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I'd love to go to the first, but I'll be sitting at my stall in St John's churchyard, selling my wares, so it will be the radio or iPlayer for it. I might manage to get away for at least one Bach cello suite in St Cuthbert's next door (an annual event in the Fringe programme).Originally posted by doversoul View PostAnyone for this? (don’t bother to reply. I know the answer….
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Live from the Queens Hall, countertenor Iestyn Davies is joined by Richard Egarr and Ensemble Guadagni, for a concert of English Baroque music for royal occasions, dances and feasts
How about this?
Monday
One of Britain's finest singers, Sarah Connelly, and acclaimed pianist Malcolm Martineau perform a richly romantic programme of songs and lieder contrasting the fin-de-siècle Vienna of Schoenberg, Zemlinsky and Strauss with the cool eroticism of Debussy and eccentricity of Poulenc. as well as works by Austrian émigré composers Eisler and Korngold live from the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh. Presented by Donald Macleod
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Thank you. I must catch up.Comment
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I will certainly listen to the Wednesday concert at some point ds.Originally posted by doversoul View PostAnyone for this? (don’t bother to reply. I know the answer….)
Wednesday
Live from the Queens Hall, countertenor Iestyn Davies is joined by Richard Egarr and Ensemble Guadagni, for a concert of English Baroque music for royal occasions, dances and feasts
How about this?
Monday
One of Britain's finest singers, Sarah Connelly, and acclaimed pianist Malcolm Martineau perform a richly romantic programme of songs and lieder contrasting the fin-de-siècle Vienna of Schoenberg, Zemlinsky and Strauss with the cool eroticism of Debussy and eccentricity of Poulenc. as well as works by Austrian émigré composers Eisler and Korngold live from the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh. Presented by Donald Macleod
EdgeleyRob #11
Thank you. I must catch up.Comment
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The taller and more imposing the better, surely?Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
I would have thought it very important that the maestro (or maestra) is clearly visible to those in the deeper rows of the orchestra, never mind any awe-struck podium-gazers in the audience.
However, I don't like them too large or obese as they can block the audiences view of some lovely woodwind players.
Btw, BBC News 24 seems to think the Edinburgh Festival represents solely the over-bloated, parasitical Fringe with its hundreds of budding amateur comedians/comediennes and the inevitable foreign clowns and jugglers strutting their stuff in the Capital's famous old cobbled streets and wynds. Shots of fascinated -looking Japanese and American tourists wisely donning ankle-length raincoats are also much to the fore.
I can't remember seeing clips of conductors/musicians of any size at Official music events.Comment
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Do you (pl.) think we can get back to (and stay on) the music of the Festival mostly broadcast on R3, as this is on the Performance Board?Comment
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I'm sure that those who like to indulge in negative social stereotyping would be just as happy to do so on Platform3.
Sorry to labour the point DS and Pastoralguy, but this stuff does matter.
( and FWIW my comments have been much more restrained than those that I really felt like making).I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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No need. I live it every day, according to my family, friends, and acquaintances.Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
Seriously, no, I didn't. I went down by train for the day, as it's been some time since I visited Edinburgh (where I lived for many of my formative years) or the Festival. The Festival and Fringe have grown amazingly - some might say alarmingly - since my first visits in the 60s. Edinburgh is bearing up well under the strain of its August excesses, but of course much goes on all the year round, at the Usher Hall, Queen's Hall, and Georgian Concert Society, to name only three.Comment
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Hi there. I've sent you a private message. It's really just to say that, if you're quick, you might get a ticket for this concert. We got two this morning.Originally posted by verismissimo View PostOff to Edinburgh next week. The only music I'm attracted to is Ivan Fischer and his Budapesters in Mozart's Requiem - but it's sold out.
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I very much enjoyed Vaughan Williams's Piano Quintet.Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View Post
I hope you’ll be able to listen to Wednesdy’s recital. There are many excellent countertenors active today in opera and choirs but I think countertenors who can pull off a solo recital or a CD are still very rare. Iestyn Davies is, I think, one of those very few.Comment
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I enjoyed this but the best thing was (with no disrespect to Richard Egarr’s oerformance)
Stamitz: Sinfonia a 4 in D major
in the interval. There was a single clap during English Suite. Poor soul must have been terribly embarrassed.
Richard Egarr performs a selection of JS Bach's English and French Suites for harpsichord, live from the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh
Did anyone listen to Sarah Connelly yesterday?Comment
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Absolutely wonderful,wholeheartedly recommended,thanks Doversoul.Comment
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There was a very fine recital yesterday morning (26th August) from the Queens Hall, Edinburgh. (Edinburgh Festival). An all Brahms programme given by Leonidas Kavokos (vln) and Yuja Wang (pno), in which they played all three of the Brahms violin sonatas, with a Scherzo added as an encore. (FAE Sonata). I was particularly taken by the fiddle playing. He has a nice Strad, and it was performed with excellent musicianship, sound and intonation.
(Note for Pasturalguy ... lovely piano playing too, and you would have enjoyed her very short skirt (Ms Wang's of course)
which I could see was quite revealing on the radio). (But I mustn't get you too excited!)Comment
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