![]() ![]() Then back to a febrile pace with the third movement. The second movement is simply heart-breaking and Stoki plays it as though he hadn't set the first movement as fast as he did!! In short, this is conventional second movement Brahms. Stoki throws this away, I think, with undue haste!! Those final bars in the first movement are the highlight of the 4th for me like a finely tuned car surging up a big hill towards a flat highway then the car shifts into overdrive, as a kind of easing of tension and then a huge release when the right speed is found. The first movement separates out all the sections of the orchestra which is just glorious however, at times I felt the orchestra couldn't keep up with the conductor here!! Just in one or two places. ![]() This reading certainly starts off much faster than I'm used to. Sunlight pours in where others are darker.Ībsolutely wonderful!! And I just loved your response to Stokowski's approach. Stokowski at age 92 conducts New Philharmonia live in London,1974, Brahms’ 4th Symphony. Rozsa's magisterial score for " Ben Hur" makes thrilling listening: I love the way Wilson holds that last chord until it's almost unbearable!! (And for somebody like Conrad Salinger who studied his craft at the Paris Conservatoire.) In this instance Rozsa and the much-adored William Wyler. I'll never stop being thankful for the European emigres who headed to the USA and enriched the culture incalculably. Wilson plays the music exactly as composed/arranged and performed for the films: quite the achievement when many original manuscripts/drafts have been lost and Wilson had to listen and transpose them back to written scores. (That's two 'Connys' to love now Salinger and Veidt). I greatly admire John Wilson and his work, not just in conducting but transposing and reviving the work of film composers, including Conrad Salinger's extraordinary arrangements for the MGM Freed Unit. This morning the spouse is making breakfast and watching plane-spotting and I'm listening to John Wilson and his orchestra playing film music from Warner Brothers' golden age. ![]()
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