Celebrating Bernard Haitink Friday 7th Jan - Saturday 15 Jan

[Ein Heldenleben]

Beautifully done slow movement in that Prague performance I thought..

[Alison]

Really enjoying tonight’s concert, this DSCH 4 is vintage Haitink, by turns nimble and powerful, more penetrating than later stiffer performances with Chicago and London Symphony Orchestras. Not fast but thrillingly alive with none of that BPO show offy quality.

[Petrushka]

Really enjoying tonight’s concert, this DSCH 4 is vintage Haitink, by turns nimble and powerful, more penetrating than later stiffer performances with Chicago and London Symphony Orchestras. Not fast but thrillingly alive with none of that BPO show offy quality.

Agreed, Alison, absolutely terrific performance. I think it was previously broadcast on R3 one afternoon several years ago and as I would have been at work at he time this was the first time I've heard it.

[Ein Heldenleben]

Heard every concert this week. For my money the strongest weeks music making in years on Performance On 3 . What a master he was . The ROH orchestra are playing their socks off in the Die Meistersinger Vorspiel as the VPO did last night in Bruckner 7 . And John Tomlinson, Tom Allen and Gwynn Howell in prospect - doesn’t get any better than this…

[Alison]

Tonight’s relay brings back wonderful memories of recording Covent Garden Wagner on my bespoke Philips VHS recorder via an Arcam FM tuner.

What an orchestra Sir Bernard developed at the Royal Opera.

[Ein Heldenleben]

Tonight’s relay brings back wonderful memories of recording Covent Garden Wagner on my bespoke Philips VHS recorder via an Arcam FM tuner.

What an orchestra Sir Bernard developed at the Royal Opera.

I recorded this very performance I think on my now defunct Teac cassette recorder and have spent today googling how to record it on my iMac with confusing results…

[LHC]

I have this recording on CD; it was released on the short-lived Royal Opera House Heritage Series in 2008. For those who are interested, it might be worth searching for a second hand copy.

[cloughie]

I recorded this very performance I think on my now defunct Teac cassette recorder and have spent today googling how to record it on my iMac with confusing results…

It used to be so much simpler with cassettes and then minidisc!

[Alison]

I’m finding listening to this really quite emotional; the sheer warmth and unforced eloquence of it all.

Uniquely moving in my experience.

[Ein Heldenleben]

I have this recording on CD; it was released on the short-lived Royal Opera House Heritage Series in 2008. For those who are interested, it might be worth searching for a second hand copy.

Thanks for the tip.

[Alison]

Really looking forward to Act III Prelude now Helders…

[Nick Armstrong]

I have this recording on CD; it was released on the short-lived Royal Opera House Heritage Series in 2008. For those who are interested, it might be worth searching for a second hand copy.

https://amp.theguardian.com/culture/2008/jul/11/filmandmusic1.filmandmusic32

[Ein Heldenleben]

Really looking forward to Act III Prelude now Helders…

I think I’m going to have to save it . So far have become “over-emotional” twice during the overture , then Pogner’s Act 1 narration, the end of Act 1 as Sachs “stands pensively” on stage and the Flieder monolog. I am also starting to sing along…..
My favourite opera …

[Alison]

This seems to be a recording from 1993, while the CD version is 1997.

[Prommer]

I believe the CDs are from the last performance in the old house, on 12th July 1997, whereas this broadcast is "from a series of performances given in the autumn of 1993" [when the production was new]. A cast difference, too: Anne Howells sings Magdalene here, whereas on the CDs, it is Catherine Wyn-Rogers.