A life-enhancing masterpiece for strings, without a doubt! The vibrant opening Allegro takes your breath away while the Adagio is a thing of aching beauty: powerful, meditative, searching, almost liturgical but in a secular way. In contrast, the final Allegro is almost celebratory, vigorous and optimistic. Marriner and the Academy are at the top of their game in this staggering performance. I feel genuinely sorry for the lost soul who gave such astonishing music a thumb down....tone deaf, perhaps?
That presentation of a completely new theme at 22:07 to round off the concerto is one of my favourite moments in any piece of music. Tippett is such an underrated composer - I believe his music deserves much more attention! Edit: Happy 117th Birthday, Michael Tippett! (January 2nd, 2022)
An outstanding performance of a truly great composition. It oozes "Englishness". Something that no longer appears to exist, sadly. The Adagio for me reflects the sad decline of Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited. The outer, more happy, movements evoke ale, cricket, village fairs, parish churches. Forgive my ramblings, I love this music. I love it more than I can say. ❤
Rodders, whoever you are, thank you so much for posting this here on UA-cam. When I was a kid, my father brought this album home from the library and listened to it for nearly a week. I didn't love it at first, I was only 10 but by the time I was in college, it was my all time favorite piece. Before I moved to NYC, I made a tape, HA! It disintegrated years ago. The vinyl is still home but no way to play it. To hear it now means everything. The performance is absolutely magnificent. I don't know if it's been recorded by any other group, St. Martin-in-the-Field, though, understood Tippett. And that thumbs down is inexplicable. Thank you again.
A life-enhancing masterpiece for strings, without a doubt! The vibrant opening Allegro takes your breath away while the Adagio is a thing of aching beauty: powerful, meditative, searching, almost liturgical but in a secular way. In contrast, the final Allegro is almost celebratory, vigorous and optimistic. Marriner and the Academy are at the top of their game in this staggering performance. I feel genuinely sorry for the lost soul who gave such astonishing music a thumb down....tone deaf, perhaps?
That presentation of a completely new theme at 22:07 to round off the concerto is one of my favourite moments in any piece of music. Tippett is such an underrated composer - I believe his music deserves much more attention!
Edit: Happy 117th Birthday, Michael Tippett! (January 2nd, 2022)
An outstanding performance of a truly great composition. It oozes "Englishness". Something that no longer appears to exist, sadly.
The Adagio for me reflects the sad decline of Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited. The outer, more happy, movements evoke ale, cricket, village fairs, parish churches.
Forgive my ramblings, I love this music. I love it more than I can say. ❤
Rodders, whoever you are, thank you so much for posting this here on UA-cam.
When I was a kid, my father brought this album home from the library and listened to it for nearly a week. I didn't love it at first, I was only 10 but by the time I was in college, it was my all time favorite piece. Before I moved to NYC, I made a tape, HA! It disintegrated years ago. The vinyl is still home but no way to play it. To hear it now means everything.
The performance is absolutely magnificent. I don't know if it's been recorded by any other group, St. Martin-in-the-Field, though, understood Tippett.
And that thumbs down is inexplicable.
Thank you again.
Thank you Rachel.