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2023-03-10 06:52:00
Los Angeles Philharmonic. Zubin Mehta, conductor. March 4, 2023.
[…] the performance. In my case, the description often did not match with what I was hearing.First, a list of the movements as listed in the Performances magazine, with the "titles" copied from Wikipedia. There are different views as to whether the last movement represents Mahler's vision of heaven instead.Part IKraftig: Entschiede (Vigorous; Decisive). "Pan Awakes Summer Marches In"Part IITempo di Menuetto: Sehr massig (Very moderate). "What the Flowers in the Meadow Tell Me"Comodo; Scherzando: Ohne Hast (Without Haste). "What the Animals in the Forest Tell Me"Sehr langsam (Very slow); Misterioso. "What the Animals in the Forest Tell Me"Lustig in Tempo und keck im Ausdruck (Lively in tempo and jaunty in expression). "What the Man Tells Me"Langsam; Ruhevoll; Empfunden (Slow; Peaceful; With feeling). "What Love Tells Me"The notes in the Performances Magazine contains some interesting background on how the symphony got put together, and descriptions of each of the movements. I […]
2022-09-15 18:44:00
Wolfgang Rihm (b.1952): Vigilia for six voices and ensemble 1 Sonata I 2 ‘Tristis est anima mea’ 3 Sonata II 4 ‘Ecce vidimus cum non habentem speciem’ 5 Sonata III 6 ‘Velum templi scissum est’ 7 Sonata IV 8 ‘Tenebrae factae sunt’ 9 Sonata V 10 ‘Caligaverunt oculi mei a fletu meo’ 11 Sonata VI 12 ‘Recessit pastor noster 13 Sonata VII 14 ‘Aestimatus sum cum descendentibus in lacum’ 15 ‘Miserere’ Joseph Haydn (1732–1809): Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze, in the string quartet arrangement 1 Introduzione: Maestoso ed adagio 2 Sonata I: ‘Pater, dimitte illis, non enim sciunt, quid faciunt’: Largo 3 Sonata II: ‘Amen, dico tibi: hodium mecum eris in paradiso’: Grave e cantabile 4 Sonata III ‘Mulier, ecce filius tuus, et tu, ecce mater tua!’: Grave 5 Sonata IV: ‘Eli, eli lama sabachthani’: Largo 6 Sonata V: ‘Sitio’: Adagio 7 Sonata VI: ‘Consummatum est!’: Lento 8 Sonata VII: […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2021-02-21 21:56:55
Do we need silence more than we need music?
From a new essay by Chicago psychoanalyst Gerald Stein. … (Simon) Rattle’s mentor Berthold Goldschmidt said to him, “Will you please remember what the phrase “ohne Hast” (without Haste) means in a time when there were no automobiles.” Nor the sounds from such motor cars, he might have added. Amplified sound became like floor-to-ceiling audio wallpaper […]
2021-02-01 02:33:00
In choosing music for this morning's services - livestreamed affairs in which only one choir soloist and a clergy member or two do all the singing - I had kind of half-heartedly chosen one of our hymnal's "deep cuts" as a solo to be sung by the soprano on hand. The Hymnal 1982 has now been the official hymnal of the Episcopal church for almost forty years, but it has some unexpected little corners which still communicate an optimistic openness to new things, even if some of the new things might seem a little dated now. I always feel a slightly and wonderfully subversive energy when I happen on these pages, and would love to go back and look in on the room where these choices were made. There are some really lovely tunes by David Hurd and Calvin Hampton that I've loved for years now, but I've always looked a […]
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