BBC NOW this afternoon

[Guest]

Fine concert coming up this afternoon, recorded on 21 Oct in Cardiff. Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem was well played , and there was a rare outing for Strauss Oboe Concerto brilliantly executed by Francois Leleux - not a name to me but his playing looked and sounded fabulous. A pity it's not on TV as he was a bit of a showman with it. He played a short and flashy encore which went in one ear and out of the other but clearly delighted the woodwind section. Don Quixote with Tim Hugh and Lawrence Power, the latter sitting in the first viola desk on the conductor's right. Conductor was the baton-less Francois-Xavier Roth.

[austin]

And all this to look forward to

http://tinyurl.com/686sqe7

[Alf-Prufrock]

And all this to look forward to

Don't you just know that when the BBC announce a season on the Symphony that they will employ Sue Perkins, Alexander Armstrong, Joan Armatrading, Brian Blessed, Antonia Fraser, Alan Hollinghurst, James Naughtie, Will Self, Penny Smith and Rufus Wainwright? (I don't know who Penny Smith is, though.) All we need now is a piano improvisation on Beethoven 5.

My God, there is one!

What could be worse? A new symphony based on the main themes from Beethoven's 6th Symphony?

[Richard Tarleton]

I was merely drawing attention to a half decent concert this afternoon, just ended - not part of this series. I'll be going to BBC NOW's Mozart/Bruckner concert in St David's Hall on November 25 - the second Bruckner 7 there in under a year, ending Cardiff's status as a Bruckner-free zone. Penny Smith unmasked by a simple Google search

[Alf-Prufrock]

Sorry, Richard, I was responding to Austin's comment. I can see that there is little relevance to your message.

I was out for a leisurely lunch today and have just got back, so I shall listen on I-Player to the concert you mentioned. I like Strauss's Oboe Concerto very much, in any case, and like the Britten too. Don Quixote is my favourite Strauss tone poem (and the novel is in my top five, at least in an eighteenth century translation I possess), so the whole concert will be a joy to me.

[Richard Tarleton]

Sorry, Richard, I was responding to Austin's comment. I can see that there is little relevance to your message.

I was out for a leisurely lunch today and have just got back, so I shall listen on I-Player to the concert you mentioned. I like Strauss's Oboe Concerto very much, in any case, and like the Britten too. Don Quixote is my favourite Strauss tone poem (and the novel is in my top five, at least in an eighteenth century translation I possess), so the whole concert will be a joy to me.

[BBMmk2]

And all this to look forward to


http://tinyurl.com/686sqe7

.....and what is wrong with a series like this?

[DoctorT]

.....and what is wrong with a series like this?

Sue Perkins to name but one. Why oh why does the BBC have this obsession with celebrities?