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2024-03-18 03:30:00
Ravel Orchestral Works (CD Review)
[…] Vox Box, the complete score for the ballet Ma mère l’Oye (“Mother Goose”). There is something simply magical about this music, the way the sound of the solo violin can seem to float above the orchestra, the way the orchestra can swoon and sigh. Magic… Then the familiar Daphnis et Chloé, Suites Nos. 1 and 2, derived from Ravel’s self-described “choreographic symphony.” After such a glorious experience, to end the program with a fanfare? As Joe. E. Brown said to Jack Lemmon at the end of Some Like It Hot, “Well, nobody’s perfect.” Maybe so, but this release is close.
2024-03-17 16:39:00
NYO-USA All-Stars. Yannick Nezet-Sequin, conductor; Daniil Trifonov, piano. March 14, 2024.
[…] Fall in Love."I heard Shostakovich's Leningrad symphony before, in 2018, performed by the NY Phil, conducted by van Zweden. There I expressed the feeling (or tried to) that the description of the piece made it sound intriguing, but the actual music was much less so. Tonight I got a similar feeling. Many different interpretations of the piece were offered, mostly about whether Shostakovich was being sincere or cynical when he composed the music. The Annotator Jack Sullivan even allowed that the current interpretation is affected by today's culture. Which is well and good, but I have to ask how would a different culture - mainland Chinese, for instance - interpret it? For me the more basic question is, what did Shostakovich have in mind when he wrote this? I find the following quote in the Program Notes, attributed to Shostakovich, puzzling: "I have nothing against calling the Seventh the 'Leningrad' Symphony, […]
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