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J.Z. Herrenberg

#6560
March 04, 2015, 02:19:40 PM Last Edit: March 04, 2015, 02:22:45 PM by J. Z. Herrenberg
I hope I can download the CD before its material release on April 14th... By the way, I think the timing for No. 28 is wrong here: the piece should be around 14 minutes, not 20. Look for yourselves: naxosdirect.com/items/brian-symphonies-nos.-6-28-29-31-304355.
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

calyptorhynchus

#6561
March 04, 2015, 06:57:47 PM
At the Naxos site you can access the back cover of this release, and, from memory, No 28 is 14 minutes something.
'Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth.' Robert Burton

Christo

#6562
March 04, 2015, 09:45:54 PM
Quote from: calyptorhynchus on March 04, 2015, 06:57:47 PMAt the Naxos site you can access the back cover of this release, and, from memory, No 28 is 14 minutes something.

Not 'something' but 14:00 exactly: http://www.naxos.com/SharedFiles/pdf/rear/8.573408r.pdf#
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Albion

#6563
March 05, 2015, 09:23:58 AM
Audio clips here, click on 'Listen' -

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Naxos/8573408

:)
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. (SG, 1922)

J.Z. Herrenberg

#6564
March 05, 2015, 09:31:01 AM Last Edit: March 05, 2015, 09:45:03 AM by J. Z. Herrenberg
!!!


P.S. Listened. Sounds excellent. No. 29 - slower tempi than in the Mackerras...
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

John Whitmore

#6565
March 07, 2015, 07:38:04 AM
Have the planned German Gothic performances been cancelled?

J.Z. Herrenberg

#6566
March 07, 2015, 07:42:15 AM
Got this from the HBS a few moments ago:

"We have some unfortunate news related to the performances of the Gothic symphony that were noted in the recent newsletter.

The Braunschweig website pages have been changed to remove references to the Gothic, and now simply show Concert No. 9 as being of unspecified music, with a conductor to be announced. The booking links still work and lead to unchanged pages with the Gothic still there, but this could well be an oversight. http://staatstheater-braunschweig.de/staatsorchester/sinfoniekonzerte/. We will keep you updated as we get more news."

I already have my tickets. And booked a hotel.
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

Christo

#6567
March 07, 2015, 08:47:40 AM
Quote from: J. Z. Herrenberg on March 07, 2015, 07:42:15 AM
Got this from the HBS a few moments ago:

"We have some unfortunate news related to the performances of the Gothic symphony that were noted in the recent newsletter.

The Braunschweig website pages have been changed to remove references to the Gothic, and now simply show Concert No. 9 as being of unspecified music, with a conductor to be announced. The booking links still work and lead to unchanged pages with the Gothic still there, but this could well be an oversight. http://staatstheater-braunschweig.de/staatsorchester/sinfoniekonzerte/. We will keep you updated as we get more news."

I already have my tickets. And booked a hotel.

Me too. We'll wait and see.
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

John Whitmore

#6568
March 08, 2015, 12:55:14 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on March 04, 2015, 08:36:52 AM
Have ordered the Naxos Symphony 6 etc. Can't wait!
I see you also like Bliss. A man of good taste.  :D

vandermolen

#6569
March 08, 2015, 01:32:55 AM
Quote from: John Whitmore on March 08, 2015, 12:55:14 AM
I see you also like Bliss. A man of good taste.  :D

OT:

Thank you  :)

I like Bliss very much, especially Morning Heroes, Meditations on a Theme by John Blow, the Oboe Quintet, both piano concertos and 'Things to Come'.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

cilgwyn

#6570
March 08, 2015, 11:21:52 AM
Quote from: J. Z. Herrenberg on March 07, 2015, 07:42:15 AM
Got this from the HBS a few moments ago:

"We have some unfortunate news related to the performances of the Gothic symphony that were noted in the recent newsletter.

The Braunschweig website pages have been changed to remove references to the Gothic, and now simply show Concert No. 9 as being of unspecified music, with a conductor to be announced. The booking links still work and lead to unchanged pages with the Gothic still there, but this could well be an oversight. http://staatstheater-braunschweig.de/staatsorchester/sinfoniekonzerte/. We will keep you updated as we get more news."

I already have my tickets. And booked a hotel.
Oh no! :o You must be on the edge of your metaphorical seat?!! What could have happened! It's like one of those old cinema style cliffhangers....will the Gothic be performed or not?! Has the dreaded Brian jinx struck again?!!

