What was your last concert?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I'm going to nominate you for the Annual 'Best Supporter Of Keeping Music Live Award'. Your gig-going is becoming legendary!

[teamsaint]

Thanks for that nice comment, Beefy. I don't really find it gig going a chore.


It occurred to me on Friday night the upside of Bellowhead quitting is that it leaves a big gap for somebody else to fill, and help them on their way.

[Beef Oven!]

Thanks for that nice comment, Beefy. I don't really find it gig going a chore.


It occurred to me on Friday night the upside of Bellowhead quitting is that it leaves a big gap for somebody else to fill, and help them on their way.

I'll dig out my banjo - you clear your throat

[teamsaint]

I'll dig out my banjo - you clear your throat

I have just been for a quick jog, ( got to play office 5 a side football on Tuesday), and my throat needed considerable clearing.

" I'll dig out my banjo" IS a roots music saying and not a euphemism, right?

[Pulcinella]

Thanks for that nice comment, Beefy. I don't really find it gig going a chore.


It occurred to me on Friday night the upside of Bellowhead quitting is that it leaves a big gap for somebody else to fill, and help them on their way.

I guess that listening to Bellowhead at the very least clears all the marketing department airheads out of your mind for a while!

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm going to nominate you for the Annual 'Best Supporter Of Keeping Music Live Award'. Your gig-going is becoming legendary!

[teamsaint]

I guess that listening to Bellowhead at the very least clears all the marketing department airheads out of your mind for a while!

They are lovely really. ( marketing, that is. And Bellowhead I imagine.)

The sound on Friday was godawful,not quite sure what got cleared out and what got stuck in !!

[Beef Oven!]

I have just been for a quick jog, ( got to play office 5 a side football on Tuesday), and my throat needed considerable clearing.

" I'll dig out my banjo" IS a roots music saying and not a euphamism, right?

All it means is I have a banjo, and I'm not afraid to use it!

While we're on the subject, I hope Bellowhead isn't a euphemism.

[teamsaint]

All it means is I have a banjo, and I'm not afraid to use it!.

I imagine not.

I rather assume that Bellowhead suggested a sort of folky Radiohead,powered by wind,but what do I know ?

[Dave2002]

Tonight - 28/4/16 Barbican, LSO, Elder.

Butterworth: Shropshire Rhapsody
Vaughan Williams: Pastoral Symphony
Ravel: Left hand piano concerto - Cedric Tiberghien
Debussy: La cathédrale engloutie
Debussy: La Mer

Overall very good.

[Nick Armstrong]

Tonight - 28/4/16 Barbican, LSO, Elder.

Butterworth: Shropshire Rhapsody
Vaughan Williams: Pastoral Symphony
Ravel: Left hand piano concerto - Cedric Tiberghien
Debussy: La cathédrale engloutie
Debussy: La Mer

Overall very good.

Great programme. Toyed with getting late tickets to that. Other stuff got in the way

[gurnemanz]

Saturday: Rattle + OAE at the Anvil Basingstoke. A rare and enjoyable rendition of a the funky Scherzo from Rott's Symphony, on the basis of which Brahms persuaded him to give up composing, followed by Bruckner 6 as the main dish.

On Wednesday: Lunchtime at the Wiltshire Music Centre in Bradford-on-Avon, a fine young Russian pianist, Alexander Panfilov, in Debussy Estampes and Pictures at an Exhibition. Having listened to recordings of this work so often it was great finally to hear it live and in a stupendous performance.

[Pianorak]

Tonight - 1 May 2016, Reading Hexagon, RPO Thomas Dausgaard

Sibelius: Finlandia, Op. 26
Schumann: Piano Concerto Op. 54
Khatia Buniatishvili gave an outstanding performance, virtuosic and musical with some nice individual touches; excellent support from RPO and Dausgaard.
Didn't stay for Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4

[EdgeleyRob]

Tonight - 1 May 2016, Reading Hexagon, RPO Thomas Dausgaard

Sibelius: Finlandia, Op. 26
Schumann: Piano Concerto Op. 54
Khatia Buniatishvili gave an outstanding performance, virtuosic and musical with some nice individual touches; excellent support from RPO and Dausgaard.
Didn't stay for Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4

Khatia please record some Alkan,or better still come and play some near me,or in my front room

[Ferretfancy]

Last Saturday at the RFH,

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 4

Strauss An Alpine Symphony

Alexey Zuev / LPO / Jurowski

I was disappointed with the Rachmaninov. Jurowski seemed to be wanting to get it over with, and Zuev's performance sounded lumpy and poorly co-ordinated to me, but this may have been partly due to the poor seat I had booked.
At the interval I managed to secure an official seat move, and the Strauss sounded magnificent. From my new position everything snapped into focus and the offstage brass early on in the climb were great. I sometimes feel that the Alpine Symphony does better on CD than it does live, not for technical reasons but because somehow the thematic repetitions become less obvious when listening at home. On Saturday it certainly was a lovely wallow!