R3 LIVE in Concert BBC SSO 7.30pm on 28th February

[amateur51]

Not much encouragement to struggle with IPlayer then. Not well anyway, and it doesn't sound worth the bother.

Let's hope for better LIVE events soon.

Sorry to hear you're not well salymap. All the strain of taking over temporarily from Our Host With The Most while he had a hissy fit, I guess.

Good to see that normal service has been restored

[Julien Sorel]

what the Beethoven fans in the audience thought

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[Flosshilde]

Are the acoustics of Glasgow's City Hall to blame (the RSNO seem to manage all right)?

HS

Can't answer the rest of the questions, I'm afraid, but the acoustics of the City Hall are (in my experience) far superior to the Royal Concert Hall, where the RSNO play. (I have a feeling that the few broadcasts of the RSNO are usually from Edinburgh's Usher Hall, which is an entirely different kettle of fish)

[RobertLeDiable]

The person conducting was Matthias Pintscher. He's a composer - not a very exciting one, though he seems to get performances in prestigious places all over the world. For some reason, people often think that being a composer is enough to given someone special insight into, for example, conducting Beethoven. Generally it doesn't work that way, and because often they have got into conducting entirely through their own music, and haven't had any proper training in conducting, composers rarely make good conductors of other people's music.