There has to be (will be,obviously) some simple explanation..........

John Whitmore

#6571
March 09, 2015, 09:47:46 AM
Quote from: cilgwyn on March 08, 2015, 11:21:52 AM
Oh no! :o You must be on the edge of your metaphorical seat?!! What could have happened! It's like one of those old cinema style cliffhangers....will the Gothic be performed or not?! Has the dreaded Brian jinx struck again?!!

There has to be (will be,obviously) some simple explanation..........
If I were a betting man, which I'm not, I guess they have had trouble recruiting a choir of sufficient numbers or getting enough rehearsal time. The orchestral parts are easy enough so that's all I can presume. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. Great shame.

springrite

#6572
March 09, 2015, 09:48:55 AM
Quote from: John Whitmore on March 09, 2015, 09:47:46 AM
If I were a betting man, which I'm not, I guess they have had trouble recruiting a choir of sufficient numbers or getting enough rehearsal time. The orchestral parts are easy enough so that's all I can presume. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. Great shame.


Gothic Without Words!

Nah, that wouldn't work...
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

Christo

#6573
March 09, 2015, 09:57:29 AM
Quote from: John Whitmore on March 09, 2015, 09:47:46 AMIf I were a betting man, which I'm not, I guess they have had trouble recruiting a choir of sufficient numbers or getting enough rehearsal time. The orchestral parts are easy enough so that's all I can presume. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. Great shame.

I wrote them. In my best German (you can judge for yourselves: it's like my best English  ;D), but am still waiting for a reply.
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

cilgwyn

#6574
March 11, 2015, 04:48:10 AM
Quote from: J. Z. Herrenberg on March 07, 2015, 07:42:15 AM
Got this from the HBS a few moments ago:

"We have some unfortunate news related to the performances of the Gothic symphony that were noted in the recent newsletter.

The Braunschweig website pages have been changed to remove references to the Gothic, and now simply show Concert No. 9 as being of unspecified music, with a conductor to be announced. The booking links still work and lead to unchanged pages with the Gothic still there, but this could well be an oversight. http://staatstheater-braunschweig.de/staatsorchester/sinfoniekonzerte/. We will keep you updated as we get more news."

I already have my tickets. And booked a hotel.
I just looked,via the link,and Concert 9 seems to have replaced with music by other composers!! ??? :( The update on the HBS website is not exactly cheering! (According to the committee)  "It is therefore probable that the performances will not now take place". !! :(

J.Z. Herrenberg

#6575
March 11, 2015, 05:06:11 AM
Thanks. That new concert isn't too bad.That symphony by Gorecki is wonderful, and so is Mahler's Adagio from Symphony No. 10.  sister and I still intend to go to Braunschweig. A short trip, which will include a visit to a nearby village where my favourite post-war German writer lived... But I wonder if my Gothic tickets are valid for that new concert, too?!
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

cilgwyn

#6576
March 11, 2015, 07:33:42 AM
Well,you might as well go! The Gorecki will seem a little pared down in comparison to the Gothic Symphony! ;D 
This isn't unprecedented,of course,is it? The history of Brian is full of disappointments like this;but some successes as well! On a positive note,it shows the interest that is out there. Maybe they bit off more than they could chew?! And,not wanting to sound ungrateful;but why does it always have to be the Gothic! If I had a symphony orchestra at my disposal,the third symphony would be at the top of my list! But I suppose there is the notoriety of the Gothic and the attention it could bring to an orchestra like this. Look at at the way the tickets sold out for that Prom! They must have been thinking of that!
I still wish they'd do it though! :(

vandermolen

#6577
March 11, 2015, 01:45:36 PM
At least it was not replaced by Wagner's 'The Flying Dutchman' as that would have really rubbed it in to two of our HB enthusiasts.

Sorry  8)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

J.Z. Herrenberg

#6578
March 11, 2015, 01:49:08 PM
Ha!

(Listening to Myaskovsky as it happens, Symphony No. 27...)
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

vandermolen

#6579
March 11, 2015, 02:32:37 PM
Quote from: J. Z. Herrenberg on March 11, 2015, 01:49:08 PM
Ha!

(Listening to Myaskovsky as it happens, Symphony No. 27...)

Wonderful work, especially the slow movement. NM was dying when he wrote it - I find it very moving. Which recording?
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).
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