Coming Up Live This Week

[Nick Armstrong]

Thanks, but as it's only just started I'm looking forward (in a negative sense ) to at least 2 weeks of it.

Wildly OT and HS would get cross only he's away ....I'm a big believer in this http://www.boots.com/en/Vicks-First-...ay-15ml_21963/ I was heading for a nasty a couple of weeks ago, and it disappeared in 48hrs with this plus plenty of vit C & zinc

[jayne lee wilson]

Don't forget the live Tippett 4th on R3 on Friday - a very good Barbican programme with BBCSO and... Andrew Davis.

While I'm about it, anyone keen on the Berlin DCH has a double-header on 13/04, with Beethoven 1/Sibelius 5 (Paavo Jarvi) at 19:00, and Hindemith/Lutoslawski (Rattle) at 21:30
... assuming 256 kbps AAC is pleasing to your ears, and you have a reliable broadband connection, and...

[Flosshilde]

Wildly OT and HS would get cross only he's away ....I'm a big believer in this http://www.boots.com/en/Vicks-First-...ay-15ml_21963/ I was heading for a nasty a couple of weeks ago, and it disappeared in 48hrs with this plus plenty of vit C & zinc

& I know people who swear by sucking on one of these - http://images.iherb.com/l/FRD-00644-1.jpg

[Nick Armstrong]

& I know people who swear by sucking on one of these - http://images.iherb.com/l/FRD-00644-1.jpg

There is of course a very old legal joke about that... AHEM

[MrGongGong]

& I know people who swear by sucking on one of these - http://images.iherb.com/l/FRD-00644-1.jpg

oooooooooooooermrs

and maybe some slightly less "legal" Caliban no doubt ......

[Nick Armstrong]

I got in first.

Matron.

[MrGongGong]

I got in first.

Matron.

Well done
that's why you have a Maserati
and I have a 13 year old volvo with a slipping clutch

(BUT I do have a gig in Switzerland coming up ......... all for cheese )

[Flosshilde]

I hope there're no holes in your contract.


& now we'd better stop this or we'll get told off. & shame on you, Caliban, for encouraging it

[Hornspieler]

Tonight at 7.30

Copland, Barber

Radio 3 Live in Concert, Live from the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes
First broadcast:Friday 26 April 2013

The RSNO plays Copland's joyous ballet Appalachian Spring followed by piano concertos by Barber and Copland with pianist Xiayin Wang. The programme concludes with John Adams' Doctor Atomic Symphony, adapted from his atom-bomb opera. Conducted by Peter Oundjian.

Copland - Appalachian Spring
Barber - Piano Concerto
INTERVAL
Copland - Piano Concerto
Adams - Doctor Atomic Symphony

Peter Oundjian (Conductor)
Xiayin Wang (Piano).


A chance to hear the RSNO this evening. Sadly neglected IMV.

HS

[salymap]

Thanks HS - looks promising although I don't know the John Adams.

[Hornspieler]

Wednesday 1st May Live from the Royal Festival Hall

The LPO in a programme of works prefiguring the Second World War by Vaughan Williams and Tippett, conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth

Vaughan Williams: Symphony no.4 in F minor
INTERVAL
Tippett: A Child of Our Time

Rebecca Evans, soprano
Pamela Helen Stephen, mezzo-soprano
Ben Johnson, tenor
Matthew Rose, bass
London Philharmonic Choir
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor

As Europe sped towards the horrors of the Second World War, Tippett sought to express the suffering of the ordinary man or woman, taking as his models the great passions of Bach but using spirituals rather than hymns.
Vaughan Williams's Fourth Symphony was written without an explicit programme, but it packs a huge punch from start to finish.

The fourth symphony is my favourite of RVW's 9. Like Walton's 1st, there is savagery, despair and melancholy but ends with a feeling of hope and serenity.

"A Child of Our Time" is certainly the best known of Tippett's works and there is a distinguished cast of soloists.
This is a programme not to be missed.

Over to you, Jayne.

HS

[Hornspieler]

Thursday 2nd MayLive from City Halls, Glasgow

Steven Osborne Plays Beethoven's 'Emperor' Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Manze. Also on the programme: Vaughan Williams' Ninth Symphony.

Wagner: Prelude to Act 1 of Lohengrin
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 9

8.15: Interval

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.5 'The Emperor'

Steven Osborne piano
Andrew Manze conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Few composers were more aware than Ralph Vaughan Williams of what it meant to write a Ninth Symphony - and few have been less daunted. The composer may have been 85 years old, but 1950s audiences heard a symphony of astonishing power, ambition and imaginative fire: a contemporary prophet looking forward, not back. It's a strikingly equal match for Beethoven's mighty 'Emperor' concerto, as Steven Osborne and Andrew Manze tackle two of the pinnacles of the BBC SSO's Beethoven concerto and Vaughan Williams symphony cycles. And for once, Richard Wagner doesn't quite steal the show, though his visionary Lohengrin prelude burns with the same inner light

I would have preferred the Symphony to stand alone in the second part of the programme with the ever-popular "Emperor" concerto following the rather sombre Wagner Prelude (to wake the audience up!)

A good chance to evaluate the BBCSSO against tonight's RSNO

HS

[mercia]

if we tack the end of VW5 on to the end of VW4 there might be some serenity /puzzled wink-eye/

[Hornspieler]

if we tack the end of VW5 on to the end of VW4 there might be some serenity /puzzled wink-eye/

Good idea!
Yes. Maybe I should have used the word "acceptance".

HS

[Petrushka]

I would have preferred the Symphony to stand alone in the second part of the programme with the over-played "Emperor" concerto following the rather sombre Wagner Prelude

So would I. Nothing can really follow that wonderful ending to the RVW 9th. I won't be able to listen to this live so might reverse the Beethoven & RVW on i-player.