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301  Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Re: Danielpour: Oratorio "Toward a Season of Peace" from Naxos on: February 23, 2014, 02:07:24 am
I picked this up and find it an absolutely wonderful work.  I highly recommend it.  It is written in a very tonal idiom and has passion, lyricism, drama, and depth.  The choral writing is no more complex than Walton in a "Belshazzar's Feast" style full of thrills and drama.  This is really an excellent work and I hope others will enjoy it as much as I do.  It is a powerful and lovely work that has a contemporary message of piece and reconciliation.
302  Assorted items / Coming broadcasts and listen-later links / Four World premieres of Bax, Boughton, and Vaughan Williams on: February 15, 2014, 09:59:24 am
To be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 as well.
Friday May 23, 2014
BBC Concert Orchestra
Martin Yates (conductor)

PARRY: Jerusalem

BOUGHTON: Overture to Troilus and Cressida
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE

MOERAN: Violin Concerto

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Burley Heath
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Harnham Down
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE

BAX: Variations for Orchestra
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE

http://www.englishmusicfestival.org.uk/programme.html
   
303  Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: Memorable/Sensational Closing Bars... on: February 15, 2014, 01:08:23 am
Dyn, I like your list alot! 

I like how Mahler First Symphony morphs the mysterious theme heard at the start into huge triumph with the 7 horns standing to give the transformed heroic version of the theme (now modulated up a half step too).  Very exciting with all the false endings to finally and definitely say we have arrived and been transformed through the tumult.

Mahler 1 - first appearance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=VmozblR_9Pk#t=45
Mahler 1 - Transformed ending of theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=VmozblR_9Pk#t=3375

Other fantastic endings include Vítězslav Novak's "Storm" with its powerfully cathartic ending chorus.  I can't find it on youtube.

Strauss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra" and Vaughan Williams's "Sea Symphony" have similar endings with ambiguity towards the soul's journey ahead ("Away, O Soul!")

Aaron Jay Kernis's Symphony No. 2 has a great cataclysmic ending.
304  Assorted items / Individual composers / Re: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Symphony No. 10 on: February 03, 2014, 09:55:07 pm
The baritone soloist did a wonderful job, very well sung and dramatic.  Some of the choral writing had a renaissance quality to it which makes sense given Italian architecture tribute.  Great performance.
305  Assorted items / Individual composers / Re: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Symphony No. 10 on: February 02, 2014, 10:01:55 pm
Did anyone manage to catch the Symphony?  I quite enjoyed it.  Many beautiful passages and unique sonorities. 
306  Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: What a list! on: January 28, 2014, 03:56:57 am
I was referring to huge lists in general as representative of any individual's ambitions to hear and assimilate voluminous quantities of music, and my previous criticism (that Northern alludes to) of how problematic such desire can become (in my own experience, at least). 

You missed the overall context of my post.
My bad
307  Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: What a list! on: January 28, 2014, 02:55:58 am
I spotted your sarcasm about Greg K right away, northern ;D

Sarcasm?  I took the remark for an affectionate one :-* - but either way pleased to be a noted character here.

It's a "dream" list indeed, but not other than that (i.e. unrealizable for actual meaningful listening), - though in my heyday (if it's even past) listmaking was always something to stir my vision and reach.

Honestly, if my history were known, the pathos (and self-reference) of any critique would be evident.

I don't catch the issue.  Some of the works resonate with some people and other works resonate with a different listener.  The same person doesn't have to respond to all on that list.  In such an extensive list, I see a handful of items I have been searching for a long time so no need to be critical of a collector who happens to have a few items that a single individual desires though the result is an exhaustive list.
308  Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: What a list! on: January 27, 2014, 05:09:09 pm

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/102536138/My_abbreviated_catalog---Download-as-DOC

I don't know what this is (Greg K's listening list :))but it is huge and has some wonderful works on it. My own collection is a very tiny fraction of this lot! Once on the link you can just scroll down. I once had Morris Pert's Symphony No. 2 and still have Edward Cowie's first symphony- these seem like a genuine list of broadcast works. Iain Hamilton's First too! . No Grinups (not sure why I noticed that) Seems like it could be American, although it says 'language-  Catalan' to the side.


