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Elgar's shockingly technicolor oratorio "The Apostles" with Edler/Halle

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Posted on May 20, 2017 at 12:03:00
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 Available in 24bit finally at Hyperion. I know Boult's and Hickox's very well, reviews suggest that Elder measures up well.

Anyone hear it?
Also, Warner has released the EMI Fremaux Years in 96/24, including the Berlioz Requiem and IMHO blah Saint Saens Organ Symphony. I enjoyed the Requiem very much on vinyl: spot -on Brit sopranos and an aptly grand recording.

 

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Streaming it now on TIDAL..., posted on May 20, 2017 at 12:48:02
Ivan303
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 It's OK I guess, if you like this sort of thing.

It's no 'Gerontius'.


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RE: Streaming it now on TIDAL..., posted on May 20, 2017 at 13:25:43
jdaniel@jps.net
 Oh, I love that sort of thing. Just barely cracking the code of Gerontis. Britten's did it for me, the Barbirolli.

Seriously,Aposlles proves that Elgar could orchestrate after all. : )

 

Baker/Barbirolli is all you need to know about Gerontius..., posted on May 20, 2017 at 13:55:44
Ivan303
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 And in order of their importance, of course...

Only Janet Baker should ever be allowed to sing the part of the angel.

That said, I'm guessing the most important performance of the piece is on the YouTube video below:










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LOL! You know who else thought Elgar could orchestrate? - Richard Strauss - QED [nt] ;-), posted on May 20, 2017 at 15:32:27
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Ah, Boult's conducting. Nice. nt, posted on May 20, 2017 at 17:33:14
jdaniel@jps.net
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Can you orchestrate Chris?, posted on May 21, 2017 at 02:15:30
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 Just wondering! :-)!


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Never professionally! ;-), posted on May 21, 2017 at 10:20:06
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 I did have an orchestration course in college. It was actually a lot of fun. The text we used was Walter Piston's book, and our final was to orchestrate a short piece of our own choosing (although the teacher had to approve it) which we were then able to hear played by the student orchestra - this was just as music notation on computers was beginning to be developed and it wasn't available to us. So there was a lot of tedious, manual copying of parts! I chose a song by Liszt (the ONLY one he ever set in English!), "Go Not, Happy Day", to a text by Tennyson. (BTW, that's an interesting story in itself: Liszt's effort was part of a birthday celebration for Tennyson where a dozen or so composers set the same text (i.e., "Go not, happy day"), including Liszt and also Britten's teacher, Frank Bridge.)

Speaking of Richard Strauss, his revision of Berlioz' book on orchestration was (and is) available, as well as Rimsky-Korsakov's book on orchestration, wherein he (very modestly!) used examples only from his own works!

 

Believe it or not, I heard Jessye Norman as the Angel!!!!!, posted on May 21, 2017 at 10:42:28
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 Sir Colin Davis, BSO in Boston, 1982.

One for the ages.

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Would have loved to have been there for tht...., posted on May 22, 2017 at 11:26:54
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Did she ever record it?

Afraid this is the best I can do from Sir Colin Davis.

Available for streaming on TIDAL


First they came for the dumb-asses
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a dumb-ass

 

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