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Topic: Historic premieres
Hector J. Guzman
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Okay, if you could go back in time to only one of the historic concert what would that be?The ones I can think of right now are the following:
Handel's Messiah
Beethoven's Symphony No.3
Beethoven's Symphony No.9
Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring
posted 12-06-2002 01:16 PM PT (US) Marian Schedenig
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Great question! Difficult though. Rite of Spring would certainly be interesting, to see how much of the reported riots are actually true.And the first performance of a Bruckner symphony (don't know right now if that was No. 1), just so I could applaud and cheer loudly and cheer him up a bit.
posted 12-06-2002 02:36 PM PT (US) Timmer
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Shostakovitch # 7 ....read the story.And definitely Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring.
posted 12-06-2002 06:37 PM PT (US) Dinko
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Interesting question!- Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake.
- Glinka: Ruslan & Ludmila.
- Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade.
- Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra.
- Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto.
- Stokowski-Bach-unknown: Toccata & Fugue in D minor.and somewhat off topic as it is a regional premiere rather than a world premiere:
The Canadian premiere of Gurrelieder with Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducting the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Ben Heppner and a bunch of other people. Happened in 2001, but I did not care much about it then.
posted 12-06-2002 06:50 PM PT (US) Philipp
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I would LOVE to see the first concert of Handelīs ROYAL FIREWORKS overture back in the 17th century. I love this time period
posted 12-08-2002 11:35 AM PT (US) rachmaninov
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quote:
Originally posted by Philipp:
I would LOVE to see the first concert of Handelīs ROYAL FIREWORKS overture back in the 17th century. I love this time periodNow you say it, it would have been very exciting, as well as his Messiah, and his Water music.
Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 would have been moving indeed. Seeing Beethovens deep and teary eyes, turning around insecure (because he thought he had mistaken conducting the symphony) to see the loudest applauses he could not hear, but feel. Some people say that he cried a bit in front of the public, and that it would have been the first time he cried in public.
Mozart's Magic Flute, Piano concerto #21, Requiem.
Rachmaninov: Piano concertos, Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini.
Oh, the list is long. A lot orchestral and choral works by Grieg, Sibelius, Mahler, Wagner, Saint Saenz, Korsakov, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Elgar, Hyden, Bach, Bruckner, Lizt, Shubert, Brahams, Chopin, Tchaivkosky, Holst, Vivaldi, Telemann, Pachelbel, Berlioz. Well even more! I'd go crazy for Historic Premieres.
Rach
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