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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2013 3:06:50 GMT -5
Well, it is not difficult I have found to create a single file containing two video streams; but no player seems capable of playing such a file in the way I intended: namely to display one stream and switch to the other at the request of the user. The VLC player, for example, displays both videos at once - in two separate "windows"; and the other players do various unintended things in various ways. But I will continue tinkering with the idea and looking for examples.
Our sixth broadcast, the Serenade of Waldemar von Baußnern, is almost ready; it is the first to use a larger screen, namely 1280 pixels by 720, which will suit a good many modern portable computers of which the screens are capable of displaying 1366 pixels by 768.
I hope that there will in time be well over one hundred broadcasts - but not too many more than that, since there are other things on which one's time might be spent. Videos with embedded display of a commentary are probably more worth while than videos with embedded display of a score, and this probably indicates that programme music is more suited to such treatment than absolute music.
Here are just a few of the broadcasts planned for the coming months:
- Stevenson: Passacaglia on the motto D-E flat-C-B for pianoforte
- Barraqué: Sonata for Pianoforte
- Messiaen: "Cantéyodjayâ" for Pianoforte
- Liszt: A Faust Symphony
- Dr. Williams: A Sea Symphony (as member c has suggested, this would go well as a simulcast with the forthcoming "Prom")
- Ferneyhough: "Sonatas" for string quartette
- Brian: "Gothic" symphony
- Elgar: Pianoforte Quintette
- Karg-Elert: Third Sonata for pianoforte
- Scott: First Sonata for pianoforte
- Gedalge: Third Symphony
- and, who knows, perhaps even one of those long things of Sorabji!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2013 5:30:10 GMT -5
This is a very interesting selection of music, Sydney Grew! I should report that Sydney Grew and kleines c have privately been discussing the programme for the First Night of the Proms in some detail, and it was felt that an alternative broadcast of ' A Sea Symphony' might be appropriate in the circumstances. ' A Sea Symphony' is a choral symphony by Ralph Vaughan Williams, written between 1903 and 1909. Vaughan Williams' first and longest symphony, it was first performed at the Leeds Festival in 1910, with the composer conducting. The symphony's maturity belies the composer's relative youth when it was written (he was 30 when he first began sketching it). One of the first symphonies in which a choir is used throughout the work and is an integral part of the musical texture, ' A Sea Symphony' helped set the stage for a new era of symphonic and choral music in England during the first half of the twentieth century. Wikipedia - A Sea SymphonyBBC - Prom 1: First Night of the Proms |
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Post by neilmcgowan on Apr 26, 2013 7:10:49 GMT -5
I would imagine the Brian symphony will prove popular  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2013 7:24:34 GMT -5
I would imagine the Brian symphony will prove popular Depending of course on which performance is to be broadcast. This is a remarkably adventurous undertaking by Mr Grew. I am quite in awe. Presumably, subject to some sort of vetting for quality and suitability, it would be open to anyone to submit a programme for broadcast. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2013 7:29:54 GMT -5
- and, who knows, perhaps even one of those long things of Sorabji! A Mr Gijs VDM has written to say:- |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2013 20:47:16 GMT -5
. . . Presumably, subject to some sort of vetting for quality and suitability, it would be open to anyone to submit a programme for broadcast. Yes indeed - requests encouraged. . . . Sequentia Cyclica, as performed by Jonathan Powell in Glasgow on the 20th of June 2010, will be broadcast! Thanks for that valuable tip! - I will try to record it. And presumably people at the Sorabji forum will be doing likewise. According Mr. Rapoport in Grove's Dictionary, Sequentia cyclica super "Dies irae" consists of twenty-seven variations, lasts "much longer than four hours," and was written during the years 1948 and 1949, i.e. in the composer's fifty-seventh year. |
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Post by ahinton on Apr 27, 2013 9:15:09 GMT -5
