We've had a polling capability ever since "Yuku" remade the message board last year. Wanted: some imaginative ideas for poll questions.
Here's a start:
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John Fitzpatrick |
POLL: Your Favorite Concerto |
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We've had a polling capability ever since "Yuku" remade the message board last year. Wanted: some imaginative ideas for poll questions.
Here's a start:
Which is your favorite of Miklos Rozsa's five concertante works? (Result)
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A Lee Hern |
NO DILUTION BY WATSON HERE | ||
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You realize, John, that every contributor to this board who occasionally indulges in a 7% solution of cocaine is apt to vote for the Violin Concerto.
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John Fitzpatrick |
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Ah, so this is how it works! I had not voted myself until today and was wondering if there had been any responses at all. Now I realize that you don't see
the results until you have already voted. Then a bar graph appears in the first posting. I had imagined that this would be a very popular feature. FSM polls
get hundreds of responses and even seem to stimulate episodes of "ballot stuffing" -- a rather pointless exercise if you are interested in finding
out what other people think!
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AlanJHamer |
No surprises...... | ||
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I am not at all surprised at the result of this, so far; I am confident it will easily win out over the others at the end of the day. I feel sure that for so
many the one for violin will remain their favourite (I am no exception), partly 'cause the Heifetz LP was such a unique and important early document in the
MR classical discography; partly that for some this is really the only one of his concertos well known to them; partly 'cause it was used in a movie, but
mainly cause it is just such a great work.
Having said this, for me I would find it even more interesting to ask in which order members would place the various concertos .......starting with the one they like the most; (I realise this can be a somewhat futile exercise, but it is fun nonetheless!) My own would be: Violin; Viola, Sinf Concertante and Cello tied and finally Piano. And I like the piano concerto dearly I hasten to say!! I just feel he always wrote better for stringed instruments than he did for the piano, witness also the truly great Concerto for Strings. Anyway, I await the final results of this poll; as another suggestion for such a canvassing of opinions, how about : which is the least favourite film score ....or, apart from the epics, which is the movie score people like the most. Might be fascinating....... |
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William D McCrum |
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To be honest, I voted for the Sinfonia Concertante, but that's just an average mood thing. I like different concertos at different times. The piano and
violin concerti are just as likely to get my vote on different days of the week, and the cello concerto ... now that's a real tweed jacket, real coffee,
dark chocolate thing for when that particular mood kicks in.
The only Rozsa concert work that never bit me is the Festive Flourish. |
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Frank DeWald |
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Since "all of the above" or "the one I'm listening to at the moment" aren't options in the poll, I'll abstain for the moment.
I do have to say that Gilad's and Mariusz's performance (yes, let's not forget the conductor!) have moved the viola concerto way up in the hiearchy for me |
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A Lee Hern |
DO YOU SEE IT AS A FESTERING FLOURISH? | ||
The only Rozsa concert work that never bit me is the Festive Flourish. But brevity is the soul of wit. |
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Hank V |
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237 views for 14 votes. Perhaps most prefer film music.
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TJGuitar |
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maybe people view more than once...
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John Fitzpatrick |
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Interesting to compare this with the recording history, now so easily accessible via Frank's discography. Why are there more recorded versions of the piece
least popular with the fans? (If our fourteen voters can be regarded as representative.)
Violin Concerto (4) Sinfonia concertante (5+3) (Including three versions of the slow movement) Piano Concerto (3) Cello Concerto (5) Viola Concerto (4) (Including Lawrence Power's announced recording)
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Jordi 1975 |
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Ohhhh noooooooooo !!! How this idea arise ? Of course I voted the viola concerto, not only for it's my second instrument, but also because is not an act of
justice to compare the four great concertos among themselves. May between different versions of the same concerts, but not different instruments, so each
instrument is a different world and each one has it's own richness and language.
Sorry, John, but I deeply desagree with that. It's like my mother made me compare among the four favourite meals she prepares to me. I adore the four concertos, and having to decide one of them is a painful choice.... |
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Breda Von Krolock |
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Hank V wrote: I'm planning a listening session of the concertos before voting. |
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Hank V |
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Jordi has a very good point and his analogy is apt. A vote for a favourite is a bit misleading. I voted Violin because its the first one I heard and was my
introduction to Rozsa's concert music. The others I don't know as well but I don't like them less. Its like asking which film score is your
favourite but why do you have to choose. Where's the 'I like them all' option
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John Fitzpatrick |
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It's like my mother made me compare among the four favourite meals she prepares to me. I adore the four concertos, and having to decide one of them is a painful choice.... That's pretty much what MR used to say. He would not name a favorite of his concert pieces because "they are my children." He was always willing to name his favorite film scores (of the moment). They must have counted as mere stepchildren, I suppose. |
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Jordi 1975 |
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My introduction to Rózsa's music were both Ben-Hur soundtrack and violin concerto. First time I listened to it, was on catalan radio, the version by
Heifetz. Then, I listened to it in Palau de la Música Catalana, in Barcelona, by the OBC (Orquestra simfónica de Barcelona i nacional de Catalunya), in 1998,
and the soloist was the concertino Angel Jesús Garcia (by the way, a disastrous play). And I have moreover the version of Igor Gruppmann, for Koch and Telarc
Version, which is the one I like more after Heifetz's one.
The piano version I only listened is from Koch, so I've no items to compare. For the cello concert, I have Peter Rejckto version in the album wich Rózsa shares the Cd with Shurman's "Gardens of exile". It's quite the best version I heard to, over Richard's Block Koch's version and even Telarc Version (too much weak playing for my taste). And finally, among all versions of viola concerto I heard, I prefer Paul Silverthorne's version. I was at Liverpool Philarmonic Hall, listening to Lawrence Power playing of the concert. Over the peculiar, but clean and clear colour of the RLPO's sound, all conducted by Paul Daniel, Power seemed to be racing more than playing. His work was fine and superb, but in some moments too much stressing and over-tensioned because it seemed in quick movements that he was pursuing the tempo instead of let himself be carried with it (according to the dark, introspective and charmy colour of the viola role in the work). Despite this, the heavy efforts of conductor Paul Daniel to follow both Soloist, tempo and orchestra, and a bit unclearness viola sound over the whole orchestra ),Power's playing was on high and brilliant virtuous professional job. 8 points over 10. |
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John Fitzpatrick |
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Remember this one? Anybody can still "vote."
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