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[Estelle]

Thanks for your explanation, HS. I was just looking for a conversation about the Tetzlaff concert.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Thanks for your explanation, HS. I was just looking for a conversation about the Tetzlaff concert.

Feel free to start one on this Thread, Estelle. HS highlights what he thinks look the most attractive Live events, but others have also contributed their own ideas (Thropplenoggin in #50, for instance). The point is to get people involved in discussing the "real" concerts (as they happen) as actively as we do our favourite CDs.

[Estelle]

Thank you, FHG, for the kind invitation. Being more of an appreciative reader and a learner, I'm afraid I'm a bit too timid yet to initiate a thread!

I did enjoy the Tetzlaff-Vogt performance and hope others did too. I'm now catching up with Angela Hewitt and the Britten Sinfonia in the Barbicon before they drop off the iPlayer. So much music, so little time!

Does anyone else find navigating the BBC Radio 3 Live in Concert page challenging? After searching through all those red banners looking for concerts on the iPlayer, I keep wishing for just a simple chronological listing. It doesn't matter to me which venue is hosting the concert, and why do I have to click on the banner to find the concert? Do other users of the "Live in Concert" page feel the same way? I have the impression that it had a more user-friendly format in the past.

[doversoul1]

Does anyone else find navigating the BBC Radio 3 Live in Concert page challenging? After searching through all those red banners looking for concerts on the iPlayer, I keep wishing for just a simple chronological listing. It doesn't matter to me which venue is hosting the concert, and why do I have to click on the banner to find the concert? Do other users of the "Live in Concert" page feel the same way? I have the impression that it had a more user-friendly format in the past.

Estelle
The way you do does sound complicated. I keep Radio3’s schedule page on my Favourite list

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

This tells you what’s on in the week. You can go to the programme of your choice from here and then when you get there, press the sign/picture of a speaker on the left of the photo of, usually the presenter or the venue. If you want to see the last week’s schedule, on the left, above the time, you find <LAST.

[Estelle]

Doversoul,
Thank you for your recommendation. I have used the weekly schedule in the past and probably will just revert to it since the Radio 3 Live in Concert page is so complex.

[Hornspieler]

Thursday 31 January 2013
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
The BBC SSO, conducted by Donald Runnicles, with a programme of Viennese classics by Strauss, Schubert, Berg and Beethoven.

J Strauss II: Waltz: On the Beautiful Blue Danube
Berg: Violin Concerto
INTERVAL
Schubert (arr. Webern): Six German Dances
Beethoven Symphony No.5 in C minor

Julian Rachlin violin
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles conductor

Johann Strauss's unofficial Austrian national anthem begins a dance through the imagination of Vienna, a city whose relationship with tradition can be both as tender as Webern's tribute to Schubert, and as revolutionary as Beethoven's explosive Fifth Symphony. Or, indeed, as personal as Alban Berg's Violin Concerto, dedicated "to the memory of an Angel". Soloist Julian Rachlin, in partnership with Donald Runnicles, uncovers the painful secrets behind the shot-silk beauty of this quintessentially Viennese - yet wholly universal - 20th century masterpiece

A bit of a mixed bag here. Nothing to interest me, but I will listen to the Berg concerto, because I will continue to listen to it as often as it is played in the hope that I may, one day, understand why others consider it to be one of the greatest works of the 20th century.

[gurnemanz]

Goethe's women tonight with Elizabeth Watts and Roger Vignoles from Wigmore. It's a formidable programme and looks unmissable. Unfortunately I shall miss it - choir practice. Recorder set.

[Thropplenoggin]

[B]Tuesday 29 January 2013

Seriously though, I would have preferred to hear them playing something other than those three over-familier pot-boilers. My choice would be something like:
Symphony Nº 33 in B flat K 319
Symphony Nº 36 in C "Linz" K 425
Symphony Nº 29 in A K201 (Beecham's favourite)

I would have opted for that delightful other G minor Symphony (K 183) but it requires 4 horns)[/COLOR]
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Seconded. I'm a big fan on No.36, which isn't aired as often as it should be. No.33 I don't know at all - perhaps I'll investigate the ever-reliable Pinnock in this later.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I would have preferred to hear them playing something other than those three over-familier pot-boilers. My choice would be something like:
Symphony Nº 33 in B flat K 319
Symphony Nº 36 in C "Linz" K 425
Symphony Nº 29 in A K201 (Beecham's favourite)

I would have opted for that delightful other G minor Symphony (K 183) but it requires 4 horns)

That would be a delicious concert, HS - especially with K183: yourself and waldhorn could volunteer your services, perhaps?

But one of the attractions of this unmissable (IMO) concert is that Rattle and the OAP - err, OAE! - have an excellent reputation for performing "over-familiar potboilers" in such a way that the musty old varnish is stripped away and the works' freshness and colour are revealed as if for the first time. We're reminded just why such pieces have become such a part of the repertoire. If they match their own standard, this will be one of the highlights of the concert year.

[Hornspieler]

That would be a delicious concert, HS - especially with K183: yourself and waldhorn could volunteer your services, perhaps?

It would certainly be very nice to meet up with Mr Waldhorn, but bags I play the 3rd horn part!

