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[cmr_for3]

Currently listening to the Welsh festival lunchtime concerts from March - this one right now as an example https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000gcb7. I'm struck during the bits of narration between performances by what seems like birdsong. At first I thought "how nice" then when I thought about it, it seemed overdone. I suppose it is artificially done?

[Bryn]

Currently listening to the Welsh festival lunchtime concerts from March - this one right now as an example https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000gcb7. I'm struck during the bits of narration between performances by what seems like birdsong. At first I thought "how nice" then when I thought about it, it seemed overdone. I suppose it is artificially done?

This broadcast comprised recordings of performances from different concerts and venues. The presentation was clearly done later and in an environment where the ambient included birdsong (through an open window, perhaps). A pleasure to hear it. There again, I also enjoy the sounds of the pigeons in the rafters of the All Saints, Petersham, in which the recording of John Tilbury playing Cage's Sonatas and Interludes was made. Even more so, the hearth cricket in Margaret Leng Tan'srecording of the same work. It seems quite possible that the presentation was recorded in a quickly rigged home studio similar to that used by Sarah Walker (in her garden shed) last Sunday.

[cmr_for3]

This broadcast comprised recordings of performances from different concerts and venues. The presentation was clearly done later and in an environment where the ambient included birdsong (through an open window, perhaps). A pleasure to hear it. There again, I also enjoy the sounds of the pigeons in the rafters of the All Saints, Petersham, in which the recording of John Tilbury playing Cage's Sonatas and Interludes was made. Even more so, the hearth cricket in Margaret Leng Tan'srecording of the same work. It seems quite possible that the presentation was recorded in a quickly rigged home studio similar to that used by Sarah Walker (in her garden shed) last Sunday.

ah I see. Yes it was nice. I've heard that sort of thing in a few lunchtime concerts and that explains it. Nice to know it is natural. I shall look out for some more. Thanks for the info

[Bryn]

I missed the start of this evening's broadcast of Vingt Regards. Was there any announcement regarding when this was previously broadcast? It does not even indicate that it is a repeat in the online schedule. However, looks and sounds like it's the performance from November 6th, last year.

https://bachtrack.com/review-messiaen-enfant-jesus-steven-osborne-southbank-november-2019

[Bryn]

Rather a lot of glitches tonight, via Freeview (HDMI to my amp). I do hope they are not there via on-demand Sounds. Giving up on the Freeview. The disruption is just that bit too annoying.

[Oops. I should have checked back, http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...575#post762575 ]

[bluestateprommer]

Just heard (and watched) the Kirill Gerstein recital from Wigmore Hall, jointly presented on R3 and WH's own stream. Terrific recital of the Debussy Etudes and Liszt's Sonata in b (plus encore with score on his tablet, the only time KG had music in front of him), well worth checking out if you haven't already. This could be said of the Wigmore Hall series in general, of course (hence its own thread), and it's great that R3 is able to present together with WH a fair share of these concerts.

[Pianorak]

Debussy: Études
Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor S178

Kirill Gerstein (piano)

Excellent recital. Encore Two dances by Komitas

[bluestateprommer]

Listening now to the LSO season opener performed a few weeks back, with SSR leading the proceedings:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000zvnd

Hearing Tippett's Praeludium just now (which I'm suddenly realizing that I may have never heard before on record [certainly not live]), the Grauniad article by Edward Gardner, posted by NA in the other thread, that alludes to the awkwardness at times of Tippett's writing does indeed ring true.

From the LSO's site, pdf of the concert program: https://lso.co.uk/images/pdf/12-09-S...pening-Web.pdf

[Nick Armstrong]

Absolutely stunning Brahms First Piano Concerto this evening

Beatrice Rana, piano
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Lorenzo Viotti, conductor

[Ein Heldenleben]

Absolutely stunning Brahms First Piano Concerto this evening

Beatrice Rana, piano
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Lorenzo Viotti, conductor

It was very good wasn’t it? But I thought the Chopin encore was poorly played . Lumpy and too much pedal . But the Brahms a different story with a particularly fine first movement.

[Nick Armstrong]

It was very good wasn’t it? But I thought the Chopin encore was poorly played . Lumpy and too much pedal . But the Brahms a different story with a particularly fine first movement.

I didn’t hang around for the encore.

[edashtav]

It was very good wasn’t it? But I thought the Chopin encore was poorly played . Lumpy and too much pedal . But the Brahms a different story with a particularly fine first movement.

Spot on!

[Ein Heldenleben]

Spot on!

I was surprised her teacher didn’t let her play Chopin till she was 18 - by which time she would have had a formidable technique possibly even a fully formed one. I would have thought any grade 6 plus pianist would learn a lot from playing the simpler waltzes , preludes possibly even the simpler nocturnes . Not least the development of cantabile which the pianist last night demonstrated in the Brahms slow movement.

[Nick Armstrong]

the Brahms a different story with a particularly fine first movement.

Just relistened and actually I think it’s the last movement that impresses me most, the best I’ve ever heard I think.

[Ein Heldenleben]

Just relistened and actually I think it’s the last movement that impresses me most, the best I’ve ever heard I think.

I’ll have to listen again as I was a bit distracted last night That is a very difficult movement to bring off successfully . It’s not full of virtuosic display but full of technical difficulty ( like quite a lot of a Brahms in fact ! )