Coming Up Live This Week

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

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.

[Sir Velo]

the over-played "Emperor" concerto

Hmmm. Would this be the same "Emperor" concerto which is one of the most olympian and majestic utterances of which the human soul has been capable?

[teamsaint]

Hmmm. Would this be the same "Emperor" concerto which is one of the most olympian and majestic utterances of which the human soul has been capable?

I think was the sequel, "The Emperor strikes back", .

[jayne lee wilson]

Quickie for anyone interested - 19:30 HRS TONIGHT 26/04/13 usher hall live/COPLAND, BARBER(PIANO CONCERTO) AND JOHN ADAMS (DR ATOMIC SYMPHONY) WITH RSNO/PETER OUNDJIAN.

USA TODAY, HANDS ACROSS THE WATER, FOX NEWS, CBC, BROADWAY AND HOLLYWOOD...tunes, jazz and pizazz, with the odd mushroom cloud for good luck...

Must dash...

[salymap]

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

I'm bumping this up in the hope that others enjoyed this concert. I've onlyheard the RVW 4 but sounded good to me.

[EnemyoftheStoat]

Friday 3rd May 7.30pm

Walton Overture Scapino
Bowen Viola Concerto
Vaughan Williams Five Tudor Portraits

BBC Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson conductor
Lawrence Power viola
Rosie Aldridge mezzo soprano
Neal Davies baritone
BBC Symphony Chorus

John Wilson returns to the BBC Symphony Orchestra to conduct an all-British programme. Leading violist Lawrence Power has proved a persuasive champion of York Bowen’s gloriously Romantic concerto, written for Lionel Tertis in 1908, and this provides the emotional core for a concert lit with ribald humour. Walton’s ingenious ‘comedy overture’ Scapino, an exhilarating orchestral showpiece, finds a spirited echo in Vaughan Williams’s earthy Five Tudor Portraits. Setting texts by Henry VIII’s one-time tutor John Skelton, Vaughan Williams conjured up five vivid character sketches, from the drunken Elinor Rumming to the charming Pretty Bess, a scherzo for the tattered Jolly Rutterkin, and Jane Scroop’s heartfelt Requiem to her pet sparrow.

[Hornspieler]

Janacek, Ravel, Stravinsky

Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes

Thursday 09 May 2013 Live from The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.

The BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Juanjo Mena, performs Janácek's Sinfonietta, Ravel's Piano Concerto in G with Louis Lortie and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Janácek: Sinfonietta
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G

20:30 Interval Music (?)

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Louis Lortie (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Join Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic for the finale of the orchestra's Stravinsky ballet celebration. The evening opens in a blaze of joie de vivre, with the massed trumpets and sheer energy of Janácek's roof-raising Sinfonietta. Louis Lortie then brings his characteristic panache to Ravel's gleaming art-deco concerto. When Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring was premiered in Paris a hundred years ago, it started a riot - it was violent, primal and thrillingly raw, and no-one had heard anything like it. A century on, audiences are still reeling from the aftershock.

A tasty menu for lovers of the best of 20th century music

[salymap]

Thanks for that HS, Must record it and also a film I want to see.

Yes an attractive programme.

[amateur51]

Janacek, Ravel, Stravinsky

Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes

Thursday 09 May 2013 Live from The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.

The BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Juanjo Mena, performs Janácek's Sinfonietta, Ravel's Piano Concerto in G with Louis Lortie and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Janácek: Sinfonietta
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G

20:30 Interval Music (?)

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Louis Lortie (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Join Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic for the finale of the orchestra's Stravinsky ballet celebration. The evening opens in a blaze of joie de vivre, with the massed trumpets and sheer energy of Janácek's roof-raising Sinfonietta. Louis Lortie then brings his characteristic panache to Ravel's gleaming art-deco concerto. When Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring was premiered in Paris a hundred years ago, it started a riot - it was violent, primal and thrillingly raw, and no-one had heard anything like it. A century on, audiences are still reeling from the aftershock.

A tasty menu for lovers of the best of 20th century music

Lovely programme and Lortie is a rattling good performer

[EdgeleyRob]

Janacek, Ravel, Stravinsky

Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes

Thursday 09 May 2013 Live from The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.

The BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Juanjo Mena, performs Janácek's Sinfonietta, Ravel's Piano Concerto in G with Louis Lortie and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Janácek: Sinfonietta
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G

20:30 Interval Music (?)

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Louis Lortie (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Join Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic for the finale of the orchestra's Stravinsky ballet celebration. The evening opens in a blaze of joie de vivre, with the massed trumpets and sheer energy of Janácek's roof-raising Sinfonietta. Louis Lortie then brings his characteristic panache to Ravel's gleaming art-deco concerto. When Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring was premiered in Paris a hundred years ago, it started a riot - it was violent, primal and thrillingly raw, and no-one had heard anything like it. A century on, audiences are still reeling from the aftershock.

A tasty menu for lovers of the best of 20th century music

Now then,I am really excited,can't wait for this one,because ......I WILL BE THERE!!!

I don't get out much (all together now, awwww),the last live concert I attended was about 2 years ago.

[teamsaint]

Have a great night out ER. Looks a great programme, sure you will love it.

[Petrushka]

Already have this noted down for listening. Looks a good programme (a little short perhaps?) and one with a high decibel count!

R3 live concerts have been a bit stingy recently for lovers of orchestral music so it's good to welcome this one.

Hope ER has a great evening.

[EdgeleyRob]

Thanks guys,I've never heard these pieces live.
Not really sure what Mrs ER will make of it all.

[Petrushka]

Thanks guys,I've never heard these pieces live.
Not really sure what Mrs ER will make of it all.

Both the Janacek (all those trumpets!!) and Stravinsky (all that percussion!!) are great visual as well as aural spectacles and seeing as well as hearing provides another dimension. I've heard both live several, and in the case of the Rite many, times and they always thrill.

[salymap]

Enjoy ER and hope Mrs ER enjoys the programme too. Live concerts are things one can remember for years - I should know.