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Re: If you could conduct for one night
« Reply #60 on: August 02, 2011, 03:11:37 AM »
Quote from: mszczuj on August 02, 2011, 02:35:37 AM
Because I consider it absolutely most dramatic of all Beethoven symphonies and would try to show it.

I have my own name for it  per analogiam to eroica and pastorale - Sinfonia dialettica.
It is interesting because it is not so dramatic I thought. Conductors who try to show it dramatic usually didn't do it successfully. (Like Furtwängler.)
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Re: If you could conduct for one night
« Reply #61 on: August 02, 2011, 03:44:39 AM »
Quote from: Roberto on August 02, 2011, 03:11:37 AM
It is interesting because it is not so dramatic I thought. Conductors who try to show it dramatic usually didn't do it successfully. (Like Furtwängler.)

I didn't call it dramatic. I called it most dramatic of all Beethoven symphonies. I would call no Beethoven symphony dramatic. 8th is built with very lovely material but the way composer treat it is far to be lovely.

I don't know Furtwängler's 8th but I consider him the worst Beethoven conductor I ever heard (or one of the two worst with Toscanini) so I absolutely no wonder he didn't do it successfully.
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Re: If you could conduct for one night
« Reply #62 on: August 02, 2011, 07:43:55 AM »
An All Finnish Night!

Lindberg: Seht die Sonne
Rautavaara: Violin Concerto (soloist: Jaakko Kuusisto)

-Intermission-

Sibelius: Symphony No. 6

Encore:

Aho: Symphonic Dances

Myself conducting the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
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Re: If you could conduct for one night
« Reply #63 on: August 02, 2011, 07:51:42 AM »
Quote from: Mirror Image on August 02, 2011, 07:43:55 AM
An All Finnish Night!

Lindberg: Seht die Sonne
Rautavaara: Violin Concerto (soloist: Jaakko Kuusisto)

-Intermission-

Sibelius: Symphony No. 6

Encore:

Aho: Symphonic Dances

Myself conducting the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

I am willing to give you a standing ovation, a bouquet of flowers delivered by a Euroasian maid just so you could add one additional encore, possibly Salonen?
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Re: If you could conduct for one night
« Reply #64 on: August 02, 2011, 07:55:33 AM »
Quote from: mszczuj on August 02, 2011, 02:35:37 AM
Because I consider it absolutely most dramatic of all Beethoven symphonies and would try to show it.

I have my own name for it  per analogiam to eroica and pastorale - Sinfonia dialettica.

It's always been my favorite, too.
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Re: If you could conduct for one night
« Reply #65 on: August 02, 2011, 08:14:33 AM »
Quote from: springrite on August 02, 2011, 07:51:42 AM
I am willing to give you a standing ovation, a bouquet of flowers delivered by a Euroasian maid just so you could add one additional encore, possibly Salonen?

 :P ;D Sure!

Salonen: Helix
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Re: If you could conduct for one night
« Reply #66 on: August 02, 2011, 10:06:13 AM »
I get to conduct?



But seriously, I'd conduct the Berlin Philharmonic in an all-Bax program as part of my "Aren't You Tired of Fat German Composers Yet?" 2011 Series:

Tintagel
Cello Concerto

--Intermission--

Symphony No. 2

--Encore-

Overture to a Picaresque Comedy
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Re: If you could conduct for one night
« Reply #67 on: August 02, 2011, 10:13:47 AM »
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No.39
Granville Bantock: Heroic Ballad No.2
Havergal Brian: Symphony No.27
Granville Bantock: Heroic Ballad No.1
Franz Liszt: Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe
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Re: If you could conduct for one night
« Reply #68 on: August 02, 2011, 10:18:13 AM »
Quote from: Lethe Dmitriyevich Shostakovich on August 02, 2011, 10:13:47 AM
Franz Liszt: Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe

Oh, wow, that would be such a weird way to end a concert.
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Re: If you could conduct for one night
« Reply #69 on: August 02, 2011, 10:28:16 AM »
Quote from: Brian on August 02, 2011, 10:18:13 AM
Oh, wow, that would be such a weird way to end a concert.

Definitely more interesting than:

Havergal Brian: "wat"
Joseph Haydn: "at least they saved the tuneful one for the end"

;D It was the only solution :(
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Re: If you could conduct for one night
« Reply #70 on: August 02, 2011, 10:38:29 AM »
It's An All East European Night!

