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Ultrabook sales 'falling short of targets'
Those slim, svelte, sexy ultrabooks that Intel has been flogging may be having a hard time finding buyers due to their relatively high prices. So say sources speaking with the Taiwanese market-watchers at DigiTimes, which reported on Monday that both Acer and Asustek, which had expected to sell between 200,000 and 300,000 of the …
Some rather nasty corners cut on the Acer S3 though
It starts off with relatively trivial things, like the 1.6GHz ULV i5 rather than 1.7GHz and no 802.11a. It goes rapidly down hill from there though, like a 36Wh battery rather than 50Wh, a hybrid SSD/HDD with only 20GB of SSD capacity vs 128GB of SSD, a 1366x768 vs 1440 x 900 screen with 1/3rd of the graphics memory and no high speed or expansion ports (2x USB2 is your lot). You get what you pay for.
Gee... this is just a _little bit_ early to judge isn't it?
Pro tip: Sales will always be poor if the product is not available for sale.
I've been looking around for the Zenbook, and havn't seen it (or the Acer one) for sale anywhere yet. The only one i've seen locally is the Samsung Series 9...
Seeing as they're barely available, and the holiday shopping season hasn't started yet, it's a bit premature to be judging sales.
Not to mention the fact that traditional desktop and notebook availability will be taking a hit during the shopping season, due to the HDD shortages, likely shrinking the price gap between those and the flash-based ultrabooks.
Don't tell Apple
Their MacBook Airs are flying (floating?) off the shelfs! My wife loves mine soo much it is now officially "hers" and I'm back to the relatively heavyweight MacBook Pro.
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I will never understand the politics behind this kind of thinking.
Techies love this stuff but when you start to add up the cost of a home PC, a Laptop, a Tablet and a Smartphone then after a little while you start to realise that it all costs a lot of hard earned cash and that there is a limit behind the justification of yet another gadget.
Maybe if we all earned top dollar as the Intel execs do then we might be able to stretch out for a nice skinny laptop.
And lets be honest if we all threw away our tech gear I dont think that any of us would die.
Mines the one with ( I just bought a PS3 in readiness for the coming winter nights) on the joypad.
I agree, as much as I'd love the latest shiney I keep thinking that I have more important stuff to pay for.
When eventually I feel I need to upgrade my laptop I might well look at an Ultrabook and maybe pay a bit extra, but for now my aging 3 year old Acer Aspire 2920 with it's 2GHz Core 2 Duo and 4GB Ram is doing everything I want it do (although I could do with a new battery on it). I expect I'll probably easily get another year or two out of it before it seems to be slow, maybe even another 3 years if I'm lucky (I run Linux on it so it still seems realitively quick).
My wife on the other hand has a 4 going on 5 year old ThinkPad R50e, I've upgraded the CPU from an old Celeron 1.4 to a Pentium M 1.7GHz, bunged in a bigger hard drive and 1GB Ram and she's only just started to moan it's slow. She's been looking around at laptops but she's in the process of setting up her own business, I told her to hang fire if she can and try and put some funds aside and then get a reasonable laptop when she can afford it and stick it through as a business expense.
When both laptops are finally replaced they'll probably get passed on to the kids to use for web browsing and whatnot.
At least one saving grace is that maybe by the time we replace our laptops with new ones the Ultrabooks might have come down in price a bit and be better spec (or maybe AMD might have urged manufacturers to come up with an AMD based alternative at a lower price).
Considering that it's widely known that Apple are the predominant supplier of PCs and laptop over $1k in price, it's a bit odd to find the bargain basement players like Acer thinking that they are suddenly going to run away in this particular market segment.
Optimistic is another word.
@ Justin Clements
"..it's a bit odd to find the bargain basement players like Acer thinking that they are suddenly going to run away in this particular market segment."
... especially considering the cheap chinese crap they usually deliver.
Optimistic is a bit far fetched if you ask me. I'd have the word 'stupid' in my mind.
The companies are reaping what they sow.
