Juxtapositions: Concert programming...what goes with?
Wed, Nov 9 2011, 1:28AM
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RE: Juxtapositions: Concert programming...what goes with?
I am going to try and keep this thread going, just because as much as anything the mental exercise is good for my soul!
So the challenge this week is...
Create a progarmme where the key work is:
Smetana's String Quartet No.1 in E minor "From My Life"
As before 'anything goes' in terms ie. you have free reign to put any group of works together, but you muct explain your logic (or lack thereof!).
Wed, Nov 9 2011, 5:52AM
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RE: Juxtapositions: Concert programming...what goes with?
Morton Feldman - Flute and Orchestra
Schubert - Unfinished Symphony
INTERVAL
John Cage - 101
Wed, Nov 9 2011, 12:06PM
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RE: Juxtapositions: Concert programming...what goes with?
I've thought several times lately that it would be an interesting idea to perform both of Smetana's quartets as a single (roughly 45 mins) work - the first part leading up to the onset of his deafness and the second showing the agonizing decay into madness. It is fairly important that listeners to the second quartet have an understanding of how the themes started out in the first.
That 'combined' work would have to be the second half of any concert, but I am unclear what might go before it - some untroubled Mozart and/or Haydn, I think
Wed, Nov 9 2011, 6:40PM
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RE: Juxtapositions: Concert programming...what goes with?
I see, Naupilus, you like the minor mode works. This time, you chose a work in the slightly more often used e minor. This tonality has to offer some great works from major composers. So, for an all e minor program from all (or most) of the possible forms of Classical music, here is my proposal:
-Beethoven's Piano Sonata, op. 90 (or for a less well known piece, Schubert's Piano Sonata, D. 566)
-Mozart's Violin/Piano Sonata, K. 304. (A glorious piece of music, the only minor mode Violin Sonata of Amadeus).
-Smetana's First String Quartet. (A great juxtaposition).
-Mendelssohn's 3rd String Symphony (one of the 12 Symphonies of "Youth" for String Orchestra; a small gem).
-Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto (the greatest Violin Concerto in e minor) or for a higher change the First Piano Concerto of Chopin.
-Dvorak's "New World" Symphony (to finish in flying colours) or Brahms' Fourth (to finish in a darker but still great mood).
So, good "hunting" and eventual listening,
Parla
Tue, Dec 20 2011, 8:53PM
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RE: Juxtapositions: Concert programming...what goes with?
Well with the holiday season approaching I will be hunkering up to some serious listening. How would you build a program around these works (one program for each work, not all in one!):
Schumann - GeisterVariatonen
Hanson - Symphony No.2
Gesualdo - Madrigals Book 2
Any tips would be warmly appreciated. In the case of the Schumann I am thinking of puttng together a program based upon the theme of variations in general, not specifically for the piano.
I am going to try and keep this thread going, just because as much as anything the mental exercise is good for my soul!
So the challenge this week is...
Create a progarmme where the key work is:
Smetana's String Quartet No.1 in E minor "From My Life"
As before 'anything goes' in terms ie. you have free reign to put any group of works together, but you muct explain your logic (or lack thereof!).
Naupilus