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In October 2011, the Helsinki Philharmonic, under John Storgaards, play...
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In October 2011, the Helsinki Philharmonic, under John Storgaards, played, for the first time, three sketches from the legendary "lost" Eighth Symphony of the great Finnish conductor Jean Sibelius.
Long though destroyed in a fireplace by the conductor himself in 1945, these sketches -- and over 800 pages of unclassified symphonic scores by the great composer, were handed over by his family to the University of Helsinki and the National Library of Finland in 1982.
This information, just made public to the English speaking world, has sent shockwaves through classical musicologists.
This is not a reconstruction. These are the actual sketches and orchestration from Sibelius original manuscript. At a minimum, these are actual works written by the great conductor after he wrote Tapiola, his last great orchestrated work and when we know he was working on the Eighth Symphony. However, some scholars now feel it is only a matter of time before we are able to reconstruct the entire symphony from his sketches.
If you are dumbfounded and do not believe what you are seeing and hearing here, here are some links. If this is true this is the greatest find of lost music in the past 100 years.
Link for more information:
http://www.hs.fi/...
Gramophone Article: http://www.gramop...
BBC Podcast: Excellent. Listen to Norman Lebrecht discuss the story of finding these sketches:
http://soundcloud...
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The second eclogue could be seen as a portrait of Astree, the first as a...
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The second eclogue could be seen as a portrait of Astree, the first as a portrait of Celadon. Each eclogue will be centred on a different mode.
The pictures were taken on a walk by Stafford sewage works on April 30th 2007. Beyond the sewage works the view across the River Sow to Milford becomes Arcadian.
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TheAndrewJBaker uploaded a new video
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This is the final piece on "A Traveller to the Watershed", wri...
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This is the final piece on "A Traveller to the Watershed", written in 2006. The complete set is on http://www.imagin...
Golden Hill, though there is a farm of that name, is an imaginary house, a kind of "House Beautiful" where one may learn from the muses. The pictures are of real house that may play the same role - Aberglasney in the Towy Valley which I first explored in 1980 when it was wonderfully eerie ruin.
The music is a chaconne going through all twelve keys, and at the end the flute solo seems to be a setting of "and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations." Another of my sets of pieces, "The Leaves of the Tree", follows on from this.
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TheAndrewJBaker uploaded a new video
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This is really just an attempt to edit video on Windows Live Movie Maker...
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This is really just an attempt to edit video on Windows Live Movie Maker, with some minimal synchronisation of pictures and music,
The String Quartet no. 4 op. 105 was written in 2011. It's a fairly large and serious piece but it needed a short light scherzo.
These pictures were taken at Turvey on December 5th 2011.
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TheAndrewJBaker uploaded a new video
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This was written in 2006. The finale is, obviously I think, a train piec...
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This was written in 2006. The finale is, obviously I think, a train piece. I was thinking about the Vivarais railway in France for some reason. It's a very Mediterranean symphony. I have done this purely as my first attempt at a video.
The locomotive is a BR Standard Class 6 "Clan", but in this case it is custom made by the wonderful TMC as "Wildfire", one of a batch ordered for the Southern Region but then cancelled in 1954. Hence the green SR coaches.
It's a train set, not a model railway. I don't have the skill and patience to do actual modelling!
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