tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post112420022687988790..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: European youth orchestra Ravels in WaltonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1124450026860119102005-08-19T12:13:00.000+01:002005-08-19T12:13:00.000+01:00Hi Pliable - just spent a very enjoyable and subli...Hi Pliable - just spent a very enjoyable and sublime morning listening to the Royal Estonian Choir replayed concert via Radio Three which I chased up after a brief scan through your blog earlier. This is also a cunning way to stay on topic - and thank you both for your kind (and flattering!) comments on my nascent attempts at blogging - and the fun I'm having discovering new areas of the internet via your fascinating paths.Rod Warnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14812717242954233213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1124395891386172472005-08-18T21:11:00.000+01:002005-08-18T21:11:00.000+01:00thanks very much, pliable. The Guardian review of...thanks very much, pliable. The Guardian review of the Kirov (Mariinsky) residency at the 2002 Proms, which you kindly linked, is very interesting.<BR/>I hadn't been aware that Ms Gubaidulina had composed a 2002 sequel to her 2000 St John Passion -- which she entitled St John Easter, and which is performed together with the St John Passion. (I had been aware that the earlier work had set texts from both St John the Apostle, as well as St John the Divine -- author of the Book of Revelations. I also recall someone, I wish I could recall who, calling Ms Gubaidulina's libretto for the earlier St John Passion a brilliant work.)<BR/><BR/>While the Guardian 2002 review isn't completely complimentary regarding the 2002 sequel, I think that it can be recognized that the 2000 Passion is a superb accomplishment by a Tatar (and Russian) artist using Orthodox chant materials, and working from a revived religious tradition which had previously frowned on the use of Western musical instruments -- or instruments of any sort -- in Slavonic Orthodox services. (Earlier, Artyomov's Latin Requiem setting, in 1984, was also a trailblazing work for a Russian composer. I don't believe that the Artymov Requiem has been performed in London, while I do know that Rostropovich premiered the final part of Artyomov's "Symphony of the Way" in London, in the 1990s. Rostropovich wanted to conduct the National Symphony Orchestra, of Washington, in the North American premiere of the Artyomov Requiem, to be held at Washington's National Cathedral, but the NSO administration vetoed the idea because of the rehearsal and other costs involved.)[The opening part of Artyomov's tetralogy "Symphony of the Way" is available on an Olympic Recording CD, from England.]<BR/><BR/>See! Others can play "On an overgrown path" too!!Garth Trinklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11084463787729969177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1124392542164534032005-08-18T20:15:00.000+01:002005-08-18T20:15:00.000+01:00Garth, yes indeed. Valery Gergiev and the Kirov pe...Garth, yes indeed. Valery Gergiev and the Kirov performed Gubaidulina's <I>St John Passion</I> as part of a marathon two concert day in the 2002 Proms season. The Passion was in the afternoon, and the dessert course in the evening consisted of Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto and Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony. Quite a meal!<BR/><BR/>By the wonders of the Guardian's superb online review archive you can read more about that epic concert <A HREF="http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/proms2002/story/0,12155,781328,00.html" REL="nofollow">through this link</A><BR/><BR/>For those that can receive BBC2 TV note that the whole of the Prom on 20th August, including the Gubaidulina premiere, is being broadcast live starting at 17.30h BST.<BR/><BR/>I'm glad you find the <I>'if you like this post you'll like.....'</I> feature useful. As I'm currently getting on for 500 new readers every day it seemed a good way of giving exposure to some of the archived posts. I have had complaints though that following the links is like a maze. Some people have said they've got completely lost within the blog, and the only way out was to close it and start again! Truly <I>an overgrown path</I>.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1124388562026800672005-08-18T19:09:00.000+01:002005-08-18T19:09:00.000+01:00pliable, I can't remember. Did Sofia Gubaidulina...pliable, I can't remember. Did Sofia Gubaidulina's profound and "terrifying" (in the words of L.A. Times music critic Mark Swed)<BR/>Saint John Passion, for four soloists, double chorus, orchestra, six percussionists, and ORGAN, ever receive a London performance following upon its 2000 Stuttgart world premiere? (If Antal Dorati or Mstislav Rostropovich were still the Music Directors of the National Symphony Orchestra, in Washington, D.C., I believe that the work might have been performed in North America by now, for the Kennedy Center has a fine organ -- as does the new Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles, and several other North American halls.)<BR/><BR/>And many congratulations on the first anniversary of your superb site. It is my loss that I only started reading it three months ago or so. Thanks for the further reading links which are helping me slowly read your archive of postings.Garth Trinklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11084463787729969177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1124385408580647202005-08-18T18:16:00.000+01:002005-08-18T18:16:00.000+01:00It is worth adding how wonderful the Royal Albert ...It is worth adding how wonderful the Royal Albert Hall Organ sounded last night after <A HREF="http://www.mander-organs.com/news/rah2001.html" REL="nofollow">its recent comprehensive rebuild.</A><BR/><BR/>We are very fortunate in London to have refurbishment programmes for two of our wonderful organs. With the Albert Hall instrument back in full voice we now have <A HREF="http://www.rfh.org.uk/organinfo/" REL="nofollow">the Royal Festival Hall organ</A> undergoing a similar revamp.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com