Just wanted to add more thanks for putting all the new Proms music up for this year. I have listened to 'La Navette' twice and I have to say that it is an immensely enjoyable experience. James Dillon is a new name to me but I am highly impressed with this score. The detailed notes that you have put up here are also very useful in following the thread of the music for those unfamiliar with the piece and with Dillon's idiom in general.
Off now to pick up a couple of other things I had enjoyed on the radio and was wondering when I'd get the chance to hear them again – Hans Abrahamsen's 'Wald' and the luminous playing of Feldman's 'Piano and Orchestra'. Thanks once again for your excellent work on this blog.
@maready Yes, it's remarkable it's taken almost a decade to hear the Dillon in this country isn't it? • Remarkable, but not surprising – one can only hope pieces like this stir concert organisers & ensemble conductors (such as myself!!) to confront the unavoidable challenges his work throws up & get it included in concerts •
@continuo LOL at the R. Strauss reference, but i know exactly what you mean! • & you couldn't be more right about not sounding British; i mean, who would want to? •
Very much enjoyed this one, too. At first, I thought it was Also Sprach Zarathustra (5:40), but eventually the piece finds its own pace and strings and piano start weaving their mysterious, mythological fabric. And it's not that bad to sound 'European' for a British composer, I think (in reference to what the speaker says at the beginning). Wonderful. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for your Proms posts and in particular for the Dillon piece — is this really the UK premiere? Hard to believe, but apparently true! I've had a couple of other live tapes of this for awhile now and it's a remarkable piece. Dillon seems to have made a big leap around the time of 'The Soadie waste" and 'The Table of Elements" and the more recent orchestral pieces (especially 'La Navette' and 'Andromeda', the piano concerto) are truly great. Not to mention the opera 'Philomela' which has even been graced with a commercial recording.
Thanks again and I look forward to more Proms music and more of your detailed and thought-provoking reviews.
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Just wanted to add more thanks for putting all the new Proms music up for this year. I have listened to 'La Navette' twice and I have to say that it is an immensely enjoyable experience. James Dillon is a new name to me but I am highly impressed with this score. The detailed notes that you have put up here are also very useful in following the thread of the music for those unfamiliar with the piece and with Dillon's idiom in general.
Off now to pick up a couple of other things I had enjoyed on the radio and was wondering when I'd get the chance to hear them again – Hans Abrahamsen's 'Wald' and the luminous playing of Feldman's 'Piano and Orchestra'. Thanks once again for your excellent work on this blog.
Thanks, both, for your comments •
@maready Yes, it's remarkable it's taken almost a decade to hear the Dillon in this country isn't it? • Remarkable, but not surprising – one can only hope pieces like this stir concert organisers & ensemble conductors (such as myself!!) to confront the unavoidable challenges his work throws up & get it included in concerts •
@continuo LOL at the R. Strauss reference, but i know exactly what you mean! • & you couldn't be more right about not sounding British; i mean, who would want to? •
Very much enjoyed this one, too. At first, I thought it was Also Sprach Zarathustra (5:40), but eventually the piece finds its own pace and strings and piano start weaving their mysterious, mythological fabric. And it's not that bad to sound 'European' for a British composer, I think (in reference to what the speaker says at the beginning).
Wonderful. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for your Proms posts and in particular for the Dillon piece — is this really the UK premiere? Hard to believe, but apparently true! I've had a couple of other live tapes of this for awhile now and it's a remarkable piece. Dillon seems to have made a big leap around the time of 'The Soadie waste" and 'The Table of Elements" and the more recent orchestral pieces (especially 'La Navette' and 'Andromeda', the piano concerto) are truly great. Not to mention the opera 'Philomela' which has even been graced with a commercial recording.
Thanks again and I look forward to more Proms music and more of your detailed and thought-provoking reviews.