If you could conduct for one night

[vandermolen]

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!

Oh yes, I have that CD.

By the way, my initial concert was such a Roman Triumph that I have been invited back to conduct.

My second concert has a British Theme.  Here is the programme:

Pre-concert talk:

Vandermolen discusses his life on the international concert circuit, coping with international fame and celebrity and offers advice on how to smuggle CDs past your wife.

Part1

Stanley Bate: Symphony 3

E J Moeran: Cello Concerto

Interval (Vandermolen signs autographs for a small fee)

Part 2

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 6 in E minor

Encore: Elgar: Sospiri

Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra

[vandermolen]

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

Also, I find it very moving when it begins to lose momentum shortly before the end - super work, which I discovered thanks to this forum.

[North Star]

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

But where would you stop?

[TheGSMoeller]

Maximal Minimalists Series I

Reich: Music for 18 Musicians

-Interval-

Adams: Harmonielehre

Myself conducting the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

Great pieces, but conducting Reich's Music for 18 has to be a boring task. After about Section III, "Alright, you all got this?" - conductor walks off stage.

[kyjo]

It's Low Countries night!

Adolphe Biarent: Symphonic Poem Trenmor
Rudolf Escher: Musique pour l'esprit en deuil

*intermission*

Leon Orthel: Symphony no. 3
Joseph Jongen: Symphonie Concertante for organ and orchestra (Michael Murray, organ)

Myself conducting the Concertgebouw

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Great pieces, but conducting Reich's Music for 18 has to be a boring task. After about Section III, "Alright, you all got this?" - conductor walks off stage.

Good point. I would simply play one of the piano parts here. This work doesn't need a conductor just a sympathetic ensemble that's on the same page.

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Generation of 1880 Series

Respighi: Three Botticelli Pictures
Malipiero: Violin Concerto No. 1 (Soloist: Frank Peter Zimmermann)

-Interval-

Casella: Sinfonia (Symphony No. 3)

Myself conducting the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

[kyjo]

Generation of 1880 Series

Respighi: Three Botticelli Pictures
Malipiero: Violin Concerto No. 1 (Soloist: Frank Peter Zimmermann)

-Interval-

Casella: Sinfonia (Symphony No. 3)

Myself conducting the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

That's an excellent program idea, John. I especially love the Casella, which is among the most powerful works of the 20th century, I daresay, as well as being the most powerful work by an Italian composer I have ever heard! I would be chomping at the bit even more to attend this concert had you programmed Respighi's Church Windows or Pines of Rome instead of the Three Botticelli Pictures. Will your next concert include some Pizzetti, by any chance?

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That's an excellent program idea, John. I especially love the Casella, which is among the most powerful works of the 20th century, I daresay, as well as being the most powerful work by an Italian composer I have ever heard! I would be chomping at the bit even more to attend this concert had you programmed Respighi's Church Windows or Pines of Rome instead of the Three Botticelli Pictures. Will your next concert include some Pizzetti, by any chance?

Yes, I love Church Windows a lot as well, but I wanted to start the program out with something a bit more on the lighter side before getting into the heavier works. Not only that I just love wallowing in the beauty of Three Botticelli Pictures. Yes, I agree with you about the Casella work (my favorite performance is still Alun Francis/Cologne RSO). It's certainly in a league of its' own. Yes, I'll have to include some Pizzetti on the next program as I enjoy his music a good deal.

[Gurn Blanston]

I thought you only got one night!?!  Man, we better eat dinner early. 0:)

[vandermolen]

Generation of 1880 Series

Respighi: Three Botticelli Pictures
Malipiero: Violin Concerto No. 1 (Soloist: Frank Peter Zimmermann)

-Interval-

Casella: Sinfonia (Symphony No. 3)

Myself conducting the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Yes, great concert, although I would also have liked 'Church Windows'.

[springrite]

Great pieces, but conducting Reich's Music for 18 has to be a boring task. After about Section III, "Alright, you all got this?" - conductor walks off stage.

Well, it is Music for 10 Musicians, NOT 19! Hey, you there! #19! F*ck off!

[vandermolen]

Concertgebouw Orchestra

Brahms: Tragic Overture
Magnard: Chant funèbre

Interval

Brian: Third Symphony

I love the Chant Funebre

[kyjo]

I love the Chant Funebre

Me too, Jeffrey. It's a shame this Timpani disc, which contains the only recording of this stunning work, is out of print:



The other works on this disc (in particular Hymne a Venus) are also magnificent works.

[kyjo]

Yes, I love Church Windows a lot as well, but I wanted to start the program out with something a bit more on the lighter side before getting into the heavier works. Not only that I just love wallowing in the beauty of Three Botticelli Pictures. Yes, I agree with you about the Casella work (my favorite performance is still Alun Francis/Cologne RSO). It's certainly in a league of its' own. Yes, I'll have to include some Pizzetti on the next program as I enjoy his music a good deal.

I wouldn't really consider the Malipiero a "heavy" work, even in comparison to Respighi's Three Botticelli Pictures. Nice Henze avatar, by the way. I couldn't help but notice you had Maconchy up there for only a couple minutes; I guess you didn't want people thinking you are a woman! (Forgive me if that is not the reason.)

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I wouldn't really consider the Malipiero a "heavy" work, even in comparison to Respighi's Three Botticelli Pictures. Nice Henze avatar, by the way. I couldn't help but notice you had Maconchy up there for only a couple minutes; I guess you didn't want people thinking you are a woman! (Forgive me if that is not the reason.)

No, I suppose not. The Schnittke avatar is about to go back up by the way. I think it's too early for Henze as I barely know any of his music and the same applies to Maconchy.

[vandermolen]

Me too, Jeffrey. It's a shame this Timpani disc, which contains the only recording of this stunning work, is out of print:



The other works on this disc (in particular Hymne a Venus) are also magnificent works.

Kyle, I have it on an EMI box set of Magnard's symphonies (Plasson).

[kyjo]

Kyle, I have it on an EMI box set of Magnard's symphonies (Plasson).

I'd forgotten about Plasson's recording somehow. Plasson's recordings of the symphonies can't hold a candle to Ossonce, Sanderling or Ansermet (in no. 3) IMO. BTW your inbox is full, Jeffrey. I've sent you a PM.

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Musical Anarchy Concert Series

Ligeti: Melodien
Ades: Asyla

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Sculthorpe: Sun Music I-IV

[jochanaan]

Very good question! Mine would be quite a long concert

Berliner Philharmoniker

Wagner: Prelude from "Tristan und Isolde"
Beethoven: Symphony No.9

Interval

Liszt: Orpheus, symphonic poem No.4
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Interval

Mahler: Symphony No.6
Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie

Ilaria

You'd lose the orchestra at the bottom of the Ninth!!!