Afternoon Concert - general thread

[Cockney Sparrow]

Very depressing to see that yesterday's concert was largely Essential Classics in the afternoon - Nimrod on its own for example.

I'm not a listener now (as is the case for morning chat & classical chunks) but I was about to start a car journey, radio tuned to R3 as "Nimrod" was announced, and the very same thought occurred to me.....as I turned it off and found a playlist on the streaming service I use.....

They're right to promote "Sounds" as I largely replay content from there - selecting what I listen to. Now I don't just listen to the programming on Radio 3 FM - and increasingly, the same applies to Radio 4.

[Barbirollians]

Very depressing to see that yesterday's concert was largely Essential Classics in the afternoon - Nimrod on its own for example.

[JasonPalmer]

3pm
Brahms: Symphony No 1 in C minor, Op 67
Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome
Semyon Bychkov, conductor

Lovely.....

[JasonPalmer]

I remember when I was a radio 3 addict I got a cd rom about classical music which had info and clips about different composers, it a huge subject, the radio 3 presenters act as a good buffer for me in selecting things, enjoying this Claude Debussy prelude which is playing now.

[Pulcinella]

But it is free and I can enjoy while lounging on the sofa so good value, one always must consider the cost.

And if, like me, you are happy sometimes to have music on as 'background', which I know many abhor, it's a good way of coming across some pieces you might otherwise not encounter, and hopefully be pleasantly surprised, or at least start to find out what you like and what you don't like!

[JasonPalmer]

But it is free and I can enjoy while lounging on the sofa so good value, one always must consider the cost.

[Pulcinella]

Good start today, looks like a good concert today

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hxk6

The pieces in themselves may be fine, but where's any overall sense of this being a coherent 'concert' rather than a (possibly not very well chosen or 'curated') selection of works?

[JasonPalmer]

Good start today, looks like a good concert today

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hxk6

[JasonPalmer]

Waiting for the biggie

3pm
Brahms: Piano Concerto 2 in B flat, Op 82
Nikolai Lugansky, piano
German Symphony Orchestra
Kent Nagano, conductor

[JasonPalmer]

Listening now, very interesting.

[JasonPalmer]

Looks like a good concert today, mixing with childcare so no doubt will miss some pieces while helping my little one with his lego..

[JasonPalmer]

Arrived late to this one but so far so good,

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hnt4

3pm
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.2 in C minor, Op.17 “Little Russian”
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Elim Cham (conductor)

[Serial_Apologist]

Holst's Walt Whitman overture, never heard it or heard of it before.

Strange sort of admixture of Wagner's Lohengrin and the Borodinesque or Balakirevian sub-gestures apparent in that: I can understand the self-criticism he wrote to VW about, referring to turgidity, certainly applicable to the orchestration.

[gradus]

Holst's Walt Whitman overture, never heard it or heard of it before.

[JasonPalmer]

This afternoon concert looks good, even has janine Jansen at 3pm playing Tchaikovsky

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001j4tz