BBC Young Musician of the Year Finals - BBC Four

[Hornspieler]

I have a contribution from the late Ariosto:

We know that Ariosto is a man who speaks his mind...

Is Ariosto in or out? (under his various pseudonyms)

A very interesting post, but if he is no longer a member, why are his views posted here?

And if he is truly "the late Ariosto" how did FF receive this message?

Are we seeing the revival of the Ouija Board through the medium of digital radio?

Right then. Place your digits on the Ouija planchette and see whether Mozart or Beethoven are "on the air" at the moment. Then ask them what they think of Edvard Grieg's piano concerto and William Walton's 'cello opus.

Music on the Air" at last! Courtesy of R3 Forum.

HS

[MrGongGong]

Is Ariosto in or out? (under his various pseudonyms)

I really don't see what his (?) sexuality has to do with anything ?
Can't we stick to music ?

[Curalach]

It did start out as a typo, but when the spelling checker highlighted it, I decided it should stay for its allusive potential.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

My previous post missed out a quotation before the final

Perhaps my point is clearer in relation to the Grieg pf conc: I don't think this gives any soloist - fully professional just as a much as student - such a chance to show wide musicality as the Walton cello concerto did.

... to which I was giving my support.

I've "enboldened" the word "wide" here in response to MrPee's post: it's not that I dislike the Grieg (far from it) or think that it doesn't allow any opportunity for pianists to reveal their "Musicianship" (the many recordings mentioned on the "Favourite Grieg/Schumann Recordings would quickly demonstrate that the idiocy of such a view), but that the Walton 'cello Conc. IMHO, allows a wider range of expressivity and playing demands from the soloist.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Is Ariosto in or out?

Knowing him (and I fervently hope this) "shaking it all about", HS!

[Ariosto]

Until death do us part ...

Knowing him (and I fervently hope this) "shaking it all about", HS!

Well, I have sneaked back in, and hope ff doesn't notice ... (And I have been shaking it all about - especially my bow arm).

I thought I had better come back from the afterlife and try and control all you naughty boys (the gals are OK) and defend both ff's and my reputations ...

To answer HS - I'm communicating from the other side, as ff is correct that I'm the late ... so I can see your every misdemeanour - and boy, I can see a lot of those.

Now while I've been away, and its well over six months, you have all been misbehaving very badly. I think the culprits know who I mean. And all this stuff about the Walton cello concerto being below par is indefensible - you must all know that Walton wrote a better fiddle and cello concerto than old Elgar, although his aren't too bad I suppose.

And some of you from the brassband fraternity have not been listening properly and paying attention to the YMotY competition. You must realise that this must be the case, to even think that technically good young male pianist was better than the cellist!! She was a musician, he was just a piano plonker. (Actually I must be careful as someone close to me knows his teacher ... say no more)

You must have noticed surely that the orchestra played so much better for her, and the previous winner when she played the Rach? It was not the conductor's fault, he was OK - but the Grieg suffered from not being at all together, because the pianist did his thing without regard to or bothering to listen to the orchestra. Basic stuff, this, I thought you would all have improved in your listening habits since I was last here on the planet. I'm very dissapointed, but of course some of you got it right, HS and all of the ladies. Perhaps they (the ladies) have better hearing and concentration than some of us in the lower pecking order ...

Well, I had better stop before I upset someone, and I don't want to do that on my first day back in the upper sixth form ...

[MrGongGong]

Well, I had better stop before I upset someone, and I don't want to do that on my first day back in the upper sixth form ...

I thought this was a PRU ?

[Curalach]

Welcome back Ariosto

[Ariosto]

I thought this was a PRU ?

What's a PRU? Perfectly rough uteris?

[MrGongGong]

What's a PRU? Perfectly rough uteris?

PRU = Pupil Referral Unit

where have you been ?

[Ariosto]

Welcome back Ariosto

Thanks Curalach - I'm a reformed character now I've been on the other side - and I am in love with one or two odd conductors ...

[Ariosto]

PRU = Pupil Referral Unit

where have you been ?

I've been locked up with 72 conductors and they have been re-formatting my musical attitude so I can only but love them. They made me listen to a lot of that baROCK music which has not done a lot of good for my hearing, but as I'm now also a trained conductor I can take anything - even Jessie Norman singing bits from the sound of musak.

[amateur51]

Welcome back, Ariosto!

Lords knows we've missed you - some of the Horlicks that passes for 'informed opinion' on here since you abandoned us

Make yourself comfy and then get stuck in as per usual

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Yes; welcome back, Ariosto: you've been much missed.

[Ariosto]

It's very nice of you all to say I've been missed. I missed myself a bit too, dedicating some of my time to trying to play Haydn and Bach, not to mention Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Schubert. But I can now conduct in five four, learning this from very nice conductors who showed me how to do it. (It's easy really - you just do 4/4 and it comes out as 5/4 - the orchestra soon learns to adjust).