What are you listening to now - I ?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

hope it was enjoyable....do let us know. Would be good if some way of seeing it again was available.
only the length of a days cricket after all !!

Sheer, divinely-inspired bonkers! A mix of Jon Pertwee Dr Who, Spike Milligan and Surrealism on stage: everybody (performers, crew and audience - the latter a remarkable mix of ages, from a lad who looked about ten [and who asked the most intelligent question in the Q&A session] to people who might have been in their 70s) looked as if they were thoroughly enjoying themselves. (Much easier to follow, too, than a cricket match!)

And the Music! I've heard most of this in "bleeding chunk" performances and recordings, but Live and in context brought out connections and melodies that need complete performances to become clear. I heard the "Michael Formula" all over the place. And the look of terror on Emma's face when her pilot decided to improvise a sudden manoeuvre in her helicopter!*

Didn't quite get all of it, and there were a few irritating "buffering" problems - it'd be great if this became available on DVD.

EDIT * = Reading this, it sounds like one of Humph's comments about Samantha and her aged archivists! What I meant was that the pilot decided to do a sudden right turn which scared the con sordini out of his passenger!

[teamsaint]

Humph like or not, it sounds fab. I knew it was on, and wish I had seen it.
Thanks for the review.....really hope to see it some time
Let us know if you need help on the cricket front.....perhaps K S could have combined opera and the small ball game ,on an epic scale, if he had been British !!

[Roehre]

Today:


Roussel:
Symphony no.1 “Poème de la Foret” op.7 (1905)

Schumann:
Carnaval opus 9
BBC MM CD with Claudio Arrau.
A Mono recording marred by an over-present bass and some hurried playing by Arrau.
IMO a less than great Arrrau performance.

[Dave2002]

Shostakovich
Symphony 4: Haitink, Chicago SO

Good, but a bit comfortable. Gergiev in "That" Prom earlier this century had more impact, though perhaps we're just getting more used to this piece now.

[Stanfordian]

I'm playing a quite lovely new disc titled 'Quam Dilecta' of French sacred choral music from Saint Saens; de Saverac; Faure and d'Indy by the Choir of Christ's Church College, Cambridge/David Rowland on Regent REGCD 375.

Sir George Dyson: 'The Canterbury Pilgrims', 'At the Tabard Inn' and 'In Honour of the City' LSO and Chorus/Richard Hickox newly re-issued double set as 'The Hickox Legacy' on Chandos CHAN 241-43.

A disc of Polish sacred choral music sung by the Polski Chór Kameralny directed by Jan Lukaszewski singing Penderecki; Kilar; Chrzynski; Kowalski-Banasewicz; Pawel Lukaszewski; Borkowski on Musica Sacra Edition 018.

[teamsaint]

I'm playing a quite lovely new disc titled 'Quam Dilecta' of French sacred choral music from Saint Saens; de Saverac; Faure and d'Indy by the Choir of Christ's Church College, Cambridge/David Rowland on Regent REGCD 375.

Sir George Dyson: 'The Canterbury Pilgrims', 'At the Tabard Inn' and 'In Honour of the City' LSO and Chorus/Richard Hickox newly re-issued double set as 'The Hickox Legacy' on Chandos CHAN 241-43.

A disc of Polish sacred choral music sung by the Polski Chór Kameralny directed by Jan Lukaszewski singing Penderecki; Kilar; Chrzynski; Kowalski-Banasewicz; Pawel Lukaszewski; Borkowski on Musica Sacra Edition 018.

and THAT, if I may say so, Is a quality way to fill the half time interval in the footy on a Saturday. Class !!

[Stanfordian]

and THAT, if I may say so, Is a quality way to fill the half time interval in the footy on a Saturday. Class !!

What do they say about the best laid plans. I had to put off listening to the Polish sacred choral music sung by the Polski Chór Kameralny as the radio commentary of the Man Utd verses Fulham match was so exciting. I have to say the G & S operetta the ‘Yeoman of the Guard’ from the Proms on BBC TV was extremely wearisome. For me it didn’t work without the staging. I must admit I’ve enjoyed amateur productions of the score far better.

[Dave2002]

Brahms
Piano concerto 2, Schnabel, LPO + Boult

Bridge
Piano quintet, Allan Schiller and the Coull Quartet

[Roehre]

Today:

Bella:
Overture to Hermania in Venus' cave (1886) (R3:TtN)

Stainov:
Fairy Tale - symphonic suite (1930) (R3:TtN)

Kodály:
Hymn to King Stephen (1938)

Pekiel (?-c.1670):
I Missa senza le cerimonie

Palestrina:
Magnificat Primi Toni

Striggio:
Ecce beatam lucem, for 40 voices

Roussel:
Pour une fête de printemps op.22 (1921)
Suite in F op.33 (1936)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

hope it was enjoyable....do let us know.

Another review:

http://johnsonsrambler.wordpress.com/2012/08/25/review-birmingham-opera-mittwoch-aus-licht/

[Tony Halstead]

JS Bach: Brandenburg 6 played by Musica Antiqua Köln/ Rheinhard Goebel.
The 1st movement has no tempo indication in the score.
M.A.K. 'get through it' in 4 minutes 25 seconds..

That most discerning of critics and an excellent record producer too, Nicholas Anderson, amusingly and aptly described the performance as 'sketchy strumming'...

[salymap]

Lennox Berkeley = Trio for horn [Brain], piano [Colin Horsley] and violin {Mr. Parikian,whose first name I can't spell/remember. I know he led one of the London orchestras years ago though.

[vinteuil]

violin {Mr. Parikian,whose first name I can't spell/remember. I know he led one of the London orchestras years ago though.

... Manoug, I expect.

When I were a lad, we had an LP of Manoug Parikian, I think the Beethoven violin concerto. And then I encountered on the Third Programme works by Khatchatchurian. And I rapidly jumped to the conclusion that all Armenian names end in - ian. Which is largely correct - tho' some end in - ani.

And of course there's always Charles Aznavour*...

[ * whose real name is Shahnour Vaghenag Aznavourian.... ]

[AmpH]

[salymap]

... Manoug, I expect.

When I were a lad, we had an LP of Manoug Parikian, I think the Beethoven violin concerto. And then I encountered on the Third Programme works by Khatchatchurian. And I rapidly jumped to the conclusion that all Armenian names end in - ian. Which is largely correct - tho' some end in - ani.

And of course there's always Charles Aznavour*...

[ * whose real name is Shahnour Vaghenag Aznavourian.... ]

Of course, ta for that,