Doing my daily “silent desert island discs” challenge on Facebook got me thinking that it would be better with sound. There are lots of folks who share great music already and I’ve noticed some have even started doing their own lists – Music and Creative Arts are sharing their “Self Isolation Discs”. I have no intention of nominating others for this – but if you like the idea then please join in – and I know that my selection will not be to everyone’s taste – but it would be good to get some feed back. Hopefully somewhere along the line I will introduce you to something you like!<\/p>\n
Many years ago there was a radio programme on BBC Radio which I think was called “A Man and his Music” – a couple of hours interviewing someone interspersed with music that had in one way or another made an impression. I really enjoyed hearing how others ‘found’ particular pieces of music. Sometimes associated with particular events – other times they found something they really liked almost by accident. So, this collection that I intend to share over the next days is in that same vein.<\/p>\n
I thought that for Day 1 I should choose a fanfare to open up the “programme” – and in this case I found this music when watching daytime TV back in my University days! One of the afternoon programmes was “Crown Court” and its theme music was the fourth movement of Janacek’s Sinfonietta. I investigated the rest of the piece and found that it was scored for a very big orchestra including 25 brass parts – 14 of which were trumpets.<\/p>\n
The opening and closing sections of the work are fanfares – and the clip I am using is only of the opening fanfare – if you like it find a complete performance to listen to.<\/p>\n
There are lots of performances to choose from and I don’t have a particular favourite. This one is chosen for two reasons :<\/p>\n
a) it is in Vienna featuring the Wiener Symphoniker – an orchestra that I heard many times (often in the openair as here) whilst I was living and working in Vienna.<\/p>\n
b) I just love that the tymp player has chosen to use seven tymps for this…..<\/p>\n