Apple puts out a product that does well, and then others bring out similar products. But those products are of debatably inferior quality AND more expensive. And then said companies are shocked... SHOCKED that they arn't selling any. It happened with the tablets, and now it's happening with the ultrabooks.
PC companies have spent so much time and effort drilling into people people that Apple is the 'overly expensive luxury brand'. The HP touchpad proved very nicely that people have taken this to heart. They are simply not going to buy a Motorola/Samsung/Acer/Intel/whatever product if it costs more than Apple's equivalent 'luxury' product. In fact, people won't buy them unless they are either substantially better than the Apple equivalent, or significantly cheaper.
It's laughable that these companies don't even realize that they've painted themselves into a corner.
@ Ilsa Loving
Perhaps it's about time some western 'entrepeur' start building his own quality products (since higher asking prices don't seem to matter if the quality is right). Because we ALL know the best products were made in the US or Europe. Let the chinese build, buy and use their own crap and let us do the stuff that's gonne get sold in our markets. That's at least fair to our own regional factory workforce.
Go right ahead.
>>Intel/whatever product<<
MacBook Air is an Intel .... just saying
Ya right, just like how Apple does things...
All non-Apple products should have at least a 30% discount.
How can crap brands from China cost more than Apple and expect to compete?
Bloody dreamers, the lot of them.
@ Wang N Staines
Do you know where Apple products are made?
Turn over the lovely white box or that lovely aluminum MacBook Air and see.... "Made in China" or on rare occasions "Assembled in China".
Funny thing is, I did the same with the familiar blue box of my Nokia C7...hmmm... "Made in Hungary". This is what I prefer. A European company (Finland) producing products in another European country (Hungary) for the European market (amongst others).
Apple should produce in the US or at least the sticker should read: "Assembled in the USA" IMHO.
Indeed, waiting for Intel's 22nm Ivy Bridge processor next year
The two other roadblocks have been lifted: matte and high-def (1400x900 pixel) displays available in, for example, the Samsung Series 7.
Obviously, for the price I would rather have the future-proof Ivy Bridge - current Intel processors are still too weak in terms of graphics (and not even DirectX 11 compatible!).
My wife wanted a laptop to send emails,check on the children's school dinner menu, write the odd article etc. Ultra books my arse, I bought her an Asus eeeeeeeeeee for £165, does all these things and more.
Another overpriced gadget looking for a mug to take to the cleaners.
They don't tell the basics
As a person who has very basic needs I have to hunt the forums and ignore flamewars to see the answer of 2 questions. Do they play 720p h264 and do they run a recent game 30 fps without any tweaking. These should be happening while a real antivirus running.
Netbooks made there questions very valid even for newbies because of Intel crap graphics included. At least AMD guys should come back to earth from overclocking scene and explain why their dx10 acceleration is different etc.
You need to do homework before you jump to conclusions.
My laptop is 4 years old and I need a new one, and the ASUS UX31E is the one I wanted, not only because I like it, but because it's the only Ultrabook that's purportedly shipping.
I live in the Silicon Valley and I can't buy one to save my soul. Fry's - nada. Best Buy - nice try. Central Computers - non-gotz! The sense I get is that none of them except for one BB store have ever received any. This is why ASUS will never be Apple. Ever! And it's why Intel needs to start firing these idiots.
So the idea that these laptops are not selling - well duh! But it's probably not from lack of demand. Please do your homework before posting nonsense.
Intel? I'll pass.
Last year, we were promised on a good thing called the Smartbook, which was supposed to be a netbook, only running Linux on ARM. Then came that stupid iSlab that killed the market for the Smartbook and we're once again stuck with shit Intel stuff. I ended up buying a craptel netbook.
Now they're selling something called an 'Ultrabook' which might look nice .. except it still has Intel turds inside and coming at fruity prices ... no thanks. I'm sticking to the netbook and my full-blown laptop for now. As much as I'd like to see Apple take a beating, I'd wish it were an actual good product and not yet another WINTEL garbage computer. Meh.
