{"id":2128,"date":"2014-02-01T00:01:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T00:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2015-08-18T12:04:50","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T12:04:50","slug":"the-glagolitic-mass-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2014\/02\/01\/the-glagolitic-mass-on-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"the <i>Glagolitic Mass<\/i> on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>@bristolchoral<\/p>\n<p>I am greatly looking forward to performing the <i>Glagolitic Mass<\/i> for the first time. I can&#8217;t recall its being done in the Bath\/Bristol area in recent years, and in fact until I started to learn it I was unfamiliar with the work, with only a hazy idea of how it sounded. I&#8217;ve been remedying this by listening to it several times a week. Fortunately, the <i>Glagolitic Mass<\/i> can stand up to this; a weaker piece would pall on repeated listenings, and something like the <i>War Requiem<\/i> would be very taxing because of its emotional impact.<\/p>\n<p>I have been listening to three performances on YouTube:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OU2IPkoQjXI\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OU2IPkoQjXI', 'Mackerras\/Czech Philharmonic');\">Mackerras\/Czech Philharmonic<\/a><\/strong> We had this recording on a Supraphon LP as well, which I have transferred to CD. It has the wonderful unreconstructed Central European brass, but I don&#8217;t like the tenor or bass soloist.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XqEYPwJS8BA\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XqEYPwJS8BA', 'Tennstedt\/London Philharmonic');\">Tennstedt\/London Philharmonic<\/a><\/strong> This recording is OK.  I am puzzled by the picture of the Northern Lights which illustrates it though, as the Lights are very rarely seen as far south as Central Europe!<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=082aizXKKOI\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=082aizXKKOI', 'Mackerras\/Danish National Radio SO and Chorus');\">Mackerras\/Danish National Radio SO and Chorus<\/a><\/strong> This is my favoured recording for learning purposes for two reasons:\n<ul>\n<li>while the choir does not produce a totally pure Scandinavian\/Baltic sound (nor should it), it has a clear tone which makes it easy to follow<\/li>\n<li>they appear to use the same edition as us, with the high B flat Osanna near the end of <em>Svet<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, I don&#8217;t like beginning the work as well as ending with the Intrada; I prefer to start with the blaring brass.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@bristolchoral I am greatly looking forward to performing the Glagolitic Mass for the first time. I can&#8217;t recall its being done in the Bath\/Bristol area in recent years, and in fact until I started to learn it I was unfamiliar &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2014\/02\/01\/the-glagolitic-mass-on-youtube\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[554,453,905,90,597,328],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3398,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions\/3398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}