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The programme I've seen says Part 1 is a work by Gérard Grisey: Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil, which isn't a "pick and mix assortment". Has the programme been changed?
...the wonderful DAVID PYATT whose relocation from the LSO to the LPO has recently been announced?
I knew the LSO needs a principal horn but I think they have co-principals so didn't know who was departing. Yes, he's a fine capture for the LPO. But I don't want the LSO going anywhere near Elspeth Dutch, the CBSO's superb section leader!
The programme I've seen says Part 1 is a work by Gérard Grisey: Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil, which isn't a "pick and mix assortment". Has the programme been changed?
I hope not: this is a superb work, the last written by Grisey before his untimely death in 1998, aged only 52.
Répétition de "Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil" de Gérard GriseyBarbara Hannigan, sopranoEnsemble intercontemporainSusanna Mälkki, directionCentre Pomp...
This sort of adventurous programming (a crowd-pulling warhorse coupled with a work that deserves wider circulation) is to be commended.
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I wonder whether the solo horn part will be played by the wonderful DAVID PYATT whose relocation from the LSO to the LPO has recently been announced?
I'm not going tomorrow but shall be there for the LPO Wagner/Bruckner evening on Friday so shall report on the dramatis personae on the back row
"...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..."
How interesting re David Pyatt. Definitely a greater buzz around the LPO these days.
Perhaps my least favourite Mahler symphony, I shall be fascinated to hear what Jurowski makes of it.
Least favourite Mahler symphony, Alison? Surely not! Yes, got high expectations for this one and would have liked to have been there. The Grisey work is entirely new to me and this sort of inspired programming is putting the LPO well ahead of its rivals. Recorder at the ready!
"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
Least favourite Mahler symphony, Alison? Surely not! Yes, got high expectations for this one and would have liked to have been there. The Grisey work is entirely new to me and this sort of inspired programming is putting the LPO well ahead of its rivals. Recorder at the ready!
Interesting. It's my least favourite Mahler symphony too - but still a work I like a great deal. The programming is indeed inspired - but that's been the case for a lot of LPO concerts during Jurowski's tenure. I'm hugely looking forward to hearing this concert.
Now let's see Bernard Haitink back at the RFH with the London Philharmonic !!
"...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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