BBC4 - actual music!

[jonfan]

I enjoyed this concert immensely. Could it be Suzy Klein’s new role is bearing fruit?

[Dave2002]

Suffice to say cutting to the piccolo nose picking while the clarinet plays an exquisite solo would not generally be reckoned a triumph.

Absolutely!

I didn't know that there was such interest in such detail.

[ardcarp]

I think it's their dogma that there must always be chat and camera movement, where concerts usually involve a lot of sitting still listening.

I thought the chat was quite minimal on this programme. As for camera movement, I thought they did it very well. It's fair enough not just to have a single static camera 'sitting in the auditorium'. After all, an audience member will always be moving his/her gaze to sections of the orchestra or to a particular instrument. Wish we could have more of this music content on the Beeb.

[BBMmk2]

Have to see about catching up!

[jonfan]

Tonight’s Summer Concert from Vienna one of best yet with fantastic playing responding to superb conducting. Lovely visuals with a French flavour.

[oddoneout]

Tonight’s Summer Concert from Vienna one of best yet with fantastic playing responding to superb conducting. Lovely visuals with a French flavour.

I watched most of it and very much enjoyed it - a lovely distraction and brain re-set from some tiresome things I had been dealing with during the day. I am not one for the kind of vocal numbers that were included(really not into opera) but I have to say the soloist last night had me hooked - all the drama but without the wobble and dodgy tuning that so often seems to come with it(I did say I wasn't a fan...) I didn't catch her name and no BBC info online about the programme as to music played, performers etc.

[jonfan]

Radio Times has the details of performers. The singer was Elina Garanca.

[hmvman]

Tonight’s Summer Concert from Vienna one of best yet with fantastic playing responding to superb conducting. Lovely visuals with a French flavour.

Just caught up with it on iPlayer and couldn't agree more. I found Bolero absolutely thrilling!

[Dave2002]

The BBC NOW with Beethoven 5 was pretty good a couple of nights ago. Despite the hype I didn't really like the other pieces much, and of course there was the gushing commentary. The only really sensible thing I heard was that the opening of B5 does have a rest before the "fate" motif - see https://imslp.org/wiki/File:PMLP1586.jpg - though whether that makes a difference to performances I don't know. The first three notes don't seem to be accented either - but there is a pause in the next (2/4) bar.

[smittims]

Conductors have played with those four notes as much as actors have varied their delivery of 'To be or not to be'. Some have made the first three sound like a triplet, instead of three quavers with the (slight) stress on the second.And the second-world-war association brought a heavy emphasis on the whole phrase which today would, I think, sound over-rhetorical.