Butterworth orch Brookes on TtN

[Guest]

THURSDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2015
00:30 Through the Night (b05302vd)
British Symphonies: Vaughan Williams's Symphony No 3
British Symphonies: John Shea presents a programme of
Butterworth and Vaughan Williams's Third Symphony from the
2014 BBC Proms.
12:31 AM
Stephan, Rudi [1887-1915]
Music for orchestra
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
12:48 AM
Kelly, Frederick Septimus [1881-1916]
Elegy (in memoriam Rupert Brooke) for strings
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
12:59 AM
Butterworth, George [1885-1916]
6 Songs from 'A Shropshire lad', arr. for voice and
orchestra
Roderick Williams (baritone), BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
Not mentioned as such but this is Brookes' orchestration
1:15 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph [1872-1958]
Pastoral symphony (Symphony no.3)
Allan Clayton (tenor), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Andrew Manze (conductor)

[Nick Armstrong]

Not mentioned as such but this is Brookes' orchestration

The same failing is evident in the YouTube presentation of the entire performance at that Prom (you can switch it to 720p HD quality)

[french frank]

Good that it's on - but a mention would have been nice ...

[Pabmusic]

I don't want my name emphasised: it's GSKB's music, after all. Still, it is nice to be acknowledged.

It's been sufficiently long since the Proms performance that I can reveal that Andrew Manze made a few amendments to my score because of concerns about the vast barn that is the RAH. (It was all done with my approval.)

The most drastic was to play the 'ghost' sections of "Is my team ploughing?" with 16 strings, 4 per part, rather than the quartet I'd written for. It should be string quartet, con sordini, sul ponticelli and senza vibrato.

Mark Elder performed it as written (at the RAM on 13th February) and everything worked very well (the conductor in Ottawa last November was equally successful) so perhaps Andrew Manze was over-cautious.

[Barbirollians]

I look forward to hearing a performance of all the songs in Pab's orchestrations on R3

[Roehre]

I look forward to hearing a performance of all the songs in Pab's orchestrations on R3

Makes a lot of us, methinks

[kernelbogey]

I caught this by complete chance last night on TTN - had forgotten about this thread - but who knows what subterranean infuences were at work in my unconscious at that hour: I had just had the pleasure of meeting Pabs for coffee, not in Capiz alas, but in the steamy confines of Costa in Chandler's Ford.

I will listen again, particularly as I wasn't familiar with the work in its original form. I think Roderick Williams is a superb artist, and his articulation was particularly clear, given the acoustic. I was struck by the very long silence at the end of the work before applause broke in: a tribute to the artistry of all concerned, including of course, Pabs.

He was fully acknowledged as arranger in the back announcement this morning.

Edit: and in the TTN listing on the website.