Live in Concert 24th May, 2012

[Guest]

19:30 – 20:10 Radio 3 Live in Concert

Live from the Barbican in London, Brahms

1/2 BBC SO under Jiri Belohlavek with soloist Isabelle Faust in Brahms: Violin Concerto.
.20:10 – 20:40 Interval: Twenty Minutes

The Meaning of Maturity Paul Allen explores the work that inspired Josef Suk's The Ripening.


.20:40 – 22:00 Radio 3 Live in Concert

Live from the Barbican in London, Suk

2/2 Jiri Belohlavek leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Josef Suk's The Ripening.


Hornspieler.

[amateur51]

19:30 – 20:10 Radio 3 Live in Concert

Live from the Barbican in London, Brahms

1/2 BBC SO under Jiri Belohlavek with soloist Isabelle Faust in Brahms: Violin Concerto.
.20:10 – 20:40 Interval: Twenty Minutes

The Meaning of Maturity Paul Allen explores the work that inspired Josef Suk's The Ripening.


.20:40 – 22:00 Radio 3 Live in Concert

Live from the Barbican in London, Suk

2/2 Jiri Belohlavek leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Josef Suk's The Ripening. Hornspieler.

This sounds like a wonderfully old fashioned Radio 3 production, with a pertinent interval talk

Many thanks Hornspieler

[salymap]

Has the red type any significance or it it my computer, if I am allowed to ask?

I find red print very difficult to see, as do others, I am sure.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

HS.

Belohlavek conducting Suk should be worth hearing, and Faust is a superbly vigorous Violinist who should bring out the fire of the Brahms.

[Curalach]

Belohlavek conducting Suk should be worth hearing, and Faust is a superbly vigorous Violinist who should bring out the fire of the Brahms.

Agreed.
Sorry to see the Americanism "leads" instead of "conducts" creeping into the Beeb's publicity. What do they imagine the Leader does? Concert-masters I suppose!

[salymap]

Erm, this is actually on the 24th May I believe HS.

[doversoul1]

Live in Concert 23rd May, 2012

Thank you Hornspieler. This looks good.

From the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music: Harmonie Universelle, directed by Florian Deuter play music by Muffat and the French and Italian composers who fascinated him.
Muffat: Sonata No.2 in G minor (Armonico tributo)
Lully: Chaconne from Phaëton
Pasquini: Passacaglia in G
Corelli: Sonata da camera a 3 in G op.2 no.12
Schmelzer: Harmonia a 5 in Bb
Bertali: Sonata a 5 (Tausend Gülden)
Muffat: Violin Sonata in D;
Sonata No.5 in G (Armonico tributo)

Harmonie Universelle
Florian Deuter violin/director

[jayne lee wilson]

I always begin The Ripening with hope... but usually end disappointed. Will it be different this time? Or will I still see the beloved Asrael as towering above anything else he did...

[Tony Halstead]

I find red print very difficult to see, as do others, I am sure

Agreed..I too find it very difficult to see, salymap!
Not sure what it's 'all about'....!

[mercia]

missed the beginning of the Brahms, were we told about that odd timpani-accompanied cadenza to the first movement? a new one on me (not that that's saying much)

[Osborn]

...that odd timpani-accompanied cadenza to the first movement? a new one on me (not that that's saying much)

It's by Busoni; it's Isabelle Faust's preferred cadenza & she invariably plays it beautifully & IMO makes it sound absolutely convincing

[Barbirollians]

I thought that was a thrillingly vital performance of the Brahms . Isabelle Faust is surely one if the very finest violinists around . It had much of the refreshing vivacity of her recent Beethoven recording without ever seeming rushed .

[mercia]

It's by Busoni

oh thanks - I'm sure it could grow on me
my innocent ear really enjoyed the Suk - gorgeous atmospheric opening and close - and plenty to hold the attention inbetween, sounded very well played to me

[jayne lee wilson]

The Ripening did indeed sound well-played, but I still couldn't make much of it. I bought the same performers' 24-bit download a while ago, suffice to say I've since deleted it... yes, it's atmospheric, has a beautiful, fading end, but where are the ideas, any sense of shape, or even a compelling "organic" continuous development, emotionally or musically? It just seems to get a little louder, a little angrier and more impassioned, then fade away.

So I'm left with my earlier impression: this is "reflections on Asrael" again, since all his earlier music seems to lead up, (unknowing, in its relative formality, fantasy and brightness) to that adored, death-inspired masterpiece; and then, slowly and painfully, less and less memorably, lead away from it, haunted by the unique, shattering, towering tragedy that it embodies.

Asrael: a great Poem of Loss. The Ripening: trying to live with what's left; grieving, yearning, protesting - exhausted, in the smoking ruins; imagining, but not believing, some final consolation...

[Panjandrum]

It's by Busoni; it's Isabelle Faust's preferred cadenza & she invariably plays it beautifully & IMO makes it sound absolutely convincing

One should try and hear Busoni's cadenza for the Beethoven vn con. There's a lot of Bach, unsurprisingly, but it is decidedly striking.