Coming Up Live This Week

[salymap]

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

In Tune at 4.30 today, Monday 11th.

A littleheads up[if HS will forgive me} Janine Jansen LIVE in the studio now,with pianist, Alice Sara Ott.

[Mahler's3rd]

Thanks for the message Salymap, I was at work so couldn'nt listen thank goodness for iplayer, I'll listen back later

[salymap]

Thanks for the message Salymap, I was at work so couldn'nt listen thank goodness for iplayer, I'll listen back later

Well, Ihope JJ arrived as the RT said she would. I listened to the pianist butwas called away by the phone and didn't hear Janine myself.

[Simon B]

But I really enjoyed the complete act III of The Meistersingers...

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

This is unlikely - as rumour has it that Elder/Halle will be doing a concert performance of Parsifal at the '13 Proms.

Agreed that the Manchester Meistersinger was glorious - though I can't see Elder assuming the role of Sachs on stage, despite his passable bash at singing bits of it in the introductory first part of the concert!

Unfortunately, no sign of R3 mics on Sunday, so technically we're off-topic again

[Mahler's3rd]

Looking Forward To this weekend: La Boheme & Eugene Onegin on Saturday, The Labeque Sisters On Sunday Afternoon & Philharmonia @ The RFH Sunday evening

[Mahler's3rd]

Hi Simon B/Stanfordian, Talking Of Proms/Rumours, there seems little info/rumour's/conjecture about the 2013 Proms generally, given that the Season is annouced in 8 weeks time, thought the rumour mill may have been in full swing by now, any idea's? Thanks

[Alison]

I find it spoils the pleasure of the season's launch if too much is known in advance.

[Mahler's3rd]

Good point Alison, only a few weeks to wait now

[Hornspieler]

Wednesday 20 February 2013Live from the Lighthouse, Poole

Steven Isserlis joins the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Kirill Karabits in a programme of Prokofiev, Haydn and Beethoven

Prokofiev: Sinfonietta
Haydn: Cello Concerto no.2 in D
INTERVAL
Beethoven: Symphony Nº 7 in A

Steven Isserlis (cello)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Kirill Karabits (conductor)

Prokofiev's early Sinfonietta is a miracle of concision and wit, very much in the manner of the famous 'Classical' Symphony he modelled on Haydn. Steven Isserlis brings his trademark virtuosity and passion to genuine Haydn; 'genuine', that is, ever since as late as the 1950s when the manuscript was finally unearthed. There's never been any doubt about the authenticity of Beethoven's 7th Symphony, nor about its intensity or rythmic vitality.

An attractive programme. Nice to see the (original?) Haydn concerto brought out of retirement


Friday, 22nd February at 7.30
Live from the Barbican Centre, London

Prokofiev: Scythian Suite
Bloch: Schelomo
INTERVAL
Nielsen: Symphony Nº 4

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jian Wang (cello)
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

Thomas Dausgaard conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Prokofiev and Bloch's Schelomo for cello and orchestra, alongside Nielsen's Symphony No 4, known as 'The Inextinguishable'.
An invigorating programme explodes into life with Prokofiev's wild Scythian Suite. Ernest Bloch's heart-rending appeal to peace, Schelomo, given voice here by the distinguished Chinese-born cellist Jian Wang, is answered by Carl Nielsen's thrilling Fourth Symphony, 'The Inextinguishable', in which the human spirit battles for a future. As he wrote after the outbreak of the First World War, 'I have an idea for a duel between two sets of timpani, it has to do with war.' It is one of the riveting moments in the symphony, bursting into the finale and developing into a reckless tour de force that resolves into radiant optimism. Danish conductor Thomas Dausgaard returns to the helm of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

I remember playing this Scythian Suite with Silvestri back in the mid sixties and have not heard it since.
Ernest Bloch is one of those composers who has fallen out of fashion over the last few years (with the exception of Schlomo) and this concerto will be of interest to many. Nielsen fans will wellcome a live airing of the "Inextinguishable"

HS

[salymap]

Thanks for those HS. There have been a lot of distractions here but will really try to catch up with R3 and live concerts.

bestio

[Quarky]

I assume this thread is directed specifically at upcoming live concerts performed by an orchestra in front of an audience. If so that's fair enough.

However for my money, there were two very good recent concerts that did not get a mention. The first a live concert, I think it was last week, in Maida Vale Studio by a BBC orchestra directed at French music.

And the second, which was the best concert I have heard for ages, a recital of French songs performed at the Wigmore Hall last night.

N.B. Not attempting to score points with this post - just hoping for some informed comment on music that I have enjoyed!

[doversoul1]

Oddball
Master Hornspieler is a man of Orchestral Music. Anything smaller falls through his sieve (no disrespect intended). Next time you see a good chamber concert, do start a separate thread, as I sometimes do (e.g. the Sixteen thread) I enjoyed the French song recital, too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qqfm6

[Hornspieler]

I assume this thread is directed specifically at upcoming live concerts performed by an orchestra in front of an audience. If so that's fair enough.

However for my money, there were two very good recent concerts that did not get a mention. The first a live concert, I think it was last week, in Maida Vale Studio by a BBC orchestra directed at French music.

And the second, which was the best concert I have heard for ages, a recital of French songs performed at the Wigmore Hall last night.

N.B. Not attempting to score points with this post - just hoping for some informed comment on music that I have enjoyed!

Hello oddball.

Well, I don't own this thread - I merely started it. I pick out broadcasts that interest me and draw attention to them. I would hope that anyone spotting something of interest to them coming up live would post those details here accordingly.

Then, when a performance is imminent, or even after it has taken place, any interested party could start a thread devoted just to that performance to state their reactions and opinions to what they have heard - as I usually do for the broadcasts that I have picked out.

Then those of us who missed it can seek it out on iPlayer.

I hope that clarifies the position.

HS

[Quarky]

Many thanks HS.

I felt the concert Monday evening, BBC NOW, Roth had a lot to offer. In particular the Britten/ Colin Matthews Clarinet Concerto, which I think may have been a premiere, and where I agreed with the presenter's view that this may become very popular. Staying with Britten, after hearing Phaedre in the interval, I take back my views about Britten ignoring the female voice.

And the modern work Charlie Piper: The Twittering Machine, was a very intriguing work and well worth a listen.

François-Xavier Roth conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a programme of British music, including a Britten rarity and Elgar's "Enigma" variations.

Colin Matthews: Reflected Images

Britten/Matthews: Movements for a clarinet concerto

Charlie Piper: The Twittering Machine

Elgar: Variations on an original theme "Enigma"

Robert Plane, clarinet BBC National Orchestra of Wales François-Xavier Roth, conductor.

[Hornspieler]

Hello oddball.

Well, I don't own this thread - I merely started it. I pick out broadcasts that interest me and draw attention to them. I would hope that anyone spotting something of interest to them coming up live would post those details here accordingly.

HS

The time has come, I think, for someone else to pick out a few LIVE performances and draw them to the attention of those others
who might be interested. However, since the number of comments on live performance averages about 3 per event for anything on the "Performance" thread, it does seem a waste of time.

Apparently football, politics, stormy weather and alphabet associations are of far more interest to this "music loving" assembly.

So enjoy your CD collections, your bargain buys and your apathy.

HS