With all due respect the Smartbook market was killed in utero by MS and Intel who threatened any "partners" who had them on their roadmap with the usual things like "loss of marketing assistance" and "volume discounts" etc.
At the same time netbooks became expensive and bloated shadows of the original eee pc in order to accommodate the now mandatory bundled Windows while intel was also forcing artificial limitations on manufacturers (Max 2Gb RAM, 10" Screen) so that Netbook sales didn't cannibalise the laptop market where they could charge ordersof magnitudes more for CPU's that most people did not need but had to buy just to get something bigger than a 10" screen.
It was the arrogance of MS and intel who simply assumed that people who were dissatisfied with the netbooks on offer would be forced to purchase more expensive laptops.
This failed spectacularly because apple launched the ipad and suddenly people had a non wintel option which they have flocked to in droves.
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RE: Errm
"It was the arrogance of MS and intel who simply assumed that people who were dissatisfied with the netbooks on offer would be forced to purchase more expensive laptops."
It's so funny that people DO know that these 2 companies are the "bad guys".
Yet at many occasions they can't stop hyping up these corporations. Just look at the airplay Windows Phone 7 receives these days or the airplay Intel receives now that Android 4 will get "Intel optimizations"
I guess Google's shareholders will get a nice fat bonus from Intel next year just as Nokia's shareholders will got one from Steve Balmer too. It's all about greed. And won't just stop overnight.
These Ultraboxes, do they need any software, or what?
Do they come with any software?
Is the software relevant to their potential customers, or the readers of the article and the comments?
Price without reason
None of these ultrabooks have discrete graphics, the current Intel graphics are worthless, ergo high-end buyers will avoid them. Then you only have lower-end buyers who will be scared off by the price. I have no idea who they thought would buy these, they've priced themselves out of the market.
The Macbook Air is a niece product, not a category of notebook. Not everyone can be Apple because if they were, no one would be.
Price without reason
Price without reason is the perfect description of the Apple user demographic. With a wider array of choices, PC buyers will opt for one of the other many options available to them. The option may be cheaper or it may be more capable.
Macbooks sell to people that brag about their own ignorance.
The PC market probably isn't quite so easy. Wankers like me will be asking if it actually is worth the money rather than just mindlessly queuing up for it.
Think you need lessons in logic, some experience with what you criticise and a basic grasp of reason and reality.
Macbooks sell to people who appreciate proper design in their homes and offices, people who want a properly supported, consistent, powerful interface and to engineers who appreciate and use the full access to a complete UNIX and its tools.
PCs go to those who are "used" to them and those who know the price of everything and the value of nothing, like yourself.
What colour is the sky on your planet, anonytard?
Next year's bargains
If the price is too high, ultrabooks will not sell. However, it is a fantasy that Apple gear is cheaper than these ultrabooks. The 64 GB entry-level sub-1000 euro MBA is for marketing, the usable Airs start at 200 euros higher. There is room for non-Apple ultrabooks to live, if the product is appealing.
As for the consumer, having some ultrabook models not sell very well is great. You can find last-year Asus and Acer notebooks on heavily-discounted sales quite frequently, unlike Apple stuff. Especially if the sales of that model were less than expected. At, say, 500 euros next fall, the current crop of ultrabooks would be a great bargain - same situation as with HP Touchpad.
As some kind of minor, anecdotal, counterpoint to the article, the 850 euro S3 Ultrabooks seem to be selling at a decent clip at one Finnish retailer (3-4 a day for a week or two) - not Apple-like numbers, but it doesn't seem like they are going to get stuck with a lot of unsold inventory. For that particular retailer (verkkokauppa.com), they seem to be selling about as well or better than any particular MBA model at this point in the S3 Ultrabook's lifetime.
Where are they
I've had a look for the two Asus models in the UK, the 11" one is out of stock everywhere and the 13" one is on sale only at DSG for £1149 in an i7/128GB guise which is too much money.
