A personal account by conductor Bas Wiegers about how a musical score functions as a treasure map and leads to a concert, and many other aspects of a conductor’s life.
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A personal account by conductor Bas Wiegers about how a musical score functions as a treasure map and leads to a concert, and many other aspects of a conductor’s life.
I speak about Charles Ives with the great Ives connoisseur Thomas Brodhead, whom I got to know when we worked on Ives’ Fourth Symphony with the Concertgebouw Orchestra back in 2012. Ives is such a fascinating composer and has been a constant inspiration in my life as a musician. At the moment, I’m preparing his piece Three Places in New England, which I get to conduct for the first time.
Links to the pieces:
Charles Ives: Country Band March
President's Own United States Marine Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avowzDI8uR0
Charles Ives (orch. T. Grahl, 2021): Walt Whitman - (1921) from 114 Songs Klangforum Wien, Thomas Hampson, Bas Wiegers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqnO8dJJPYs
Charles Ives: Fourth Symphony
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Peter Eötvös, Bas Wiegers, Ralph van Raat
Private recording
Charles Ives: March No. 6 for Piano, with Here's to Good Old Yale
Charles Ives, piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMW0r_ZxFm8&list=OLAK5uy_lE6Eb6U39_HOe_juxz9dJukRFRewUz3xs&index=41
Charles Ives: Three Places In New England - 1. The "St. Gaudens" In Boston Common
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhbutHpwEh8
Charles Ives: They Are There!, second take
Charles Ives, piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az0iNeRvNts&list=OLAK5uy_lE6Eb6U39_HOe_juxz9dJukRFRewUz3xs&index=39
Charles Ives: Four Transcriptions from Emerson: No. 1 (beg.)
Charles Ives, piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c8lNFR5xWw&list=OLAK5uy_lE6Eb6U39_HOe_juxz9dJukRFRewUz3xs&index=1
Charles Ives: Three Places In New England - 2. Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Ytm0l0FTU
Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question
Ricciotti Ensemble, Leonard van Goudoever
Private Recording
The Treasure Hunt with Bas Wiegers
A personal account by conductor Bas Wiegers about how a musical score functions as a treasure map and leads to a concert, and many other aspects of a conductor’s life.
