It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all.
Just cut a few and it will be perfect.
Posted on 12/07/2008 8:07:36 AM PST by HoosierHawk
Thank you again!!!
Perfect music for an overcast day HH!
Thank you....*Hugs*
No Leonard Bernstein versions. He was a big pal of the Black Panthers, highly overrated and a huge lib. There a better versions.
This puts me into such a good mood, hugs to everybody on this thread...We have to be picky. : )
By the way, my wonderful father was born in Brazil, Indiana. He graduated from Rose Polytechnic Institute (when it was known by that name) as an electrical engineer, and then he moved to the Canal Zone.
While we were still children, we spent 3 months in Terre Haute and went to school there during that short time.
What wonderful memories I have of those times.
We would sometimes cross to Illinois; but before crossing the Wabash River, there was a fountain of water next to the river that smelled of rotten eggs. It was the water being discharging from below. It had nothing to do with bad sanitation.
I wonder if it still exists.
P.S.
The water was full of sulfur or something, hence the very strong smell.
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It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all.
Just cut a few and it will be perfect.
The best performance of No. 24 in C minor IMHO was done by Robert Casadesus with The Cleveland Orchestra under Herr Doktor Szell back in 1961.
Casadesus also plays the interesting cadenza written a century later by Camille Saint-Saens. I’ve tried that one too in this concerto and it does work in performance rather well, although Hummel’s is the more standard one....especially if you’re playing and conducting from the keyboard as I did. Its far easier to bring the tutti back in correctly under Hummel’s sustained trills than the staggered octave crescendo in the Saint-Saens 1st movement cadenza.
Plus don’t forget the deft and sparkling performances of the concerti by the late and relatively unknown Austrian pianist Ingrid Häebler, especially the D minor K466.
Their totally different personalities at work would have been interesting to compare like that.
As one of my teachers once explained to me, “Beethoven struggles to heaven, Mozart comes from heaven.”
He’s another of those composers who died young like Schubert and Gershwin that makes one wonder “What if?”
Tradgic indeed.
For a moment, I thught that was Barbra (sp?) Bush on stage right.
(Barbra is spelled in several ways...sorry.)
“What if” always. How tragic.
One of my daughter's friends received a substantial scholarship from Rose-Hulman and just loves it.
And Hugs to you. Hope all is well with you.
Thank you both for a making a wonderful musical few hours for us here in CT this evening.
Salieri is one of the most slandered musicians in history. By all accounts he was a good man and actually helped raise money for Mozart’s widow by conducting benefit concerts.
Mozart never developed as a Symphonist. Only the last three were written as a coherent group. He just missed hearing Haydn’s London Symphonies by a few years and the Eroica by 14. Though I think he would have regarded Beethoven’s music as ugly.
Beautiful! Sung Latin with Spanish subtitles was a bit disconcerting. For those who don’t speak Spanish, or just would like a bit more insight into the meaning of the words:
http://www.users.on.net/~algernon/aveverum/translation.html
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