I have an OK laptop at the moment, it's still going OK and it's not too slow so I'm going to wait until one of the manufactures comes out with something that ticks all the boxes. The Asus is almost there but I've heard reports of poor wireless performance, dodgy touchpad drivers and crummy screen. If I'm paying top prices for a laptop it needs to be perfect.
Why on Earth would you want one of these
I have a perfectly good 13" HP laptop with a reasonable processor, sufficient RAM and decent hard disk which was all in about £450 18 months ago. That is a lot less than the money asked for these things for not an awful lot of real-world benefit (it is already small and light enough to carry around and I don't do serious gaming on it - I have serious games kit fro that).
Surely the rational option is to buy a reasonable laptop for real computer work and an iPad* for when you want ultra portability? It would cost you about the same overall.
*Of course you could buy any of the other tablet offerings if you prefer. All the other kids will laugh at you if it isn't an iPad though, but it is your choice.
Usual Intel/Otellini... arrogant, greedy, clueless
My fav was when these clowns at Intel claimed 'ahh the price of our chips are negligible, wouldn't make any difference if would would start give it away for free' to which Acer (?) came forward and stated that Intel's stuff in their Ultrabooks make up about 30% of ALL costs...
...usual Intel: greedy as f*ck and keeps talking clueless BS hoping it will stick.
Newsflash Paul: it won't.
Lower your prices and I might reconsider your useless, sh!tty GMA-based graphics when it comes to replacing my wife's laptop or I will just wait for more Llano-based unit to hit the market.
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Not Knowing How To Find The Open Air, But Toiling Desperately To Find It Out.
These expectations are what keeps the apprehended world from being, to our perception, something other than the miraculous whole it is. And yet, the expectations and judgements themselves are part of the tapestry of wholeness, sensible and appropriate, and are merely humanity's facility for exploration and self-consciousness at play. There is no better way, in the story of seeking meaning, to find meaning other than by feeling that everything is meaningless; there is no better way to find wholeness than to feel that life is incomplete. We are constructed flawlessly for the purpose of exploration and being, looking at itself. Far from being dismissed out of hand, the appearance of the world and our seeming interaction with it is the point. It doesn't matter what that interaction is. There is no perfect blueprint for being other than what is apparently presented. The questioning, the anger, the resistance are fitting and could not be any other than what they are.
Yet it can be seen that the most mundane actions, judged to be dreary and ineffectual, are in fact simply the miracle of consciousness in whatever guise seems to be presented. This, this life, showing up just as it does, is perfect, complete and whole just as it is. It is so ironic that we agonise and question and seek and judge lacking and struggle, hoping to find what is exactly what is. Even when this is accepted, there seems to be the need for some act of will or intervention from beyond to make whatever is more than it is. Awakening, enlightenment, or whatever we're calling it today, is simply seeing that what is, is what is sought. What was sought was the very seeking. What was lacking was appreciation of lack. There is nothing different, in some nonexistent future, that will bring you to what you already are. You are life; and there is no time beyond this now, this moment, this seamless reality that is always here, and never to be more than it already is. So read with interest about the ego, and its false assumptions, and its taking on of a role bigger than it is, and its case of cosmic mistaken identity. It is the reading that is the point, not the content. It is life, this very moment, that is the answer. And if it seems to help to conceptualise that you are awareness, and everything arises in this awareness, including the ego-construct, that's fine too. It is the thinking of these things that is life, not the conclusions. Here is everything. There is nowhere, no when, and no one but here and now and this.
42 comments:
- Christine said...
I love your posts. Life always manages to challenge my assumption. It's a good thing. Also, I LOVE the idea of appreciating lack. :)
- 9 January 2010 13:42
- Julian said...
One snowman says to the other, "can you smell carrot?".
There's a fullness here, that can empty out and then fill again, like a lung or a heart beating. Part of the dance of life, like day and night. Must be Ok I think.
Thanks Suzanne. Words fresh like snow.x
- 9 January 2010 14:16
- No One In Particular said...
