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« on: December 26, 2020, 09:41:44 pm » |
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A rare opportunity to hear and see a splendid live performance given under Douglas Bostock in 2018: virtuosic playing in perhaps the most overtly Straussian of Bantock's larger orchestral works:
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"A piece is worth your attention, and is itself for you praiseworthy, if it makes you feel you have not wasted your time over it." (Sydney Grew, 1922)
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« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2020, 12:36:48 am » |
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Thank you for posting -- I've loved this piece for many years and it's wonderful to see an actual performance!
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« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2020, 01:32:59 pm » |
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Superb performance. After many years, I saw a performance like this.
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« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2021, 12:09:18 pm » |
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Bantock's Pagan Symphony is in effect a hommage to his great friend Sibelius. The latter dedicated his third Symphony (1907) to Bantock in recognition of the British composer's enthusiastic advocacy: Bantock's score dwells extensively on a thematic fragment taken directly from the finale of Sibelius 3 (figure 16) - doh-re-so-re-doh-so (below doh)...
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"A piece is worth your attention, and is itself for you praiseworthy, if it makes you feel you have not wasted your time over it." (Sydney Grew, 1922)
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