos), and getting a really neat look at the world below in a Cessna (Hovahness).:crazy:
rojo
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Fantastic Scherzo for orchestra, Op 25
Composed by Josef (composer) Suk
Performed by English Chamber Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras
Enjoyed this work very much. It was composed in 1903. So no big surprise that I like it, I guess. :grin: (My fave works all seem to be from approx. 1890-1920.)
Composed by Josef (composer) Suk
Performed by English Chamber Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras
Enjoyed this work very much. It was composed in 1903. So no big surprise that I like it, I guess. :grin: (My fave works all seem to be from approx. 1890-1920.)
EgyptianConcerto
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George Whitfield Chadwick, Symphony #3 (Detroit Sym/Jaarvi).
a favorite!
a favorite!