LSO/Rattle; Birtwistle, Turnage, Holst, Britten; Mon 17/9/18; 7:30pm

[BBMmk2]

The LSO opens it's new season with an all-British programme, featuring the world premier of Sir Harrison Birtwistle's new Fanfare and Marc-Anthony Turnage's double trumpet concerto, Dispelling the Fears.

Holst's Egdon Heath evokes the world of Thomas Hardy's major works, a place 'accordant with man's nature - neither ghastly, hateful or ugly: … but like man, slighted and enduring'. Britten's Symphony by contrast, reflects on 'the progress of winter to spring and the reawakening of the earth and life'.

That's the blurb from the BBC. The programme certainly looks very bold and exciting.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000d3c

... odd "timing" for the Britten; I hope somebody programmes and broadcasts the Marx Autumn Symphony next Spring!

[cloughie]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000d3c

... odd "timing" for the Britten; I hope somebody programmes and broadcasts the Marx Autumn Symphony next Spring!

...or Tchaikovsky’s Winter Daydreams on Midsummer’s Day.

[zola]

Or posting about the LSO new season on the Proms 2018 thread

(An Ost Speaks: Sorted! )

[Petrushka]

Yes, but what about the Britten Spring Symphony? It's quite a rarity in the concert hall and I remember reading disparaging comments on the work somewhere. I've only heard it once in concert (1981 First Night of the Proms, BBCSO/Rozhdestvensky) and I was so enthusiastic I promptly bought the LSO/Previn recording and played it often at that time. However, I've never got it on CD and not heard the work since the very early 1980s.

Britten shows his customary skill in choosing his texts and it deserves to be heard again. Looking forward to re-acquainting myself with it after such a long gap.

[cloughie]

Yes, but what about the Britten Spring Symphony? It's quite a rarity in the concert hall and I remember reading disparaging comments on the work somewhere. I've only heard it once in concert (1981 First Night of the Proms, BBCSO/Rozhdestvensky) and I was so enthusiastic I promptly bought the LSO/Previn recording and played it often at that time. However, I've never got it on CD and not heard the work since the very early 1980s.

Britten shows his customary skill in choosing his texts and it deserves to be heard again. Looking forward to re-acquainting myself with it after such a long gap.

When it comes to Spring Symphonies, I’ll stick to Schumann, as I do to Mendelssohn with MNDs. Maybe I should give the Britten another try!

[Bryn]

When it comes to Spring Symphonies, I’ll stick to Schumann, as I do to Mendelssohn with MNDs. Maybe I should give the Britten another try!

Definitely where MND is concerned, but I think you might have been pursuing the right path re. Schumann and Spring.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Or posting about the LSO new season on the Proms 2018 thread

- hadn't noticed that! (I'll see what happes when I click a few buttons.)

... and, as if by magic ...

[BBMmk2]

- hadn't noticed that! (I'll see what happes when I click a few buttons.)

... and, as if by magic ...

Ferney, yes, my mistake. Would you be able to rectify?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Ferney, yes, my mistake. Would you be able to rectify?

I rectified seven hours ago, Bbm - and have walked with a limp ever since.

[BBMmk2]

I rectified seven hours ago, Bbm - and have walked with a limp ever since.

and

On this evening! Looks great!

[Pulcinella]

I rectified seven hours ago, Bbm - and have walked with a limp ever since.

Could you hobble to your device and offer further rectification by adding the date to the thread title, so we know it's referring to a specific concert and not R3 in concert in general? Or move it to the one-stop thread?

I wonder if ability to whistle is part of the audition process for the children? I would have been (and still am!) an abject failure.


Not my favourite Britten by quite a long way, but I do like the 'Out on the lawn' setting.

[Keraulophone]

Further to the unseasonal subject of spring, I hadn't realised there was this fizzing recording of Frank Bridge's Enter Spring from the 1967 Aldeburgh Festival with the New Philharmonia under Benjamin Britten (on BBC Legends). Of its time, but another fine work that doesn't reach the concert hall. https://youtu.be/_0swDbZlErY

For more modern sound, it's included on the Hallé's English Spring CD c/w Bax Spring Fire and some Delian spring music. http://classicalsource.com/db_contro...ew.php?id=9146

[ahinton]

...or Tchaikovsky’s Winter Daydreams on Midsummer’s Day.

Or a concert performance of The Midsummer Marriage on Boxing Day...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... or a RSC production of A Midsummer Night's Dream on Twelfth Night (or vice versa).