Afternoon Concert - general thread

[smittims]

Thanks, I enjoyed that. I suppose 'Punch' itself will soon be among the things time forgot.

[oddoneout]

Yes, indeed, the milk-filled drum. I wonder how they thoought that one up.

I shall always remember seeing Charlie Drake fall through a bookcase and knock himself out live on TV, a slapstick gag that went wrong, bringing his career to an end for some time.

Well, once you start referring to them as kettle drums the imagination doesn't have to stretch too far?
I did wonder if Hoffnung might have done something with timpani, which resulted in finding this image. Pity the explanation is incorrect - the kettle drums are not the wrong way up, which should be apparent even to a musical ignoramus from the depiction of the percussionist playing them.

https://magazine.punch.co.uk/image/I0000DOp0IEjCg8E

[smittims]

Yes, indeed, the milk-filled drum. I wonder how they thoought that one up.

I shall always remember seeing Charlie Drake fall through a bookcase and knock himself out live on TV, a slapstick gag that went wrong, bringing his career to an end for some time.

[Andrew Slater]

Just sorry we did not get 2 and 5, or were they on earlier editions of Afternoon Concert?

Searching the playlists for AC over the past 2 years yields No. 2 on 8th June, but no No. 5. No. 6 has been done twice, on 10th Jan and 27th Oct.

Widening the search to all programmes yields snippets of Nielsen symphonies in other programmes, and a concert performance of No. 4 in R3iC, but no No. 5.

(The playlists aren't perfect, so No. 5 may well have been broadcast.)

There have been broadcasts of No. 5 in AC but with other performers.

[Ein Heldenleben]

...or the skins bursting, as in Charlie Drake's famous '1812' sketch.

I wonder if Wiliam Walton heard Nielsen's 4th before writing the end of his first symphony.

Wasn’t one timp filled with milk which then splashed over Charlie ? A rather clever Dadaist moment.

[smittims]

...or the skins bursting, as in Charlie Drake's famous '1812' sketch.

I wonder if Wiliam Walton heard Nielsen's 4th before writing the end of his first symphony.

[Ein Heldenleben]

Fabulous performances this week of Nielsen Symphonies from Denmark conducted by Fabio Luisi. The recordings from the same source on DG have received rave reviews. So save money and listen to these for free!

Agreed, My speakers are still recovering from the Inextinguishable yesterday. How can you hit timps so hard and so fast without the sticks flying in the air in the manner of Carl Palmer?

[oddoneout]

Just sorry we did not get 2 and 5, or were they on earlier editions of Afternoon Concert?

Perhaps they weren't played so not available? There was a violin concerto from the same forces in the 3pm slot on Wednesday instead of a symphony.

[Bryn]

Yes No. 1 was a real ear opener!!

Just sorry we did not get 2 and 5, or were they on earlier editions of Afternoon Concert?

[Nick Armstrong]

Fabulous performances this week of Nielsen Symphonies from Denmark conducted by Fabio Luisi. The recordings from the same source on DG have received rave reviews. So save money and listen to these for free!

Yes No. 1 was a real ear opener!!

[jonfan]

Fabulous performances this week of Nielsen Symphonies from Denmark conducted by Fabio Luisi. The recordings from the same source on DG have received rave reviews. So save money and listen to these for free!

[Bryn]

Nor the solo violin sonata, which (by any comparisons) one must surely call a masterpiece?

Indeed. I have not listened to that for years. I must check out the currently favoured recordings, along with Gertler, Menuhin et al.

[Serial_Apologist]

BBC Radio 3 dismisses Bartok's 3rd Piano Concerto and Viola Concerto as not up to "masterpiece" standard: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001r24x

Nor the solo violin sonata, which (by any comparisons) one must surely call a masterpiece?

[smittims]

Hmm. where does one draw the line between a 'masterpiece' and , erm, what is not...?

I remember Max Harrison (Gramophone, 1968) describing Gruppen and Carre as 'gilt-edged masterpieces', and while they are certainly my favourite Stockhausen, many would disagree. Some commentators use the word to label an artist's one finest work ('The Curlew is surely Warlock's masterpiece') .

I'm not sure I could call Bartok3 or viola conc. as such.

[Pulcinella]

BBC Radio 3 dismisses Bartok's 3rd Piano Concerto and Viola Concerto as not up to "masterpiece" standard: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001r24x

Presumably as he didn't complete them?