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[Number Six]

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How does it work in an organization like the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with no conductor? Does the first violin just count them off, and then they do their thing?

[Iota]

Hindemith: The 4 Temperaments

I listened to this piece a couple of days ago for the first time, and must admit I don't think I would have persisted with it, had it not had Hindemith's name attached. It didn't seem as sure-footed or convinced of its own purpose as Hindemith usually feels. A second listen produced a better result, though it didn't surprise me afterwards on Wiki to read of its somewhat checkered history. Anyway a number of passages do appeal and it certainly seems to be growing on me, so onwards and upwards etc.

[Spotted Horses]

How does it work in an organization like the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with no conductor? Does the first violin just count them off, and then they do their thing?

You can find videos on the internet which address this. I think the basic idea is that the interpretation is formed collaboratively during extensive rehearsals, which allow them to control the performance by listening to each other. It seems like the principal first violin starts it off by signaling the first downbeat.

I imagine it is relatively straight forward with stuff like Mozart or Haydn, which was originally performed without an conductor. Their management of modern music strikes me as miraculous.

[Karl Henning]

How does it work in an organization like the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with no conductor? Does the first violin just count them off, and then they do their thing?

Some friends and I were just kicking this around on Facebook. I semi-speculated that when needed, the concertmaster (principal violinist) might serve as a de facto conductor. @jochanaan added that according to Wikipedia, they rotate leadership depending on the music they're playing.

[Spotted Horses]

Some friends and I were just kicking this around on Facebook. I semi-speculated that when needed, the concertmaster (principal violinist) might serve as a de facto conductor. @jochanaan added that according to Wikipedia, they rotate leadership depending on the music they're playing.

Leadership during rehearsal, or leadership during performance?

[Karl Henning]

Leadership during rehearsal, or leadership during performance?

Good q.

[SonicMan46]

Byrd, William (c.1540-1623) - Keyboard Music w/ Davitt Moroney (first couple of 7 discs); also own Elizabeth Farr doing My Ladye Nevells Booke; now if you want Byrd on piano the first two discs in the bottom row might be of interest, also in my collection - AND just noticed that Belder has recently released a 9-CD box - probably not a purchased for me w/o some culling - the four sets owned by me amount already to a dozen CDs, although I also have another dozen discs on his non-KB works - he was quite prolific (composition list HERE) - Dave

William Byrd was an English Renaissance composer. Considered among the greatest composers of the era, he had a profound influence on composers both from his native country and on the Continent. He is often considered along with John Dunstaple and Henry Purcell as one of England's most important composers of early music. Byrd wrote in many of the forms current in England, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, keyboard, and consort music. He produced sacred music for Anglican services, but during the 1570s became a Roman Catholic, and wrote Catholic sacred music later in his life. (Source)

[AnotherSpin]

[Linz]

 Choral Christmas, Voces8 Foundation Choir & Orchestra, Barnaby Smith

[Christo]

Enjoying the Toccata Festiva - the only major Barber piece that I missed during my teens:

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E Flat Major, 1878/80 Version (1880 with Bruckner's 1886 revisions) - Ed. Leopold Nowak,  Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Domingo Hindoyan

[André]

Great disc. We are indebted to Thorofon, who have recorded plenty of this fine composer's works.

[Daverz]

The name Triendl is like a Seal of Approval for obscure music with piano.

Now...

Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No. 3 - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Michael Tilson Thomas

Gorgeous.

I assume this is part of a MTT Sony box that is starting to hit the streaming sites.

[Mapman]

Bernstein: Serenade after Plato's 'Symposium'
Perlman; Ozawa: Boston

A great performance!



Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Best: Corydon

This is the version with organ. I prefer with orchestra.

[steve ridgway]

Birtwistle: Five Distances For Five Instruments

[steve ridgway]

Kagel: Liturgien

[Que]

Morning listening:



A Franco-Flemish mass a day, keeps the doctor away.... 

This time I programmed my player to skip the plainchant, so just the mass and two motets by Jean Mouton.

[steve ridgway]

Messiaen: Messe De La Pentecôte



I can hear some very high pitched overtones in places - my ears can't be too bad .

[vandermolen]

The Year 1917

[Rinaldo]

Philip Glass & Leonard Cohen
Book of Longing



Haven't heard this one in ages, subtle and quite beautiful.