Afternoon Concert - general thread

[Bryn]

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

[Dave2002]

Just a note to say the Radio 3 Schedule for today (BBC site) wrongly lists Josep Pons as the conductor of the Prom performance of Rachmaninov's First Symphony. It was of course John Storgards, who is correctly identified in the details of what's played.

Actually it was John Storgårds - perhaps!

[oddoneout]

Did I mishear or did the usually immaculate Penny Gore in her trail ahead chat for In Tune with Katie Derham describe the show’s on airtime of 17.00 as “the witching hour? “ Katie brushed it aside well ..immaculately.

Well not everyone is a KD fan of course so might consider it a happy Freudian slip...

[french frank]

Did I mishear or did the usually immaculate Penny Gore in her trail ahead chat for In Tune with Katie Derham describe the show’s on airtime of 17.00 as “the witching hour? “ Katie brushed it aside well ..immaculately.

Toni Jordan in Addition says: 'For me.., midnight is not the witching hour. 4.00 is.'. So perhaps for Penny Gore it's 5 o'clock? (No innuendo intended)

[Ein Heldenleben]

Did I mishear or did the usually immaculate Penny Gore in her trail ahead chat for In Tune with Katie Derham describe the show’s on airtime of 17.00 as “the witching hour? “ Katie brushed it aside well ..immaculately.

[smittims]

Just a note to say the Radio 3 Schedule for today (BBC site) wrongly lists Josep Pons as the conductor of the Prom performance of Rachmaninov's First Symphony. It was of course John Storgards, who is correctly identified in the details of what's played.

[Historian]

Thank you for the very helpful write-up edashtav. I was also listening and it was the first time that Weinberg's music had made much of an impression on me. Admittedly that says more about me than Weinberg. Will have to chase up the Miaskovsky concerto now.

[edashtav]

Weinberg: Cello Concerto
Edgar Moreau (cello)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Andres Orozco-Estrada (conductor)

I was pleased to hear this significant 20th century concerto today on the 3pm highlighted spot because I’d never encountered it before but have enjoyed several other concerti by Weinberg : violin, flute and trumpet.
The work,which probably dates from 1948-56, starts with a slow movement and that is succeeded by three faster ones with the finale revisiting the cello’s first melody from the initial slow movement. The scoring accommodates the cello well with the full brass only being deployed during relatively brief periods where the cellist has a rest.
The heart of the work lies in the plangent, soulful,’Jewish’, first movement. To my ears, which have spent the last week studying Miaskovsky’s masterly WWII concerto, this owes a debt to NM and, I believe, that debt is acknowledged around bar 30 where the cello plays a quotation from the elder composer’s work: an anxious chromatic motif.
Later movements are more varied in texture and are more ‘friend of Shostakovich’ in nature.
The performance by the young French player, Edgar Moreau, was committed. He received excellent support from North German orchestra under the direction of Andres Orozco-Estrada.
There are all too few ‘repertoire’ cello concerti and this one is deserving of more than an occasional outing.

[JasonPalmer]

Enjoying the afternoon concert before childcare duties start with me picking up my five year old from school, ian skelly has tweeted some bits to camera on his twitter id. How very modern.

[JasonPalmer]

Enjoying

c. 4pm
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major, K 622
Jonas Frølund (clarinet)
Danish Chamber Orchestra
Adám Fischer, conductor

[Nick Armstrong]

& thanks - will have a listen tomorrow.

It was the 3rd & 4th I enjoyed most (they were played in pairs at 3 points in the concert). The Brahms/Schoenberg connections struck me in the earlier ones.

[Serial_Apologist]

I very much enjoyed the Schumann Canonic Studies orchestrated by Tom Coult in the live concert from Salford this afternoon by the BBC Philharmonic under Andrew Gourley

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001l4md?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

They put me in mind of the Schoenberg orchestration of Brahms’s G minor Piano Quartet (which I’ve always loved)

& thanks - will have a listen tomorrow.

[Nick Armstrong]

I very much enjoyed the Schumann Canonic Studies orchestrated by Tom Coult in the live concert from Salford this afternoon by the BBC Philharmonic under Andrew Gourley

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001l4md?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

They put me in mind of the Schoenberg orchestration of Brahms’s G minor Piano Quartet (which I’ve always loved)

[smittims]

That's good to hear. 'Sea Pictures' is more difficult to sing than first appears. It is in fact quite a work-out for the voice. Gladys Ripley is still my favourite, though Roderick Williams did a fine job of it more recently.

[jonfan]

I’m not sure if New Generation afternoon performances belong here but there was a very good Sea Pictures from Helen Charlston on Monday afternoon displaying a wide vocal range with power and expression to go with it; a bright future.
The conductor was Adam Hickox, very ably following in his father’s footsteps; his own man and a bright future for him as well.