Was anyone else at this very fine (IMO naturally) concert at the Barbican last Sunday? I've not much to say that isn't covered by the (unusually unanimous) glowing reviews to be found elsewhere:
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How good to hear that Previn is still on form. I wish I had been there.Comment
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It would have been nice to be in two places at once. We were at the RFH for a splendid concert by the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Ivan Fischer. Stephen Hough was terrific in the Liszt first concerto, and for once the lyrical elements in the piece were not overwhelmed. The performance of Beethoven's Pastoral was the best I've heard for years, and one nice touch was that a slender green tree appeared on the platform during the interval!Comment
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From the reviews, I do hope that the performances especially the VW5 appear at some point on record, webcast or the radio.Comment
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Yes, absolutely. I would have been had it been possible. (Perhaps we can get him to come to Bristol in place of Charles H. to give us some "desperately-needed musical protein", I think it wasOriginally posted by rauschwerk View Post
) It seems he can do no wrong with VW5. Apart from his LSO and RPO recordings, there is the EMI one with the students of the Curtis Institute Orchestra (not released here?) which is just as luminous, and I see there's a film on Youtube of a more recent performance with a relatively obscure Japanese outfit -- and it's still excellent.
I'm sorry to hear he's a bit frail these days.Comment
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This was a profoundly moving performance with a conductor whose frailty is sadly now all too evident. The last time I heard such a performance was one of Boult's last Proms, so perhaps it is a work which comes best to those late in life.....Comment
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I'm delighted to know AP is still producing musical gold. I saw him at the Barbican some years ago, conducting the Korngold concerto with Ms Mutter when they were still married - he seemed terribly frail then, I remember thinking that there would soon be a sad announcement. But terrific that he's still going strong in a musical sense anyway. His evident old age is one of the things that reminds me of my own advancing years - his heyday with the LSO (and Morecambe and Wise) coincided with my discovery of classical music (the Walton 1 !!) and to see that energetic, glamorous guy now geriatric makes me feel the advancing years very keenly.
Was the concert recorded? Could there be an LSO Live CD?"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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No microphones were visible to me I'm afraid - and I had a good view from the stalls.Originally posted by Caliban View PostComment
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