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[cloughie]

She was one of the lovely voices in the quartet at Duke’s funeral - the Pie Jesu was nicely sung!

A very good performance - I needed something restful to listen to after the Owls threw two points away at Wimbledon.

Not Miriam Allen - the soloists were:

http://jamiewhall.co.uk/ and http://www.clarelloyd-griffiths.com/

[crb11]

My apologies - not sure where I got that name from. (It was definitely a beautiful Pie Jesu in any case.)

[cloughie]

My apologies - not sure where I got that name from. (It was definitely a beautiful Pie Jesu in any case.)

No problem - it reminded me of her beautiful singing at the Duke’s funeral!

[antongould]

Sofi Jeannin seems to have transformed the BBC Singers! A lovely performance of the Fauré Requiem last night https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0010hrh

Not a trace of the characteristics which made the group pretty much unlistenable-to for me for years.

Only drawback was some intonation in the orchestra at moments. But vocally excellent imvvho

Listened last night ….. really enjoyed it …. Cheers Rumpole

[Ein Heldenleben]

Klaus Mäkelä conducts the Orchestre de Paris in Mahler and Berg
Really enjoying this Mahler 5 - with a particularly fine Adagietto..

[teamsaint]

Any thoughts on Roberto Sierra’s symphony being broadcast tonight ?

Presumably, excusing my ignorance, there is a significant input of traditional Puerto Rican elements in this.


A “ newly - minted masterpiece” according to the puff.

Well I’m enjoying it, but can always do without the hyperbole !!

[Ein Heldenleben]

Is any one listening to this Up For Grabs ? - a musical celebration of a key moment in Arsenal’s glorious history apparently . I wonder if there is a Liverpool supporting classical music lover who could supply some context and analysis?

PS I support SPURS

[jayne lee wilson]

Is any one listening to this Up For Grabs ? - a musical celebration of a key moment in Arsenal’s glorious history apparently . I wonder if there is a Liverpool supporting classical music lover who could supply some context and analysis?

PS I support SPURS

Its all here.......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_0–2_Arsenal_(1989)

26/5/89.......still one of the most painful, even traumatic all-too-present memories for Liverpool fans, especially coming soon after the Hillsborough tragedy.

It is a mistake though for Turnage to imagine that we took victory or a draw, let alone the championship, for granted. Other writers may have done, but we were all still traumatised, exhausted by death and the appalling unjust tabloid accusations toward Liverpool and its fans about Hillsborough, and approached the game very, very nervously.

It was an extremely cagey game. The title "Up for Grabs" comes from the (very good) commentator of the time, Brian Moore. Needing to win by two goals, Arsenal took the lead after 53 minutes, which created unbearable, pit-of-the-stomach tension.
At 0-1, the Arsenal striker Michael Thomas broke through on goal in the last minute and as he bore down on the keeper, Moore said "Its up for Grabs now!"....
The whole Liverpool team collapsed to the ground when it went in.... they could offer no more.

It was indeed a dramatic and thrilling conclusion to the season for any neutral, but here we just felt numbed - almost too numbed to feel disappointment; perhaps too a sense of injustice that this great city couldn't even have the league championship as a compensatory comfort, a tribute of a kind, for the lost fans and their families.

***

The conclusion to the 2011-12 Premiership, a race between Man City and Man United which went down to the last seconds, on the last afternoon, in two simultaneous games, probably trumps it as the most thrillingly incredible of all, but thats another story....

[Ein Heldenleben]

Its all here.......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_0–2_Arsenal_(1989)

26/5/89.......still one of the most painful, even traumatic all-too-present memories for Liverpool fans, especially coming soon after the Hillsborough tragedy.

It is a mistake though for Turnage to imagine that we took victory or a draw, let alone the championship, for granted. Other writers may have done, but we were all still traumatised, exhausted by death and the appalling unjust tabloid accusations toward Liverpool and its fans about Hillsborough, and approached the game very, very nervously.

It was an extremely cagey game. The title "Up for Grabs" comes from the (very good) commentator of the time, Brian Moore. At 0-1, the Arsenal striker Michael Thomas broke through on goal in the last minute and as he bore down on the keeper, Moore said "Its up for Grabs now!"

It was indeed a dramatic and thrilling conclusion to the season for any neutral, but here we just felt numbed - almost too numbed to feel disappointment; perhaps too a sense of injustice that this great city couldn't even have the league championship as a compensatory comfort, a tribute of a kind, for the lost fans and their families.