Hi Christine, yet another idea to love!
- 9 January 2010 14:34
- No One In Particular said...
Hi Julian - LOVE the snowman joke! Even the background implication of the consciousness of snowmen (and presumably -women) is amusing.
- 9 January 2010 14:40
- Doug McMillan said...
You nailed it Suzanne . . only problem is, I don't know that there is an 'it' to nail! Although I'm sure there is a nail to hammer . . .
It seems the seeker has to seek before s/he discovers that they are seeking what they already 'be'!
I love the snowman joke as well, nice one Julian :)
- 9 January 2010 14:56
- No One In Particular said...
Thanks Doug. I just love it when nailing it arises in awareness.
- 9 January 2010 15:29
- No Plane Zen said...
Maybe an aspect of the searching, disatisfaction and inability to accept 'what is' and stop there, stems from a deep knowing that what is also is 'what is not'.
- 9 January 2010 16:40
- Jason said...
"It is the reading that is the point, not the content."
This statement seems to encapsulate almost everything I've ever read on the subject of Non-Duality, Advaita, Reality or whatever this is called.
Thanks Suzanne.
So the Zen master goes up to the hot-dog vendor and says "Make me one with everything"
- 9 January 2010 17:04
- Wellness Education Institute said...
Be. Here, Now.
we cannot not, even as we lament yesterday's (and tomorrow's) do-be-do dance.
- 9 January 2010 18:04
- No One In Particular said...
Hey No Plane, sure, why not?
- 9 January 2010 18:07
- No One In Particular said...
Hey Len, thanks for stopping by.
The lamenting etc. is always happening now, about things remembered now.
- 9 January 2010 18:08
- No One In Particular said...
Hey Jason, thanks for the kudos, and GREAT joke!
- 9 January 2010 18:09
- Nicholas (Conscious Flex) said...
Beautiful. Flowing like poetry. I burn forever in love.
- 10 January 2010 05:00
- christl said...
i love sf and jc.
it´s the reading that´s the point, not the content, reminded me of:
ich bin der weg, die wahrheit und das leben,and i looked up john 14.it goes on: nobody gets to the father but by me. I,MINE,ME.
my,my,my,i like it physical.
- 10 January 2010 08:41
- No One In Particular said...
Hi Nicholas...burning like love...or maybe love burns.
You're going the way of calling oneness love eh? Watch out - a lot of writers/teachers don't like that one! As if the label mattered.
- 10 January 2010 09:14
- No One In Particular said...
Hi Christl, I like "I am the way, the truth and the life"...in other words, everything.
- 10 January 2010 09:16
- Julian said...
No seperation or difference here. The way of Christ was the way of all - open hands, open heart, open to life death, stories, fullness, emptiness, fasting, feasting etc
- 10 January 2010 09:30
- No One In Particular said...
Hi Julian, we are all everything...even if we think we're not.
- 10 January 2010 10:05
- Julian said...
The same hey Suzanne.x
- 10 January 2010 12:15
- Christine said...
So maybe we could take appreciating lack a step further and appreciate everything in life. The "good" and the "bad" and everything in between. It would be interesting to see what kind of perspective would would evolve from that after enough practice. See, you make me think. :)
- 10 January 2010 13:06
- Fernando Rozas said...
«Awakening, enlightenment, or whatever we're calling it today, is simply seeing that what is, is what is sought. What was sought was the very seeking. What was lacking was appreciation of lack. There is nothing different, in some nonexistent future, that will bring you to what you already are.»
Great post, Suzanne.
(Tengo la impresión de que te dirigieras a 'mí', que golpearas exactamente donde lo necesito.)
Un millón de gracias
- 10 January 2010 13:18
- No One In Particular said...
Sounds like a plan. In time. But so what?
- 10 January 2010 13:23
- No One In Particular said...
Gracias Fernando! There's no shame in using "me" and any other concepts that come up, when conceptualising is what is happening.
