- 00:00:00 Sectionals of Strauss’s Don Juan.
- 00:11:30 Looking at strings; violin, viola, cello and double bass played separately. Includes Dudley Moore and bassist jazz duo at 00:13:00
- 00:13:20 Woodwind
- 00:14:00 Brass
- 00:15:00 Percussion
- 00:16:20 Baroque (1600-1750); focus on strings
- 00:17:40 Classical (1750-1825); woodwind and relationship to strings. Solti comments that he reckons woodwind were probably terribly tuned. Increase in orchestra size, and rise of public concerts.
- 00:19:50 Romantic (1825-1900); addition of Wagnerian brass
- 00:21:00 Modern (from 1900): use of percussion, including percussive use of piano in Bartok Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
- 00:23:50 Upper strings
- 00:31:30 Discussion on whether it would be good to meet Bach or Mozart. Solti would rather meet Goethe or Shakespeare.
- 00:35:00 phrases with and without mute
- 00:36:00 viola
- Solti: difficulty of playing instruments today now that people are larger
- 00:39:00 On finding a first violin / concertmaster
- 00:41:00 On second violins
- 00:42:00 On Bach v Handel
- 00:43:00 On their immense productivity; e.g. of Handel’s 12 x 20 minute (300 minutes) Concerti Grossi in 35 days
- 00:49:30 Woodwind
- 00:50:50 Difference between concerto grosso and symphony (Haydn)
- 00:51:45 Oboe
- 00:52:10 Dynamic range of Clarinet
- 00:52:45 Flute not difficult at start, but difficult to get great embouchure
- 00:53:00 Bassoons
- Woodwind as filling in harmony in earlier music, helping out.
- 00:55:45 Bassoon 3 and a half octave range
- 00:56:00 Flute thinning out
- 00:57:30 On Beatles-like fame of Haydn at the time of London Symphonies
- 01:02:00 On contemporary reviews of the Haydn noting that the woodwind were in tune; how enchanted Mozart and Haydn would have been with today’s instruments. On Mozart and Haydn playing together.
- 01:04:00 Fast oboe passages in Marriage of Figaro overture, in thirds.
- 01:05:00 Benny Goodman as inspiration for clarinettist, playing both Mozart and jazz
- 01:06:00 Bassoon using thumb, 9 holes
- 01:07:00 Lung capacity for flute
- 01:08:00 On “early Mozart” being before he was 12.
- 01:09:00 On tricky bassoon figure at the start of the Mozart – how fast did he take it?
- 01:14:00 After extended Mozart excerpt, ends with beautiful solo oboe melody
- 01:15:00 Lower strings
- Ode to Joy melody on solo cello
- 01:17:00 cello; interesting stuff v “boring” Strauss waltzes
- 01:18:00 jazz double bass
- 01:19:30 Beethoven’s deafness and character.
- 01:20:20 On watching conductor and playing certain passages from heart
- 01:21:00 Chance from brutality to something else in Beethoven 9.
- 01:21:45 rich bottom C on cello
- 01:22:00 on ensemble in lower strings
- 01:22:30 On movement 4 quoting movement 1, and fast changes of mood, in dialogue
- 01:24:30 Funky lighting cue at start of Beethoven extended excerpt
- 01:31:00 Solti on double bassist crying when his instrument was broken on tour. Then double bass mute. Playing appassionato.
- 01:32:00 Schubert; not known until after his death. Sad.
- 01:33:30 On looking up, again
- 01:34:00 On Schubert and Beethoven both using lower strings as major instrument
- 01:39:40 More jazz bass and piano
- 01:40:46 Brass
- Being loud and swearing
- 01:43:00 Hunting horn old, but intonation was difficult. Solo instrument later.
- 01:44:00 Length of tube, different vibrations. Overtones.
- 01:44:30 French horn tubing and pistons/valves. Before then, no chromatics.
Contents
- music by Franz Schubert
- music by Joseph Haydn
- music by George Frideric Handel
- music by Jules Massenet
- music by Béla Bartók
- music by Richard Wagner
- music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- music by Johann Sebastian Bach
- music by Richard Strauss
- music by Ludwig van Beethoven
- words by Friedrich Schiller
- music by Johann Sebastian Bach
- music by Igor Stravinsky
from Thaïs
from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
from Le nozze di Figaro
from Brandenburg Concertos
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