concert review: San Francisco Symphony
Apr. 21st, 2016 07:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calimacPablo Heras-Casado conducting a program from the "long 18th century."
Earliest work, Battalia by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, 1673. Weird multi-movement suite. One movement consists of a quodlibet on eight songs. Serious dissonance, teeth-grinding dissonance, Luciano Berio-style dissonance. In another, the string players are directed to tap the strings with the wood of their bows, col legno, which would produce an arachnoid sound. They didn't do that. They stomped their feet instead.
Rameau, suite from Pygmalion, 1748. Ornate, complex, the music that the word baroque was developed to describe.
Haydn, Piano Concerto in D, 1784. Yes, with a piano, not a harpsichord. Played by Ingrid Fliter with panache.
Beethoven, Symphony No. 2, 1802. Didn't they just do that? Didn't I review it? Didn't they record it? Regardless, after these predecessors this had to be a light, bouncy, fleeting performance, and was it ever.
Earliest work, Battalia by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, 1673. Weird multi-movement suite. One movement consists of a quodlibet on eight songs. Serious dissonance, teeth-grinding dissonance, Luciano Berio-style dissonance. In another, the string players are directed to tap the strings with the wood of their bows, col legno, which would produce an arachnoid sound. They didn't do that. They stomped their feet instead.
Rameau, suite from Pygmalion, 1748. Ornate, complex, the music that the word baroque was developed to describe.
Haydn, Piano Concerto in D, 1784. Yes, with a piano, not a harpsichord. Played by Ingrid Fliter with panache.
Beethoven, Symphony No. 2, 1802. Didn't they just do that? Didn't I review it? Didn't they record it? Regardless, after these predecessors this had to be a light, bouncy, fleeting performance, and was it ever.
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Date: 2016-04-21 05:53 pm (UTC)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9DJpaxT7wg
That does get pretty weird at some points! In the dissonant section starting at 1:45, was Biber mashing together and warping melodies borrowed from others? I think I hear a piece by Tielman Susato in there (especially at 1:54-1:57 and 2:12-2:15), so I checked this Youtube recording:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7jM0JKthwo
The Biber line sounds to me like Susato's "Les Quartre Branles", which starts at 4:36 in the video, particularly the line heard at 5:16-5:19, 5:38-5:41, and 6:57-7:00.
-MTD/neb
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Date: 2016-04-21 06:00 pm (UTC)