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[oddoneout]

Been entertaining guests so just tuning in now, its the interval and they playing a violin piece...


In a concert from City Halls, Glasgow, Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's 4th Symphony, for which they are joined by glimmering soprano, Sally Matthews. Before that Steven Osborne joins for Wigglesworth's own Piano Concerto. And the concert opens with a rare chance to hear the Heroic Overture by Johanna Müller-Hermann: neglected for many years, it is gaining a reputation as a forgotten masterpiece.

More Johanna Muller-Hermann according to the schedule.

[JasonPalmer]

This evening looks good....
Dark Visions, Milky Ways

Radio 3 in Concert


The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Afkham in Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony and Messiaen's Offrandes oubliées, and Nicholas Daniel is the cor anglais soloist for Tarkiainen's starry Milky Ways.

Live at the Barbican London, presented by Martin Handley

[Alison]

Enjoyed Milky Ways; was in the mood for DSCH10 tonight but found the performance a bit literal and ultimately uninspiring. Lots of yelling at the end to suggest I was in the minority.

[JasonPalmer]

Looking good this evening.

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales launches a new series exploring the works of Grace Williams. Despite being one of Wales's greatest composers, Williams has never reached the fame that she deserves and many of her works have been left sadly neglected. This concert concludes with her ambitious Second Symphony, a work which shows the full breadth of Williams's orchestral writing prowess. The first half showcases the Orchestra's Composer Affiliate, Sarah Lianne Lewis, with the world premiere of her piece 'The sky didn't fall', which takes inspiration from the opening lines of a Kerry Hardie poem, and following that the Orchestra pays tribute to the late Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho with the suite which she created from her opera about the pioneering mathematician and......

[PatrickMurtha]

Been entertaining guests so just tuning in now, its the interval and they playing a violin piece...


In a concert from City Halls, Glasgow, Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's 4th Symphony, for which they are joined by glimmering soprano, Sally Matthews. Before that Steven Osborne joins for Wigglesworth's own Piano Concerto. And the concert opens with a rare chance to hear the Heroic Overture by Johanna Müller-Hermann: neglected for many years, it is gaining a reputation as a forgotten masterpiece.

The Muller-Hermann overture struck me as conventional, but I rather liked her Violin Sonata that was played at the interval. I appreciated that the Wigglesworth Concerto was introspective, not at all showy.

[PatrickMurtha]

I am just now listening to the performance of Franz Schmidt’s Symphony No. 2 in the October 23 broadcast. It very much deserves this exposure. That glowing opening - ! Schmidt is one of the unacknowledged great symphonists; all four of his symphonies are top-notch. (A similar case is his near-contemporary Albéric Magnard, also with four.)

[PatrickMurtha]

Wednesday, November 1: Sofia Gubaidulina’s second violin concerto, In tempus praesens, is intense and impressive, with a killer ending that I immediately re-played. The young violinist Tobias Feldmann sounds fully up to the technical challenges of the work; as he says in the interview, the violin is very “exposed”. The accompanying orchestra unusually contains no violins, only the other strings.

This is my second go at Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Symphony No. 7, and I got a lot more out of it this time thanks to John Storgards’ persuasive conducting. Although Rautavaara disclaims any particular influence from Sibelius, it would be hard not to hear this specific work as post-Sibelian.

[Pulcinella]

Wednesday, November 1: Sofia Gubaidulina’s second violin concerto, In tempus praesens, is intense and impressive, with a killer ending that I immediately re-played. The young violinist Tobias Feldmann sounds fully up to the technical challenges of the work; as he says in the interview, the violin is very “exposed”. The accompanying orchestra unusually contains no violins, only the other strings.

This is my second go at Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Symphony No. 7, and I got a lot more out of it this time thanks to John Storgards’’ persuasive conducting. Although Rautavaara disclaims any particular influence from Sibelius, it would be hard not to hear this specific work as post-Sibelian.

I'm pretty sure that it was in a performance (maybe even a Prom?) of Offertorium in which Rattle, conducting, held the soloist and orchestra for several seconds (on a high note for the soloist) while some passing siren (ambulance/fire engine) went by. It was almost surreal!

[PatrickMurtha]

I'm pretty sure that it was in a performance (maybe even a Prom?) of Offertorium in which Rattle, conducting, held the soloist and orchestra for several seconds (on a high note for the soloist) while some passing siren (ambulance/fire engine went by. It was almost surreal!

Accidents like that should be incorporated into scores like that thereafter, because they fit.

[Maclintick]

I'm pretty sure that it was in a performance (maybe even a Prom?) of Offertorium in which Rattle, conducting, held the soloist and orchestra for several seconds (on a high note for the soloist) while some passing siren (ambulance/fire engine) went by. It was almost surreal!

Your memory doesn't deceive you, Pulcie. That performance of Offertorium was given at a CBSO Prom in Sept '91 by its commissioner and dedicatee Gidon Kremer. Prokofiev 5th Symphony in the second half.

[Pulcinella]

Your memory doesn't deceive you, Pulcie. That performance of Offertorium was given at a CBSO Prom in Sept '91 by its commissioner and dedicatee Gidon Kremer. Prokofiev 5th Symphony in the second half.

[PatrickMurtha]

Looking good this evening.

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales launches a new series exploring the works of Grace Williams. Despite being one of Wales's greatest composers, Williams has never reached the fame that she deserves and many of her works have been left sadly neglected. This concert concludes with her ambitious Second Symphony, a work which shows the full breadth of Williams's orchestral writing prowess. The first half showcases the Orchestra's Composer Affiliate, Sarah Lianne Lewis, with the world premiere of her piece 'The sky didn't fall', which takes inspiration from the opening lines of a Kerry Hardie poem, and following that the Orchestra pays tribute to the late Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho with the suite which she created from her opera about the pioneering mathematician and......

The Williams, which I had experienced in an earlier performance under Owain Arwel Hughes, is the best work of hers that I have heard (although I also like the Violin Concerto). It is quite interesting to learn that she studied under Egon Wellesz. I will bet that added a little European sophistication to her style. It was a smart move on her part, akin to Vaughan Williams studying with Ravel.

I have heard about equivalent amounts of the music of Williams and Ruth Gipps, and I have to assert that Williams is considerably the superior composer. Although Gipps has some pleasant pieces, her strident anti-Modernism did not serve her well; a lot of her music is just not forceful or memorable.

[Petrushka]

Your memory doesn't deceive you, Pulcie. That performance of Offertorium was given at a CBSO Prom in Sept '91 by its commissioner and dedicatee Gidon Kremer. Prokofiev 5th Symphony in the second half.

I was at that Prom but don't recall the particular incident mentioned. I do, however, remember that the actor, Daniel Massey, was sitting next to me.

[PatrickMurtha]

I was at that Prom but don't recall the particular incident mentioned. I do, however, remember that the actor, Daniel Massey, was sitting next to me.

I remember Daniel Massey as the Prince in the great 1970s BBC series of Henry James’ The Golden Bowl. Wonderful work by all in that.

[JasonPalmer]

Looking forward to this evenings concert

The Year 1905

Radio 3 in Concert


Shostakovich's Eleventh Symphony may have been written at the request of the Soviet authorities, but it is now renowned as passionately empathetic to the oppressed citizens at the time of the Russian Revolution. Vasily Petrenko conducts it for the first time in Liverpool, and it is a great opportunity to hear the orchestra's incredible full-sized set of church bells: a powerful contrast to the romance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, played by rising star Christian Li.