Inexplicably, what major works have you not seen in concert?

[Old Grumpy]

Explicably, loads!

Things to do, places to go, people to see...

OG

[Bryn]

You were at Boult 1966!!??

Up in the Gallery, to the right of the organ (as seen from stalls). The image of the thunder sheet as it rocked the balustrade to which it was attached back and forward is etched on my memory. I was waiting expectantly for the balustrade to succumb. In preparation I had taken my mother's Van Der Molen reel to reel tape recorder round to a friend's house (his father had a very decent FM tuner) and he recorded the broadcast for me too. It was the lack of difference in audio quality between that tape and the eventual Testament CD release which first alerted me to dodgy provenance of the latter, i.e. it was sourced from the wrong end of the broadcast. Damn it, they did not even bother to notch filter out the 19kHz stereo multiplex giveaway.

[Serial_Apologist]

Up in the Gallery, to the right of the organ (as seen from stalls). The image of the thunder sheet as it rocked the balustrade to which it was attached back and forward is etched on my memory. I was waiting expectantly for the balustrade to succumb. In preparation I had taken my mother's Van Der Molen reel to reel tape recorder round to a friend's house (his father had a very decent FM tuner) and he recorded the broadcast for me too. It was the lack of difference in audio quality between that tape and the eventual Testament CD release which first alerted me to dodgy provenance of the latter, i.e. it was sourced from the wrong end of the broadcast. Damn it, they did not even bother to notch filter out the 19kHz stereo multiplex giveaway.

I'm glad you told me that, as I'd seriously been considering getting it. I too had a reel-to-reel of the Boult Prom - surprisingly good, considering it was mono, and less sound-compressed than the 2011 broadcast.

[HighlandDougie]

Not been to any Bruckner work at all!

You mean that you've never experienced that thrilling moment in the final movement of the 5th symphony when the brass belt out the chorale?? Tsk, tsk - we must do something about this!

[teamsaint]

Yes, never heard one live . Played in No. 3, but never heard anyone else...!

Thursday June 8.

Philharmonia and Dohnányi in Schumann 2, with the very nice Till Felner / Mozart #20

In my diary.

Also in June on 29th, RVW Sea Symphony/Elgar Cello Concerto, Philharmonia with the Bach Choir , Sally Matthews and Roderick Williams.

[silvestrione]

Inexplicably, I've never been to Mahler 9. How can that be, since its always been such an important work for me?

I'm amazed also at some of the things I have been to:

Birtwistle's Gawain twice
Tippett Masque of Time twice
Messaien Chronochromie
Arrau playing Beethoven op 111 three times
etc

[Dave2002]

Yes, never heard one live . Played in No. 3, but never heard anyone else...!

Did you wear ear plugs so as to avoid hearing the performance you were part of?