Simon rattle/oae/mozart 39/40/41/ rfh 19:00hrs 29/01/13 - note start time!

[jayne lee wilson]

If this doesn't pack 'em in, nothing will... overfamiliar? Wait and see what the Berlin Phil's music director makes of this tryptich...

At last Friday's live 40th in the Berlin Phil DCH with Louis Langree, the Philharmonie audience applauded after the second movement! So compelling was its chamber-musical interplay, its fire and grace - true of the whole performance.

Tonight may be great in a very different way...

[Roehre]

with no.39 in another Evening concert this week.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I'm not keen on this kind of concert. 3 great symphonies end to end. All by the same composer. Fortunately, these three works are well contrasted, so perhaps I shouldn't be so Bah Humbug.

[Petrushka]

Thanks for the reminder of the start time, Jayne, I confess I'd not spotted this. I may have to listen as a 'time deferred' recording.

Looking forward to this and three Mozart symphonies back to back don't worry me.

[Alison]

Have to confess I quite like these sort of programmes.

Let's hope Sir Simon puts himself at the service of the music and not his own ego.

I seem to recall a Proms G minor symphony (BPO) that was nothing special IMHO.

[pastoralguy]

[QUOTE=jayne lee wilson;254729
At last Friday's live 40th in the Berlin Phil DCH with Louis Langree, the Philharmonie audience applauded after the second movement! So compelling was its chamber-musical interplay, its fire and grace - true of the whole performance.

I was working so missed this and am waiting for this to be 'edited'. Mrs. PG. bought me a subscription to the Berlin Phil's digital concert hall and it's quite something...

[jayne lee wilson]

A few churls here but some are welcoming...
Isn't just possible that a R3 programmer thought there might be a point of interest in hearing two "39kneeflats" side by side, for comparison and contrast?

Rattle wouldn't do a programme like this if he didn't intend it as an event, a single experience. So it's scarcely worth hearing one or two, and catching up later. Lay in rations, hunker down and take it on - "all or nothing at all"!

I really don't see him as an egotistic conductor. Most of his CBSO recordings - a wonderful catalogue - are very faithful to letter and spirit, with no extraneous point-making, or attention-seeking tempi. Same goes for Berlin, certainly the many live concerts I've seen via DCH. He serves the music.
Just a pity that the EMI Berlin recordings are, sonically at least, inconsistent.

[Richard Tarleton]

Jayne, a Beethoven 7 (RFH) and a 9 (Cardiff), with Rattle/OAE, were two of the finest - in the latter case the most deeply felt - perfs of those works I've attended. I thought it a great pity he didn't do a complete cycle of LvB with the OAE instead of yet another, probably their millionth, with the VPO... He seems to do special things with the OAE. I'll be recording the Mozart (as I'll be out...)

[Bryn]

Just to say, thank goodness it's the RFH, rather than the Barbican.

[amateur51]

Jayne, a Beethoven 7 (RFH) and a 9 (Cardiff), with Rattle/OAE, were two of the finest - in the latter case the most deeply felt - perfs of those works I've attended. I thought it a great pity he didn't do a complete cycle of LvB with the OAE instead of yet another, probably their millionth, with the VPO... He seems to do special things with the OAE. I'll be recording the Mozart (as I'll be out...)

My experiences of Rattle's conducting Beethoven symphony no 9 in concert is that they're always an overwhelming occasion

[Karafan]

Thanks for the heads-up Jayne!

[jayne lee wilson]

What a truly remarkable concert - a great EVENT, musically and technically on the highest level. Wonderful sound balancing on R3 HDs too.
I'll be lucky to hear a better concert this year, and in the middle of my own personal Lutoslawski season, Rattle and the OAE made these well-known masterpieces sound as fresh and compelling as the works of that Polish Original Master....

[EdgeleyRob]

What a truly remarkable concert - a great EVENT, musically and technically on the highest level. Wonderful sound balancing on R3 HDs too.
I'll be lucky to hear a better concert this year, and in the middle of my own personal Lutoslawski season, Rattle and the OAE made these well-known masterpieces sound as fresh and compelling as the works of that Polish Original Master....

Well I hope you are proud of me Jayne,I listened!
This was wonderful,I don't listen to nearly enough Mozart symphonies.
The Prague is my all time favourite of his.

[teamsaint]

been a long while since I listened to #39.
Sounded great , even in the car, (as ever ).

[Petrushka]

Agree with Jayne here. Rattle made this a real occasion, each performance superbly crafted and emerging freshly minted. Happily this sounded great via Freeview as well. Those opening timpani thwacks in No 39 must have caught the engineer, as well as me, by surprise.

This was music-making of the very highest quality, safely stored on my hard-drive. Bravo to all concerned.