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[jayne lee wilson]

Harding's LSO sounded exceptional throughout, I thought, but one of my very worst killer headaches got in the way of much enjoyment or proper appraisal...stuck it out because what would I have done otherwise, sat there thinking, "OMG this head..."?

The Eroica was MOR, but perfectly-paced and immaculately delivered, every climax or climactic moment really hit home! Tapiola striking too, an x-ray of the score, articulated and clarified like a modernist sonic fresco. May have lacked a little tension, but no matter - a fresh, brilliantly played account.

Had to leave off the Turnage - coffee, painkillers - but I've admired the piece very much on earlier occasions, will try to catch up, but...

[Nick Armstrong]

Harding's LSO sounded exceptional throughout, I thought, but one of my very worst killer headaches got in the way of much enjoyment or proper appraisal...stuck it out because what would I have done otherwise, sat there thinking, "OMG this head..."?

The Eroica was MOR, but perfectly-paced and immaculately delivered, every climax or climactic moment really hit home! Tapiola striking too, an x-ray of the score, articulated and clarified like a modernist sonic fresco. May have lacked a little tension, but no matter - a fresh, brilliantly played account.

Had to leave off the Turnage - coffee, painkillers - but I've admired the piece very much on earlier occasions, will try to catch up, but...

Oh sorry you had to listen through such adversity

Glad you thought the same about the Eroica... What is "MOR"? (As vinteuil will tell you, I'm very bad at acronymns... LOL...)

[amateur51]

Oh sorry you had to listen through such adversity

Glad you thought the same about the Eroica... What is "MOR"? (As vinteuil will tell you, I'm very bad at acronymns... LOL...)

MOR = middle of the road, I hope

[amateur51]

Could I make a plea for links, please?

This concert has been highlighted both as an individual thread and on this thread. My interest has been arounsed andf I have some time to listen this morning.

Is there a direct link? Is there buffalo!

So be pal, if you're referring to a concert on iplayer or to a CD, please include a link where possible

Behold!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...age_Beethoven/

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

MOR = middle of the road, I hope

Usually, yes; but "but perfectly paced and immaculately delivered, every climax or climactic moment really hit home!" seemed to contradict this? "Massive Orchestra Reading"?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Could I make a plea for links, please?

Buffalo:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01qfh86/Radio_3_Live_in_Concert_LSO_Sibelius_Turnage_Beethoven/

[amateur51]

Usually, yes; but "but perfectly paced and immaculately delivered, every climax or climactic moment really hit home!" seemed to contradict this? "Massive Orchestra Reading"?

I suspect that jlw meant MOR as in 'not HIPP and not massive old-school' - but I'm sure jlw will let us know in due course

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I suspect that jlw meant MOR as in 'not HIPP and not massive old-school'

<doh> Of course! - Fits perfectly!

[Stanfordian]

On Sunday afternoon/evening (10th February) I'll be at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester for concert staging of Wagner's Die Meistersinger which comprises highlights from Acts I and II and the complete performance of Act III by the Hallé under Sir Mark Elder. This is actually the 'hottest ticket' in Manchester's classical music season. To be honest I'm got mixed feelings about it as I don't know what exactly to expect from this performance. In addition just down the road at 4.00pm Man Utd are playing at home at the Theatre of Dreams so I'll have to set off ridiculously early to avoid the match traffic. I suppose I would rather be there at Old Trafford but reporting duty calls.

Link to the Hallé's Die Meistersinger: http://www.halle.co.uk/concerts-tick...th=2&year=2013

[Simon B]

In addition just down the road at 4.00pm Man Utd are playing at home at the Theatre of Dreams so I'll have to set off ridiculously early to avoid the match traffic. I suppose I would rather be there at Old Trafford but reporting duty calls.

I forgot to check. Thanks for the warning though - v Everton, so even more absolute chaos than usual guaranteed approaching from the West, so up the other side and over High Peak it is. Sigh...

To be honest I'm got mixed feelings about it as I don't know what exactly to expect from this performance.

I don't mean this in a point-scoring way despite how it sounds, but isn't that rather the point of live performance? As an event it probably will be a bit "different" due to it not being a "straight" performance (though I believe the full Act III won't be anything other than the conventional concert approach bar the use of a large group of amateur choruses). Only one way to find out how it works, surely?

[Stanfordian]

I forgot to check. Thanks for the warning though - v Everton, so even more absolute chaos than usual guaranteed approaching from the West, so up the other side and over High Peak it is. Sigh...



I don't mean this in a point-scoring way despite how it sounds, but isn't that rather the point of live performance? As an event it probably will be a bit "different" due to it not being a "straight" performance (though I believe the full Act III won't be anything other than the conventional concert approach bar the use of a large group of amateur choruses). Only one way to find out how it works, surely?

