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 Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:49 pm
katealaurel Quote: The Imperial March is catchy without any doubt- sometimes the unisons at the beginning of rachmaninoff's first piano concierto get the march stuck in my head. Regrettably, the only Rachmaninov I'm solidly familiar with is the Variations on a Theme of Paganini (that, however, I can hum the whole way through..). Any recommendations to start with? My advice would be to check his name as I did recently. xp He'll probably give the same piece of advice as me, as that's an excellent piece of music.
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 7:36 pm
Harvested Sorrow katealaurel Quote: The Imperial March is catchy without any doubt- sometimes the unisons at the beginning of rachmaninoff's first piano concierto get the march stuck in my head. Regrettably, the only Rachmaninov I'm solidly familiar with is the Variations on a Theme of Paganini (that, however, I can hum the whole way through..). Any recommendations to start with? My advice would be to check his name as I did recently. xp He'll probably give the same piece of advice as me, as that's an excellent piece of music. The isle of the dead is a real feat of composition, in a short and sweet twenty minutes. It might have been the prelude in G minor that I reccomended to you Harvested Sorrow, and yes, it encompasses most of what I've come to expect from his compositions. The second symphony is probably his absolute master work, but that might be jumping head-first into the deep end. If you can't get your hands on the G minor Prelude, any of his first, second or third piano concierti would be good starting points. The second is easier to get, but the third is far superior. The fourth piano concierto is very meloncholic and slightly modernistic, and probably only legible after some experience contemplating his music.
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:44 am
the isle of the dead Harvested Sorrow katealaurel Quote: The Imperial March is catchy without any doubt- sometimes the unisons at the beginning of rachmaninoff's first piano concierto get the march stuck in my head. Regrettably, the only Rachmaninov I'm solidly familiar with is the Variations on a Theme of Paganini (that, however, I can hum the whole way through..). Any recommendations to start with? My advice would be to check his name as I did recently. xp He'll probably give the same piece of advice as me, as that's an excellent piece of music. The isle of the dead is a real feat of composition, in a short and sweet twenty minutes. It might have been the prelude in G minor that I reccomended to you Harvested Sorrow, and yes, it encompasses most of what I've come to expect from his compositions. The second symphony is probably his absolute master work, but that might be jumping head-first into the deep end. If you can't get your hands on the G minor Prelude, any of his first, second or third piano concierti would be good starting points. The second is easier to get, but the third is far superior. The fourth piano concierto is very meloncholic and slightly modernistic, and probably only legible after some experience contemplating his music. You reccomended the Isle of the Dead to me. After that I want to check out some of his other work, so the things you've listed should be very interesting.
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 2:07 pm
I checked out a Rachmaninoff CD from the library -- Symphony no. 3 and the "Youth Symphony," which apparently he wrote at eighteen(!). In the third symphony, I started hearing traces of Gershwin. Sure enough, in the CD booklet, it says that it was written shortly after Rhapsody in Blue, of which he attended the premiere. I guess my ear is getting better after all.
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Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 5:31 am
cet42 I checked out a Rachmaninoff CD from the library -- Symphony no. 3 and the "Youth Symphony," which apparently he wrote at eighteen(!). In the third symphony, I started hearing traces of Gershwin. Sure enough, in the CD booklet, it says that it was written shortly after Rhapsody in Blue, of which he attended the premiere. I guess my ear is getting better after all. The first symphony is a hard one to get, since the score was destroyed by the composer shortly after its premiere. Rachmaninoff was an avid Gershwin supporter, I believe, and 'welcomed jazz to the concert hall', as I imagine most classical etc pianists of the time didn't.
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:04 am
Gah, sorry about misspelling the name..
I'll look those up the next time I go to the library- my city library has an excellent classical music collection, which, unfortunately, has resulted in my accumulation of a forty-odd dollar fine.
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 11:20 am
Yeah, my library has a great CD collection, especially classical. I think our library system got voted top in the nation three years in a row and is now down to second.
My brother racked up an 84 dollar fine one time after a school project on books he never used.
