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  • edashtav
    Full Member
    • Jul 2012
    • 3668

    Originally posted by JasonPalmer View Post
    I like the look of this evening’s concert, will try squeeze in some listening between childcare duties.
    Anna Clyne Overture ‘Masquerade’
    This is a bobby dazzler of a work which made such a good impression in the virtuoso first performance by the BBC SO under Marin Alsop at the Proms about a decade ago. It is exultant, exuberant, energetic and high octane. Its scoring is heavy and the volume level is often loud but the texture never sounds thick. Individual instruments often have their own material which returns frequently so once the basic units have been learned, putting the work together is akin to assembling a patterned brick wall. The conductor’s job is to co-ordinate, maintain momentum, balance and clean rhythms but avoid slackening of tension or allowing players to get over-excited and run away from the pack.

    This evening on R.3, American James Feddeck conducted the BBC NOW in a performance recorded live in Cardiff last week. How did they fare?

    Well, for this listener, the fireworks failed to glitter brightly. I felt the tempo was a tad slow and there was a gloss, perhaps an American smoothness, that emphasised thematic content over percussive drive. Lack of frisson dulled the impact of the whole.

    I heard the laidback start of Tchaikovsky’s 1st Piano Concerto and decided it was time to cook dinner.

    I shall try and return for the Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances.

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    • JasonPalmer
      Full Member
      • Dec 2022
      • 826

      Well, i am enjoying it, anyway.
      Annoyingly listening to and commenting on radio 3...

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      • edashtav
        Full Member
        • Jul 2012
        • 3668

        Originally posted by JasonPalmer View Post
        Well, i am enjoying it, anyway.
        Probably, fair comment. Listening to the Concerto on my kitchen radio made me revise my hasty opinion. The soloist showed his soul and brought out the poetry of the work’s reflective moments with #kill and a personal inflection.

        Too much red wine left me needing to catch up with Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances later.

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        • JasonPalmer
          Full Member
          • Dec 2022
          • 826

          Just catching Elgar: Symphony No 2 now, seems interesting....
          Annoyingly listening to and commenting on radio 3...

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          • JasonPalmer
            Full Member
            • Dec 2022
            • 826

            Live from the barbican this evening and looks a good line up, french frank is fiddling with her macs while i relax and just tune in. Hurrah for radio
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            • JasonPalmer
              Full Member
              • Dec 2022
              • 826

              Excellent looking conert this evening. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001m58t
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              • HighlandDougie
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 3081

                Indeed. Much enjoyed the first half then supper intervened. So ‘Don Quixote’ will have to wait until tomorrow.

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                • edashtav
                  Full Member
                  • Jul 2012
                  • 3668

                  Originally posted by HighlandDougie View Post
                  Indeed. Much enjoyed the first half then supper intervened. So ‘Don Quixote’ will have to wait until tomorrow.
                  I enjoyed a young man’s brisk interpretation of Mozart’s Eb symphony.

                  Don Quixote was good in parts but I wanted more risk and maniacal fire from the cello soloist - I could not get Paul Tortelier out of my ears and eyes!

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                  • JasonPalmer
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2022
                    • 826

                    Interesting concert this evening though the wife wants me to browse iplayer for things we can watch "together"....
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                    • Maclintick
                      Full Member
                      • Jan 2012
                      • 1065

                      Listened-in to wireless R3 yesterday evening for the first part of the NDR Philharmonic concert conducted by Andrew Manze, specifically for the performance of Tippett's Second Symphony. I'm not inclined to delve at length into this or that aspect of the performance, which was for the most part very good, but to rejoice that this fantastical re-invention of the classical Beethovenian 4 movt symphony is played anywhere these days, as it surely deserves to be.

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                      • JasonPalmer
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2022
                        • 826

                        Enjoying Haydn: Symphony No. 44 in E minor, Hob. I:44 ('Mourning')
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                        • Ein Heldenleben
                          Full Member
                          • Apr 2014
                          • 6754

                          This Boris Giltburg Rach 3 with the BBC SO and Oramo is very very good. His touch , tonal control, phrasing , dynamic and pulse control are something else. Wonderful rubato which Oramo and the band are following beautifully.

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26523

                            Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post
                            This Boris Giltburg Rach 3 with the BBC SO and Oramo is very very good. His touch , tonal control, phrasing , dynamic and pulse control are something else. Wonderful rubato which Oramo and the band are following beautifully.
                            It was a cracking concert from start to finish. Close to my ideal programme - three of my very favourite pieces in one sitting, and one of my favourite conductors. Happily, recorded for regular listening

                            Pity they’re not repeating it at the Proms…
                            "...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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                            • JasonPalmer
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2022
                              • 826

                              Hope to catch this evenings concert, with so little worth watching on tv i am becoming a regular to radio 3 concerts.
                              Annoyingly listening to and commenting on radio 3...

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                              • JasonPalmer
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2022
                                • 826

                                That was an excellent concert, hope to catch the end of tonights concert after putting my son to bed. Hurrah for radio 3
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