Afternoon Concert - general thread

[Serial_Apologist]

....enjoyable Bartok String Quartet #1 this afternoon....a light approach I feel....

In my early twenties I played that to a 19-year old student, who ended up in tears. "If you think that's sad", I said to her, "you should hear the Sixth". She did, later, and never spoke to me again afterwards.

[eighthobstruction]

....enjoyable Bartok String Quartet #1 this afternoon....a light approach I feel....

[Serial_Apologist]

According to the online schedule:



Wow! I knew a 7th had been put together, but 31?!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fgxc

The online information is becoming as unreliable as Radio Times - see my thread on next week's jazz scheduling!

[Bryn]

According to the online schedule:

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Symphony No 31 in D major
Orchestra: Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Leonidas Kavakos

Wow! I knew a 7th had been put together, but 31?!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fgxc

[cloughie]

I don't know whether it's still available, but I have a CD containing no less than 4 Arnold concertos (for 2 violins, for clarinet, for flute and the second of the 2 for horn)
London Musici conducted by Mark Stephenson Conifer CDCF 172. Michael Collins is the clarinet soloist.

It is part of the Sony Malcom Arnold Conifer recordings box. 11CDs including the Vernon Handley symphonies.

[LMcD]

Bernstein’s Serenade. Looking forward to discovering Arnold’s clarinet concerto far more...

I don't know whether it's still available, but I have a CD containing no less than 4 Arnold concertos (for 2 violins, for clarinet, for flute and the second of the 2 for horn)
London Musici conducted by Mark Stephenson Conifer CDCF 172. Michael Collins is the clarinet soloist.

[Nick Armstrong]

Tasmin Little was supposed to have been on the bill but I can’t remember what she was going to play

Bernstein’s Serenade. Looking forward to discovering Arnold’s clarinet concerto far more...

[Edgy 2]

Did anyone listen to Wednesday’s afternoon concert, live from Salford, with Ruth Gipps’s 3rd Symphony? (Preceded by Tippett and Arnold, also works which, for me at least, are off the beaten track)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000bxgl

I have it downloaded ready for a listen when time permits.

Yes I enjoyed it,missed the Tippet though
I had applied for free tickets for the live broadcast but was unsuccessful.
Tasmin Little was supposed to have been on the bill but I can’t remember what she was going to play

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Did anyone listen to Wednesday’s afternoon concert, live from Salford, with Ruth Gipps’s 3rd Symphony? (Preceded by Tippett and Arnold, also works which, for me at least, are off the beaten track)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000bxgl

I have it downloaded ready for a listen when time permits.

Yes. Pleasant work, competently written and orchestrated, without showing any great degree of originality. I thought it a particularly cruel irony for Tom McKinney to quote Gipps' claim that her work was written "for Musicians who enjoy to play this Music" - when he'd already made much of the fact that they hadn't enjoyed playing it for half-a-century!

[Nick Armstrong]

a must listen concert for British music nuts this afternoon on Radio 3 (including Milford 2nd Symphony premiere).

Did anyone listen to Wednesday’s afternoon concert, live from Salford, with Ruth Gipps’s 3rd Symphony? (Preceded by Tippett and Arnold, also works which, for me at least, are off the beaten track)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000bxgl

I have it downloaded ready for a listen when time permits.

[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.
Handel: Israel in Egypt: R3 in Concert Thursday 16 May

I shall make sure to listen to the Advent concert. Thank you for posting this.

[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.

[teamsaint]

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

[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 )