Reinhold Gliere - Harp Concerto op 74

[@FairyForest87]

Gorgeous. Performed by a great Welsh harpist.

[@sgeetha7350]

Lucinda Ruh skated to this magnificently! :)

[@aschkinable3892]

Praise Jehova

[@philipchretienkarlsson8157]

Une belle découverte. Merci !

[@aphandolin]

I. Allegro moderato: 00:00 II. Tema con variazioni: 9:57 III. Allegro giocoso: 21:10

[@lietteherisson2661]

Merci pour cette oeuvre dont j'avais perdu les références. Du bonheur !

[@permian350]

Talk American if you're going to post on the Internet so everyone in the world can understand what you're saying instead of just one or two villagers in your parochial foreign tongue.

[@lietteherisson2661]

permian350 Go Google translate or just ignore my comment. Nice example of muricans. Who talk.. yeah english.

[@tserkoslavjanskij]

@ permian350 How sad to find such a boorish comment accompanying a fine performance of this work. 'Twould have been far more interesting to learn what you thought of Messrs. Bonynge and Ellis' interpretation.

[@permian350]

Vazir Mukhtar, what kind of a name is that? I don't think that's your real name. Nobody is named Vazir Mukhtar. It's not American. I think you made it up. You asked for my thoughts on Ellis' interpretation of Gliere. Well, at least he's a male. I can't stand the weak, tinny sound of female harpists. They just don't have the strength in their hands and fingers to get a full, robust, three-dimensional sound that the men are able to get just from being men. Female performers pluck all the right notes, but leave me unmoved and annoyed with their feeble sound that lacks the resonance male performers are able to achieve without effort. And what the hell, all the female performers wear dresses that expose the reason their playing is inferior to male performers', their bony arms and shoulders that look like sticks. Why women insist on exposing the most unattractive feature of their carcasses is beyond me, and in a public concert, too. Do male harpists go around exposing their bare arms even when males' arms are shapelier than females' arms? Jesus Christ, you females, cover up your ugliness and your weakness. Ceysson is the best performer of Gliere by far and away. Second place is that Negro guy. I can't find him on You Tube after once accidentally clicking on him. His interpetation is slow, but solid and full of feeling. Imagine my shock that such a feat was performed by a Negro.

[@permian350]

Liette, we talk American, not English. English is talked by the people living on a small island off the coast of Europe. And have you noticed that all the foreigners like Chinese, Indians, French, Germans, Swedes, talk in the American accent, not the English accent? Yeah.

[@klauslay2091]

Wie ein Kaminfeuer, oder Lagerfeuer. Getragen träumen, einfach. Malen und schreiben geht auch.

[@didiergaugain]

super musique russe

[@drugiskon]

Glier (later Gliere) was a German Composer who went to Russia

[@drugiskon]

super musique allemande

[@maxgutbrod3097]

It would be good to also hear the Mosolov harp concert.

[@nostalgicmodernist1399]

Amen! That would be very cool, though wasn't it written after his imprisonment and nervous breakdown? (His works thereafter tend to be kind of glitzy, soupy, and tacky.)

[@maxgutbrod3097]

.... soon to be heard in Moscow and then to be recorded for Naxos bigbilet.ru/place/turne

[@owenmcgee8496]

I haven't heard this or of the composer before and I'm trying to date it in my mind without the assistance of Wikipedia. Possibly turn of 20th century? A lot of early harp concertos (18th-19th C), I've read, were commissioned by the first builders of concert harps who hired composers who had no interest in the instrument. Writing here for the instrument sounds good. Slightly reminded of Saint Saens' morceau du concert, which was the first piece for concert harp and orchestra I heard and remains my favourite. But this is really interesting to hear.

[@owenmcgee8496]

Ok. I turned to Wikipedia. This was composed 1938 but the composer was active at the turn of the century. ha. ha. a Russian composer (1875-1956). i'm surprised I haven't heard of him before. Wikipedia says that he never left Russia after 1917. Maybe that's it. And you know: the melodies in the 2nd movement are starting to remind me a little of a cd I have somewhere: "music for the 7 string Russian guitar": compositions based on folk themes, dating mostly from 1860s I think. Concerto coming to end now and it's great. Gotta find a recording of this. And fact fans: Wikipedia says he was officially named "Artist of the People" by the USSR in the same year as he did this composition.

[@davemorgan6013]

@@owenmcgee8496 Yes, it does sound like it could have been composed 40 years earlier. Glière is remarkable because he kept the late romantic Russian music tradition alive until his death in 1956. Not even Rachmaninoff (who was around the same age) did it to such a degree.

[@JAMESLEVEE]

The key is E-flat major.