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Post by Rabbit on Feb 18, 2016 22:08:50 GMT
Poulenc wrote a wonderful oboe sonata which I have also played. Very difficult. Along with it, I did the Poulenc Sextet which is wonderful.
I was booked to play it in a library place in Oxford. Unfortunately, I had a drink too many just before going on and that made it even harder!!! The others in the sextet thought I was so badly behaved that they all took a rather embarrassing picture and I had to be seated in front of them standing. I could be so stupid sometimes. (Still am!!!) Whenever ai see them, and the opportunity arises to embarrass me, that blasted pocture comes out.
I could still play ok though, just felt awful.
Actually, Poulenc's flute somata, clarinet sonata, bassoon sonata, oboe sonata and the sextet (also there's a trio, I think) are all terrific. Plus his organ concerto.
This is the onoe sonata .....
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Post by howie on Feb 19, 2016 6:58:12 GMT
Absolutely,sorry I meant sonata, not concerto-I'm blaming the painkillers for my befuddled brain. Poulenc really evokes that free and easy style of Parisian life in the early 20th Century. I would have loved to be around then. There's lots of new recordings of Poulenc's chamber music but I still prefer the older Jacques Fevrier version from the mid 60's. It sounds so fresh and really is ample evidence that our modern digital era of sound has not necessarily improved our listening experience. Reading how you have played all these pieces just increases my regret that I don't play an instrument, other than a piano rather badly. I did however sing in a choir and Poulenc's Gloria is a fantastic work. Those opening bars really rouse the spirit.
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Post by Rabbit on Feb 19, 2016 7:20:54 GMT
That is a great composition. At places, it reminds me of Stravinsky as well, with the kinds of dissonance that he used..
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Post by howie on Feb 19, 2016 10:28:40 GMT
I first heard the Gloria many years ago when Edward Heath chose it as a favourite piece on 'Desert Island Discs' or some such radio programme. I must have been a real saddo in those days-still am probably.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2016 11:21:55 GMT
Edward Heath was a real sado all his days. Allegedly.
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Post by Rabbit on Feb 19, 2016 11:32:44 GMT
He visited the RCM twice when I was there. He was a guest conductor.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2016 13:16:47 GMT
He obviously didn't take you out for a sail. Too old I expect.
Sorry. I'll stop now.
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Post by Rabbit on Feb 19, 2016 13:28:57 GMT
Well, it certainly puts a new slant on 'Hello sailor.....'
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Post by drumdrym on Apr 15, 2016 19:12:25 GMT
ALISON BALSOM - Sound the Trumpet (Royal Music of Purcell & Handel)
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Post by drumdrym on Apr 18, 2016 22:14:02 GMT
Antonio Vivaldi "La Stravaganza" Concerto No.2 RV.279
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A. VIVALDI: «La Stravaganza» Violin Concerto in E minor Op.4/2 RV 279, L'Arte dell'Arco
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Post by drumdrym on Apr 18, 2016 22:17:56 GMT
Antonio Vivaldi - The sea storm - concerto for violin and strings
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Post by Rabbit on Apr 19, 2016 9:25:55 GMT
You know, Vivaldi was a school teacher as well and what surprises me is the level of difficulty that his pieces represent for his pupils. He wrote a lot of music for them, but they must have been pretty good players.
Makes you wonder what has happened to music in schools today.
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