The Britten Sinfonia at Crowland Abbey (7.30 p.m. 29/11)

[LMcD]

I really enjoyed this concert, the highlight, for me, being a wonderful performance of Britten's Serenade featuring Mark Padmore and Martin Owen as soloists.
(As if that wasn't enough, the concert was followed by Murray Perahia playing Mozart, which is about as good as it gets in my book).

[BBMmk2]

I really enjoyed this concert, the highlight, for me, being a wonderful performance of Britten's Serenade featuring Mark Padmore and Martin Owen as soloists.
(As if that wasn't enough, the concert was followed by Murray Perahia playing Mozart, which is about as good as it gets in my book).

OMG! That sounds like a treat!

[Keraulophone]

a wonderful performance of Britten's Serenade featuring Mark Padmore

I was looking forward to this, expecting it to be wonderful, but had to turn it off and listen instead to Allan Clayton's fairly recent recording with the Aldeburgh Strings and Richard Watkins (horn) https://www.linnrecords.com/recordin...rn-and-strings. On top form, MP can be very persuasive and a great communicator (eg Winterreise and SMP Evangelist), but to me this was disappointing.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001bm0

- an interesting programme:

Purcell (ed. Britten): Chacony in G minor
Bartók: Allegro molto capriccioso from String Quartet No. 2
Alec Roth: Concerto for Guitar and String Orchestra
Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances
Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings

... I presume that the Bartok was arranged (or, at least, just played) by the whole string body?

[ardcarp]

I think these Norwegians play the string orch. version of the Bartok rather well. Some unlikely affinities with Scandinavian folk melodies perhaps? A few judicious portamenti too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z50Ooqv1GFg

[LMcD]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001bm0

- an interesting programme:

Purcell (ed. Britten): Chacony in G minor
Bartók: Allegro molto capriccioso from String Quartet No. 2
Alec Roth: Concerto for Guitar and String Orchestra
Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances
Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings

... I presume that the Bartok was arranged (or, at least, just played) by the whole string body?

No, by a quartet.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

No, by a quartet.

Really??

Did they give any explanation for such unusual programming?

[LMcD]

Really??

Did they give any explanation for such unusual programming?

The movement from the String Quartet No. 2 was played by a quartet, and the folk dances by the Sinfonia - sorry for any confusion!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The movement from the String Quartet No. 2 was played by a quartet, and the folk dances by the Sinfonia - sorry for any confusion!

No; apologies are due rather from me - I should have made it clear which of the Bartok works on the programme I was referring to. It's the single movement from a String Quartet in the programme that I found very odd, and I wondered if there was any mention why they decided to do this - why this particular movement from this particular 4tet?

[LMcD]

No; apologies are due rather from me - I should have made it clear which of the Bartok works on the programme I was referring to. It's the single movement from a String Quartet in the programme that I found very odd, and I wondered if there was any mention why they decided to do this - why this particular movement from this particular 4tet?

The introduction to this item begins 11 minutes in, but there's no explanation as such.

[MrGongGong]

No; apologies are due rather from me - I should have made it clear which of the Bartok works on the programme I was referring to. It's the single movement from a String Quartet in the programme that I found very odd, and I wondered if there was any mention why they decided to do this - why this particular movement from this particular 4tet?

i know a couple of folks who played in this gig
do you want me to ask ?

(I found Alec's piece interesting as well .... you can really hear how he spent time in Java )

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

i know a couple of folks who played in this gig
do you want me to ask ?

Oh, cheers - that'd be great MrGG. (I get the feeling that I'm missing something obvious - like Bartok uses material in both pieces!)

(I found Alec's piece interesting as well .... you can really hear how he spent time in Java )

Ah, yes; Java on Wear - I remember it well!

[LMcD]

This doesn't answer your specific question, but it might prove of interest:

https://www.brittensinfonia.com/review/serenading-lincs-reviews