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[mercia]

does Hornspieler recommend tonight's live concert from Hanley ?

[Hornspieler]

does Hornspieler recommend tonight's live concert from Hanley ?

Certainly.

Beethoven 4 is a favourite of mine and I always listen to Nº 9 especially for that dreamy third movement and to see how the solo singers get on in the finale.

It's not a long programme though and an overture like Prometheus, which doesn't seem to appear very often these days, would make a good opening.

Enjoy.

HS

[mercia]

dear me, that was a mad scramble - poor bassoonist didn't stand a chance (referring to LvB4 finale) - the most ragged performance of that symphony I think I've ever heard - but I guess that's live for you

[Hornspieler]

dear me, that was a mad scramble - poor bassoonist didn't stand a chance

I.ve changed my mind and am listening now (Beethoven 4 2nd Mvt just started)

Applause sounded as if there were about 28 people in the audience. The first movement sounded like a bassoon concerto. Dreadful balance. Woodwind still dominating, but there is some very tasteful playing going on there.(except the trumpets sound a bit sour.
Horrible intonation in the timps at end of 2nd Mvt.
Now into scherzo. That bassoon soloist is back again!

Believe it or not, this is my favourite BBC orchestra.

Now into the finale. Where's the fire?

Don't panic! Woodwind and Strings first!

Individually, the actual playing is very competent. Those long string passages were played with panache and I know how difficult they are, but really! It's quite a short programme. What's the hurry?

I was wrong about the audience numbers. They sound like more than 40 clapping enthusiastically.

More to come after the interval in twenty minutes time.

Now into the Choral Symphony. It sounds harsh - angry. Is this the fault of the hall, the conductor or the sound engineers?

Again, everyone sounds in a hurry. This movement should sound majestic, declamatory, not panic stricken. There should be moments of gentleness and tranquility.

Sorry, this is such a mess that I can't take any more at the moment.

I promise to catch the rest tomorrow.

I'll be back then.

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[Bryn]

Interesting. Live in Concert is to retain the Proms 30 day iPlayer availability. Good to hear Beethoven's tempi being attempted rather than Wagner's tonight.

[Roslynmuse]

Same programme at Bridgewater Hall tomorrow night.

[teamsaint]

some interesting music tonight, (Sunday), including 2 Daniel Jones symphonies, and works by Part,Schittke, Haydn and Mozart.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/programmes/schedules

[gurnemanz]

some interesting music tonight, (Sunday), including 2 Daniel Jones symphonies, and works by Part,Schittke, Haydn and Mozart.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/programmes/schedules

re Schittke. I had to smile. No Scheidt on the programme.

[teamsaint]

No Schnittke Sherlock .

[EnemyoftheStoat]

Coming up on Saturday 1/11/14

Schubert: Symphony No.8 in B minor D.759 ('Unfinished')
Henze: Orchestral fantasy on Goethe's Poem and Schubert's Opus 1 - Erlkönig.
Thomas Larcher: A Padmore Cycle (World Premiere)
John Adams: Harmonium

Mark Padmore (tenor)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04n2y4s

http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e6mnc8

[mercia]

Thomas Larcher: A Padmore Cycle (World Premiere)

just trying to think of any other pieces where a performer's name has been immortalised in the title - nothing springs to mind

[Nick Armstrong]

just trying to think of any other pieces where a performer's name has been immortalised in the title - nothing springs to mind

For years I assumed Kreisleriana was written for Fritz and wondered vaguely why solo pianists always seemed to be playing it if I caught it on the radio..

[vinteuil]

just trying to think of any other pieces where a performer's name has been immortalised in the title - nothing springs to mind

... tombeaux?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombeau

[amateur51]

Looks like this thread needs reviving, and what better than a nifty concert from Bournemouth SO under Kirill Karabits?

Wednesday 26 November 2015 @ 19.30


Live from the Lighthouse, Poole.
Martin Handley presents a concert from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and their inspirational Ukrainian Music Director Kirill Karabits which opens with Mahler's Blumine, a short movement which he described as a "sentimentally impassioned... love-episode," and ends with the symphony with which Shostakovich restored his reputation with his Soviet masters. The authorities might have bristled as the crowds cheered when Mravinsky, the conductor of that first performance, lifted the score above his head in triumph but they soon claimed that they found everything they had demanded of Shostakovich restored in this Fifth symphony.

Mahler Blumine

Beethoven Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C major, Op. 56 - 'Triple Concerto'

c. 8.15pm
Interval music

c. 8.35pm
Shostakovich Symphony no.5

Sunwook Kim (piano)
Amyn Merchant (violin)
Jesper Svedberg (cello)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Kirill Karabits (conductor).

[amateur51]

Thursday 27 November 2014 @19.30


BBC NOW - Rossini, Mozart, Verdi, Mendelssohn
Radio 3 Live in Concert

Live from Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon

Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Francesco Angelico, plays music with an Italian flavour by Rossini, Mozart, Respighi, Verdi and Mendelssohn.

Rossini: The Barber of Seville - overture
Mozart: Deh vieni non tardar (The Marriage of Figaro)
Rossini: The Willow Song (Otello)
Respighi: The birds

8.20 During the interval, Nicola Heywood Thomas talks to tonight's soloist, Ruby Hughes, about her Welsh roots and her interest in Celtic folkmusic

8.40
Verdi: The force of destiny - overture
Mozart: E amore un ladroncello (Cosi fan tutte)
Mozart: Non ho colpa (Idomeneo)
Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 4 "Italian"

Ruby Hughes (soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Francesco Angelico (conductor)

The young Italian conductor Francesco Angelico makes his debut with the orchestra in a firecracker of a programme. With two fiery overtures from the stalwarts of Italian opera - Rossini's comedy The Barber of Seville and Verdi's intensely dramatic La Forza del Destino. We also explore Italy as a tourist - through the music of German composer Mendelssohn who was inspired to write his fourth symphony whilst on holiday. It's an uplifting piece full of joyous melodies - as Mendelssohn himself described in a letter to his sister, it's "the jolliest piece I have ever done". Soprano Ruby Hughes makes her eagerly anticipated return to BBC NOW after her sublime performance at the Proms of Durufle's Requiem, praised by critics as "exquisitely poised and passionate".

Note the interval interview with Ruby Hughes.