Radio KAOM: Rossini/Solti/Chicago "Semiramide Overture"

EXQUISITELY THRILLING SOLTI!!!!!!!!!!!

A Rossini Overture!

Same guy who wrote the Lone Ranger theme : )

 This performance is so tight and precise

Starts out slow and builds to an exciting celebration

Artistically and emotionally moving and exciting

I grew up on Solti's conducting

He was one of the world's greatest conductors

Sir Geoge Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Perhaps one of symphonic music's greatest

Conductor / Orchestra collaborations in history

They were exquisite

If you find recordings of them together

You cannot go wrong in purchasing those recordings

That brass section was one of the world's finest of that time

Enjoy the great opening chorale of the French horns, song of the oboes, the flight of the piccolo and woodwinds, the Pizzicato (plucking) of the strings - so together (tight), and the trombone's bombast WOOF! Notice how perfectly they strike and release those loud full orchestra chords. This is a supremely glorious performance

from the one who uploaded this video:

"Rossini's Semiramide played by the Chicago Symphony under the baton of Sir Georg Solti during the mid '70s. This comes from an amazing 4 DVD set called Solti - The Maestro - go out and buy it if you love the Chicago Symphony and Solti."

Gioachino Rossini

"Semiramide Overture"

from Rossini's opera, Semiramide

the great, Sir Geoge Solti

Conducting the

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/TykxDneuywg

Music from My Childhood: Solti Conducts "Poet and Peasant Overture" by Franz von Suppé

 Continuing the series

Music of my Childhood

I guess when I was around 2-years-old

Maybe before

My mother bought a multi-album box set of classical music

The Reader's Digest 

Festival of Light Classical Music

 This box set and that Philco stereo record player

Became the fertile soil from which

My life as a musician and music lover grew

Ah! The JOY - Exuberance - The Beauty - The Passion - The Power

Ah! The Love of my Life

M  U  S  I  C

It was the music from this box set

That opened a whole universe of music to me

A universe I am still passionately exploring and sharing

Now

When I was really young

I had my favorites in that set - like

The Lone Ranger by Rossini

(They later used it in some opera -

William Tell Overture - William Told You So -

Something like that)

:  )

Since we all know the William Tell Overture by heart

I decided to choose another piece 

From that Reader's Digest box set

But the William Tell was my first favorite

There are so many to choose from -

The 1812 Overture - Marche Slav - Hungarian Rhapsody #2

Lohengrin Prelude to Act 3 - A Night On The Bare Mountain

Light Cavalry Overture - Liebestraum No. 3 In A-Flat

Siegfried's Rhine Journey - Tales From The Vienna Woods Waltz

And so many more

Here's one that you may not know by name

But about half way through you'll say

OH YEAH! I've heard that before

(like me - probably from cartoons)

Today's selection from that box set is

"Poet and Peasant Overture"

by Franz von Suppé 

Here's my intro to it:

YEEEEEEE-OW!!!!!

What an F'N Awesome Finish

Whew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Get your drinking straw out

And ready to conduct your ass off

Whew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just finished listening to this

And my heart is still racing

It starts out very majestic from the brass
BUT WAIT
Everyone stopped playing but the Cello player
What the hell is he doing????????
He's like taking over
The orchestra follows him
He plays a slow section

That sounds like a slow, emotional version of

"I've Been Working on the Railroad"

It plays until the 3 minute 35 second mark

Then

Excitement begins to build and build
But WAIT
Now there's a lovely beer drinking waltz
Then the music takes off again and

Finishes like a house on fire
WHEW!!!!!!

    

The Great

Sir Georg Solti 

conducts

"Dichter und Bauer" 

(Poet and Peasant Overture)

by Franz von Suppé 

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/POJY5DlZTaw