Afternoon Concert - general thread

[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.

[JasonPalmer]

Enjoying

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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)

[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...

[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!

[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

[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?

[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.

[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?

[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.