The 70-member Symphony Orchestra from Azusa Pacific University, a Christian university 30 miles east of Los Angeles, performs under the direction of Christopher Russell, M.M. With a variety of repertoire spanning great symphonic literature to the provocative music of contemporary composers, the orchestra provides pre-professional orchestral training to the talented instrumentalists of the APU School of Music.
Previous season performances included works by Shostakovich, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Lutoslawski, and Dvorak's Stabat Mater with the APU Oratorio Choir. In the academic year, the orchestra also performs with the Opera Workshop and the numerous choral groups in the annual Celebrate Christmas performances. The Symphony performed the US premiere of "Stockholm Diary" by conductor/composer, Esa-Pekka Salonen of the LA Philharmonic as well as the West Coast Premiere of "Jeu de Timbres" by Pulitzer-prize winning composer Steven Stucky!
Wonderful performance-I listen to this recording very often. I do have a question I hope you may answer: where may one find the score you used for this performance? Or could you share who arranged the version you performed?
Nothing to add to the former comments. Let me say only that the video shows once again, and in a very special way, how different people from any origin can assemble together and produce a masterpiece.
I read that Arturo Toscanini requested that Ottorino Respighi do this transcription of this organ classic for the Philharmonic-Symphony concert. Respighi's rendition was played on April 16, 1930, three months after the Frederick Stock version was played for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on January 3.
What would good ol' Johann think? Not just of the orchestration but the audio clarity and visual recording, then being told all of the musicians played at different places and times(?) . Something superb that came out of that absurd time.
Спаси, Господи, люди Твоя, И благослови достояние Твое. победы борющимся за веру правую и за святую Русь, На сопротивныя даруя. И Твое сохраняя, Крестом Твоим жительство.
I'm studying this fugue right now and this performance really helped me isolate the themes. Thank you for the great performance! Interesting and effective ritard at the end. Nice arrangement. Bravo!
*how tha fuk did you do that?!* ------------btw i just went back home after like 13 H, and a lot of pain, i "researched" absurdity of quantum physics that's beyond what a heroin addict could make up, i guess im just a masochist, extremely tired at this point, i take few sips of coke 0, lay down on a bed, turn this on, and after all of that bullshit done over the day - THE FUCKING BRASS INSTRUMENTS IN HERE WERE THE BEST EXPIRIENCE OF BACH IN MY LIFE BY A LONG FUCKING SHOT, i felt as if in a dream, and not metaphorically, like literally a lucid dream about bach with the mind still thinking about boson bullshit, usually i don't really feel strong emotions during performances, e.g @alphazutn1274 , they says that they cried during tha brass, i never do that, but the amount of random emotion it created in me was the closest experience to that i ever had, i'd say that im speachless but as you can clearly see i am NOT. *sorry for any english inconsistencies and mistakes as i said im kinda dead inside and it's not my first language *another thing with the "they" i gotta point up- im not woke, i just speak a language with clearly defined and important masculine feminine and neutral so saying he/she would be idiotic assuming something with the unpersoned english names would be unreasonable and i wouldn't dare to just surrender therefor i used the pretty definite they. *_~~ with love , a random internaut randomly getting horny over 4 minute bach_*
Sou do Amazonas manaus.o meu filho tá tocando violino nesta orquestra ele está na 2fileira do violino 1hoje ja está no Brasil tocando numa orquestra profissional.obrigado a todos por acolherem meu filho bem.
