Afternoon Concert - general thread

[Edgy 2]

Not a work I knew, but I've just ordered a CD as a result of this broadcast.

Seems like his 2nd concerto is more popular/ highly regarded, not least by cellists, but distinctly less cheerful The Naxos CD has both so we'll see!

Yes the 2nd Concerto is the more impressive IMVHO,certainly the more DSCH-like of the two.
The Naxos is OK but the performances certainly not as impressive or exciting as that of the 1st broadcast on Tuesday or the 2nd with Rafael Wallfisch on Chandos,again only IMO.

[doversoul1]

Wednesday 13 March

I apologise for this double posting but I think this is a once-in-the-bluemoon event and deserve a wider audience. One and a half hours of uninterrupted performance of Vivaldi’s works by Europa Galante
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Recorded at Warsaw's Chopin and his Europe festival last year, Vivaldi's delightful serenata 'Gloria e Imeneo', interspersed here with some of his lesser-known violin concertos

2.00pm
Jarzebski: Canzoni e concerti (excerpts)
Vivaldi: Serenata ’Gloria e Imeneo‘, RV.687 interspersed with Vivaldi concertos: in C, RV.186; in F, RV.288; in B flat, RV.380
Vivica Genaux, Martina Belli (mezzos)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi,violin/conductor

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000358k

[Serial_Apologist]

I apologise for this double posting but I think this is a once-in-the-bluemoon event and deserve a wider audience. One and a half hours of uninterrupted performance of Vivaldi’s works by Europa Galante
.

Recorded at Warsaw's Chopin and his Europe festival last year, Vivaldi's delightful serenata 'Gloria e Imeneo', interspersed here with some of his lesser-known violin concertos

2.00pm
Jarzebski: Canzoni e concerti (excerpts)
Vivaldi: Serenata ’Gloria e Imeneo‘, RV.687 interspersed with Vivaldi concertos: in C, RV.186; in F, RV.288; in B flat, RV.380
Vivica Genaux, Martina Belli (mezzos)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi,violin/conductor
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000358k

Some of those could easily be used as replacement "on hold" music for "the usual suspect" when phoning companies and institutions these days...

[doversoul1]

Some of those could easily be used as replacement "on hold" music for "the usual suspect" when phoning companies and institutions these days...

And Bach’s Orchestral Suite is already used for mobile phone ringtone

[Edgy 2]

Shame we've heard little of the David Matthews' 8th Symphony since its 2015 premiere,

Broadcast on Monday afternoon’s Ao3 jayne.
Plenty of great (not just British) music being played this week in the afternoons on Radio 3,some of which I was lucky enough to attend.
Unfortunately my name didn’t come up in the ballot for today’s live concert,but then there’s Sibelius in it so not too fussed

[jayne lee wilson]

Broadcast on Monday afternoon’s Ao3 jayne.
Plenty of great (not just British) music being played this week in the afternoons on Radio 3,some of which I was lucky enough to attend.
Unfortunately my name didn’t come up in the ballot for today’s live concert,but then there’s Sibelius in it so not too fussed

The 8th in a fresh performance too - thanks.... the 9th is due out soon on Nimbus....and there's a Concerto for Orchestra due for premiere later this year...
(check out the composer's very informative website...)

[Edgy 2]

The 8th in a fresh performance too - thanks.... the 9th is due out soon on Nimbus....and there's a Concerto for Orchestra due for premiere later this year...
(check out the composer's very informative website...)

Out now Jayne

[Edgy 2]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00051gd

I haven’t enjoyed this yet ,it’s next week,but I’m sure I will,either in the studio (Applied for free ticket but haven’t heard anything) or at home.

[jayne lee wilson]

Out now Jayne

Thanks Edge..... on Qobuz too....

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/matthews-symphony-no9-various-artists/oqyerflsptrgb

CD...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/David-Matthews-Symphony-Variations-Concerto/dp/B07NRH6Q84/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?crid=2QV25G7R0FB0J&keywords=david+matthews+symphony+9&qid=1557618140&s=gateway&sprefix=david+matthews+%2Caps%2C136&sr=8-1-fkmrnull

[Edgy 2]

Sorry it's late (I'm current melting in Madrid) but a must listen concert for British music nuts this afternoon on Radio 3 ( including Milford 2nd Symphony premiere).

[Serial_Apologist]

Sorry it's late (I'm current melting in Madrid) but a must listen concert for British music nuts this afternoon on Radio 3 ( including Milford 2nd Symphony premiere).

This was an especially rich feast of offerings, of which I missed the Berners and Arnold - shall have to catch up later - but caught the magnficent Stanford V Concerto, an early work more Germanic and Schumannesque than anything one could characterise as English in spirit or idiom, (but how come it hadn't been performed before??), followed by some Vaughan Williams not previously heard by Yours Truly: some incidental music for, would you believe it, a Maeterlincke play, in which VW nods momentarily in the direction of "Le Martyr" before unGallically succumbing to bucolic folksiness; then Delius's "A Song Before Sunrise", close in character to Spring's First Cuckoo, to be followed by Robin Milford's forthright Second Symphony, from the 1930s, and then the concluding "Hebridean Dances" Op 70, a late work of Braunfels of uncharacteristic transparency that should serve to raise interest in one neglected 20th century composer. All in all, one of the best Afternoon Concerts of the year thus far.

[Edgy 2]

This was an especially rich feast of offerings, of which I missed the Berners and Arnold - shall have to catch up later - but caught the magnficent Stanford V Concerto, an early work more Germanic and Schumannesque than anything one could characterise as English in spirit or idiom, (but how come it hadn't been performed before??), followed by some Vaughan Williams not previously heard by Yours Truly: some incidental music for, would you believe it, a Maeterlincke play, in which VW nods momentarily in the direction of "Le Martyr" before unGallically succumbing to bucolic folksiness; then Delius's "A Song Before Sunrise", close in character to Spring's First Cuckoo, to be followed by Robin Milford's forthright Second Symphony, from the 1930s, and then the concluding "Hebridean Dances" Op 70, a late work of Braunfels of uncharacteristic transparency that should serve to raise interest in one neglected 20th century composer. All in all, one of the best Afternoon Concerts of the year thus far.

Having caught up with this today I couldn’t agree more (a bonus hearing that Clara Schumann pc too )

[teamsaint]

Thanks ER and S-A for the heads up. Definitely one to catch up on.

[oddoneout]

I am rather surprised to find myself saying this but the BBC Singers concert for Advent this afternoon was, I thought, excellent. An unfamiliar to me(for the most part) selection of works which I was fully expecting not to hear out given my dislike of the BBCS topline as usually heard but today I don't know who was missing or whether Graham Ross(another unfamiliar name) had managed the impossible and tamed the screechers, but it was good and I'm glad I gave it a chance.

[doversoul1]

I am rather surprised to find myself saying this but the BBC Singers concert for Advent this afternoon was, I thought, excellent. An unfamiliar to me(for the most part) selection of works which I was fully expecting not to hear out given my dislike of the BBCS topline as usually heard but today I don't know who was missing or whether Graham Ross(another unfamiliar name) had managed the impossible and tamed the screechers, but it was good and I'm glad I gave it a chance.

I had the same impression when this was broadcast.
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I shall make sure to listen to the Advent concert. Thank you for posting this.