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| An original work based on the music of the Yom Kippur meditation 'Unetanneh Tokef' - 4 variations, central section with a horn solo & final fugue. |
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Credits: Original composition by Oliver Mundy © 2001 |
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| Another exercise in time-travelling; a salute to 2000 in the accents and idioms of 1900. |
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Credits: Oliver Mundy (1951- ) / © 1999 The Oliver Collection |
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| Wagner's monumental evocation of the slain hero's cortège as it slowly moves through mist and moonlight along the bank of the Rhine. |
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Credits: Wilhelm Richard Wagner / realisation ©2001 The Oliver Collection |
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| Schubert's best-loved & perhaps most innovative symphony, played for drama & emotional intensity in the high romantic style (1st movt.) |
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Credits: Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) / realisation © 2001 The Oliver Collection |
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| Beethoven's best-known symphony is given the full dramatic treatment. THIS IS THE FIRST MOVEMENT (separate files follow for the rest). |
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Credits: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) / realisation © 1999 The Oliver Collection |
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| Beethoven as tone-poet — ‘late classical’ seen from a late romantic viewpoint. |
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Credits: Ludwig van Beethoven / realisation © 1999 The Oliver Collection |
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| Scherzo and Finale - darkness and light sublimated in music. |
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Credits: Ludwig van Beethoven / realisation © 1999 The Oliver Collection |
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| Based on themes from Berlioz' opera ‘Benvenuto Cellini’, this brilliant evocation of Italian street merrymaking was first performed in 1849. |
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Credits: Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)/realization © 2001 The Oliver Collection |
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| The monumental slow movement of Bruckner's E major symphony, the one great success of his lifetime. PART 1 OF 2. |
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Credits: Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) / realisation © 1997 The Oliver Collection |
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| After a mighty climax, the movement ends with Bruckner's elegy for the death of Wagner. |
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Credits: Anton Bruckner / realisation © 1997 The Oliver Collection |
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| Franck's tormented and obsessively chromatic symphony reveals the demon buried within the saintly organist and academic. |
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Credits: César Auguste Franck (1822-1890) / realisation © 2000 The Oliver Collection |
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| The ‘quiet desperation’ of this late symphony, one of three composed in 1788, sets it apart among Mozart's orchestral works. |
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Credits: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) / realisation © 2000 The Oliver Collection |
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| Mozart's unique synthesis of tenderness without sentimentality and tragedy without melodrama. |
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Credits: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) / realisation © 2000 The Oliver Collection |
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| ‘The 19th century heard advancing in the distance’ was Bernard Shaw's view of ‘The Magic Flute’. Here is the Overture as he might have heard it played in the 1890s. |
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Credits: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) / realisation © 1995 The Oliver Collection |
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| The Orchestra steps out of its conceptual time-frame to play a recent work by the page proprietor. |
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Credits: Oliver Mundy (1951- ) / © 1997 The Oliver Collection |
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| This realisation of Rossini's grandest and probably best-loved overture is unusual in including the full percussion parts (bass drum, triangle, cymbals). |
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Credits: Gioacchino Rossini/realisation © 1997 The Oliver Collection |
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| Schubert's popular march has often been orchestrated, but this version with its impish counter-themes and plaintive horn solo in the Trio has a character of its own. |
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Credits: Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) / realisation © 1999 The Oliver Collection |
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| Schumann's A minor concerto as originally published in single-movement form. The piano sound reproduces a Viennese-action instrument of c. 1870 – the last descendant of the fortepiano as Mozart knew it. |
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Credits: Robert Schumann (1810-1856) / realisation © 2000 The Oliver Collection |
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| This stormy overture was conceived during a troubled sea voyage from Hamburg to London. This is the version revised by Wagner in 1860. |
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Credits: Wilhelm Richard Wagner / realisation © 2000 The Oliver Collection |
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| Wagner's tender thank-offering to his wife Cosima on the birth of their son Siegfried. |
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Credits: Wilhelm Richard Wagner / realisation © 1996 The Oliver Collection |
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| Wagner's great overture (in the 1845 Dresden version) as it might have sounded in a performance of the 1890s |
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Credits: Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-1883)/realisation © 1996 The Oliver Collection |
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| Weber's fiery and demonic overture makes an excellent showpiece for the orchestra. Spot the deliberate mistake in the horn quartet! (This kind of hiccup was almost inevitable in horn-playing before B-flat extension tubing was invented.) |
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Credits: C. M. von Weber / realisation © 1999 The Oliver Collection |
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| The orchestra's clarinet section (Wilfried Moehnert and Anton Meyringer) join forces in this graceful and somewhat Grieg-like piece by a totally unknown composer. |
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Credits: Casimir Albrecht Weizner / realisation © 1996 The Oliver Collection |
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