BBC Piano Season

[BBMmk2]

If it all gets people to their first step-s into 'Classical Music', then I am for this. As I said earlier,i am looking forward to that monster PC of Busoni's!! I have John Ogdon's and Msarc-Adrere Hamlin's in my collection.

[DracoM]

The Beethoven sonata season was quite strange. All very decorous and nothing to frighten the horses - even the big last clutch were played with the silencer on Very weird experience. Little sturm und drang at all. Llyr Williams and Shia Wosner et al just quietly floated through it all seemingly untouched by the inner Beethoven.

[VodkaDilc]

Does it sound as if the Leeds competition will not be televised - apart from a series about the finalists? How we enjoyed the two-night finals in the golden olden days! First we had a shift to BBC4 and now even less? Such a pity - it was a highlight of the TV music calendar.

(Just having read the press release, it's the 'series about the finalists' which sounds so ominous. About the finalists - not their playing or the music!)

[Pianorak]

Does it sound as if the Leeds competition will not be televised - apart from a series about the finalists? How we enjoyed the two-night finals in the golden olden days! First we had a shift to BBC4 and now even less? Such a pity - it was a highlight of the TV music calendar.

(Just having read the press release, it's the 'series about the finalists' which sounds so ominous. About the finalists - not their playing or the music!)

That press release is just so much froth!

[french frank]

(Just having read the press release, it's the 'series about the finalists' which sounds so ominous. About the finalists - not their playing or the music!)

Hmmm...

"Highlights of the season include an in-depth insight into The Leeds International Piano Competition [...]The season begins with extensive coverage of the Leeds International Piano Competition with live broadcasts of the final on BBC Radio 3 and a six-part series about the finalists on BBC Four."

I don't think they'll be able to altogether avoid playing a bit of music on BBC Four six-part series

[VodkaDilc]

Hmmm...

"Highlights of the season include an in-depth insight into The Leeds International Piano Competition [...]The season begins with extensive coverage of the Leeds International Piano Competition with live broadcasts of the final on BBC Radio 3 and a six-part series about the finalists on BBC Four."

I don't think they'll be able to altogether avoid playing a bit of music on BBC Four six-part series

But no live (or close to live) coverage of the concerto finals which I remember so fondly from the past! - complete with Fanny's characteristic announcements of the results.

[Pianorak]

. . . I don't think they'll be able to altogether avoid playing a bit of music on BBC Four six-part series

And I thought I was naive! (joke!)

[Jonathan]

I've not read the press release but is there any mention of another Pianothon as part of this season? I've played in both previous ones (and had one of my performances broadcast on R3) and I need an excuse to get practising again...

[Pianorak]

Alas, no mention of another Pianothon in the press release.

[Cavaradossi]

Audio from the four Semi Finalists at Leeds Piano 2012 held yesterday are now available to listen online.

http://www.leedspiano.com/competition/competition?MID=370

Semi Final
9th September

Session 1
Candidate Name: Eric Zuber
Ballot Number: 2
mms://iss-video.leeds.ac.uk/Music1/semi2012_01.wma
Candidate Name: Jayson Gillham
Ballot Number: 5
mms://iss-video.leeds.ac.uk/Music1/semi2012_02.wma


Session 2
Candidate Name: Sean Chen
Ballot Number: 26
mms://iss-video.leeds.ac.uk/Music1/semi2012_03.wma
Candidate Name: Jiayan Sun
Ballot Number: 32
mms://iss-video.leeds.ac.uk/Music1/semi2012_04.wma

[amateur51]

Audio from the four Semi Finalists at Leeds Piano 2012 held yesterday are now available to listen online.

http://www.leedspiano.com/competition/competition?MID=370

Semi Final
9th September

Session 1
Candidate Name: Eric Zuber
Ballot Number: 2
mms://iss-video.leeds.ac.uk/Music1/semi2012_01.wma
Candidate Name: Jayson Gillham
Ballot Number: 5
mms://iss-video.leeds.ac.uk/Music1/semi2012_02.wma


Session 2
Candidate Name: Sean Chen
Ballot Number: 26
mms://iss-video.leeds.ac.uk/Music1/semi2012_03.wma
Candidate Name: Jiayan Sun
Ballot Number: 32
mms://iss-video.leeds.ac.uk/Music1/semi2012_04.wma

Many thanks for this, Cavaradossi

[french frank]

Alas, no mention of another Pianothon in the press release.

Nope.

And as Discovering Music goes, it looks like it's gorn:

Monday 17 September 2012
8pm-8.20pm (20 mins)
Discovering Music – Piano Keys
'Sara Mohr-Pietsch and guests answer your questions about anything to do with the piano and Richard Sisson, pianist and half of cabaret act Kit and the Widow, guides us through the quirks and features of the main piano keys used by the great classical music composers. Plus, a look ahead to the second half of tonight's concert.'

I'm not saying it will be bereft of interest, but the format doesn't promise much ('email us your questions') compared with, say, 45 minutes with Anthony Payne discussing Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola. Even 'What's your favourite note' would need more than 20 minutes to discuss properly.

[doversoul1]

Nope.

And as Discovering Music goes, it looks like it's gorn:

Monday 17 September 2012
8pm-8.20pm (20 mins)
Discovering Music – Piano Keys
'Sara Mohr-Pietsch and guests answer your questions about anything to do with the piano and Richard Sisson, pianist and half of cabaret act Kit and the Widow, guides us through the quirks and features of the main piano keys used by the great classical music composers. Plus, a look ahead to the second half of tonight's concert.'

I'm not saying it will be bereft of interest, but the format doesn't promise much ('email us your questions') compared with, say, 45 minutes with Anthony Payne discussing Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola. Even 'What's your favourite note' would need more than 20 minutes to discuss properly.

I can’t believe I am reading about a programme on Radio3 (but I seem to be)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mx7ss

Only very small consolation is that it is not Stephen Johnson who is being made to perform the trick (for this occasion at least). But honestly, what are we seeing?

And they had a nerve to call this Discovering Music??

[french frank]

And they had a nerve to call this Discovering Music??

RW did say the old Discovering Music was cut because of the cash cuts.

But it seems to me that R3's budget has been slashed more than most. As the Ofcom Annual Report said - the biggest PSB cuts have been in the arts/classical music.

[MrGongGong]

Richard Sisson, pianist and half of cabaret act Kit and the Widow,

shoot me now please

but wait
there's this

Radio 3 New Generation Artist Igor Levit performs Rzewksi’s celebrated and fiendishly difficult Variations on “The People United Will Never Be Defeated”