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1/ Today's #RobertSimpson100 #SimpsonSunday listening: Symphony No. 9 (1985-7)
First things first: If you care about symphonies AT ALL and don't know Simpson 9 then stop what you're doing and buy this record RIGHT NOW. It will repay you many times over.
1/ Today's #RobertSimpson100 #SimpsonSunday listening: Symphony No. 9 (1985-7)
First things first: If you care about symphonies AT ALL and don't know Simpson 9 then stop what you're doing and buy this record RIGHT NOW. It will repay you many times over.
2/ "BUY?" I hear you cry, "But Symphs, can't you just post a Youtube link or something?"
No. The single 10-minute extract available online is in poor sound and doesn't begin to convey the cumulative experience this symphony's unbroken 50-minute span can deliver. Don't go there.
No. The single 10-minute extract available online is in poor sound and doesn't begin to convey the cumulative experience this symphony's unbroken 50-minute span can deliver. Don't go there.
3/ You just googled it didn't you? Disappointing wasn't it?
I did try to warn you.
I did try to warn you.
1/ A new set of #Schumann symphonies features Christian Thielemann conducting @StaatskapelleDD. As I'd not heard these works for ages, I decided to catch up with a classic set by the same orchestra.
Then things started to get a little crazy.
#SymphonistOfTheWeek #SchumannSunday
Then things started to get a little crazy.
#SymphonistOfTheWeek #SchumannSunday
2/ I must confess that I'd never listened to Wolfgang Sawallisch's classic cycle before. I'd always found Schumann's symphonies stodgy and unappealing, until Sir John Eliot Gardiner's revelatory acounts stripped the scales from my ears and opened my heart to him 20 years ago.
3/ I decided I'd have to re-listen to Gardiner. I also wanted to hear whether period performance practices had influenced more recent Schumann performances on modern orchestras, so well-regarded cycles by @nezetseguin and @kennethwoods went onto my listening list as well.