HS

[Tony Halstead]

It would certainly be very nice to meet up with Mr Waldhorn, but bags I play the 3rd horn part!

HS

yes indeed, you are very welcome to play 3rd horn, with those nastily exposed solo passages in the 'Trio' of the 3rd mvt, in the rather awkward key ( for the valve horn ) of G major!
I would be very happy to squeak out the high Fs (concert pitch) in the 1st horn part in the 1st movement but only if I were allowed to use my Bb 'alto' crook!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It would certainly be very nice to meet up with Mr Waldhorn, but bags I play the 3rd horn part!

HS

[amateur51]

That would be a delicious concert, HS - especially with K183: yourself and waldhorn could volunteer your services, perhaps?

But one of the attractions of this unmissable (IMO) concert is that Rattle and the OAP - err, OAE! - have an excellent reputation for performing "over-familiar potboilers" in such a way that the musty old varnish is stripped away and the works' freshness and colour are revealed as if for the first time. We're reminded just why such pieces have become such a part of the repertoire. If they match their own standard, this will be one of the highlights of the concert year.

This approach is one of Rattle's outstanding achievements as a programmer, I think. I recall a CBSO/Rattle concert which opened with Varèse Déserts and after the interval Beethoven symphony no 9. The effect was like a musical ear-cleaner, the Beethoven sounding freshly minted

[Hornspieler]

LSO - Sibelius, Turnage, Beethoven Tuesday 05 February
Live from the Barbican Hall in London

The first of two concerts this week celebrating the music of Mark-Anthony Turnage, live from London's Barbican Hall. Daniel Harding conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in music by Sibelius and Beethoven, as well as Turnage's 'From the Wreckage', composed in 2004.
7.30:
Sibelius: Tapiola
Mark-Anthony Turnage: Trumpet Concerto ('From the Wreckage')
8.10: Interval
8.30:
Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat major ('Eroica')

Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet)
London Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding (conductor)
Mark-Anthony Turnage, one of the leading British composers of his generation, begins a mini-residency with the London Symphony Orchestra tonight, continuing on Thursday with the word premiere of his orchestral work 'Speranza'. The LSO's Principal Guest Conductor Daniel Harding is joined in this concert by Swedish trumpet virtuoso Haken Hardenberger in a piece described by The Times as 'outstanding: the music begins hellishly but gradually picks up a bluesy swing. I was mesmerised.' Daniel Harding can already look back on a glittering conducting career, yet he is still only in his thirties: he is currently also Music Director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and is a regular guest with the Vienna Philharmonic and the Dresden Staatskapelle. We look forward also to his interpretations of Sibelius' portrayal of the Finnish forest God Tapio, and Beethoven's mighty 'Erioca'


Stravinsky, Barber Wednesday 06 February at 7.30
Live from the Maida Vale Studios, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny

The BBC Symphony Orchestra live from their home at the Maida Vale Studios in music by Stravinsky, Barber & Dvorak, conducted by Joshua Weilerstein

Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite
Barber: Cello Concerto
8.25 INTERVAL: Discovering Music - Dvorak's Symphony No 8
8.45 Dvorak: Symphony No 8

David Cohen (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Joshua Weilerstein (conductor)

The BBC Symphony Orchestra are at home tonight at the Maida Vale Studios in London, joined by the young American conductor Joshua Weilerstein, one of the two Assistant Conductors at the New York Philharmonic. The suite from Stavinsky's ballet Pulcinella begins the concert. Composed at the request of Diaghilev and based on the music of the baroque Italian master Pergolesi, Pulcinella is often considered the first example of Stravinsky's neoclassical period. Then another young musician joins the fray with Belgian cellist David Cohen performing Samuel Barber's Cello Concerto. Completed in 1945, at a time when the American composer was incorporating modernism into his work, the use of syncopated rhythm here reflects some influence of Stravinsky. The BBC Symphony Orchestra's concert is rounded off with a performance of Dvorak's cheerful eighth symphony, which draws inspiration from Bohemian folk music.


LSO - Sibelius, Beethoven, Turnage Thursday 07 February
Live from Barbican Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley

Daniel Harding conducts the LSO in Sibelius and a world premiere by Turnage. They are joined by Lars Vogt for Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto

Sibelius: Oceanides
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no.3 in C minor, Op.37
8.15: Interval
8.35
Mark-Anthony Turnage: Speranza (world premiere)

Lars Vogt (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding (conductor)
Mark-Anthony Turnage's Speranza ('Hope'), commissioned by the LSO and tonight receiving its first performance, is a monument to the power of optimism in a bleak world - 'I started working on the piece while thinking about the absence of hope. I wanted to lift people up.'
Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto offers the composer's trademark thundering drama juxtaposed with sweet grace.
While Sibelius's Tapiola spoke of forest gods, his tone poem Oceanides breathes life into the female water spirits of Greek mythology.

Something for all tastes over this three day extravaganza

Happy listening!

HS

[Nick Armstrong]

8.30:
Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat major ('Eroica')

London Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding (conductor)
... Beethoven's mighty 'Erioca'

I heard most of this and thought it an exceptionally good performance. I could only really concentrate on the 3rd and 4th movements, and was gripped.

Anyone else listen, or attend in person?