Hello Simon, I enjoyed reading your response but I've still got mixed feelings about the event.

[Hornspieler]

Tuesday 12th February at 7.30
Live from Cadogan Hall, London

Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Janine Jansen (director and violin)
Fresh from their European tour, which began in Istanbul twelve days ago, Janine Jansen and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields perform a programme including Mozart's 'Turkish' Violin Concerto and Bartok's Divertimento for String Orchestra.

Mozart: Symphony no.1 in E flat major, K16
Mozart: Violin Concerto no.5 in A major, K219 'Turkish'
Interval
Mozart: Violin Concerto no.2 in D major K211
Bartok: Divertimento

Janine Jansen was a Radio 3 New Generation Artist from 2002-04, since when she has played concertos with major symphony orchestras around the world. She was born in the Netherlands, and she started playing the violin when she was six - which is just two years younger than the age when Mozart wrote his First Symphony, which starts the programme tonight. Mozart's violin concertos all date from the 1770s, when Mozart was in his teens and early twenties, and his Fifth Violin Concerto ends with a movement including some of the extravagant gestures heard in his Turkish Rondo, so giving this concerto its nickname. Bartok's Divertimento was written in 1939 under the shadow of the impending Second World War, and first performed in Switzerland in 1940, shortly before Bartok fled Europe. However, it's music for entertainment, an echo of the divertimenti of Mozart's time.

Thursday 14th February at 7.30
Live from City Halls, Glasgow

Dancing and romancing from around the globe for St Valentine's Day

The BBC Scottish SO conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya perform Bernstein, Ravel, Turina and Tchaikovsky.

Turina: Danzas Fantasticas
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story8.10

Interval: Jamie MacDougall is joined by poet Don Paterson to explore classical settings of Robert Burns
8.30
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
Tchaikovsky: Capriccio ItalienIngrid Fliter (piano)

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra are joined by Peruvian conductor Migual Harth-Bedoya to perform music inspired by the spirit of the dance, in Spanish composer Joaquín Turina's Danzas Fantasticas and Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from West Side Story.
The jazz inflections of Leonard Bernstein's Romeo and Juliet musical also resonate through the thoroughly French work of Ravel, in his Piano Concerto in G, performed by the Argentinian pianist Ingrid Fliter. And the concert concludes with a Roman carnival as reimagined by Tchaikovsky in his Capriccio Italien.

Friday 15th February at 7.30
Live from the Barbican Centre, London

Ilan Volkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in two new works by Dieter Schnebel and David Sawer,
alongside Schubert's 9th Symphony.

Dieter Schnebel: Schubert Fantasia (UK Premiere)
David Sawer: Flesh and Blood (BBC Commission, World Premiere)
INTERVAL
Schubert: Symphony No 9 in C major

Christine Rice (mezzo)
Marcus Farnsworth (baritone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Theatre is at the heart of David Sawer's incisive and original music, and his new commission Flesh and Blood is a dramatic scena featuring star British singers Christine Rice and Marcus Farnsworth. Dieter Schnebel's Schubert Fantasia, which opens the concert, recalls dreamlike fragments from Schubert's G major Piano Sonata refracted through a shimmering haze of dissonant harmonies. 150 years earlier, Schubert wrote his 'Great' Ninth Symphony, a powerful feat of sustained momentum, driven by buoyant rhythms, explosive emotions and vast, inexorable climaxes, conducted by the visionary Ilan Volkov.

Three more live concerts this week. Something old and something new. Friday looks a bit daunting but I will certainly be looking forward to Schubert's Great C major

HS

[Mahler's3rd]

Really looking forward to tomorrow night on R3, Janine Jansen is superb. It's really great that we have so many young virtuoso players around, saw Janine Jansen at Wigmore Hall in 2010 doing Bartok with Itamar Golan and she was brilliant, likewise at The Proms when she did the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto 2 years ago a fantastic performance with The Philadelphia

[Mahler's3rd]

What was The Meistersinger Like Standfordian, do you think it's a possibility the Halle will do that programme at this years Proms?

[Stanfordian]

What was The Meistersinger Like Standfordian, do you think it's a possibility the Halle will do that programme at this years Proms?

Hiya Mahler's3rd,

I have not started my report yet. But I really enjoyed the complete act III of The Meistersingers and by the sound and length of the applause the audiance seemed to love it. I was rather skeptical of how the introduction of the opera in the first half of the programme was to be done but I was delighted by how it went and the playing of the Halle youth orchestra was simply marvellous.

I think there is every chance that it might be done at the Proms; this would seem to be Mark Elder's pattern.