Wow, what a list!  Who is Greg K and is it possible to request something from this?  I see a few gems there that I have longed for.
309  Assorted items / Individual composers / Re: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Symphony No. 10 on: January 12, 2014, 04:54:44 pm
More details - it is a 45 minute symphony with chorus.

Orchestral forces:
SATB chorus, 5 flutes, 3 oboes, 5 clarinets, 4 bassoons, 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, 6 percussionists, and strings.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/10546402/Heroic-Sir-Peter-Maxwell-Davies-lifts-the-Curse-of-the-Ninth.html
310  Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: Jarvi's Atterberg Ongoing Cycle. Ummm, should I be uneased with this? on: January 12, 2014, 01:46:22 am
I have the first volume of Jarvi/Chandos/Atterberg and think its merit comes in the recording quality however it doesn't feel like Jarvi likes this style of music.  He is really in a rush rather than reveling in its very lovely textures.  This music really screams the need to indulge in its luxury rather than see it as pure music.  My preference is the oldest recordings first - for example, the Sexten Ehrling and Stig Westerberg really can't be beat for interpretation and performance.  Next up is the recent CPO then Jarvi.  I will probably own all of them because I adore this composer but find a certain mystery, majesty, gracefulness, and atmosphere in the oldest recordings that I will always long for in the recent issues.
311  Assorted items / Individual composers / Re: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Symphony No. 10 on: January 12, 2014, 01:10:18 am
Oh, yes I simply didn't see that date. And now we hope for quick production of a cd with the work. I'll immediately order it
Thanks Jimfin.

Yes, yes, it is February 2.
http://lso.co.uk/sir-peter-maxwell-davies-world-premiere
312  Assorted items / Individual composers / Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Symphony No. 10 on: January 10, 2014, 02:46:56 am
Some details about Sir Peter Maxwell Davies upcoming Symphony No. 10:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZbAtDXeRWHw

It sounds quite dark and turbulent.  Is anyone in London able to make the premiere on February 2?
313  Assorted items / YouTube performances / Re: Söderlind - Symphonies No.6 & 8 on YT on: January 08, 2014, 12:55:45 am
Interesting, was that Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances quote in the Symphony No. 6.  It is so great to hear these but really needs a good recording.  I think the Symphony No. 6 recording was from the camera microphone so there is no sense of balance.  Hopefully someone will take note and give us a set of these wonderful symphonies in glorious performance & sound.
314  Downloads by surname / Downloads: discussion without links / Re: Estonian Music on: January 03, 2014, 12:39:36 am
Thanks for uploading the Artur Kap "Job" oratorio - I really enjoyed it and will definitely be exploring this composer further.
315  Assorted items / General musical discussion / Questions about Maxim Shostakovich on: December 31, 2013, 05:16:30 pm
I was reading an interview from Maxim Shostakovich that was published in 1981 (3 years after his defection) and I noticed he mentions defecting with his son but there is no mention of a wife.  I'm curious, was he a widower or did he leave the wife behind?  Or perhaps he never married?  Also curious about the composers grandson, Dmitri Maximovitch Shostakovitch (or Dmitri Shostakovitch jr) who seems to have very sparse mention of him on the internet besides in relation to the Chandos recording of the piano concertos which he performed.  The reason I ask is I recall twenty years ago being told that Dmitri Jr was a composer in training and perhaps some of his works exist.  I've found no corroborating evidence of this or of a career beyond the piano concerto disc.  What happened to Dmitri Jr?  Did he give up on music all together?

1981 New York Times Interview:
http://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/26/world/maxim-shostakovich-plays-overture-to-a-new-life.html

1992 Interview:
http://www.bruceduffie.com/shostakovich.html
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