Word: fortississimo
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...explains Koh. He vividly describes the ending of the concerto as a significant part of this reflection. “The cello is raging—it’s reaching for the high A with the orchestra supporting it. It sustains a G-sharp for eight measures in fortississimo with intense vibrato. It never reaches the A, though...
...clarinets, twined in thirds, that recalls Wagner, and along the way there are echoes of Debussy and Mahler as well. Albert reveled in his compositional heritage; what a pleasure it is to hear a work end as confidently as this one does, in an optimistic blaze of surging brass, fortississimo...
...some work on Beethoven's Eighth Syphony with the Summer School Orchestra. The first movement of this piece is a big shout of excitement, energetic and very loud for the most part, with many fortissimo markings. However, at the beginning of the recapitulation, there is the only fortississimo marked, a distinction that is not easy to make and is usually left unobserved. But Chen made sure to gradate the whole movement so that that triple forte would be the supreme climactic moment. The result was a performance that clarified the structure of the movement while giving it a sense...
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