Excerpt from my Symphony No. 1

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An excerpt of the Adagio from my Symphony No. 1 from 20 years ago.  I am thinking of revising it this year.  Conducted by Valeri Vatchev with the Philharmonia Bulgarica.

https://clyp.it/f1n3ox5s

vandermolen

I really enjoyed hearing it. To my ears the opening was quite 'Mahlerian' but the music soon goes off in a different direction. Some powerful writing for the brass. An emphatic and atmospheric musical journey. You should definitely persevere with it.
"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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Quote from: vandermolen on February 21, 2021, 02:07:54 PM
I really enjoyed hearing it. To my ears the opening was quite 'Mahlerian' but the music soon goes off in a different direction. Some powerful writing for the brass. An emphatic and atmospheric musical journey. You should definitely persevere with it.

Thanks!  I'm working on Symphony No. 4 but might take some time off from that to revisit this early one.  But I also realize I want to revise No. 3 too!

Karl Henning

Quote from: relm1 on February 20, 2021, 03:53:20 PM
An excerpt of the Adagio from my Symphony No. 1 from 20 years ago.  I am thinking of revising it this year.  Conducted by Valeri Vatchev with the Philharmonia Bulgarica.

https://clyp.it/f1n3ox5s

Very nice. What do you have in mind, as for revising?
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

relm1

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on February 24, 2021, 06:56:55 PM
Very nice. What do you have in mind, as for revising?

Thank you.  Generally structure and fixing some awkward transitions type of things.  Sometimes I went from idea 1 to idea 2 too quickly without letting them flow inevitably types of things.  Basically smoothing out the rough edges that I'm better at solving now then I was back then.

Karl Henning

Quote from: relm1 on February 25, 2021, 05:34:47 AM
Thank you.  Generally structure and fixing some awkward transitions type of things.  Sometimes I went from idea 1 to idea 2 too quickly without letting them flow inevitably types of things.  Basically smoothing out the rough edges that I'm better at solving now then I was back then.

Very good.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot