DAVID HATTNER’S JANUARY PYP PLAYLIST

Posted on January 12, 2018

PYP Musical Director David Hattner shares what’s currently on his playlist. Revamp your own playlist with selections from our PYP Playlist on Twitter every #MusicMonday.

As PYP begins preparing it’s Saturday, March 3 performance of Tchaikovsky‘s Symphony No. 4, it is worth taking a look at some classic interpretations. There is no better place to start than with the great Russian conductor Evgeny Mravinsky. During his time with the Leningrad Philharmonic, he conducted the Tchaikovsky Symphonies countless times. No matter how many times he and the musicians had previously performed these works, each performance was preceded by a thorough rehearsal cycle. It is unlikely any other conductor spent more time studying and rehearsing these Symphonies.

For a completely different approach, here is Leonard Bernstein, another conductor with a long association with this work. Here he is on one of his much-anticipated guest conducting engagements with his former orchestra, the New York Philharmonic.

Stay tuned,

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1. I heard the Leningrad Phil do the T. 4th at the Conzertgebau in 1960. It was fast, loud, and furious, and the audience loved it. I thought their sound was 'dreadful' . . . tinny, nasally, blarey, thin, etc. A colleague said it may have been the poor quality of wind instruments they had available to them at the time. I thought it was more than that. It was like the "French" style on steroids. The piece itself? I think the best of his six symphonies.
Bill Spady|January 2018|Beavercreek, OR

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