- 10 January 2010 13:32
- 108zenbooks said...
what if the what is is the seeking?
ya gotta loves words, eh?
- 10 January 2010 19:08
- Nicholas (Conscious Flex) said...
Hahaha. I noticed that some pointers don't like when others (as if there is such a thing) point to oneness by using the word love instead. Quite silly really, nonduality pointers pointing out the duality that appears to "them". Hahaha. Doesn't matter though because nondaulity, love, oneness or whatever label; is still this one inseparable space and there is no way to talk or point out of it by using some "wrong words". Hahaha. Great fun.
Plus there is no goal because oneness can't evolve into something else other than what it already is. It can only appear to evolve but it never changes, even the appearances are it.
- 10 January 2010 19:33
- No One In Particular said...
Hey Genju, the "what is" is definitely the seeking!
- 11 January 2010 05:34
- No One In Particular said...
Hi Nicholas, all you need is love, love; love is all you need. Love is the question, and the answer: it's all about love. Oneness is love loving love.
I could go on. Lovingly.
- 11 January 2010 06:27
Hi Suzanne, This is my first post even though I've been reading your blog,watched you on Conscious tv and at Richard's house.Thank you for sharing the simplicity of just "this." Last month my dearest, sweet 12 year old dog died. Her death penetrated my heart with such a grief.At such times the intensity of feelings is just so deep.At such times, all of this spiritual path stuff seems ridiculous. In this post you refer to the wholeness of things and I just wonder how you see or feel grief in the wholeness? I get so put off by all of the advaita crap that nothing matters, there is no one, etc. etc. I seem to feel a lot and feel deeply-and usually beat myself up to no end for it all. Anyway, I shall ramble no more. Thank you for sharing!
- 13 January 2010 01:38
- Barry said...
Thank you for this wonderful post, Suzanne! I especially responded to this line:
"There is no better way, in the story of seeking meaning, to find meaning other than by feeling that everything is meaningless; there is no better way to find wholeness than to feel that life is incomplete."
In the Zen tradition, we refer to this kind of "seeking" and "finding" as "don't know" mind. It's the mind of profound curiosity about how things actually are in *this* moment.
- 13 January 2010 01:49
- Wellness Education Institute said...
Love, baby! Yeah!
-austin powers (or was that mini-me?)
of Course, in "the spy who shagged me," mike meyers Plays several simultaneous roles:
* good/evil (austin)
* evil/good (dr. evil)
* evil/good/confused (fat bastard)
* future (austin, 10-minutes from now)
* past (austin, 10-minutes ago)
in the end, it's oppositical Sameness, laughing all the way Home (to the No-place that it never left).
- 13 January 2010 04:10
Looking at Haiti- looks more like S & M than love.
- 13 January 2010 05:09
- No One In Particular said...
Hi Judeann, well, whatever is happening is wholeness...even feelings of emptiness...or loss. Pain is just another guise of oneness, if you want to put it that way. Pain is bearable, and even common sense says that pain is a part of life. If there is no one to bear it - no ego, at least not one that takes on the burden of everything - then there is just pain. Pain becomes unbearable (by the ego) when resisted. Life seems hard, no question. But maybe it's supposed to be, from "time" to "time".
- 13 January 2010 09:38
- No One In Particular said...
Hi Barry, thanks for commenting. Unknowing is cool...and easy!
- 13 January 2010 09:39
- No One In Particular said...
Hi Lenny...all of life in Austin Powers. Big Mike Myers fan, so it makes sense to me!
- 13 January 2010 09:40
- No One In Particular said...
Hey Anonymous...it sure does. Don't forget Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, the Basque country, the Gaza strip...etc, etc, etc...
Not to mention the corresponding areas of trouble in each microcosm of a family, or a person.
It's difficult, and uncomfortable.
- 13 January 2010 09:43
- Julian said...
Some really wise words here about relationship to pain. Thankyou Suzannex
- 13 January 2010 10:59
- No One In Particular said...
