Dvorak, Chopin and Schmidt Friday 23rd at 7.30pm

[Hornspieler]

Live from The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

Presented by Petroc Trelawny





The BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Vassily Sinaisky, performs Dvorak's Carnival Overture, Chopin's Piano Concerto No 2 with Daniil Trifonov, and Schmidt's Symphony No 4.

Dvorak: Carnival Overture
Chopin: Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor
INTERVAL
Schmidt's Symphony No 4.

Daniil Trifonov (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Meet Franz Schmidt, last of the Austrian Romantics. As storm clouds gathered over his native Austria, Schmidt poured a lifetime of heartbreak into his beautiful Fourth Symphony; music of profound emotion, glorious melody and some of the most tender poetry in 20th century music. Prize-winning 21-year-old virtuoso Daniil Trifonov is the perfect soloist for Chopin's youthful Second Concerto. Dvorak's colourful and exuberant overture starts the evening

Sounds like a firm of East European Estate Agents. - but Vassily Sinaisky and the BBC Philharmonic are a combination that are always worth a hearing.

HS

[amateur51]

It will be my fist chance to listen to Daniil Trifonov who has won first prize in the Chopin, Rubinstein and Tchaikovsky Piano competitions and from the youtube evidence does appear to be a remarkable pianist, an artist in the making

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izIMf9-pQGk

[Hornspieler]

It will be my fist chance to listen to Daniil Trifonov who has won first prize in the Chopin, Rubinstein and Tchaikovsky Piano competitions and from the youtube evidence does appear to be a remarkable pianist, an artist in the making

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izIMf9-pQGk

I found the Schmidt's Symphony No 4 interesting, but I would certainly not consider adding it to my collection of symphonic music. Fine playing though - especially by the Principal Trumpet and the Principal Horn (has Jonathan Goodall retired?)

Yes Daniil Trifonov is a fine pianist. I only wished that we could have heard him in a concerto which is not as lightweight (I almost wrote "trivial") as Chopin's Nº 2. A very impressive encore!

Carnival overture was exciting and, at the same time, accurate. No more than I would have expected from the superb alliance of Sinaisky with the BBC Philharmonic.

Worth a hearing, but I won't be looking for more works by Franz Schmidt.

HS

[John Shelton]

I found the Schmidt's Symphony No 4 interesting, but I would certainly not consider adding it to my collection of symphonic music. Fine playing though - especially by the Principal Trumpet and the Principal Horn (has Jonathan Goodall retired?)

Yes Daniil Trifonov is a fine pianist. I only wished that we could have heard him in a concerto which is not as lightweight (I almost wrote "trivial") as Chopin's Nº 2. A very impressive encore!

Carnival overture was exciting and, at the same time, accurate. No more than I would have expected from the superb alliance of Sinaisky with the BBC Philharmonic.

Worth a hearing, but I won't be looking for more works by Franz Schmidt.

HS

I don't see that Chopin's concerto is "lightweight" - it adapts certain precursors with some boldness, and has its own considerable poetry and distinctiveness. I'd like to hear Trifonov in solo Chopin where, sure, there's greater exploration and daring.

It makes a change to find something that isn't constantly on orchestral programmes / R3. But Schmidt's music has an air of the ... unnecessary to me, given the wonderful innovations of the contemporaneous European avant-garde.

Have UK orchestras entered into a pact to play something by Dvořák every concert? I wish they'd stop.

More generally; any chance of a concert of Medieval / or Renaissance vocal music, a harpsichord recital, some C17 music, some rare baroque music (or some baroque music at all. Some Bach would be so welcome), a fortepiano recital, a string quartet with an imaginative repertoire, some contemporary music, some free improv in these 'live' evening slots? They are so grindingly predictable and ... well, pointless. There is other music out there, it's not all C19 / early C20 orchestral music (especially not the New World Symphony).

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes Daniil Trifonov is a fine pianist. I only wished that we could have heard him in a concerto which is not as lightweight (I almost wrote "trivial") as Chopin's Nº 2.

Chopin's "No. 1" for example... I have to agree about No 2, it's always a disappointment for me, beside the other one which I love. I think 'lightweight' is the right word, HS, and there is that terrible, crass modulation into the major towards the end of the last movement which I dread!!

I didn't spot the RPO doing this programme in the UK, from the Montreux Festival in Switzerland this summer.... had I done (or had they done), I'd have been there like a shot.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 19h30, AUDITORIUM STRAVINSKI, MONTREUX

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Dutoit, conductor
Daniil Trifonov, piano

Ottorino Respighi - Fountains of Rome

Sergei Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto N° 3 in D minor

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony N° 5 in C minor op. 67

[Roehre]

More generally; any chance of a concert of Medieval / or Renaissance vocal music..

