Vaughan Williams's Veranda

[Christo]

Well, I regret having been he who cast up the bone of contention : )

Bone of contention - ha! La pomme de la discorde.

[calyptorhynchus]

I've just been listening to a CD from Naxos/Marco Polo entitled The Best of Chinese Pop, which is a series of tracks of arrangements of Chinese Pop music for violin and orchestra.

I knew that Chinese folk-music shared with European folk-music the pentatonic scale, but I was amazed to listen to these tunes. Slowed down a little and with a less jaunty accompaniment many sounded exactly like "The Maid and the Soldier" (fictitious title) sung in a pub in Hampshire c1904, or some of the themes for the Norfolk Rhapsodies. If you run out of VW to listen to you should pick up this disc.

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

I'm gonna hear VW's 5th Symphony in concert on Wednesday, as part of the Grant Park Festival.

This will be my first-ever live hearing of a VW symphony, I think. (I missed an earlier performance this year of the 8th.)

[vandermolen]

I'm gonna hear VW's 5th Symphony in concert on Wednesday, as part of the Grant Park Festival.

This will be my first-ever live hearing of a VW symphony, I think. (I missed an earlier performance this year of the 8th.)

Great news - let us know what you make of it.

[TheGSMoeller]

I'm gonna hear VW's 5th Symphony in concert on Wednesday, as part of the Grant Park Festival.

This will be my first-ever live hearing of a VW symphony, I think. (I missed an earlier performance this year of the 8th.)

This concert will be streaming live on www.wfmt.com starting at 6:30pm central time.

Enjoy the show, Velmir!

[Karl Henning]

This concert will be steaming ....

Panning the event ahead of time, Greg? Tut-tut!

[TheGSMoeller]

Panning the event ahead of time, Greg? Tut-tut!

Ha! It should be a scorcher! 

[vandermolen]

Just listening to the 1952 recording of the ubiquitous 'Lark Ascending' played by Jean Pougnet (LPO/Adrian Boult). I must say that I am so over familiar with this work, largely through the Classic FM exposure that I expected to be rather bored by it. Quite the opposite in fact! The emotion is underplayed and therefore, paradoxically, more moving. I really enjoyed this much more than expected. Pougnet's performance is much less 'sugary' and 'no nonsense' than many more modern recordings and is, in my view, a much greater performance, which I shall return to.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vaughan-Williams-Dona-nobis-pacem/dp/B00005Q2X8/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1380833037&sr=1-1&keywords=Lark+ascending+Pougnet

[jlaurson]

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Votes collected:

Sy/Interpreter Boult I Boult II Haitink Handley Hickox Previn Slatkin A.Davis Thomson Other No.1 A Sea Symphony I 0 III 0 0 0 I 0 0 0 No.2 London............ 0 I 0 0 III '13 I '36 0 0 1 Goosens '20, Barbi, HandleyLPO No.3 Pastoral........... I 0 I I 0 III 0 0 0 0 No.4........................ I 0 0 0 0 0 0 I 0 Berglund x2, Bernie No.5........................ 0 0 0 0 0 I 0 0 0 Barbi x2, Menuhin, Previn-Tel No.6........................ II 0 I 0 0 0 0 1/2 0 Berglund x1.5 No.7 Antarctica........ I 0 II 0 0 1/2 0 0 0 0 No.8........................ 0 0 1/2 I 1/2 0 I 0 0 0 Barbi No.9........................ 0 0 I I 0 0 0 0 I 1/2 Stokes, Bakels

[Sergeant Rock]

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Votes collected:

How does a performance get a half vote...or one and a half votes? And what does III '13 and I '36 mean?

Sarge

[jlaurson]

bump:

Votes collected:

Sy/Interpreter Boult I Boult II Haitink Handley Hickox Previn Slatkin A.Davis Thomson Other No.1 A Sea Symphony I 0 III 0 0 0 I 0 0 0 No.2 London............ 0 I 0 0 III '13 I '36 0 0 1 Goosens '20, Barbi, HandleyLPO No.3 Pastoral........... I 0 I I 0 III 0 0 0 0 No.4........................ I 0 0 0 0 0 0 I 0 Berglund x2, Bernie No.5........................ 0 0 0 0 0 I 0 0 0 Barbi x2, Menuhin, Previn-Tel No.6........................ II 0 I 0 0 0 0 1/2 0 Berglund x1.5 No.7 Antarctica........ I 0 II 0 0 1/2 0 0 0 0 No.8........................ 0 0 1/2 I 1/2 0 I 0 0 0 Barbi No.9........................ 0 0 I I 0 0 0 0 I 1/2 Stokes, Bakels

How does a performance get a half vote...or one and a half votes? And what does III '13 and I '36 mean?

Sarge

Half-votes are where someone was split on a favorite for one particular symphony.

'13 and '36 are the versions (revisions) of that symphony.

[Mirror Image]

Coming out very soon...

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Apparently, all of these works have not been recorded before. I'll definitely be picking this one up when it comes out.

[vandermolen]

Coming out very soon...

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Apparently, all of these works have not been recorded before. I'll definitely be picking this one up when it comes out.

This is already available over here (downtown rural East Sussex  ). It is a super CD. The Solent is especially fine but disconcerting to hear it away from its reappearance in Symphony No 9. I also enjoyed the music from the Mayor of Casterbridge. In fact the whole CD will bring much pleasure to VW fans.

[Mirror Image]

This is already available over here (downtown rural East Sussex  ). It is a super CD. The Solent is especially fine but disconcerting to hear it away from its reappearance in Symphony No 9. I also enjoyed the music from the Mayor of Casterbridge. In fact the whole CD will bring much pleasure to VW fans.

Excellent! I think this comes out week after next here is the States. Sounds like a winning recording.

[kyjo]

Coming out very soon...

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Apparently, all of these works have not been recorded before. I'll definitely be picking this one up when it comes out.

The Solent is superb-a magically evocative and atmospheric work which I can't believe hasn't been recorded before. The other works I was less impressed by, but, after all, they are juvenilia.

[calyptorhynchus]

If I remember rightly VW reused a theme from the Solent in his Ninth Symphony. "In my end is my beginning".

:-)

[vandermolen]

 

If I remember rightly VW reused a theme from the Solent in his Ninth Symphony. "In my end is my beginning".

:-)

Yes, he did - good point.

[Mirror Image]

The Solent is superb-a magically evocative and atmospheric work which I can't believe hasn't been recorded before. The other works I was less impressed by, but, after all, they are juvenilia.

Did you buy this recording as a download, Kyle? It's not out yet in the States.

[The new erato]

They ship across the pond you know, I used to buy quite a lot from the states, not so much with the recent postage increases, but just recently some ATMA discs from amazon.ca.

[Brahmsian]

In honour of Veterans' Day/Remembrance Day

Symphony No. 5 in D major

Boult
London Philharmonic Orchestra

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