R3 Live in Concert 5/5/16 - RLPO/Manze in Vaughan Williams

[aeolium]

Something to look forward to this evening for those who have admired Andrew Manze's VW symphony performances:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b078xlbn

[Alison]

Thanks, I might have missed this.

Really like the programme and the final work status accorded to the Pastoral

[Stanley Stewart]

Indeed, I've just transferred a back-up print of Manze's PROMS performances of the later symphonies to DVD. Much enlightened, too, by Keith Alldritt's recent biography, VW, Composer, Radical Patriot,(Robert Hale, 2016) despite a few howlers which passed the editing stage - my pleasure also enhanced by now being able to sit and read in the garden again after months of hibernation!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Tenor solo, too. (I've waited years to hear a performance with this option. Seems logical for a work associated with the deaths of so many young men.)

[Bryn]

Tenor solo, too. (I've waited years to hear a performance with this option. Seems logical for a work associated with the deaths of so many young men.)

For RN, it's the trumpeters girlfriend:

A pity he did not record the work with 'his' Stuttgarters or the DSOB. The LPO recording is one i am fond of, but his control of the wobbling fingers was not much in evidence at the time.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

For RN, it's the trumpeters girlfriend

Well, it could equally "be" the trumpeter's boyfriend, of course.

[Bryn]

Well, it could equally "be" the trumpeter's boyfriend, of course.

Indeed, but would RVW have wanted 'his' trumpeter branded a criminal?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Indeed, but would RVW have wanted 'his' trumpeter branded a criminal?

He'd've probably gone to court to testify on his behalf - after all, he himself suggested the Tenor option

[Richard Barrett]

Tenor solo, too. (I've waited years to hear a performance with this option. Seems logical for a work associated with the deaths of so many young men.)

Clarinet is the thing IMO.

[Nick Armstrong]

Clarinet is the thing IMO.

Tenor solo, too. (I've waited years to hear a performance with this option. Seems logical for a work associated with the deaths of so many young men.)

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Jennifer Johnston, mezzo-soprano
Andrew Manze, conductor

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

For RN, it's the trumpeters girlfriend

That's actually quite a naff introduction to the work, I thought: if I didn't know the piece and this was all I had in the way of introduction, I wouldn't've given it a chance!

A pity he did not record the work with 'his' Stuttgarters or the DSOB.

Yes - I was immediately struck by the string sound in the extracts in the video, and wanted to hear more.

BUT - and I can't find my score, so I'm relying on memory here - the trumpet solo was using fingering: isn't he supposed to treat the instrument as a bugle and use natural harmonics at this point? (I can't help feeling I'm wrong, because RN is scrupulous about such matters.)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Clarinet is the thing IMO.

Ooh! There's radical! I've been imagining a tenor voice for years, but I've never tried taking the Clarinet option seriously ...

[Stanley Stewart]

Have checked the Proms brochure - a photocopy always useful for DVD covers - and see that that Andrew Manze conducted the BBC Scottish SO in Symphonies, 4,5 and 6; Prom 46,
16 Aug 2012; three differently powerful works of the 1930s and 1940s.

During a reading and gardening session, this morning, I've done DVD transfers of Tony Palmer's, O Thou Transcendent, (2007) and add John Bridcut's Passions of VW in due course, before completing the trio with Ken Russell's South Bank Show with Ursula VW as an on - screen mentor throughout.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Jennifer Johnston, mezzo-soprano
Andrew Manze, conductor

They've changed it!! Honestly - it named a tenor soloist this morning!!!

It did - I wouldn't've got quite so all excited if it hadn't.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Honestly - it DID!



And anyroadup - what's a mezzo-soprano doing singing it?