FIRST POSTING -- NOT PLANNED, THEY JUST KINDA HAPPENED
We note the obvious trend going from performance A to F, right? (With just an interesting variant in the B-C sequence)
[UPDATE NOTE: If you just want to get your toes wet to start, focus just on the Andante con moto section, which ranges -- rather amazingly! -- from roughly 1:25 to 2:40 in our specimens. (This was my original plan anyway for first presentation of these clips, rather than going to the huge hassle, not to mention blog-loading drain, of adding shorter new clips.) Btw, since that first score page took us so close to the end of the Andante non troppo, I've added another chunk to get us there and into the Allegro non troppo.]
[A]
[Allegro moderato at 1:25] Full symphony orchestra, March 1957
[B]
[Allegro moderato at 1:56] Reduced-size orchestra, December 1986
[C]
[Allegro moderato at 1:53] Chamber orchestra, February 1986
[D]
[Allegro moderato at 2:09] Full symphony orchestra, 1988-89
[E]
[Allegro moderato at 2:26] Reduced-size orchestra, June 1958
[F]
[Allegro moderato at 2:42] Full symphony orchestra, October 1970
by Ken
Okay, so maybe a minor derailment here. I was aiming for a post that would in some way tie up our loose ends and dangling threads regarding musical larks, serenades, and the tragic case of Schubert, and also a separate post (or maybe two) to wrap up our Ives explorations (it's looking likelier that we're going to culminate with Ives's most ambitious creations: the Concord Sonata and the Fourth Symphony, which -- even just whizzing through -- are both sizable work units). And this is still the hope. It's just that each of these topics, which we'd all dearly love to be done with, kept throwing up obstacles that sent me in as much of a sideways as a forward direction.
Meanwhile, I've got a good start on another project, which without any such specific intention will actually continue one of the above-enumerated threads, and while the bulk of that project is still in the drawing-board stage, there's enough ready -- or at least there was enough ready once I added some music -- to allow what might have been a mere teaser to stand pretty well on its own.
YOU LIKELY RECOGNIZED THE MUSIC WE JUST HEARD
[UPDATE NOTE: If you just want to get your toes wet to start, focus just on the Andante con moto section, which ranges -- rather amazingly! -- from roughly 1:25 to 2:40 in our specimens. (This was my original plan anyway for first presentation of these clips, rather than going to the huge hassle, not to mention blog-loading drain, of adding shorter new clips.) Btw, since that first score page took us so close to the end of the Andante non troppo, I've added another chunk to get us there and into the Allegro non troppo.]
[Allegro moderato at 1:25] Full symphony orchestra, March 1957
[B]
[Allegro moderato at 1:56] Reduced-size orchestra, December 1986
[C]
[Allegro moderato at 1:53] Chamber orchestra, February 1986
[D]
[Allegro moderato at 2:09] Full symphony orchestra, 1988-89
[E]
[Allegro moderato at 2:26] Reduced-size orchestra, June 1958
[F]
[Allegro moderato at 2:42] Full symphony orchestra, October 1970
by Ken
Okay, so maybe a minor derailment here. I was aiming for a post that would in some way tie up our loose ends and dangling threads regarding musical larks, serenades, and the tragic case of Schubert, and also a separate post (or maybe two) to wrap up our Ives explorations (it's looking likelier that we're going to culminate with Ives's most ambitious creations: the Concord Sonata and the Fourth Symphony, which -- even just whizzing through -- are both sizable work units). And this is still the hope. It's just that each of these topics, which we'd all dearly love to be done with, kept throwing up obstacles that sent me in as much of a sideways as a forward direction.
Meanwhile, I've got a good start on another project, which without any such specific intention will actually continue one of the above-enumerated threads, and while the bulk of that project is still in the drawing-board stage, there's enough ready -- or at least there was enough ready once I added some music -- to allow what might have been a mere teaser to stand pretty well on its own.
YOU LIKELY RECOGNIZED THE MUSIC WE JUST HEARD
