Posted on 02/16/2021 8:27:36 PM PST by lee martell
File this under; First World Problems...I enjoy many types of music. I'm still buying CDs to increase my collection. I have been trying to replace a certain recording of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos. I had this one CD with no cover that I often listened to, but lost it during a move. I've been trying to replace that favored recording, but everything I've purchased since then has a very quick pace.
I am in no 'hurry' to finish hearing the music. In fact, I'd prefer to prolong the experience. If I wanted to hear Brandenbrg #5 with all the harpsichord sounding as though directed by Alvin & The Chimpmunks at 78 speed, then I would have searched for that. I'm not impressed by how quickly it can be performed. I have purchased a couple of such CDs and threw them out after a few minutes of hearing the rushed delivery. I know it's up to the Conductor.
When looking through recorded Classical Music, is there any designation on the recorded product as to how quick the pace is? Or is it always fated to be a gamble. The same can be said about another favorite: Felix Mendelssohn's Concerto E Minor Op 64. It's fast enough as is, when he wrote it. I don't need it further 'spiced up'.
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Yes. Maybe the Allegro is another term for what I’m describing. It’s meant to be fast. But sometimes the Andante movement that follows is not that much different, not that much slower than the Allegro. Oh well. The world will keep turning, I am certain.
Avoid anything by the Boston Pops?
Ever heard of Presto?
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I had a somewhat similar challenge recently. I wanted to hear recordings of Shastakovitch’s 5th, where the final movement did not accelerate in tempo as Bernstein made it so popular to do. The 5th has immensely more power if the coda is slower as if to express the ponderous crushing weight of Soviet culture. Having a subscription to Tidal allowed me me to find Rostapovitch’s performance of it which was closer to what I was looking for.
Actually. Funny you should say that.
Talk about Blast from the Past: Arthur Fiedler, the longtime director of The Boston Pops used to churn those recordings out year after year. I started listening to some of his orchestral work while visiting my local library.
This was back when you could go to a small room, put headphones on and listen to albums. I don’t know if that still happens. I stopped going to my local libraries when the Homeless sort of took over.
presto vaviche?
Prestissimo!
Benjamin Britten’s recording with the English Chamber Orchestra has fairly leisurely tempi but not as slow as some from that era(it’s from the 1960’s.) The link is to the CD. If you search for it in the digital music section of amazon, you can listen to audio samples of it. Neville Marriner’s recording with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields is another you might want to check out.
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Thanks. I will be taking a look.
You might try recording those CDs on your computer, then playing them back at a slower tempo. You can use a free, open-source piece of software to do so. It’s called Audacity and you can download a copy from here: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/
If you like your slower version, you can burn a copy of the file you produce to a CD. Then replay it using a regular stereo or home theater system.
Ahhhhh, no.
Post-loss, every replacement I've bought has that aria at warp speed. When I saw the opera at The Met in NYC it was also conducted too fast. I wanted to strangle the conductor and yell "TAKE IT AT MASCAGNI'S TEMPO!!"
Recently I found it was uploaded to YouTube. I hope you have similar luck, lee.
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The Amazon reviews of most recordings (with a large enough sample size!) is a good way to tell the particulars of a recording.
You could subscribe to a music streaming app, listen and it will try to feed you music that you like.
It helps me to get a wider variety, because I get in a rut quite often.
It will feed you the crappy tempo music too, so you can weed it out and see which performances you like.
I use spotify and it gives me all sorts of crazy lists to choose from after a while.
Then you can figure out what CDs to seek out and buy.
Go to MyFreeMP3.com, look up the song by title or artist, play it, download it if you like.
Eventually, I probably will need to start using these more modern methods of obtaining music. I suppose.
I’ve never even ‘burned’ a CD, not that I particularly wish to. I’ll get to it. I resisted going online for many, many years.
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