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[Pulcinella]

The blurb for this coming Wednesday's concert is as bizarre as it is incomprehensible.

A jingle of sleighbells, a flurry of flutes…it doesn’t take much to set Mahler’s Fourth Symphony in motion. But with Mahler, even the gentlest sounds can create a universe. From playful opening to final, blissful vision of heaven, the Fourth is a musical fairy tale like no other – an enchanting finish to a concert that begins with Dorothy Howell’s fantasy of a shape-shifting serpent and Kurt Weill’s typically feisty retelling of the myth of Orpheus.

There’s nothing quite like that, either - part song, part violin concerto, but all Weill. The BBC Symphony Orchestra is lucky enough to have its own magical shape-shifter. Principal conductor Sakari Oramo is also a superb violinist and tonight he stars alongside soprano Anu Komsi at the centre of a concert where wonder comes as standard and nothing (except the music) is quite what it seems.

So the seat I'd be sitting in might not really be a seat, and my preordered interval gin and tonic might become hot chocolate?

[oddoneout]

The blurb for this coming Wednesday's concert is as bizarre as it is incomprehensible.



So the seat I'd be sitting in might not really be a seat, and my preordered interval gin and tonic might become hot chocolate?

Have they used the woo-woo AI from R3Unwind to produce that?

[smittims]

Maybe they're trying to move away from the 'single-word assessments' they've overdone so much (Rachmaninov's second concerto is just 'romantic' , Mahler's fifth symphony is just 'epic' etc.) but what strikes me about this particular candidate for Pseud's Corner is that , once again, Radio 3 appears to be pretending to talk about the music without actually using any musical terms. Heaven forbid that they should tell us anything useful, like what key it's in, or anything about the structure of the work.

[Ein Heldenleben]

The blurb for this coming Wednesday's concert is as bizarre as it is incomprehensible.



So the seat I'd be sitting in might not really be a seat, and my preordered interval gin and tonic might become hot chocolate?

I wonder if this was an early evening post couple of glasses job ?
Never heard Mahler 4 described as a Fairy Tale . The complexities of meaning behind the genesis , structure , and “titles’ of the work’s movements are not easily reducible to 100 words let alone two.

[silvestrione]

I wonder if this was an early evening post couple of glasses job ?
Never heard Mahler 4 described as a Fairy Tale . The complexities of meaning behind the genesis , structure , and “titles’ of the work’s movements are not easily reducible to 100 words let alone two.

Let's be fair! there are many more than two words there, and it's not a bad characterisation, IMHO, even the 'fairy tale like no other'...Fairy tale, after all, is a wide genre....I thought we were just having our attention drawn to the bizarre conclusion...