tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post7724534289221012427..comments2024-03-26T07:58:59.761+00:00Comments on I'll think of something later: A star fellDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-48281655174195965062009-08-21T15:18:39.916+01:002009-08-21T15:18:39.916+01:00Dear David
Norman Lebrecht is the man to talk to a...Dear David<br />Norman Lebrecht is the man to talk to about Cantorial music, known in Hebrew as Chazzanut - he really is expert on this one(pace your comments about the subject in this blog)<br />sincerely<br />Anthony Noel BakerAnthony Noel Bakernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-63977039838945195012009-08-20T09:08:33.506+01:002009-08-20T09:08:33.506+01:00Sebastian - you should have said you'd be ther...Sebastian - you should have said you'd be there and we could have met.<br /><br />Yes, what remains is a timeless work of art. It isn't by any means the greatest of his symphonies, but on its own terms - using and developing all those proto-revolutionary songs and marches - it does a brilliant job. <br /><br />I'm in two minds about Bychkov, but he does make the orchestra sound brilliant and the finale, the most difficult bit to bring off, was superb.<br /><br />Apropos of what you say, you might like to use the 'Listen Again' facility to hear the talk. I've no idea yet what they used for the 20-minute interval out of our 45-minute ramble.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-55444261960285032872009-08-20T08:47:02.946+01:002009-08-20T08:47:02.946+01:00David I was sorry to miss your talk about Shost 11...David I was sorry to miss your talk about Shost 11 but went to concert. <br /><br />I thought the performance brought out the logic and the symphonic arrgument/development. To my ears all the discussion of the history/genesis/politics all seems very secondary to the sheer sweep scale heft of the work. (?)The LondonJazz sitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12346426719014759836noreply@blogger.com