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[terry]

Internet symphony Eroica

The musician TAN DUN has composed a symphony for internet public, the title is "Internet Symphony n.1 EROICA" and played bu London Symphony.
I hope it can be dowloaded. Write the title while on Youtube and here it is! Waiting for your impressions.

[Tony John Hearne]

I stumbled across this clip of the last movement of Appassionata while surfing around ‘You Tube’

I am not sure who the artist is, and I must have heard the movement several hundred times over the years, but this particular performance struck me as quite fresh and totally thrilling

I have Emailed the lady in question proposing immediate marriage, or at least elopement – just her, me and the Steinway - and I will let you know her reply


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz7usUEPWsc


PS on a separate note, I had the good fortune to see the LPO with Vladimir Jurowski again a couple of nights ago at the RFH in London - Rachmaninoff “The Isle of the Dead” symphonic poem; Mozart Piano Concerto No 23; and Richard Strauss “Also Sprach Zarathustra”

As always an awesome concert which was completely sold out. The superb soloist in the Mozart was Leon Fleisher, now aged 80, who I read on the programme notes, studied under Artur Schnabel, who in turn studied under Teodor Leszetycki, who in turn studied under Carl Czerny, who took lessons from Beethoven himself

The sense of occasion that knowledge of this awesome lineage created for me felt really quite overwhelming

[ruudp]

Unknown Appasionata player.

She's Valentina Lisita. An excellent performer, also of Liszt and Thalberg.
I immensely enjoyed the link once more. Thank you for that.

[Tony John Hearne]

This is a clip from the Maestro's violin concerto with a supreme and impossibly handsome Joshua Bell (and seemingly no conductor?)

I have several versions of Op 61 on CD tape and vinyl but none as far as I can recall with this cadenza Does anyone recognise it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hkvkbuctiU

[Peter]

This is a clip from the Maestro's violin concerto with a supreme and impossibly handsome Joshua Bell (and seemingly no conductor?)

I have several versions of Op 61 on CD tape and vinyl but none as far as I can recall with this cadenza Does anyone recognise it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hkvkbuctiU

Well I think it must be one Bell wrote himself. I think with Beethoven the approach to the cadenza has to be different from the earlier 18th century practice in that Beethoven himself was clearly dissatisfied with it. He wrote cadenzas for all his concertos and in the case of the Emperor actually wrote it into the score. With the Violin concerto he wrote a highly original cadenza for the piano transcription which has itself been successfully transcribed for the violin and this I think is the best cadenza for the work.

[Tony John Hearne]

Thanks Peter I must admit I was wondering if it had been constructed by the soloist himself. Rather like the Glenn Gould original in the first piano concerto, which sounds altogether more daring, particularly from 5.55 onwards

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ObXmnpGW9M

Cheers

[Hofrat]

Beethoven's cadenza is very original in that the timpani joins the solo violin creating a charming duet. Ruggiero Ricci has recorded Beethoven's violin concerto and 14 cadenzas in such a way that you can program your CD player to play the concerto with the cadenza you like the best. It is a shame that Ricci missed the Heifetz cadenza, but I give him high marks for getting cadenzas by 13 other composers. BTW, not all were by violinists.

[Michael]

Beethoven's cadenza is very original in that the timpani joins the solo violin creating a charming duet. .

This cadenza was originally written by Beethoven for the piano transcription of the violin concerto, but it is has become very popular and is often used in the standard (violin) version of the work.

[atserriotserri]

Rachmaninoff playing the funeral march from Chopin Piano Sonata no.2 op. 35.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TbIBqTBM4Q

No image and poor sound but distinctive interpretation. I have the reedition of his recordings with RCA and he really was a great player. For RCA he recorded the following Beethoven works: Sonata op. 30, 3, Eroica Variations WoO 80 and the Turkish March from "Ruins from Athens".

[Euan Mackinnon]

An article entitled Face the virtual music (Financial Times, March 7th/8th), discusses another way of viewing and listening to classical music on the web: the Digital Concert Hall (DGH). In particular, it discusses a DGH recently developed by the Berlin Philharmonic. I quote:

Under the tag line “Any Place, Any Time” their website offers live concert streaming for 9.90 euros per performance, or a season ticket and unlimited archive access for 89 euros.

The article goes on to discuss quality. Again I quote:

Concert-goers are fastidious about acoustics, and sceptics might assume that digital coding would produce a rather sterile sound. In fact it is superb: good headphones are essential but the streaming is far richer and sharper than conventional radio broadcasts.

I have tried it and I entirely agree: it is indeed superb (and I don’t have particularly good equipment). However, there is a catch: bandwidth.

First it took me a long time simply to access the website (http://dch.berliner-philharmoniker.de/). I then tried the ‘streaming test’ that both the FT article and the website encourage you to try. This is essential if you are serious about registering and using the site.

There are three levels of streaming you can try: low, medium and high bandwidth. Even at ‘low’ it took a long time on my equipment making real performances impossible.

I turned to the archives. Most have trailers and I tried looking/listening to several of these (on low bandwidth and waiting until the entire trailer had downloaded before listening to it).

It was worth the wait; Rattle + BPO performing the Brahms symphonies in particular are stunning and show just what real performances would be like. I’m now wondering whether the necessary bandwidth can be found here (where I live) and, if so, what it would cost.

Has anyone else tried and, if so, what experiences have you had?

Euan Mackinnon

[Tony John Hearne]

I am not sure there is much I can say about this one other than I hadn't seen it before and have just spent several minutes spell bound.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSIVfnsSOns

[JA Gardiner]

Yes I saw the series of these on some satellite Arts channel the other week - they also showed the masterclasses he did on the sonatas with the likes of Lang Lang ( who he was trying to get to be a bit more disciplined LOL). I thought his Waldstein was amazing. Still prefer Brendel though and am thinking of getting the Brilliant Classics box whixh has all his early recordings for Vox and Turnabout when I have some spare loot.

[Tony John Hearne]

You can find the Master class with Lang Lang on You Tube somewhere I will try to find it and post it here

PS How is life in the North Atlantic Philharmonic Orchestra? You never ring, you never write?

[Peter]

Some excellent music documentaries:

Some from The Klassix-13 Series with Anthony Quayle which is not available in Europe.

Beethoven documentary / Balint Vazsonyi / Anthony Quayle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSzF4...eature=related

Mozart documentary / Balint Vazsonyi / Anthony Quayle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqjfxih9prY

Schubert documentary / Balint Vazsonyi / Anthony Quayle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mjzV...eature=related

In Paradise With Franz Schubert (documentary) part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzJDx...eature=related

Schubert documentary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOeS9...eature=related

[Preston]

Maria Yudina playing Beethoven

Maria Yudina playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

Sonata 14:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YratH...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--fbk...eature=related

While listening to these I started thinking about a lecture I heard on Beethoven Moonlight Sonata, by Schiff (who plays to strict, tight, and lacks feeling (when compared to Yudina), I think). He claims that it should be played faster, much faster, then most people play it. I find this odd considering that I have read that Beethoven wanted it played quiet, slow, and fully sustained. I think Yudina plays it very well compared to how Beethoven wanted it played. I cannot tell if she lifts the sustain pedal on the piano though? Schiff is pulling in a lot of money through his Beethoven lectures, which seem to me to be not that correct, musically and the study.