Coming Monday :

Live from St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge

Presented by Catherine Bott

A mass and motets in honour of St Cecilia, patron saint of musicians, performed by the BBC Singers and Peter Phillips

Orlande de Lassus: Musica Dei donum optimi; Cantantibus organis
Ferdinand de Lassus: Caecilia virgo

Guillaume de Costeley: Allon, gays bergeres; Mignonne, allons voir

Orlande de Lassus: Domine Jesu Christe qui cognoscis
George de la Hèle: Nonne Deo subiecta evit anima mea

Francisco Guerrero: Dum aurora finem daret
Jean Maillard: Domine Jesu Christe, Pastor bone
G P Palestrina: Dum aurora finem daret

Peter Philips: Cecilia virgo; Cantantibus organis

G P da Palestrina:
Motet: Cantantibus organis

Palestrina and others: Missa cantantibus organis

Pierre de Manchicourt: Cantantibus organis
Luca Marenzio: Cantantibus organis

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nzpy7

[John Shelton]

Coming Monday :

Live from St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge

Presented by Catherine Bott

A mass and motets in honour of St Cecilia, patron saint of musicians, performed by the BBC Singers and Peter Phillips

Orlande de Lassus: Musica Dei donum optimi; Cantantibus organis
Ferdinand de Lassus: Caecilia virgo

Guillaume de Costeley: Allon, gays bergeres; Mignonne, allons voir

Orlande de Lassus: Domine Jesu Christe qui cognoscis
George de la Hèle: Nonne Deo subiecta evit anima mea

Francisco Guerrero: Dum aurora finem daret
Jean Maillard: Domine Jesu Christe, Pastor bone
G P Palestrina: Dum aurora finem daret

Peter Philips: Cecilia virgo; Cantantibus organis

G P da Palestrina:
Motet: Cantantibus organis

Palestrina and others: Missa cantantibus organis

Pierre de Manchicourt: Cantantibus organis
Luca Marenzio: Cantantibus organis

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nzpy7

[Nick Armstrong]

Coming Monday :

Live from St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge

Lovely but a smidgeon off-topic perhaps...

[Roehre]

Lovely but a smidgeon off-topic perhaps...

Only just a bit, Caliban, just a bit

[Barbirollians]

Chopin's "No. 1" for example... I have to agree about No 2, it's always a disappointment for me, beside the other one which I love. I think 'lightweight' is the right word, HS, and there is that terrible, crass modulation into the major towards the end of the last movement which I dread!!

I didn't spot the RPO doing this programme in the UK, from the Montreux Festival in Switzerland this summer.... had I done (or had they done), I'd have been there like a shot.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 19h30, AUDITORIUM STRAVINSKI, MONTREUX

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Dutoit, conductor
Daniil Trifonov, piano

Ottorino Respighi - Fountains of Rome









Sergei Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto N° 3 in D minor

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony N° 5 in C minor op. 67

I suggest you listen to your neighbour Tamas Vasary in this concerto ! - Far from a trivial or lightweight performance .

[Hornspieler]

The BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Vassily Sinaisky, performs Dvorak's Carnival Overture, Chopin's Piano Concerto No 2 with Daniil Trifonov, and Schmidt's Symphony No 4.

I really don't know why I bother!

"Peace on Earth, Goodwill to All Men"

Merry Christmas Everybody.



Hornspieler

[Petrushka]

I really don't know why I bother!

"Peace on Earth, Goodwill to All Men"

Merry Christmas Everybody.



Hornspieler

To be fair, HS, this was a programme that I'd wager didn't have much appeal. It didn't have much appeal for me either and I wonder how many bums were on Bridgewater Hall seats on a dank November evening? I count myself as an admirer of both the BBCPO and Sinaisky but, frankly, this was duff programming and Mancunians deserve better.

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

Sounds like a firm of East European Estate Agents. - but Vassily Sinaisky and the BBC Philharmonic are a combination that are always worth a hearing. [/COLOR]

HS

Sinaisky and the BBCPO are usually very fine - I especially like them in Russian repertoire. I've heard Daniil Trifonov's recent disc of Tchaikovsky 1, made with Gergiev & the Mariinsky Orchestra after winning the Tchaikovsky Prize and he's incredibly talented.

I've captured this for later listening, but as I've quite a workload on at the moment, it's doubtful I'll get time to listen properly for a while (the Bournemouth Sibelius/ Grieg/ Tchaik you recommended is similarly laying in wait for me...).

[Nick Armstrong]

I suggest you listen to your neighbour Tamas Vasary in this concerto ! - Far from a trivial or lightweight performance .

I have the copy he gave me, as well....

[amateur51]

I'd like to hear Trifonov in solo Chopin where, sure, there's greater exploration and daring.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUI90rbdUBU