. . . Presumably, subject to some sort of vetting for quality and suitability, it would be open to anyone to submit a programme for broadcast. Yes indeed - requests encouraged. . . . Sequentia Cyclica, as performed by Jonathan Powell in Glasgow on the 20th of June 2010, will be broadcast! Thanks for that valuable tip! - I will try to record it. And presumably people at the Sorabji forum will be doing likewise. According Mr. Rapoport in Grove's Dictionary, Sequentia cyclica super "Dies irae" consists of twenty-seven variations, lasts "much longer than four hours," and was written during the years 1948 and 1949, i.e. in the composer's fifty-seventh year. I attended the performance concerned - a truly astonishing and gripping experience; its total duration was 7 hours 10 minutes plus two intervals (Mr Powell wisely divided the work into three parts). The forthcoming broadcast will be of an extract of the work, albeit a very substantial one of rather more than six hours in total, because the programme duration is less than that of the work itself. This monumental pianistic edifice was dedicated to the pianist Egon Petri and the composer still regarded it as one of his most important works even almost four decades after completing it. |
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Post by Gerard on Apr 28, 2013 5:44:06 GMT -5
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Post by neilmcgowan on Apr 28, 2013 13:51:28 GMT -5
its total duration was 7 hours 10 minutes plus two intervals Aside from its great length, can you tell us anything more about it? |
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Post by ahinton on Apr 28, 2013 15:19:06 GMT -5
its total duration was 7 hours 10 minutes plus two intervals Aside from its great length, can you tell us anything more about it? SG has already identified it as a work with 27 variations, the last being a substantial fugue. I mention its duration in passing only; it's of little importance, really, compared to the torrents of pianistic invention that carries it forward throughout. The variations are cornucopic in their sheer variety of character and their durations vary greatly from a massive passacaglia (a set of various within variations) and an elaborate concert waltz via one of the composer's many examples of Hispanicism to a few of just a handful of pages each, including a menacing Alkanic marcia funebre and one entitled "Quasi Debussy". The theme itself is a harmonised traversal of the Dies Irae in its entirety rather than the excerpt more commonly encountered in variations on and quotes of that theme. |
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Post by neilmcgowan on Apr 28, 2013 15:27:30 GMT -5
Thank you for that - I have a better idea of what to expect now We are in the mood for mammoth wallows at the moment  We got home from the Met relay of GIULIO CESARE last night at 01:15 - it overran by nearly an hour over the stated time, coming in at around 5 hours. Although there is plenty to delight the eye, as well as the ear in it |
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2013 8:06:16 GMT -5
I don't think I can do the Ferneyhough with simultaneous score, because the quality of the only score I have is not up to the mark. Here's the original:  And this is about the best possible improvement, still not clear enough:  It would probably be possible to obtain a better copy from some library, but it is not a work I desperately want to "broadcast." |
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2013 7:10:22 GMT -5
People wondering about the next broadcast may wish to know that work is progressing actively and as quickly as might be expected. The Passacaglia is exceptionally long - eighty minutes - and the score occupies a hundred and forty pages, of which I have thus far completed the first forty-six - i.e. Part One of the three of which this giant piece is constituted (the first twenty-five minutes). Getting to know it note by note is I find a most rewarding experience.
There are a number of discrepancies, especially in relation to the exact location of the division between the first and second parts, so much so that I have decided to rely upon my own instinct.
As for the Sea Symphony, it should be noted that there are already several pages of Sea Symphonies on U-Tube. I will have to find out whether any one has already done what I propose to do, namely accompany the work with displays of 1) a running commentary by Scott Goddard drawn from Ralph Hill's 1949 Symphony, and 2) all the Whitman texts as they are sung. Clips of rolling waves in the background I do not regard as essential - perhaps one or two here and there. It too is a very long work - well over an hour - and what I had not known before is that Dr. Williams inserted a prominent organ part.
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We got home from the Met relay of GIULIO CESARE last night at 01:15 - it overran by nearly an hour over the stated time, coming in at around 5 hours. Although there is plenty to delight the eye, as well as the ear in it