What a Good Week on R3 Oct 22-28

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  • Petrushka
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 12307
    #1

    What a Good Week on R3 Oct 22-28

    Just been leafing through the radio pages for Radio 3 next week and what a very fine week it looks!

    Sunday's 'Radio 3 in Concert' has a performance of Mahler's 8th Symphony given at Lucerne with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly. Recordings from the Lucerne Festival make up the backbone of Afternoon on 3 with an all Dvorak concert from the COE and Bernard Haitink on Tuesday while Haitink pops up again on Wednesday, this time with the LFO in Bruckner's 8th.

    There's a fine looking concert from Liverpool with Petrenko and the RLPO on Wednesday evening while Tuesday has a promising BBCPO concert. I might even tune in for Thursday evening's Nash Ensemble concert. Friday evening's concert features Semyon Bychkov and the BBCSO in Tchaikovsky in what is actually the only live concert of the week (all the other evening concerts were recorded earlier).

    Opera buffs aren't neglected either with Verdi on Saturday and Wagner on Thursday.

    This looks as good a week on R3 as I've seen for a long, long time away from the Proms. Reason enough to feel that it's like 'the good old days' and the station is in excellent health.
    Last edited by Petrushka; 18-10-16, 21:13.
    "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30448
    #2
    Glad to see someone else is beginning to notice some difference! A way to go in some areas, but those concerts sound pretty good.
    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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    • Alison
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 6468
      #3
      Thanks for the heads up, Pet. I read a couple of good reviews of the Bruckner 8.

      Petrenko concerts are pretty much an obligatory listen too

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      • Petrushka
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 12307
        #4
        Originally posted by french frank View Post
        Glad to see someone else is beginning to notice some difference! A way to go in some areas, but those concerts sound pretty good.
        Of course, there are things that don't appeal to me just as some of the concerts I'm so looking forward to will not appeal to others but looking at next week's schedule as a whole there is plenty here all for kinds of R3 listeners.
        "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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        • jean
          Late member
          • Nov 2010
          • 7100
          #5
          Originally posted by Alison View Post
          Petrenko concerts are pretty much an obligatory listen too
          They are!

          I will be there on Sunday afternoon when they record this one, even though they are doing Rachmaninov's 2nd piano concerto.

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          • EdgeleyRob
            Guest
            • Nov 2010
            • 12180
            #6
            Originally posted by french frank View Post
            Glad to see someone else is beginning to notice some difference! A way to go in some areas, but those concerts sound pretty good.
            This week is pretty good for British music nuts.
            There's a mini fest going on,afternoon on 3.
            Not just the usual suspects,there's Lutyens,Jones,Mathias,Berkeley,Sullivan and more,some rare Elgar too
            Also Coleridge Taylor CotW
            If I'm being picky it would be nice to see some of this stuff given a prime time evening slot,but hey ho happy days.

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26569
              #7
              Plus a Building a Library on music and a composer I've never even heard OF, let alone ever heard!
              "...the isle is full of noises,
              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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              • BBMmk2
                Late Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 20908
                #8
                Looks fantastic Glad I'm off work at the moment! :)
                Don’t cry for me
                I go where music was born
                J S Bach 1685-1750

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                • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                  Gone fishin'
                  • Sep 2011
                  • 30163
                  #9
                  Originally posted by french frank View Post
                  Glad to see someone else is beginning to notice some difference! A way to go in some areas, but those concerts sound pretty good.
                  I've been meaning to post a similar message for a couple of weeks. At the beginning of this month, I was away from home using the car a lot, and had taken CDs with me - but whatever I heard during that week after 10:30 caught my attention so much, that none of the discs were played; something that hasn't happened in many years! It helped that a certain afternoon presenter was also away for most of that time, but even her announcement that Bach's Double Concerto "rocked" didn't revolt me from staying with the station. A lot of unfamiliar (to me) repertoire, together with excellent performances of more famous works - pretty much impeccable broadcasting.
                  [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26569
                    #10
                    Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
                    Recordings from the Lucerne Festival make up the backbone of Afternoon on 3 ....
                    With the additional huge benefit of being presented by the exemplary Jonathan Swain and Penny Gore

                    And Ian Skelly on 'Breakfast' duty all week.

                    Yes, going to be listening to R3 more than usual next week.
                    "...the isle is full of noises,
                    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                    • jean
                      Late member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 7100
                      #11
                      Originally posted by jean View Post
                      I will be there on Sunday afternoon when they record this one, even though they are doing Rachmaninov's 2nd piano concerto.
                      The Symphonic Dances are particularly fine.

                      But when you hear it on Wednesday, please don't blame me for the idiot who starts to applaud before the last note has died away.

                      (Vasily wasn't pleased. You can always tell.)

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                      • Petrushka
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 12307
                        #12
                        Originally posted by jean View Post
                        The Symphonic Dances are particularly fine.

                        But when you hear it on Wednesday, please don't blame me for the idiot who starts to applaud before the last note has died away.

                        (Vasily wasn't pleased. You can always tell.)
                        Always a problem with the Symphonic Dances particularly if the conductor chooses to have the final tam-tam crash fade away.
                        "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                        • Frances_iom
                          Full Member
                          • Mar 2007
                          • 2415
                          #13
                          Did anyone listen to the Mahler Resurrection symphony on Sunday evening - must admit the opening section was such an unpleasant melange of over pushed voices I turned off tho resampled a later movement where things seemed more under control - possibly it was the sound engineering rather than the actual performers but it didn't come over well

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26569
                            #14
                            Originally posted by Frances_iom View Post
                            Did anyone listen to the Mahler Resurrection symphony on Sunday evening?
                            No but I did listen to a bit of Mahler 8 broadcast on Radio 3!

                            It sounded congested too! The orchestral passages were good though, at the start of Part 2.
                            "...the isle is full of noises,
                            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                            • Frances_iom
                              Full Member
                              • Mar 2007
                              • 2415
                              #15
                              mea culpa - yes it was #8 that of a thousand ! don't know why I mixed it up tho I only really listened to final half + am not a Mahler enthusiast.

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