Planets DVD

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Sorry folks, a bit late on this, but...

Could this be the same video that was shown in high definition at the
London show of 'Tale Of Genji' last year? Personally, I'd prefer to stick
to the version I have in my mind's eye!

Anyone else seen in the news that the Halle Orchestra in Manchester,
England has commissioned a composer to write his own version of the
'missing' final piece from Holst's The Planets Suite, namely Pluto? Wonder
if we can persuade Tomita to do his own version of the same? ;-)

What classical piece would you like to see Tomita do? Lets have a poll: it
must be in the 'old' style we all know and love, with old instruments, such
as the modular Moog and Mellotron, but with modern recording technology. My
votes (off the top of my head) go to:

'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' by Dukas (the bucket and mop with a life of
their own in Disney's 'Fantasia')
'La Mer' by Debussy
Respighi Symphonic Poems, such as 'Fountains Of Rome'
More Wagner

Ben

>
>Hi John,
>
>I have the DVD. I got it from DVD Empire. There's a bit more info there.
>http://www.dvdempire.com/Exec/movie.asp?movie_id=344&function=0&userid=61809
>160031733
>
>Also try
>http://www.dvdpricesearch.com/
>
>You'll get a few other hits from there.




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Ben Said:

> What classical piece would you like to see Tomita do? Lets have a poll:
it
> must be in the 'old' style we all know and love, with old instruments,
such
> as the modular Moog and Mellotron, but with modern recording technology.
My
> votes (off the top of my head) go to:
>
> 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' by Dukas (the bucket and mop with
> a life of their own in Disney's 'Fantasia')
> 'La Mer' by Debussy
> Respighi Symphonic Poems, such as 'Fountains Of Rome'
> More Wagner

What a nice idea. I'd like to hear:

Sibelius - Finlandia, Valse Triste, The Swan of Tuonela, Tapiola
Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique
Mendelssohn - Fingals Cave
Tchaikovsky - Peter and the Wolf, Marche Slave, Cappriccio Italien
Dvorak - New World Symphony
Prokofiev - Lieutenant Kije Suite

Regards,
Lance.


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>What classical piece would you like to see Tomita do?

Stravinsky - Rite of Spring (part of it already exists, anyway)
Villa-Lobos - Forest of the Amazon (incredible piece that demands real
singing too)
Any Mahler symphony

jjoy


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>What a nice idea. I'd like to hear:
>
>Sibelius - Valse Triste,

He already did that one on "Bermuda Triangle", in two very beautiful
versions

I'd also like to hear the entire Dvorak 9th (New World).
>From Prokofiev, more excerpts from Romeo & Juliet and maybe Alexander
Nevsky.

mav/jjoy


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>Isao Tomita Mailing List - http://listen.to/tomita/
>
>Ben Said:
>
>> What classical piece would you like to see Tomita do? Lets have a poll:
>it
>> must be in the 'old' style we all know and love, with old instruments,
>such
>> as the modular Moog and Mellotron, but with modern recording technology.
>My
>> votes (off the top of my head) go to:
>>
>> 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' by Dukas (the bucket and mop with
>> a life of their own in Disney's 'Fantasia')
>> 'La Mer' by Debussy
>> Respighi Symphonic Poems, such as 'Fountains Of Rome'
>> More Wagner
>
>What a nice idea. I'd like to hear:
>
>Sibelius - Finlandia, Valse Triste, The Swan of Tuonela, Tapiola
>Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique
>Mendelssohn - Fingals Cave
>Tchaikovsky - Peter and the Wolf, Marche Slave, Cappriccio Italien
>Dvorak - New World Symphony
>Prokofiev - Lieutenant Kije Suite
>
>Regards,
>Lance.
>

I'd go along with all of those, apart from New World Symphony, which is
somewhat over familiar IMHO.

And of course I forgot to mention the complete version of 'Rite Of Spring'.
But definitely some Wagber overtures, like The Flying Dutchman.

