Summer Night concert, VPO/Bychkov - BBC Four

[Nick Armstrong]

Very good Daphnis & Chloë extracts currently on BBC Four....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/bbcfour

... followed by Boléro.... presenter Katie Derham

But worth hearing the Vienna Phil under Bychkov anyway. He is a funny-looking cove, but he can't half conduct

[pastoralguy]

Nice to see Sophie on faggott...

[Nick Armstrong]

Nice to see Sophie on faggott...

Are you sure you're watching the same channel?

[pastoralguy]

Are you sure you're watching the same channel?

Oh yes. I'm playing 'count the females in the Vienna Phil' too...

[Rue Dubac]

It's a good game. I only caught the last twenty minutes or so, but think I saw three? A record?
I did like the audience dancing to Wiener Blut, though.
However, pastoralguy, your allusion has lost me. Don't know Sophie...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Here we have the ultimate Champions' League orchestra performing "live" and yet we resort to counting the women. We'll be playing the music backwards next.

[Nick Armstrong]

we resort to counting the women

Not in this house we don't! It never occurs to me to do so.

[ardcarp]

Daphnis and Chloe excellent. On paper the trickiest of tonight's fare to conduct, BUT imagine attempting to wave the stick to Viener Blut in front of that lot? Amused at attempts to dance...in paroxysmal 3-legged donkey fashion.

[pastoralguy]

It's a good game. I only caught the last twenty minutes or so, but think I saw three? A record?
I did like the audience dancing to Wiener Blut, though.
However, pastoralguy, your allusion has lost me. Don't know Sophie...

Sophie Dartigalongue is a French bassoonist who was a familiar face when she was principle contra-bassoon of Die Berliner Philharmoniker. Lots of folk in the bassoon world were surprised that she had been appointed principle bassoon of the Vienna Philharmonic. I believe she was the first woman ever to gain a position as a principle wind player.

[ardcarp]

principle wind player.

Glad she had principles! An amoral bassoonist...perish the thought.

[Bryn]

Glad she had principles! An amoral bassoonist...perish the thought.

[Nick Armstrong]

"MOD-U-LATE.... MOD-U-LATE"

[Keraulophone]

Chief Conductor of the Gerry Anderson Philharmonic:

[Richard Tarleton]

But worth hearing the Vienna Phil under Bychkov anyway. He is a funny-looking cove, but he can't half conduct

His much-missed conductor brother Yakov Kreizberg was much better looking. A sad tale - I saw Yakov twice in Cardiff, both times conducting Mahler 5 (with different orchestras).

[Nick Armstrong]

His much-missed conductor brother Yakov Kreizberg was much better looking. A sad tale - I saw Yakov twice in Cardiff, both times conducting Mahler 5 (with different orchestras).

I had no idea they were brothers. Sad, indeed.