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When You Just Can't Turn the Car Radio Off...
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:21 pm
by Steve Marcus
You arrive at your destination. But the music is so compelling that you can't turn the ignition off (or at least the battery) until the piece ends...
It happened to me this afternoon. I was running an errand while WFMT was playing "Witches' Sabbath" from Symphonie Fantastique with Barenboim conducting the CSO...
WOW.
Just
WOW.
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:27 pm
by ZNC Dandy
Thats a great recording. Gene Pokorny and Scott Mendoker sound phenomenal! I really like the 2 octave drop the second time through the Dies Irae. It adds a nice bone crushing/chilling effect.
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:01 pm
by bort
Which recording is this? I'd like to get it...
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:34 am
by Steve Marcus
From the WFMT website:
Berlioz Symphonie fantastique – Chicago Sym/Daniel Barenboim. Teldec 98800-2.
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:44 am
by bort
Is this it?
http://www.amazon.com/Berlioz-Marseilla ... 382&sr=8-3
Not sure how to search for a recording only by catalog number...
Symphonie fantastique
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:15 pm
by OldsRecording
ZNC Dandy wrote:Thats a great recording. Gene Pokorny and Scott Mendoker sound phenomenal! I really like the 2 octave drop the second time through the Dies Irae. It adds a nice bone crushing/chilling effect.
I heard a really cool recording of (I believe) L'orchestre Romantique et Revolutionaire (pardon my French...) doing 'Fantastique'. Really neat to hear ophicleides instead of tubas on the Dies Irae.
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:22 pm
by iiipopes
Yes, the sound of an ophicliede is one of those things that does provoke the wrath of God!
Re: Symphonie fantastique
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:39 pm
by ZNC Dandy
OldsRecording wrote:ZNC Dandy wrote:Thats a great recording. Gene Pokorny and Scott Mendoker sound phenomenal! I really like the 2 octave drop the second time through the Dies Irae. It adds a nice bone crushing/chilling effect.
I heard a really cool recording of (I believe) L'orchestre Romantique et Revolutionaire (pardon my French...) doing 'Fantastique'. Really neat to hear ophicleides instead of tubas on the Dies Irae.
It is an awfully terrifying sound isn't it.
Re: Symphonie fantastique
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 4:06 pm
by OldsRecording
ZNC Dandy wrote:OldsRecording wrote:ZNC Dandy wrote:Thats a great recording. Gene Pokorny and Scott Mendoker sound phenomenal! I really like the 2 octave drop the second time through the Dies Irae. It adds a nice bone crushing/chilling effect.
I heard a really cool recording of (I believe) L'orchestre Romantique et Revolutionaire (pardon my French...) doing 'Fantastique'. Really neat to hear ophicleides instead of tubas on the Dies Irae.
It is an awfully terrifying sound isn't it.
Yes, but I do believe that's what Berlioz originally had in mind. I'd have to imagine that the early tuba sounded more like an ophicleide than a YorkBrunner.
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:16 pm
by tbn.al
Spring of '84 I think. I was on the road for the company between Savannah and Augusta GA, in the middle of nowhere, when the Bach T&F in d min came on the GA public radio station. Brass quintet no less. Had to pull over. I thought I was going to wet my pants. At that time I didn't even own a horn. I bought one within the month and started playing in a community band. I've always had a soft spot for the CB for getting me back into music.
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:21 pm
by ZNC Dandy
Bob1062 wrote:Bernstein's Prelude, Fugue, and Riff for Clarinet and Orchestra
I'm bouncin around from station to station when I hear what sounds like a saophone quartet. OK, iss 'aight iss 'aight. Then I hear an orchestra join in. Then a crazy fast jazzy drum thing. I'm smiling right now thinking about it. I think I wrote down the title at a stop light.
You should hear the Vienna Philharmonic play that piece...damn.
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 10:18 pm
by tubafatness
This happened the first time I heard the Adagietto from Mahler's Fifth Symphony. The same thing happened when I heard an excerpt from Krzsystof Penderecki's "A Polish Requiem." Ditto for hearing the piece "Cat O' Nine Tails" by John Zorn, played by the Kronos Quartet.
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 1:08 am
by joshwirt
This is the recording:
Barenboim/CSO on Amazon.com
I have it and must say that while it is also a really great recording of this orchestral standard, the pedals that Pokorny does on the F tuba at the end of the Dies Irae give it the most haunting sound ever!
Well worth tracking this one down.
-Josh
Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 1:56 am
by Chuck Jackson
Whenever "Kashmir" by Led Zepplin comes on. I don't like the rest of the "Physical Graffiti' cd, so it is a treat for me.
Chuck"who wishes it were something more sublime, but I have most of that stuff on cd anyway"Jackson
Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 12:52 pm
by KenS
Years ago I had to get home to get ready for a date. I had a public radio on in Chicago and the opera was on. Usually I turn that right off.... this time though I had to sit in the car and listen.... I was late for the date, but when I explained why she actually understood!
The opera: Boris Godunov
WOW!