I want a picture of you in them Lune.
- 13 January 2010 16:42
- No One In Particular said...
Hi Julian, maybe when there's a relationship to pain, and not just pain, is where the difficulty lies.
However, there's nothing wrong with a little difficulty!
- 13 January 2010 16:43
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- 13 January 2010 17:53
- DJH said...
"There is no better way, in the story of seeking meaning, to find meaning other than by feeling that everything is meaningless; there is no better way to find wholeness than to feel that life is incomplete."
Bravo! Encore!
- 22 January 2010 03:10
- No One In Particular said...
Hey DJH, encore coming soon (fresh blog post, been busy). The "simultaneous" co-existence of mutually exclusive concepts gets the ol' mind in a tizzy every "time"!
- 22 January 2010 08:14
- albert said...
Hi Suzanne,
I'm glad you find yourself expressing all this in such a clear manner. And I'm glad I find myself finding you and your blog. :-)
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It seems from this letter that Spohr's commission from the Philharmonic Society arrived after he had shelved the tenth and he did not mention the work to Speyer. Soon after the symphony's completion Spohr rehearsed it with his Kassel orchestra and, according to the section added to his memoirs by his second wife, Marianne Pfeiffer: 'Despite the many beauties and new ideas it contained, it did not seem to him worthy of bringing to an end the impressive sequence of symphonies he had composed in earlier years; thus it came about that this tenth symphony was condemned by Spohr himself to eternal oblivion, if not to destruction.' Such was Marianne's devotion to Spohr's memory that after his death she did not destroy the symphony but kept it unperformed and unpublished until it eventually found its way into the former Prussian State Library in Berlin, where it still remains. It was not until American conductor Eugene Minor examined the symphony and prepared a performing version that it received its premiere—at New York's Carnegie Hall on 22 March 1998, when Mr Minor conducted his Bergen Youth Orchestra of New Jersey. It was eventually published in 2006.
The ethical question arises of whether or not to disregard the composer's wishes, but now the symphony is in the public domain listeners can make up their own minds as to whether Spohr was right in suppressing it. Usually it is the youthful work of composers that is disinterred against their known wishes, as happened some thirty years ago with the early C minor symphony of Grieg. In Spohr's case the problem is compounded by the composer's attempt to overhaul his musical style radically and follow a new path. In the words of the German musicologist Hans Glenewinkel when studying the two string quartets Spohr wrote around this period, the composer made 'his guiding principle the return to the classical ideals of his youth'.
The tenth is the most concise of all Spohr's symphonies, with no episodic matter and only a minimum of bridge passages. It also mixes the old and the new, for along with the neoclassical formal structure Spohr's chromatic harmonic language is completely up to date, and for the first time his orchestra includes valve horns and trumpets as well as a tuba. The first movement does away with the usual slow introduction and launches immediately, forte, into the Allegro. This first thematic group is punctuated by lighter passages focusing on the woodwind supported by pizzicato strings before the brief lyrical second subject appears. All of these elements are covered during the development section and after a straightforward reprise the music reaches a powerful conclusion.
The seamless Larghetto is dominated by the opening theme with its slight tinge of melancholy, and the main contrast arrives with the classically orientated closing motif. With the Allegretto Scherzo we hear the influence of Haydn, with unexpected pauses and dynamic contrasts reminding us of the original meaning of 'scherzo' as a joke. Lyricism takes over in the Trio where the woodwind sing a broad melody accompanied by running quavers from the first violins, while later on horns and trumpets add a gentle fanfare.
Haydn again comes to mind at the start of the Allegro finale where the main theme comprises three-bar units instead of the expected regular four-bar ones—just the sort of thing the old Esterházy genius delighted in doing. With his second subject Spohr brings his symphonic output full circle as this triplet-based motif matches the one at the identical point in the finale of his very first symphony, written forty-six years earlier, which also used triplets and was in the same key of E flat major. Finally, a rumbustious few bars close Spohr's last symphonic outing.
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