Martinu: Estampes
Novak: In The Tatra Mountains

-Intermission-

Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle

Encore:

Enescu: Suite No. 3 "Villageoise"

Baritone: Peter Fried
Mezzo-Soprano: Cornelia Kallisch
Myself conducting the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
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Re: If you could conduct for one night
« Reply #71 on: August 02, 2011, 10:45:54 AM »
Korngold: Cello Concerto
Janáček: Taras Bulba

*intermission*

R.Strauss: Don Quixote
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Re: If you could conduct for one night
« Reply #72 on: August 02, 2011, 10:55:00 AM »
Quote from: Wanderer on August 02, 2011, 10:45:54 AM
Korngold: Cello Concerto
Janáček: Taras Bulba

*intermission*

R.Strauss: Don Quixote

What orchestra will you be conducting and who is the cellist for the performance of Strauss' Don Quixote?
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Re: If you could conduct for one night
« Reply #73 on: August 02, 2011, 12:20:43 PM »
Oh, so many choices!  I think, though, that I'd go with Mahler 8.  And just for fun, I might start with Varèse's Amériques or Arcana. :o :D

Orchestra: Philadelphia, Chicago Symphony, London Symphony, Concertgebouw, or Vienna Philharmonic, with their associated choruses.

Another possibility: Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy, then Messiaen's Eclairs sur l'Au-Dela.
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Re: If you could conduct for one night
« Reply #74 on: August 03, 2011, 03:01:57 AM »
Part of my 2011 "Czech it Out!" World Tour:

Concertgebouw

Suk Fairy Tale
Novak Lady Godiva

--Intermission--

One of the Fibich symphonies

--Encore

Janacek Lachian Dances


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Re: If you could conduct for one night
« Reply #75 on: August 03, 2011, 04:42:12 PM »
Quote from: mszczuj on August 02, 2011, 03:44:39 AM
I didn't call it dramatic. I called it most dramatic of all Beethoven symphonies. I would call no Beethoven symphony dramatic.

I don't understand this at all:

No Beethoven symphony is dramatic; The 8th is the most dramatic Beethoven symphony.

This doesn't add up!

(Never mind that Beethoven is surely by any reasonable measure a dramatic symphonist.)
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Re: If you could conduct for one night
« Reply #76 on: August 04, 2011, 12:07:59 AM »
Quote from: eyeresist on August 03, 2011, 04:42:12 PM
I don't understand this at all:

No Beethoven symphony is dramatic; The 8th is the most dramatic Beethoven symphony.
I don't understand either.  :(
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Re: If you could conduct for one night
« Reply #77 on: August 04, 2011, 12:27:52 AM »
Quote from: toucan on August 03, 2011, 06:09:20 PM
seven programs

Well, if we can post seven programs, here are mine!

Dvorak | Te Deum
Janacek | Sinfonietta
Janacek | Glagolitic Mass, original score
[CSO; my first post in this thread, and to my surprise still my top choice]

Rimsky-Korsakov | May Night Overture
Rachmaninov | Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Shostakovich | Symphony No 10
[Yevgeny Sudbin, piano; Seattle SO]

Mendelssohn | Overture, Scherzo, Nocturne: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Berlioz | Les nuits d’ete
Castelnuovo-Tedesco | Overture: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Atterberg | Symphony No 3, final movement, “Summer Night”
[Veronique Gens, soprano (unless time-traveling is allowed)]

Ravel | Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No 2 (with chorus)
Schmitt | La Tragedie de Salome, symphonic poem (with chorus)
Ravel | La valse
Poulenc | Gloria

Kalliwoda | Symphony No 5
Wieniawski | Violin Concerto No 2
Dvorak | Symphony No 8
[Tianwa Yang, violin; Czech Philharmonic]

Sibelius | Symphony No 6
Sibelius | Symphony No 7
Sibelius | Symphony No 5

Ravel | Ma mere l'oye
Ravel | Piano Concerto in G
Lutoslawski | Concerto for Orchestra
[Martha Argerich, piano]
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Re: If you could conduct for one night
« Reply #78 on: August 04, 2011, 12:49:37 AM »
I would have three possible programs - a simple one, an even simpler one, and a totally whacko one. I'll leave the whacko one for another day, but the others would be:

Program 1
Verdi's Requiem
Conducted by Ukrneal, leading the La Scala Orchestra and chorus. Soloists - would have to think about that. We could go with some Verdians like Alagna and Gheorghiu, but the idea of total nobodys also appeals. I have yet to hear the ideal version of this, which is the main reason I would pick it (well that and I love it!).

Program 2
Tchaikovsky Symphony 5
--Break--
Alexander Nevsky
Coducted by Ukrneal, leading the Concertgabouw Orchestra (and the Mariinsky chorus for Nevsky). Though to be honest, any top orchestra will do.

Program 3
Whacko program to be released when I have some time to put together this dream program.
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Re: If you could conduct for one night
« Reply #79 on: August 05, 2011, 06:31:06 AM »
Quote from: eyeresist on August 03, 2011, 04:42:12 PM
I don't understand this at all:

No Beethoven symphony is dramatic; The 8th is the most dramatic Beethoven symphony.

This doesn't add up!

It's like the youngest of three old ladies. None is young but one of them is the youngest.


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(Never mind that Beethoven is surely by any reasonable measure a dramatic symphonist.)

His symphonies are only  played like so. But it is castration of their spiritual values. In my humble opinon, of course.
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