If you could conduct for one night

[kyjo]

Without doubt Daniel Shafran. His LP version, conducted by Kabalevsky made me realise that there was more to Kabalevsky. With me conducting the USSR Symphony Orchestra the performance would be unforgettable.

Shafran was a great cellist, without a doubt. Thanks for pointing his performance of the Kabalevsky out to me! It looks like it has been reissued on this CD:



Oh boy! Another one for the want list!

[Mirror Image]

Musical Anarchy Concert Series

Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin (complete ballet)
Ginastera: Popol Vuh

-Interval-

Hartmann: Symphony No. 6

Myself again conducting the Royal Concertgebouw.

[Sergeant Rock]

Musical Anarchy Concert Series

Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin (complete ballet)
Ginastera: Popol Vuh

-Interval-

Hartmann: Symphony No. 6

Myself again conducting the Royal Concertgebouw.

Dude!...you've had far more than one night. Give someone else the stick 

Sarge

[kyjo]

Musical Anarchy Concert Series

Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin (complete ballet)
Ginastera: Popol Vuh

-Interval-

Hartmann: Symphony No. 6

Myself again conducting the Royal Concertgebouw.

Those are three of the most thrilling pieces of music ever written! And all in the same concert! Whew!

[Mirror Image]

Dude!...you've had far more than one night. Give someone else the stick 

Sarge

Okay, your turn, Sarge!

[Mirror Image]

Those are three of the most thrilling pieces of music ever written! And all in the same concert! Whew!

Haha! Yes, these concerts will be absolutely scorching! I doubt there will many in attendance, but those that will be there will remember as the best concert they ever attended.

[Sergeant Rock]

Okay, your turn, Sarge!

I can't improve on my my first concert, to wit:


My fantasy concert will be with my local band, the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and take place in Mannheim's Rosengarten.

We will start with

Suppé Light Cavalry Overture

because I'm an old cavalry trooper and because I've never heard the work live. Then we'll play

Mozart Sinfonia Concertante E flat K.364

The soloists will be Mutter and that gorgeous Blonde in the viola section that I've had my eye on for years. I figure giving her the spotlight will not only be rewarding for her but for me 

During the Pause Mutter, the Blonde and I will celebrate our stunningly successful performance privately in my dressing room, and then it's on to

Hans Rott Symphony in E major

I will use my supreme authority as conductor to give the triangle player several coffee breaks during the performance at a café across the street from the Rosengarten. He will be allowed to play three or four times, but no more than three seconds per time, up until the finale's peroration, at which point I'll finally let him loose to wreck havoc on our ears and nerves...just as Rott intended 

Sarge

[mc ukrneal]

Hans Rott Symphony in E major

I will use my supreme authority as conductor to give the triangle player several coffee breaks during the performance at a café across the street from the Rosengarten. He will be allowed to play three or four times, but no more than three seconds per time, up until the finale's peroration, at which point I'll finally let him loose to wreck havoc on our ears and nerves...just as Rott intended 

Sarge

After all the coffee you are shoveling down his throat, he won't be able to help himself (or herself).

[kyjo]

Oh, Sarge, you crack me up!

Continuing on, breaking the rules of this thread along with John:

All-Czech Night!

Miloslav Kabeláč: Passacaglia The Mystery of Time
Bohuslav Martinů: Piano Concerto no. 4 Incantations (Radoslav Kvapil, piano)

*intermission*

Josef Suk: Symphony in C minor Asrael
Encore: Vítězslav Novák: Overture Lady Godiva

Myself conducting the Czech PO

[Mirror Image]

Oh, Sarge, you crack me up!

Continuing on, breaking the rules of this thread along with John:

All-Czech Night!

Miloslav Kabeláč: Passacaglia The Mystery of Time
Bohuslav Martinů: Piano Concerto no. 4 Incantations (Radoslav Kvapil, piano)

*intermission*

Josef Suk: Symphony in C minor Asrael
Encore: Vítězslav Novák: Overture Lady Godiva

Myself conducting the Czech PO

Excellent concert, Kyle. I'd love to see that. I love that Kabelac work. Suk's Asrael is one those works that I haven't quite appreciated yet. The Marttinu and Novak are, of course, fine works.

[Brian]

I'd rather hear the Philharmonia Orchestra personally.

I've seen 'em both live. Depends on the music but overall I enjoyed the LPO a little more on average.

[Mirror Image]

Yeah, Sarge, you are crazy but you get a good laugh.

[Mirror Image]

Musical Anarchy Concert Series

Tishchenko: Yaroslavna (complete ballet)

-Interval-

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 2

Again, myself conducting the Royal Concertgebouw with the Netherlands Radio Chorus (in Tishchenko's Yaroslavna)

[DavidW]

I like your concerts Kyjo, I would attend.

I would go with:

Dvorak's Carnival Overture
Schubert's 8th Symphony

Intermission

Brahms Double Concerto

[dyn]

i've devoted a good deal more thought to what i would play as a soloist really.

With an orchestra, top of the list is still Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 25 or maybe Bartók Piano Concerto No. 1 depending on mood.

For solo recitals, we have three categories

Somewhat unrealistic
Schumann - Impromptus on a theme of Clara Wieck, Op. 5 (original version)
Webern - Variations
Messiaen - Selected Preludes
Copland - Piano Fantasy

Very unrealistic
Xenakis - Mists
Berio - Sonata
Beethoven - Sonata Op. 106

Extremely unrealistic
Ligeti - Etudes (complete)
or
Feldman - Triadic Memories
or
Finnissy - A History of Photography in Sound (complete) (no intermissions)
or
Zombie Xenakis and Zombie Nono - Two new 45-minute works commissioned especially for me

i don't even have a piano right now, lol. well, a girl can dream

as for conducting, i don't really know. there are things that have always intrigued me (like Radulescu's piece for 9 orchestras and Kagel's Musik für Renaissance-Instrumente) but i don't have very strongly defined preferences regarding orchestras or halls or whatever.

[North Star]

Russian program:

Mussorgsky St John's Night on the Bare Mountain
Shostakovich Symphony No. 14
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Mussorgsky Khovanshchina: Dawn over the River Moscow & Dance of the Persian Slave Girls
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2
And the pianist would of course play Scriabin's Vers la flamme as the encore.

[Mirror Image]

Maximal Minimalists Series I

Reich: Music for 18 Musicians

-Interval-

Adams: Harmonielehre

Myself conducting the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

[vandermolen]

Oh, Sarge, you crack me up!

Continuing on, breaking the rules of this thread along with John:

All-Czech Night!

Miloslav Kabeláč: Passacaglia The Mystery of Time
Bohuslav Martinů: Piano Concerto no. 4 Incantations (Radoslav Kvapil, piano)

*intermission*

Josef Suk: Symphony in C minor Asrael
Encore: Vítězslav Novák: Overture Lady Godiva

Myself conducting the Czech PO

Super concert! I'm definitely coming to this one. The Kabelac is a masterpiece.

[kyjo]

Super concert! I'm definitely coming to this one. The Kabelac is a masterpiece.

I agree about the Kabelac. I love the way it just keeps building in intensity. That violin solo towards the end is so haunting.

[Karl Henning]

If I could conduct for one night . . . I suppose it would be from Chicago to New Orleans