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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 11:26 am
Harvested Sorrow The last two concerts I went to were The Planets and the Star Wars themes suite...and a performance with a lead celloist who had all of parts down by memory. eek They played The Flying Dutchman Overture and some Cello concertos. (I can't find the program and can't recall what it was >_<) It was the San Antonio symphony, by the way. Well I found it....here's what they played: Wagner -- The Flying Dutchman Overture Haydn -- Concerto No. 2 in D minor for Cello & Orchestra Brahms -- Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73 EDIT: And the celloist was Alisa Weilerstein
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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 6:02 pm
Harvested Sorrow Harvested Sorrow The last two concerts I went to were The Planets and the Star Wars themes suite...and a performance with a lead celloist who had all of parts down by memory. eek They played The Flying Dutchman Overture and some Cello concertos. (I can't find the program and can't recall what it was >_<) It was the San Antonio symphony, by the way. Well I found it....here's what they played: Wagner -- The Flying Dutchman Overture Haydn -- Concerto No. 2 in D minor for Cello & Orchestra Brahms -- Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73 EDIT: And the celloist was Alisa Weilerstein I think she's coming to the Colorado Symphony this year.
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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 10:41 pm
Cool. If you have the chance to go see her, I suggest that you do so. Amazing how she has all of her parts memorized...
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Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:02 am
the isle of the dead Harvested Sorrow katealaurel Quote: The Imperial March is catchy without any doubt- sometimes the unisons at the beginning of rachmaninoff's first piano concierto get the march stuck in my head. Regrettably, the only Rachmaninov I'm solidly familiar with is the Variations on a Theme of Paganini (that, however, I can hum the whole way through..). Any recommendations to start with? My advice would be to check his name as I did recently. xp He'll probably give the same piece of advice as me, as that's an excellent piece of music. The isle of the dead is a real feat of composition, in a short and sweet twenty minutes. It might have been the prelude in G minor that I reccomended to you Harvested Sorrow, and yes, it encompasses most of what I've come to expect from his compositions. The second symphony is probably his absolute master work, but that might be jumping head-first into the deep end. If you can't get your hands on the G minor Prelude, any of his first, second or third piano concierti would be good starting points. The second is easier to get, but the third is far superior. The fourth piano concierto is very meloncholic and slightly modernistic, and probably only legible after some experience contemplating his music. In relation to this post...I recently picked up a copy of Rachmaninof's Symphony no. 2...it also comes with The Isle of the Dead. I've read some reviews and apparently this is one of, if not the best recording of the Isle of the Dead...so I am very, very happy. heart By this point I'm quite sure that I'll love Symphony no. 2, also. I think I did a good job buying this on a whim. biggrin For reference, it's this album: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000003FT3/qid=1121932895/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/102-1701146-5221710?v=glance&s=classical
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 4:21 pm
Harvested Sorrow Cool. If you have the chance to go see her, I suggest that you do so. Amazing how she has all of her parts memorized... My mom gets comps because she works thre, so there's a good chance I'll end up going. I get to go to Joshua Bell, too, so I'm really excited. He's opening up the season.
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Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 12:54 pm
My mom gets comps because she works thre, so there's a good chance I'll end up going. I get to go to Joshua Bell, too, so I'm really excited. He's opening up the season.
OMG! Joshua Bell is so AWESOME!!! I borrowed his "Romance of the Violin" cd from the library and I loved it. I also want the cd of Gershwin pieces he plays. My favorite piece that he played was O Mio Babbino Caro. It was so beautiful. Now I want the music of that piece for my violin.
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 9:35 pm
the last performance i was in was our 2005 spring concert called 'go for baroque II' we combined our choir with the other high school's choir. we sang vivaldi's gloria. it went ok. all you could hear was the sopranos, you couldnt hear the other sections. the other schools sopranos sing way too loud and dont know how to blend at all. i hope i didnt go off topic. >.<
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Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 3:27 am
katealaurel Gah, sorry about misspelling the name.. I often think about that. I think depends more on weather you''re saying his name in Russian or English. I've seen multiple spellings of each part of P.I. Tchaikovsky's name. .__.
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