BBC Young Musician 2024

[gradus]

Shame that the cellist and the other violinist didn't get through, I would have replaced Zhang and Shahaf with him and her.

[Beresford]

We seem to have lost the post saying that the three "winners" in the semi final should in his/her opinion have been the three who did not progress, which is my view. I found the cellist and the harpist most moving, and the other violinist more interesting.

[Barbirollians]

We seem to have lost the post saying that the three "winners" in the semi final should in his/her opinion have been the three who did not progress, which is my view. I found the cellist and the harpist most moving, and the other violinist more interesting.

I should have been happy with either violinist Hugo and Jamaal . It seemed that the judges were blinded by the pianists technique especially the crossover playing pianist judge.

[Barbirollians]

Yunchan Lim they weren’t to my ears.

[DracoM]

Harpist for me.................

[jonfan]

We seem to have lost the post saying that the three "winners" in the semi final should in his/her opinion have been the three who did not progress, which is my view. I found the cellist and the harpist most moving, and the other violinist more interesting.

At #78 I mentioned the three ‘losers’ should have been the ‘winners’. Totally agree above. I trust concert promoters and record label producers can spot the true ‘winners’ as well.

[LMcD]

Grand Final Highlights (=?) 6.30 to 8.00 p.m. on BBC2 tomorrow, Full Concert 11.00 p.m. to 1.30 a.m. on BBC4 tomorrow/early Monday.

[oddoneout]

Grand Final Highlights (=?) 6.30 to 8.00 p.m. on BBC2 tomorrow, Full Concert 11.00 p.m. to 1.30 a.m. on BBC4 tomorrow/early Monday.

Gosh, they're really pulling the stops out to reach a wide audience and celebrate musical talent - not.
How much longer before it gets ditched altogether, or reduced to a "classical adjacent" talent show as appears to have happened to Choir of the Year.

[french frank]

Gosh, they're really pulling the stops out to reach a wide audience and celebrate musical talent - not.
How much longer before it gets ditched altogether, or reduced to a "classical adjacent" talent show as appears to have happened to Choir of the Year.

It's the whole problem with Sounds as the BBC's Get Out of Jail Free card. You have to be motivated to seek a programme out in the first place. That's not how you reach a new audience.

[Pulcinella]

It's the whole problem with Sounds as the BBC's Get Out of Jail Free card. You have to be motivated to seek a programme out in the first place. That's not how you reach a new audience.

We even have handy hints on the website: this, for example, for the broadcast just started on R3.

To listen on most smart speakers, just say: "Ask BBC Sounds to play Opera on 3."

[CallMePaul]

Tom service this morning said that the finalists were to play concerti by Rakhmaninov and Tchaikovsky. Do today's young musicians need to confine themselves to these overplayed, well-worn works? Are they not prepared to play something more adventurous? It hasn't always been like that in earlier years - Tom's plug has done what was not intended and made me decide not to watch or listen.

[Nick Armstrong]

Harpist for me.................

[smittims]

I agree with CallmePaul. It would be refreshing to hear Mozart or the Beethoven C major for a change, which are much more difficult to interpret than Rach and Tchaik. There's surely no keener test of concerto-musicianship than K482. There are many young pianists with dazzling, steel-fingered technique but not so many with musical intelligence.

[LMcD]

I agree with CallmePaul. It would be refreshing to hear Mozart or the Beethoven C major for a change, which are much more difficult to interpret than Rach and Tchaik. There's surely no keener test of concerto-musicianship than K482. There are many young pianists with dazzling, steel-fingered technique but not so many with musical intelligence.

If memory serves, Michel Dalberto won in Leeds 46 years ago with a performance of a Mozart concerto.

[Ein Heldenleben]

Tom service this morning said that the finalists were to play concerti by Rakhmaninov and Tchaikovsky. Do today's young musicians need to confine themselves to these overplayed, well-worn works? Are they not prepared to play something more adventurous? It hasn't always been like that in earlier years - Tom's plug has done what was not intended and made me decide not to watch or listen.

Apart from musical considerations in I’m not sure it’s a good idea for teenage still growing pianists to play Rach 3 (if that’s what it is ) or Tschak 1 . Rach 2 is less of a problem. Repetitive practising of the first two has RSI and burnout written all over it . What’s wrong with the Beethoven 1 -5 , Schumann , Chopin , Mozart late concertos - all musically superior.
The problem with this series is there aren’t enough judges and they are judging performers on a range of instruments they largely can’t play. Hence the terrible finalist selection - they seem easily seduced by the flashy rather than true musicianship.