+Dirk Fuhrmann Everything in this performance is phrased--even the percussion parts--and phrased so sensibly and musically. To do this, FF took this a hair more slowly than most conductors, but boy does it ever work!
FF could make ANY ensemble sound better, more musical, more technically adroit than they really were. And he could make marches and other little-regarded band music sound as important and as respected as Beethoven!
I don't think he made any of those things... FF had such a mastery and essential love for each work, and through that technical proficiency he learned the best of his performers. He was able to pull out of these musicians what was already there, but not yet discovered.
I just listened to Fiedler and the Boston Pops doing this march and invite the Fans of Fennell club to listen to it: the phrasing, and overall care of detail in the Fennell/Tokyo recording here is vastly superior at every turn. Fiedler did not really take marches seriously and barely rehearsed them (though he was a terrific conductor of the "light classics", an art nearly e+tinct these days). FF took EVERYTHING he conducted very seriously indeed, and the joy in watching HIS joy in performance here is the result of work as painstaking as that of George Szell when he led the Cleveland Orchestra in Haydn or Beethoven.
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"As perfect a march as a march can be"
Frederick Fennell
Fabulous conversations between melodic lines and sections. Totally refreshing
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スネア２台、すごく楽しそうで、最高にカッコいい。
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マエストロフェネルのお馴染みバッティングモーション！これ大好き。時々左打ちになる時もある（笑）
wow excellent performance....
very good performance ... soft ... great trombones!
+Dirk Fuhrmann Everything in this performance is phrased--even the percussion parts--and phrased so sensibly and musically. To do this, FF took this a hair more slowly than most conductors, but boy does it ever work!
FF could make ANY ensemble sound better, more musical, more technically adroit than they really were. And he could make marches and other little-regarded band music sound as important and as respected as Beethoven!
I don't think he made any of those things... FF had such a mastery and essential love for each work, and through that technical proficiency he learned the best of his performers. He was able to pull out of these musicians what was already there, but not yet discovered.
Like when the director goes from director to baseball player.....nice move
Frederick Fennell is a very talented musician. I have played a few of his arrangements and he is great!
I just listened to Fiedler and the Boston Pops doing this march and invite the Fans of Fennell club to listen to it: the phrasing, and overall care of detail in the Fennell/Tokyo recording here is vastly superior at every turn. Fiedler did not really take marches seriously and barely rehearsed them (though he was a terrific conductor of the "light classics", an art nearly e+tinct these days). FF took EVERYTHING he conducted very seriously indeed, and the joy in watching HIS joy in performance here is the result of work as painstaking as that of George Szell when he led the Cleveland Orchestra in Haydn or Beethoven.
Fantastic performance!
Dynamics to the *EXTREME*
Amazing
Perfect!
Great percussion 😀
the CONDUCTOR are controlling them THE CRESENDO AND DECRESENDO OF THE NOTES A RE VERY GOOD WELL IM A MUSICIAN
cute drummer:)
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