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There's a great organization in the Berkshires (Great Barrington, Mass.) called "Close Encounters With Music" (CEWM) that has been doing concert series annually for a long time. It is led by a world-class cellist, Yehuda Hanani. Usually the concerts prominently feature him (rightly so) in various co...

James wrote:Beethoven! I don't like his music myself, but he's bombast personified!

You'd get a kick out of the above piece......

Looks like nobody yet has mentioned Beethoven's Wellington's Victory.
It's so bombastic that it's funny.

War.
Funny.

Hey y'all -- I'm new and this thread seemed like a good way to start getting to know about some of you. I'm pretty immersed in Scriabin these days and so I've been listening a lot to: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Trpba9%2BNL._SS500_.jpg It includes Horowitz's Scriabin 9th Sonata, which is...

Yes!!! -- I'm new here and thrilled to see that this is getting attention. I posted about it on another music forum (Piano World) and there was considerable interest and affirmation on it, including (most impressively) from non-old-timers.

Let's give some love to concertos for some of the "other" instruments. :D What do you like? Great thread -- and terrific collection of replies. Assuming that "Sinfonia Concertante" counts (and why not, it's basically a concerto for multiple instruments)...... Everybody knows about Mozart's famous o...

I am shocked and amazed that no one in the first 12 posts in this thread mentioned the Haydn Trumpet Concerto. There's one by Hummel, too. I am shocked and amazed that Ralph has not posted a note as yet about Dittersdorf's very fine Harp Concerto. Hey Ric -- do you know about Boieldieu's? (several ...

http://fla.fg-a.com/wel_ani3Tay.gif Mark Cannon , we're glad you made it here and hope you enjoy your visits. We look forward to your participation. Thanks for the welcome! I didn't expect anything like that. And please pardon my thousands of posts on this thread.....just getting my feet wet here. :)

Donaldopato wrote:....Vaughn Williams Tuba Concerto

I'm thrilled about all the mentions this "unknown" piece is getting. I guess it's not as unknown as I thought.

Jared wrote:.....Walton: Viola Concerto (Kennedy/ Previn)

In case this "viola joke" hasn't been said on here for a while (or ever)........

Q: What's the best recording of Walton's Viola Concerto?
A: Music Minus One

jbuck919 wrote:

THEHORN wrote:How about P.D.Q. Bach's concerto for Horn and Hardart
(an obsolete instrument)?

Yes, but there's an arrangement for counter tenor.

I think that would be bargain counter tenor.

.....Frank Martin - Concerto a' 7 [Seven wind instr/perc] and Strings... Nice to see Martin on here. A friend played a set of his piano pieces and I loved it. BTW......maybe we ought to mention -- that's "mar-TAN." Do a lot of people know about him? I sure wouldn't have if not for that piano set.

Heck148 wrote:

THEHORN wrote:How about P.D.Q. Bach's concerto for Horn and Hardart
(an obsolete instrument)?

great piece!! a true masterwork!!

+1

How about P.D.Q. Bach's concerto for Horn and Hardart (an obsolete instrument)? HA!!!!! :mrgreen: Truly one of my favorites. In fact (and this is true!).....I've started "collecting" stray things to build a hardart , in due course. I've been to a couple dozen of PDQ's concerts and a couple of times...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VsIdB6%2BnL._SL500_AA240_.jpg One of my all-time faves is right there on that album that you posted: Boieldieu's Harp Concerto I can characterize it best as a cross between Mozart and Chopin. The last movement especially is dear and memorable. It begins just ...

Heck148 wrote:......Vaughan Williams Tuba Concerto.....

You too, eh? Cool!
BTW......I'm not a "tubist" or anything but I love out-of-the-way combos.

Wallingford wrote:Vaughan Williams' Tuba Concerto

Cool!!! I was going to mention that if you didn't.

Hey, what's the deal? The Yanks win and nobody says anything? :lol: I'm new here and saw that the person who got me here had posted on this thread.......but I see it's kind of old. My wife and I are Yank season tix holders, but it's all good, we don't hate the Phils or anything. :wink: It was a grea...

But seriously folks..... :) Great to see you on here, Ric, and thanks for bringing me on. For others who are looking and might wonder what's the story: I made contact with Ric on Facebook by mistake -- I mistook him for an old friend of mine because they have very similar names, and what a fortuitou...

Are they sure the 2 clocks were both accurate?