March 2025 - Russian Symphony March Madness!

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relm1

#40
March 06, 2025, 05:25:27 AM
We all love Shchedrin's Symphony No. 1.

Cato

#41
March 06, 2025, 06:11:20 AM
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Quote from: relm1 on March 06, 2025, 05:22:16 AMMy orchestra played this - it was a big blow (ending is full of loud brass) and the audience loved it.  I don't think any of the orchestra or audience had heard it before.



I recall the Kalinnikov symphonies when they were first released on Melodiya in the late 1960's or early 1970's: wonderful works!
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

Karl Henning

#42
March 06, 2025, 06:15:58 AM
Quote from: relm1 on March 06, 2025, 05:22:16 AMMy orchestra played this - it was a big blow (ending is full of loud brass) and the audience loved it.  I don't think any of the orchestra or audience had heard it before.
Sweet!
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

hopefullytrusting

#43
March 06, 2025, 06:30:42 AM
Quote from: Cato on March 06, 2025, 04:00:10 AMWhat did you think of the Rubinstein symphony?  He was big in the 19th century!

It was enjoyable, but it didn't feel very "Russian" to me. I also didn't feel the ocean title like it felt like a symphony and not a tone poem. It was well-orchestrated, unsurprisingly, and well-played; I mean it was a good time and kept my interest, for the most part, but it didn't feel unique - it felt like a symphony any great composer could have written - like if you told me Rimsky had composed it, I wouldn't have cried foul.

Today, I'm listening to the other symphony which is considered Russia's "first" symphony, at least by Russian critics, if the AI is telling me the truth:

Botstein with The Orchestra Now playing Rimsky-Korsakov's Symphony No. 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSlSjKf5IjM

Karl Henning

#44
March 06, 2025, 10:59:08 AM
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

ChamberNut

#45
March 07, 2025, 04:32:55 AM
Today's selection

Via: Idagio Streaming

Kabalevsky

Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 19

N. Jarvi
BBC Philharmonic



Formerly Brahmsian, OrchestralNut and Franco_Manitobain

Karl Henning

#46
March 07, 2025, 05:13:14 AM
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

pjme

#47
March 07, 2025, 05:24:38 AM
More thunder, darkness, Angst, doom and gloom! 

relm1

#48
March 07, 2025, 05:34:32 AM
Quote from: Karl Henning on March 07, 2025, 05:13:14 AM


A favorite of mine.  Don't know why it doesn't connect with others more. I guess it is a personal work from a personal favorite.

relm1

#49
March 07, 2025, 05:34:54 AM
Quote from: pjme on March 07, 2025, 05:24:38 AMMore thunder, darkness, Angst, doom and gloom!



Sounds like my kind of stuff.  ;D

Cato

#50
March 07, 2025, 06:09:28 AM
Quote from: pjme on March 07, 2025, 05:24:38 AMMore thunder, darkness, Angst, doom and gloom!






Quote from: relm1 on March 07, 2025, 05:34:54 AMSounds like my kind of stuff.  ;D




😇 AMEN!!!  "Thunder, Darkness, Angst, Doom, and Gloom" are TIGHT!!!"   ;D 



Yuri Butsko is in the club!


Quote from: Karl Henning on March 07, 2025, 05:13:14 AM




Late Shostakovich works, from the Tenth Symphony onward, keep leaping from one high mountain to ever higher ones.

One of my favorite performances:



"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

Mapman

#51
March 07, 2025, 09:15:21 AM
Quote from: Karl Henning on March 07, 2025, 05:13:14 AM


I was at that concert!

As I write this, I'm in Symphony Hall waiting for a BSO performance of Rachmaninoff's 3rd Symphony.

Karl Henning

#52
March 07, 2025, 09:36:13 AM
Quote from: Mapman on March 07, 2025, 09:15:21 AMI was at that concert!

As I write this, I'm in Symphony Hall waiting for a BSO performance of Rachmaninoff's 3rd Symphony.
Enjoy! I wasn't able to make it.
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

Cato

#53
March 07, 2025, 09:38:44 AM
Quote from: Mapman on March 07, 2025, 09:15:21 AMI was at that concert!

As I write this, I'm in Symphony Hall waiting for a BSO performance of Rachmaninoff's 3rd Symphony.


A Friday morning concert!  Excellent!



Right now...Yuri Butsko's Symphony #2!


At times, monolithic, a symphony of Brobdingnagian bulldozers and 3-story, strip-mine dump trucks!  :o

"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

Karl Henning

#54
March 07, 2025, 11:53:31 AM Last Edit: March 07, 2025, 12:06:44 PM by Karl Henning
Quote from: pjme on March 07, 2025, 05:24:38 AMMore thunder, darkness, Angst, doom and gloom!


I'm in! Very tasty! Maybe just a simple slip, but it's (mildly) curious that the YT vid has "in four movements" in the title, when the cover clearly reads (in both English and Russian) "in four fragments."
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

Karl Henning

#55
March 07, 2025, 01:06:02 PM
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

Cato

#56
March 07, 2025, 02:41:13 PM
Quote from: Karl Henning on March 07, 2025, 01:06:02 PM


Symphony #26 by a Russian composer: it must be by Nikolai Miaskovsky!   ;D
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

Karl Henning

#57
March 08, 2025, 06:31:33 AM
I was indeed sorry to miss this in Symphony Hall yesterday!

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

Karl Henning

#58
March 08, 2025, 07:42:34 AM
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

Cato

#59
March 08, 2025, 07:48:32 AM
Quote from: Karl Henning on March 08, 2025, 07:42:34 AM


Reminiscent of Schoenberg's Kammersymphonie I at times: I wonder if he had heard it!
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)
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