Sir Colin Davis BBC4 TV tribute programmes: Friday 3.5.13

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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26540

    Sir Colin Davis BBC4 TV tribute programmes: Friday 3.5.13

    Including a new hour-long interview from earlier this year.

    Sir Colin Davis with love

    In Performance BBC4 7:30pm - 8pm

    Petroc Trelawny pays tribute to acclaimed classical music conductor Colin Davis, who died last month at the age of 85. The programme includes footage from his Davis' televised concert at the 2011 Proms, in which he conducted part of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and the London Philharmonic Chorus. With soloists Helena Juntunen, Sarah Connolly, Paul Groves and Matthew Rose.

    In his own words BBC4 8pm - 9pm

    An interview with Colin Davis, filmed shortly before his death. The conductor - who shot to fame in the 1960s as Malcolm Sargent's successor at The Proms - talks to John Bridcut about his life, beliefs and musical passions.
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

  • Andrew Slater
    Full Member
    • Mar 2007
    • 1794

    #2
    Many thanks for the alert.

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    • BBMmk2
      Late Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 20908

      #3
      Cheers Cali!!
      Don’t cry for me
      I go where music was born

      J S Bach 1685-1750

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      • salymap
        Late member
        • Nov 2010
        • 5969

        #4
        Thanks for that Cali. I was going to mention it today as I saw it in the Radio Times.

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        • aeolium
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 3992

          #5
          Many thanks for pointing this up. Perhaps a copy could go on the tribute thread on the Talking About Music board, for those MBers who never scan these depths

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26540

            #6
            Originally posted by aeolium View Post
            Many thanks for pointing this up. Perhaps a copy could go on the tribute thread on the Talking About Music board, for those MBers who never scan these depths
            "...the isle is full of noises,
            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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            • salymap
              Late member
              • Nov 2010
              • 5969

              #7
              BBC4 tonight for the two films about Sir Colin Davis.

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              • Il Grande Inquisitor
                Full Member
                • Mar 2007
                • 961

                #8
                The Prom concert which Sir Colin was due to conduct is now to be dedicated to him. Daniel Harding takes charge, with Elgar 2 replacing Sibelius 2 in the programme:

                BBC Proms has announced that one of its forthcoming concerts will be dedicated to the memory of conductor Sir Colin Davis, who died in April.


                An even finer tribute in Dresden next week, where the Staatskapelle gives a free concert, conducted by Robin Ticciati, to remember Sir Colin, their conductor laureate.

                Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency....

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26540

                  #9
                  Originally posted by salymap View Post
                  BBC4 tonight for the two films about Sir Colin Davis.
                  Nice bump, saly
                  "...the isle is full of noises,
                  Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                  Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                  Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                  • Serial_Apologist
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 37710

                    #10
                    Classical music on Tv never does it for me (unless it's opera), but I'll be watching the second programme - fits in nicely with the evening's offerings.

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                    • aka Calum Da Jazbo
                      Late member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 9173

                      #11
                      he won me over completely, not really known him at all well before, a new hero to treasure for me
                      According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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                      • Eine Alpensinfonie
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 20570

                        #12
                        What a wonderful programme. Moving and informative.

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                        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                          Gone fishin'
                          • Sep 2011
                          • 30163

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                          What a wonderful programme. Moving and informative.
                          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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