Afternoon Concert - general thread

[Nick Armstrong]

I greatly enjoyed Vorisek’s Grand Rondeau for Piano trio and orchestra this afternoon played by the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra and Czech soloists

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The chamber orchestra offered Serenades for strings by Suk and Dvorak, which showed how much Suk owed to Dvorak, his teacher, and to Grieg. The performance of the Dvorak was marvellously idiomatic.

Oh thanks for this. Had forgotten to download this concert, and shall now do so as it’s one I particularly want to hear

[Ein Heldenleben]

I greatly enjoyed Vorisek’s Grand Rondeau for Piano trio and orchestra this afternoon played by the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra and Czech soloists. It was a lively piece in the spirit of Hummel and Weber underpinned by a firm structure and spiced with a brilliance of invention. The orchestral parts sometimes nodded in the detection of early Beethoven and, occasionally, foreshadowed Schubert. The performance delighted the audience in Prague who demanded and got a well-characterised finale from Dvorak’s Dumky trio as encore.

The chamber orchestra offered Serenades for strings by Suk and Dvorak, which showed how much Suk owed to Dvorak, his teacher, and to Grieg. The performance of the Dvorak was marvellously idiomatic.

This has been a consistently interesting series of concerts all week with a mixture of the familiar and works I have never heard before....

[oddoneout]

I greatly enjoyed Vorisek’s Grand Rondeau for Piano trio and orchestra this afternoon played by the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra and Czech soloists. It was a lively piece in the spirit of Hummel and Weber underpinned by a firm structure and spiced with a brilliance of invention. The orchestral parts sometimes nodded in the detection of early Beethoven and, occasionally, foreshadowed Schubert. The performance delighted the audience in Prague who demanded and got a well-characterised finale from Dvorak’s Dumky trio as encore.

The chamber orchestra offered Serenades for strings by Suk and Dvorak, which showed how much Suk owed to Dvorak, his teacher, and to Grieg. The performance of the Dvorak was marvellously idiomatic.

It was fun wasn't it? I enjoyed the whole concert, and am always happy to hear the Dvorak Serenade.
I see that the info for that programme is rubbish. The Janacek was the bit they couldn't play and led to CE starting early, and the other two items came after CE.

Leos Janáček
The Cunning Little Vixen Suite (2nd mvt)

Orchestrator: Václav Talich. Music Arranger: Václav Smetáček. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
JANACEK: VARIOUS. CHANDOS. 3-4.

Träd
We shall walk through the valley in peace

Music Arranger: Undine Smith Moore. Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Conductor: Graham Ross.

Charles Villiers Stanford
Psalms 53, 54

Composer: Joseph Barnby. Performer: George Gillow. Performer: Samuel Jones. Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Conductor: Graham Ross.

I do wonder why they bother putting things online if they are wrong, better to leave them out.

[edashtav]

I greatly enjoyed Vorisek’s Grand Rondeau for Piano trio and orchestra this afternoon played by the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra and Czech soloists. It was a lively piece in the spirit of Hummel and Weber underpinned by a firm structure and spiced with a brilliance of invention. The orchestral parts sometimes nodded in the direction of early Beethoven and, occasionally, foreshadowed Schubert. The performance delighted the audience in Prague who demanded and got a well-characterised finale from Dvorak’s Dumky trio as encore.

The chamber orchestra offered Serenades for strings by Suk and Dvorak, which showed how much Suk owed to Dvorak, his teacher, and to Grieg. The performance of the Dvorak was marvellously idiomatic.

[Nick Armstrong]

Well, you can always dig out your Kertesz set!

Rowicki best in No 4

But I want hear fresh new performances

[cloughie]

Agreed - not least about Dvořák 4

Well, you can always dig out your Kertesz set!

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes, lovely to hear that symphony today -- and what about programming the Fourth more often, too? Radio 3 afternoons are on a high just now in my view: last week's recordings of BBC orchestras in music well off the beaten track (for me at least) were a revelation.

Agreed - not least about Dvořák 4

[Wychwood]

Yes, lovely to hear that symphony today -- and what about programming the Fourth more often, too? Radio 3 afternoons are on a high just now in my view: last week's recordings of BBC orchestras in music well off the beaten track (for me at least) were a revelation.

[Nick Armstrong]

I see the online info has been amended a bit. Originally we were supposed to have 2 Dvorak symphonies it reckoned, and no mention of Strauss. Left me thoroughly confused - I knew I had missed the first 10 or so minutes of the broadcast and I don't know AD No3 that well, but I was certain I would have noticed if No 9 had been on - and I do know enough not to confuse it with the Strauss Metamorphosen. I left that drearing on at low volume hoping that something better would turn up, having realised the online info wasn't going to enlighten, and right at the end was some more(not No9) Dvorak.

I listened in my own time on “Soundzzzz” on the iPad and headed straight for No 3 - wasn’t aware of the confusion

[oddoneout]

(Strangely I can find no previous general thread for this programme)

Greatly enjoyed hearing Dvořák’s lovely and underrated (in terms of frequency of performance) Third Symphony today, beautifully played and conducted

Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 3 in E flat, op. 10

German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin
Jakub Hrůša

It starts around 49 minutes into the programme

I see the online info has been amended a bit. Originally we were supposed to have 2 Dvorak symphonies it reckoned, and no mention of Strauss. Left me thoroughly confused - I knew I had missed the first 10 or so minutes of the broadcast and I don't know AD No3 that well, but I was certain I would have noticed if No 9 had been on - and I do know enough not to confuse it with the Strauss Metamorphosen. I left that drearing on at low volume hoping that something better would turn up, having realised the online info wasn't going to enlighten, and right at the end was some more(not No9) Dvorak.

[Nick Armstrong]

There have been two posts on a thread using its old name today: http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...Afternoon-on-3

Thanks. I’ve merged the two under the current programme title.

[Bryn]

There have been several posts on a thread using its old name today: http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...Afternoon-on-3

[Nick Armstrong]

Afternoon Concert - general thread

(Strangely I can find no previous general thread for this programme)

Greatly enjoyed hearing Dvořák’s lovely and underrated (in terms of frequency of performance) Third Symphony today, beautifully played and conducted

Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 3 in E flat, op. 10

German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin
Jakub Hrůša

It starts around 49 minutes into the programme

[Richard Barrett]

Ms Mitchell appears to be a "big noise" in opera productions - I expect opera buffs know all about her?

A non-opera buff writes: I imagine she's far better known in theatre circles, having been one of Britain's leading theatre directors for some years, with the inevitable result that she works more abroad than in the UK (hence the operas, since they don't involve the same kind of language barrier).

[Cockney Sparrow]

Just scrolled back on my Roy Opera H account, ah..... just scrolling past- a lot of happy memories - when will I go again??

I went to Mitchell's production of Lucia di Lammermoor in 2017. I thought I remembered that name. Generally not too off beam production.

I did give "feedback" - I was in the upper reaches of The House, and in the scene in the bathroom the running water sound effects went on an awfully long time - and it sounded to me like I was right next to the plumbing!