***

The conclusion to the 2011-12 Premiership, a race between Man City and Man United which went down to the last seconds, on the last afternoon, in two simultaneous games, probably trumps it as the most thrillingly incredible of all, but thats another story....

Do you know I had completely forgotten that ? I thought Turnage’s piece sounded pretty good but the party atmosphere in the Barbican tonight sounded largely drink - fuelled . Hasn’t been a very good day for sport to be honest .
I agree Brian Moore was an excellent commentator ..l

[bluestateprommer]

Any thoughts on Roberto Sierra’s symphony being broadcast tonight ? Presumably, excusing my ignorance, there is a significant input of traditional Puerto Rican elements in this.

I did hear the Roberto Sierra work a good while back from that one R3 in Concert with the RLPO. It was enjoyable enough, definitely in the "audience-friendly" vein, with the Hispanic elements well present in various rhythms & instrumentation. IMHO, it's not really a "symphony" as such, whatever that means these days, but more of a suite for orchestra (again, whatever that means these days). The RLPO has, at the moment, an audio of Roberto Sierra's recent Trumpet Concerto, which I'll have to catch at some point before it disappears. To be honest, and granted that one should go into hearing a new work without preconceptions or prejudices either way, I suspect that the trumpet concerto will be cut from very much the same sonic cloth as the symphony.

More recently, just under the 30-day wire (now passed), I heard the BBC Philharmonic's performance of the Symphony No. 2 of Paul Ben-Haim, definitely of interest as a "novelty" that I'd never heard before. Much of it is quite restrained in tone, and quite a few moments sounded to me like the third pressing of Mahler (to appropriate Boulez's dismissive appraisal of DSCH), in particular Mahler 2. In the finale, one recurring motif sounded extremely close to "The British Grenadiers". Not a lost masterpiece, but worth hearing once, although I would have thought that Omer Meir Wellber would have conducted this concert, unless he got waylaid by COVID travel restrictions, as OMW is a big advocate for Paul Ben-Haim's music. Although he didn't knock it out of the park (again IMHO), Carlo Goldstein was an OK conductor for the occasion.

[Maclintick]

A treat for lovers of early 20th cent French music on R3 In Concert last night, recorded in Jan at the RLPO's home:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0014g7w

I'd not heard this orchestra with their new chief conductor Domingo Hindoyan before, but was impressed. The kaleidoscopic, fleeting shifts of orchestral colour & texture in Debussy's Jeux -- the opposite of washy "impressionism" -- were deftly handled, as was the partnering of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet in the Ravel G major, the orchestra matching the pianist's scintillating playing with outstanding wind & brass solos. Highlight of the concert, at least for Rousselophiles, was the rare chance to hear Bacchus et Ariane Suite no 2. It would have been nice to hear the complete ballet, but we must be grateful for any live performance, particularly one as well-executed as this.

Palpable enthusiasm from the audience in the hall on the night, but the atmosphere rather more subdued on-air with "cold" announcements from a studio in Salford. Incidentally, the announcer seemed ignorant of the fact that this was the second of two suites Roussel created from the ballet, & kept referring to it as if there was only one. He also failed to credit the orchestra's leader, who wove sensuous solos in the Roussel, at any point in the evening. Shame.

[Ein Heldenleben]

Went on the Barbican website to look at what might be available for this Friday’s Live In Concert of Rach 2 and Bruckner 9 . It’s been the subject of some discussion about trails on another thread . And I found this as the concert blurb . It’s a classic in its own way -

“in his most famous work, Sergei Rachmaninov pits piano against orchestra in a witty, bolshie and wickedly entertaining duel. Who wins? Find out as Stephen Hough takes on this remarkable piece”

Wonder how Rachmaninov ,an exile from Soviet Russia , would enjoy having this work described as “Bolshie” ?

[Prommer]

Will they be recording and broadcasting tonight's concert with the Philharmonia conducted by Herbert Blomstedt?

Bruckner 7 and Pires playing a Mozart concerto...

[Ein Heldenleben]

Eric Lu is playing Schumann’s Waldszenen very , very well indeed. Abschied so beautifully done…not over pedalled ..Perfect really

[gradus]

Eric Lu is playing Schumann’s Waldszenen very , very well indeed. Abschied so beautifully done…not over pedalled ..Perfect really

Yes, absolutely delightful playing. Just wish he'd paused a little longer in the friendly countryside and the Prophet Bird had sung a little more slowly but that's just being pernickety.