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Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: Double Dutch
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on: November 18, 2016, 05:20:03 pm
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Symphonies 2&3 have been commercially recorded and in my judgment are accomplished and communicative works of enduring worth. The rest of the Symphonies were uploaded somewhere (here or UC) in poor sound which I found with nowhere near the command of Nos. 2&3 and thus understandable they've been commercially ignored.
My favourite is the 4th Symphony - which is on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZXKgJz0EIMI'd also recommend the 2nd Orchestral Scherzo op 38 which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FntVRiChqIAI realise I posted the same recommendations a couple of months back: apologies for the repetition.
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Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: Encores
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on: May 08, 2016, 07:49:09 pm
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But that's only the overture. With works of more major length the point may be valid.
Actually I'm put off going to concerts with too much well-known repertoire to sit through before the piece(s) I really want to hear, but that's just me I guess.
Paul Dessau's piano piece Guernica was an encore I heard a few months ago. By no means a familiar piece. I disliked it, but was glad of the opportunity to hear it.
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Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: British Piano Concertos, 1919-
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on: March 12, 2016, 12:26:34 pm
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1963: John White
In five movements, accompanied by a large chamber group of 19 players. The performance (18/10/63) attracted one of the composer’s favourite reviews:- "Given a sound thrashing by Nadia Boulanger, Litolff might have written this work – and similarly chastened, Mr White would have done better. But for an RCM professor to publicise this pot-pourri of feeble tunes, fidgety harmonies and rambling, purposeless key-changes, even if unprecedented, will never do.” (Edmund Tracey – Times Higher Educational Supplement, 25/10/63)
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