Thanks for all the proms recordings… nice to hear what's happening across the pond.
Agreed on your opinions of this performance. Orchestras play behind the beat, but pop and electronica are on top or in front of the beat (anyone into James Brown in anything more than a superficial way knows that beat placement is where it's at). Consequently, you hear almost everything this orchestra play in this piece is dragging way behind the beat. Matthews and the conductor should have been making a big deal out of this in rehearsals. If they did, the orchestra isn't responding. Maybe this is a better piece than it sounds.
If his whole opera is like this, he needs to get studio players in there who can play on top of a click track (even if they don't actually perform with one). It's not going to be much fun listening to a couple of hours of an orchestra getting its butt kicked.
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Thanks for all the proms recordings… nice to hear what's happening across the pond.
Agreed on your opinions of this performance. Orchestras play behind the beat, but pop and electronica are on top or in front of the beat (anyone into James Brown in anything more than a superficial way knows that beat placement is where it's at). Consequently, you hear almost everything this orchestra play in this piece is dragging way behind the beat. Matthews and the conductor should have been making a big deal out of this in rehearsals. If they did, the orchestra isn't responding. Maybe this is a better piece than it sounds.
If his whole opera is like this, he needs to get studio players in there who can play on top of a click track (even if they don't actually perform with one). It's not going to be much fun listening to a couple of hours of an orchestra getting its butt kicked.