To Alistair Hinton: A Request

[ahinton]

No doubt i would need the bucket after that.

Thal

You might well think that you need it long before the end but it would be of no use; anything against Segerstam as a conductor, then?...

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

None that i am aware of, but if the piece is as uneventful as the 15th, i have no great desire to waste 30 minutes of my existance on it.

Besides, i am in Sterndale Bennett mode at the moment, which takes up the time i make available for music.

Thal

[thalbergmad]

Long post coming up any second

[ahinton]

None that i am aware of, but if the piece is as uneventful as the 15th, i have no great desire to waste 30 minutes of my existance on it.

Besides, i am in Sterndale Bennett mode at the moment, which takes up the time i make available for music.

Thal

Now you're one up on me there, Thal! I've not yet heard the 15th, although I did hear a clip from it in a recent BBC R3 CD Review programme with Andrew MacGregor's take thereon; eventfulness in the way that you and I and most of us understand it is not usually Pettersson's way - in fact he has a curious manner wherewith he tends to get a small handful of relatively basic ideas and flog them to and beyond death and his audiences with it (abit like certain works of Beethoven and Schubert, as it happens), yet somehow he manages to create a kind of symphonic argument out of this process, which both puzzles and fascinates me. He and Sterndale Bennett almost certainly wouldn't have gotten on!

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

Long post coming up any second

My response was, as you now see, a relatively short one; were you anticipating a long one from someone else?

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

A write up i saw on the 10th describes it as "brutal" and i am not really into this kind of  music. It was only a single movement from the 15th i heard, but that was enough for me.

I am awaiting with some interest a CD of the Baines Symphony to drop through my letterbox, but fear Santa will not get it to me before Christmas.

Thal

[thalbergmad]

He and Sterndale Bennett almost certainly wouldn't have gotten on!

Considerable difference in individual styles between the two.

Our neglected English Romantic might not have approved.

Thal

[ahinton]

A write up i saw on the 10th describes it as "brutal" and i am not really into this kind of  music.

Well, it is abit - and it's certainly obsessive, as is almost all Pettersson - but if you can manage to get your head around the idea of a single-movement symphony being built around the tiniest amount of subject matter which gets flogged to death and beyond but draws the listener in even if against his/her will rather than repelling him/her, much as one could argue happens to an admittedly lesser extent in the opening movements of Beethoven's Archduke Trio and Schubert's Trio in E flat, but with the constant and insistent obsessiveness of Beethoven's Grosse Fuge as a given, then at least you'd have some kind of experiential peg on which to hang abit of it...

Best,

Alistair

[maul]

Alistair Hinton has killed this forum.

[ahinton]

Alistair Hinton has killed this forum.

That would be an extraordinary achievement (and I'm sure that Nils would have had something to say about it by now) were it the case; the continuing inflow of posts from other forum members appears, however, to demonstrate that it is not. As a matter of fact, I don't recall ever having killed anything larger than a wasp.

The forum hasn't been mauled, either...

Best,

Alistair