[CONCERT] Kodaly / Tchaikovsky / Mussorgsky: Philharmonia @ RFH 03.12.09
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tamaranthKodaly / Tchaikovsky / Mussorgsky: Philharmonia @ RFH 03.12.09
Cond: Maazel: Piano Simon Trpceski
Kodaly - Dances of Galanta
Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto #1
Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition
I didn't know the Kodaly, and I really like it: very East European (reminiscent of Dvorak and maybe of Brahms' Hungarian Dances) with lyrical dancable tunes and a touch of the Orient in the modulations. [NB have acquired a version of this and find it just as fabulous on repeated play. Yay for internet music and MP3 players!]
I was mostly there for the Tchaikovsky (and Mr Trpceski, whose lecture on and rendition of Rach 3 last year was stupendous). Maazel was more enthusiastic about this than either of the other pieces too. Lovely contrast between urbane measured strings and reckless piano.
Things I noticed: the whispery sound of fingers on strings; the motifs borrowed by Rachmaninoff half a century later; possible improvisation by Trpceski in solo passage (and the way he was sweating heavily after 1st movement); how hard the flute works in the third movement.
Pictures at an Exhibition was delightful, as usual, though (again as usual) I had no programme, lost count, and couldn't remember what all of them were. (K to me: 'wedding music?' Me to K, gleefully: Baba Yaga's Hut! K to me, with resignation: I was about to say, not Baba Yaga's Hut ...) I was up in the rear stalls, needing a quick getaway in order to be home before midnight: sound's very different up there, and the prevalence of chronic coughs rather more than in choir!
Cond: Maazel: Piano Simon Trpceski
Kodaly - Dances of Galanta
Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto #1
Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition
I didn't know the Kodaly, and I really like it: very East European (reminiscent of Dvorak and maybe of Brahms' Hungarian Dances) with lyrical dancable tunes and a touch of the Orient in the modulations. [NB have acquired a version of this and find it just as fabulous on repeated play. Yay for internet music and MP3 players!]
I was mostly there for the Tchaikovsky (and Mr Trpceski, whose lecture on and rendition of Rach 3 last year was stupendous). Maazel was more enthusiastic about this than either of the other pieces too. Lovely contrast between urbane measured strings and reckless piano.
Things I noticed: the whispery sound of fingers on strings; the motifs borrowed by Rachmaninoff half a century later; possible improvisation by Trpceski in solo passage (and the way he was sweating heavily after 1st movement); how hard the flute works in the third movement.
Pictures at an Exhibition was delightful, as usual, though (again as usual) I had no programme, lost count, and couldn't remember what all of them were. (K to me: 'wedding music?' Me to K, gleefully: Baba Yaga's Hut! K to me, with resignation: I was about to say, not Baba Yaga's Hut ...) I was up in the rear stalls, needing a quick getaway in order to be home before midnight: sound's very different up there, and the prevalence of chronic coughs rather more than in choir!
