Live in Concert INTERVALS

[ardcarp]

I know this has been discussed before, but to me, any music plyed in an interval is de trop, but tonight?

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarghhhh

Playing various naff pop/electronic versions of Pictures at an Exhibition just before Sunwook Kim played it was a gross error in taste and judgement (and I'm not even going to add 'IMO') Did the artist know this was going to happen? It seems designed to belittle both the piece and him.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

It's like the Spa Theatre in Bridlington, where they play loud, naff and inappropriate music throughout the interval of very production, musical or otherwise.

But BBC Radio 3 should know better.

[DracoM]

UTTERLY AGREE! Would have endangered the licence fee renewal on its own.

[Flosshilde]

Sometimes the interval music is more interesting (for me) than the concert itself. A pity they don't give it on the weekly schedule (I know they do in information about each concert)

[Alison]

Sometimes the interval music is more interesting (for me) than the concert itself. A pity they don't give it on the weekly schedule (I know they do in information about each concert)

There was much to be said for those esoteric talks of yesteryear.

[DracoM]

Absolutely, Alison.

[teamsaint]

There was much to be said for those esoteric talks of yesteryear.

good plan.

or make a cuppa.

Actually, can you buy those little pots of ice cream , that they flog for £3 a pop at concert halls, from supermarkets?
A supply in the freezer would be great.

I might get a big box in at Proms time.

[Alison]

Like the ice cream idea Sainty. My mum calls them tubs.

[cloughie]

Like the ice cream idea Sainty. My mum calls them tubs.

Yes Alison they were tubs when I was a kid and before the flat wooden spoons came along we had to fold the cardboard lid and use it as a spoon! And I agree about interval music - at pop/rock concert they have to have music before and in the interval and at the end - surely going to a concert you want to absorb the music from the musicians you paid to see.

[Lento]

Sometimes OK if one is only listening only to one half of a concert, I find. My heart sinks when I see Pictures programmed yet again (particularly by pianists).

[french frank]

Sometimes OK if one is only listening only to one half of a concert, I find. My heart sinks when I see Pictures programmed yet again (particularly by pianists).

Yes, in those circumstances I suppose you could have stopped listening before the pianist played it. Me, I prefer the piano version if the work is to be played at all. I certainly wouldn't have wanted one of R3's great ideas for 'Doing It Differently' - whatever 'It' is.

[ahinton]

Yes, in those circumstances I suppose you could have stopped listening before the pianist played it. Me, I prefer the piano version if the work is to be played at all. I certainly wouldn't have wanted one of R3's great ideas for 'Doing It Differently' - whatever 'It' is.

I know that the original version is widely praised - and i've heard it played by many a great pianist over the years - but I still cannot help finding it to be dull and clumsy piano writing, even though the music itself is so marvellously evocative. Of the many so many versions of it that I've heard, nothing quite comes up to the one that Elgar Howarth wrote for the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.

[Nick Armstrong]

Of the many so many versions of it that I've heard, nothing quite comes up to the one that Elgar Howarth wrote for the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.

I did a little sideways shuffle and put a comment about versions here: http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...232#post472232

[Stanfordian]

It's like the Spa Theatre in Bridlington, where they play loud, naff and inappropriate music throughout the interval of very production, musical or otherwise.

But BBC Radio 3 should know better.

It's like the Spa Theatre in Bridlington, where they play loud, naff and inappropriate music throughout the interval of very production, musical or otherwise.

Hiya Eine Alpensinfonie, You say "But BBC Radio 3 should know better" I say "Not these days."

[ardcarp]

I too have grown weary of Pictures on the piano. It was a most original and arresting idea of Modest's, but as has often been said, it's not especially pianistic, and can end up as a tiring-on-the-ear rant in the hands of some. IMHO it is one of those rarities which is greatly improved by orchestral colour. When Henry Wood's orchestration was played a few years ago, I was amazed at how the moods of many of the 'pictures' had elicited an almost identical response from Wood and Ravel.