Modest Mussorgsky orch. Henry Wood : Pictures at an Exhibition

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Modest Mussorgsky orch. Henry Wood : Pictures at an Exhibition

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Been listening to this again. Great brass parts. It would be a blast to play this arrangement.

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Do I hear a pipe organ in there?
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Heavy_Metal wrote: Thu Apr 08, 2021 7:01 pm Do I hear a pipe organ in there?
Yes.

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Thought so, thanks. I'd love to play this too.
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Bydlo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... e=emb_logo

an extraordinarily dark/heavy interpretation of Bydlo...
an ox-drawn peasant cart in Poland - large-wheeled and gloomy, expresses the terrible difficulties of peasant work

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' have ALWAYS loved this amazing funeral march by Grieg...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bis-rnh ... =1&t=1780s
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bloke wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 4:47 pm Bydlo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... e=emb_logo

an extraordinarily dark/heavy interpretation of Bydlo...
an ox-drawn peasant cart in Poland - large-wheeled and gloomy, expresses the terrible difficulties of peasant work

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You can't see what's in the cart. One account I've read says it was full of dead bodies- but you didn't make that known in 19th-century Russia. This movement always sounded a bit sinister to me- when I read that I knew why.
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Heavy_Metal wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 7:04 pm
bloke wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 4:47 pm Bydlo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... e=emb_logo

an extraordinarily dark/heavy interpretation of Bydlo...
an ox-drawn peasant cart in Poland - large-wheeled and gloomy, expresses the terrible difficulties of peasant work

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You can't see what's in the cart. One account I've read says it was full of dead bodies- but you didn't make that known in 19th-century Russia. This movement always sounded a bit sinister to me- when I read that I knew why.
makes perfect sense...The chords are down in the "grind" (non-harmonic, so even major and minor chords will clash, just as they do in tuba ensembles) octave.
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The Debussy Prelude is pretty spectacular as well.
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Some of Wood's orchestration appears in this performance, which is sort of unique. Slatkin/BBC Proms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqD9zB4TjXw
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1976 Sonora (B&S 101) 4-rotor BBb
1964 Conn 20J/21J BBb (one body, both bells)
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~1904 York 3P BBb Helicon
Old Alex Comp.F, in shop
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