Subject: | |
From: | |
Date: | Tue, 5 Sep 2000 09:32:12 -0500 |
Content-Type: | text/plain |
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
Marcus Maroney:
>The structure of the piece makes sense to me. It is, as in many pieces
>arranged in an arch:
>
>Prologue--Epilogue
>Pastoral--Sonnet (poems dealing with end of day)
>Nocturne--Hymn (odes--poems dedicated to something--the bugle and Diana)
>Elegy--Dirge (poems dealing with death)
Etc. THANK YOU! I never realized that it was an arch. A favorite piece
for many years.
>Re: recordings. I imprinted on Robert Tear/Alan Civil/Marriner on EMI,
>still a favorite performance of mine. I do like Ainsley/Pyatt on EMI too,
>Neunecker's is a bit too stiff for me. Curiously enough, I never really
>warmed to any of the Pears'/Britten recordings I've heard, ...
My favorite recording was on an old American Decca LP - Charles Bressler
(tenor), Ralph (?) Froehlich (horn), both conducted by Waldman. I haven't
seen it on CD.
Steve Schwartz
|
|
|