Ben




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I'd like to see any of the following:

Prokofiev - Violin Concerto 1 Andantino, Moderato, Scherzo vivacissimo
Prokofiev - Violin Concerto 2 Allegro moderato
Prokofiev's Romero & Juliet

And finally,

Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade

I also like the idea of the New World. I was amazed when I heard the
entire New World played on solo piano by Cyprien Katsaris. Tomita-san can
definately kick on the Moog, but I have yet to see too many people dare to
transpose an entire symphonie for a single instrument, and then play the
entire thing live. Sheesh... Some of my favoriote MP3's, however, next to
my Tomita collection

Cheers,

Eric

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From: Benjamin Ward [mailto:ben at benward.net]
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Subject: RE: Planets DVD


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>Isao Tomita Mailing List - http://listen.to/tomita/
>
>Ben Said:
>
>> What classical piece would you like to see Tomita do? Lets have a poll:
>it
>> must be in the 'old' style we all know and love, with old instruments,
>such
>> as the modular Moog and Mellotron, but with modern recording technology.
>My
>> votes (off the top of my head) go to:
>>
>> 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' by Dukas (the bucket and mop with
>> a life of their own in Disney's 'Fantasia')
>> 'La Mer' by Debussy
>> Respighi Symphonic Poems, such as 'Fountains Of Rome'
>> More Wagner
>
>What a nice idea. I'd like to hear:
>
>Sibelius - Finlandia, Valse Triste, The Swan of Tuonela, Tapiola
>Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique
>Mendelssohn - Fingals Cave
>Tchaikovsky - Peter and the Wolf, Marche Slave, Cappriccio Italien
>Dvorak - New World Symphony
>Prokofiev - Lieutenant Kije Suite
>
>Regards,
>Lance.
>

I'd go along with all of those, apart from New World Symphony, which is
somewhat over familiar IMHO.

And of course I forgot to mention the complete version of 'Rite Of Spring'.
But definitely some Wagber overtures, like The Flying Dutchman.

Ben


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Blackhole wrote:
>
> I'd like to see any of the following:
>
> Prokofiev - Violin Concerto 1 Andantino, Moderato, Scherzo vivacissimo
> Prokofiev's Romero & Juliet

and from someone else-
Sibelius - Valse Triste,

well excerpts on "Bermuda Triangle" of course

he is very particular in that the piece has a lot of potential to do
interesting things with synths, He said (paraphrasing, I don't want to
imply its an exact quote) that thats why he cut the length of the 2
later movements of "The Planets" a lot.


>
> And finally,
>
> Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade

I think Ben and/or John had info he was interested in doing that one
long ago. He certainly is influenced quite a bit by Rimsky-Korsakov when
you listen to his real orchestral work


>
> I also like the idea of the New World. I was amazed when I heard the
> entire New World played on solo piano by Cyprien Katsaris. Tomita-san can
> definately kick on the Moog, but I have yet to see too many people dare to
> transpose an entire symphonie for a single instrument, and then play the
> entire thing live. Sheesh... Some of my favoriote MP3's, however, next to
> my Tomita collection

Maybe my history is wrong, but I had understood that especially before
78 rpm records it was pretty common to have piano transcriptions of
symphonic music. I know many full orchestral pieces were even officially
published on sheet music for solo piano (as compared to Ravel and a few
others who often orchestrated their piano pieces to orchestra, but we
are talking about reverse, which Tomita has certainly done also). Of
course I'd say piano is practically the only instrument where this is
possible, since its a polyphonic instrument. BTW I heard this real
bizzare arrangement of Michael Nyman's chamber film score "Zed and 2
Naughts" for solo violin, which was obviously pushing the limits of what
a violin can do properly. Its the sort of thing that while anything with
a fine melody poses potential for a soloist, there is usually even finer
work conceived as a whole for a solo instrument.

I would assume since A) recorded versions are now available and B) many
pianists look down on transcriptions since they were not conceived by a
master composer for their instrument, this sort of thing has kind of
fallen out of popularity


> Anyone else seen in the news that the Halle Orchestra in Manchester,
> England has commissioned a composer to write his own version of the
> 'missing' final piece from Holst's The Planets Suite, namely Pluto? Wonder
> if we can persuade Tomita to do his own version of the same? ;-)
>

of course Holst was thinking of astrology not astronomy

nick
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>Of
>course I'd say piano is practically the only instrument where this is
>possible, since its a polyphonic instrument.

the organ too

mav/jjoy


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