tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22361479.post7815107176941004260..comments2024-03-16T06:23:29.917-07:00Comments on The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal: the Berkeley Symphony plays Ades & TchaikovskyPatrick J. Vazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279528648512493917noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22361479.post-64407724822535248902015-01-20T07:39:10.297-08:002015-01-20T07:39:10.297-08:00I loved the Ades piece. There is a recording led b...I loved the Ades piece. There is a recording led by Simon Rattle but it's not quite the same thing as hearing it live. When I first saw what the program was I thought maybe the Pathetique was the "now we'll do something everyone knows" portion, but it really did fit in well emotionally with Asyla.<br /><br />Sasha Cooke is wonderful. But I wonder if the intimacy of the original setting for string quartet isn't the better format for the Claudel piece. I guess we'll see. You did like the original more than I did.<br /><br />May didn't mention any specific symphonies but he did refer more generally to the Beethoven model of struggle emerging into triumph. It would be interesting to program various symphonies so that the movements appeared in random order, though first you'd have to clear your mind of the order you're used to and expecting.Patrick J. Vazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09279528648512493917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22361479.post-28809475618072496072015-01-20T00:43:36.695-08:002015-01-20T00:43:36.695-08:00Thank you for these details on Adès' piece. Yo...Thank you for these details on Adès' piece. Your description really makes me want to hear it and I hope to get the chance one day. The orchestrated version of Heggie's Camille Claudet with Cooke is high on my list of performances I'm looking forward to this year.<br /><br />That's an interesting point by Thomas May- did he mention any other symphonies for which kind of re-ordering may yield a different interpretaion? Or having thought about it, because I suspect you have, do you have any?John Marcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17616296400880495672noreply@blogger.com