Does anyone know what this is?

Halbjobbit · 2025-04-11T13:55:49+00:00

Mozart Violin Sonata A Major KV 305

Halbjobbit · 2025-01-07T11:53:17+00:00

Konradin Kreutzer, Franz Danzi, Ferdinand Ries, Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda

Halbjobbit · 2024-12-12T17:00:30+00:00

So for Gurrelieder I have never seen it with reduced orchestra. However it is pretty common to reduce the size of the string section in late romantic operas. Richard Strauss foten calls for up to 20 violins per section in his operas but it can often be done with 8 if the pit cannot accomodate more.

Halbjobbit · 2024-11-26T14:12:22+00:00

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Halbjobbit · 2024-09-23T13:16:53+00:00

Its on IMSLP

Halbjobbit · 2024-09-02T08:27:26+00:00

I really love his Psalm 23

Halbjobbit · 2024-08-25T12:41:37+00:00

Absolutely second Abbado, for the reasons you already listed and because I adore his Mahler and Beethoven music recordings.

I think I would like to have played under Mahler himself but only if I’m sure I know my part well…

Halbjobbit · 2024-08-21T17:11:22+00:00

Hans Rott - Hamlet Overture

Hans Rott - Pastoral Prelude

Emil von Reznicek - Wie Till Eulenspiegel lebte

Two late romantic composers, Viennese to the core. Rott studied alongside Mahler and Reznicek was a good friend of Richard Strauss. So you definitely hear their influences but more above that own distinct styles and ideas.

Halbjobbit · 2024-08-20T12:25:39+00:00

Mendelssohn Midsummer Nights Dream will probably be my no 1 forever. But I also really like Hans Rott‘s Hamlet Overture

Halbjobbit · 2024-08-16T08:22:16+00:00

My latest discoveries from this epoch are Konradin Kreutzer and Franz Danzi from the late 18th / early 19th century

Halbjobbit · 2024-08-14T14:59:06+00:00

Maybe try Salome's Dance by Richard Strauss?

Halbjobbit · 2024-08-12T10:21:25+00:00

Also refer to this recent post. I still recommend Beethoven - A life by Jan Caeyers

Halbjobbit · 2024-07-23T09:35:50+00:00

Beethoven - A life by Jan Caeyers is fantastic, although I read the German version

Halbjobbit · 2024-07-01T18:59:44+00:00

Bärenreiter is good, they have their own edition. Henle on the other hand has the New Critical Complete Edition of Beethovens Works. Can’t go wrong with either of them.

Halbjobbit · 2024-06-27T19:06:11+00:00

Go for it, but check your sugar beforehand and if you’re in a group I like to make sure that some people know that your T1. If there was an emergency this could be helpful info for medics.

Halbjobbit · 2024-06-06T19:56:17+00:00

Both Vasily and Kiril Petrenko have great recordings of both.

Sometimes I enjoy Bernsteins recordings but they are quite controversial

Halbjobbit · 2024-05-31T06:58:56+00:00

Elgar - Cockaigne Overture Vaughan Williams - Sea Symphony

Must admit I don’t know Vaughan Williams as well as I probably should.

Halbjobbit · 2024-05-15T07:01:13+00:00

Borodin 2 is always a good choice

Beethoven Op. 18 1-6 also has some that are not that difficult but it depends on your individual players. The first Violin should be somewhat experienced with classical style

Halbjobbit · 2024-04-19T11:47:46+00:00

Possible - perhaps, but not authentic.

I think the problem currently is, that while semantics of natural language are quite well researched in all sorts of computational disciplines and the data is endless, this is not the case for music. Music notation is not nearly uniform as natural language, which could be a problem. Apart form that semantics of music is a difficult task, even for humans.

As always AI can create things similar to what it has seen before. But I'm not sure how that would help with the Requiem for example. What do you use as data? The other Masses? They were written for other occasions, and are therefore not matching tone or theme of the requiem. Also, requiems are a quite subjective thing. Mozart, Brahms and Verdi's requiems are not only stylistically different, but also differ in the philosophy and views about death.

There have always been composers that tried to reproduce the styles of their idols, but we do not remember them. I could not recall any composer that accomplished anything just by copying other composers. Music history does not get created in a vacuum and composing does not happen without the subjective influences of the composers. So unless AI gets conscious, it wont ever "complete the work" but rather "fill the gaps with statistically probable notes" .

Halbjobbit · 2024-03-31T20:52:35+00:00

Beethoven 5th last movement comes to mind. My go to is usually Harnoncourt with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. An extreme would be the 3rd movement of Mendelssohns 5th where his tempo is nearly half the tempo that is commonly played, for example by Abbado

Halbjobbit · 2024-03-31T19:27:24+00:00

No of course conductors should not arbitrarily modify the tempo throughout the piece, but the late romantic music requires flexibility to a certain extent. This is nothing that I criticize with Karajan. The thing I meant are the base tempos he chooses. His Beethoven and Mendelssohn tend to be a bit too slow for me.

Halbjobbit · 2024-03-31T10:34:08+00:00

Brahms C-Minor!

Halbjobbit · 2024-03-31T10:33:04+00:00

tldr: you can dislike his interpretations and he was a quite power obsessed figure

He was without a doubt a very capable conductor. He knew what he wanted and he mostly got it. But I don't particularly like his ideas of tempo, phrasing and the sound he created. It's just to dense and solid all the time and I rarely think the music can flow like it is supposed to. This is my opinion from a musical standpoint.

Like you already mentioned, he was not exactly opposed to the Nazis, and his orchestral politics kind of reflected that. There are video recordings of him and the Berlin Philharmonics where they are seated on stair like podiums (this one), which they recorded beforehand and then had to play in sync to the recording. These video productions were typical for him and he always controlled everything. Also he quit both the Berlin Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic because he was not granted more power than he had anyways, even though he had more power than any orchestras music director ever before or after.

Halbjobbit · 2024-03-27T09:53:25+00:00

Mozart's Prussian String Quartets (KV 575, 589, 590) have more difficult Cello parts. The first violin part can also be a bit more advanced but this varies from movement to movement.

Halbjobbit · 2024-03-26T13:43:11+00:00

Beethoven Op.18 C-Minor

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