A Tribute. Live tomorrow 18th at 7,30 on R3 from the Barbican. LSO

[salymap]

It says in tomorrow's page of RT that Sir Colin Davis said he didn't want a memorial service, so this concert is just headed 'A Tribute'

Several conductors, works by Strauss, Berlioz, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms.

From the Barbican presented by Martin Handley.

Perhaps someone can fill in details of the works in due course.

[amateur51]

It says in tomorrow's page of RT that Sir Colin Davis said he didn't want a memorial service, so this concert is just headed 'A Tribute'

Several conductors, works by Strauss, Berlioz, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms.

From the Barbican presented by Martin Handley.

Perhaps someone can fill in details of the works in due course.

Blimey, she's taking on staff now!

London Symphony Orchestra: A Tribute to Colin Davis

Duration:
2 hours, 30 minutes

First broadcast:
Tuesday 18 June 2013

Live from the Barbican Hall in London.

Presented by Martin Handley.

The London Symphony Orchestra pays tribute to their late President and Principal Conductor Sir Colin Davis, who died in April. The programme has been chosen to reflect Sir Colin's life in music, from his championing of composers such as Berlioz to his lifelong support for young musicians.

Richard Strauss: Festmusik der Stadt Wien
(Students from the Royal Academy of Music and Guildhall School
Patrick Harrild conductor)

Berlioz: Overture: Le Corsair
(Joseph Wolfe conductor)

Mozart: Violin Concerto No 3, K216
(Nikolaj Znaider violin-director)

8.20: Interval

8.40: Beethoven: Symphony No 8
(Gordan Nikolich director)

Brahms: Nänie
(London Symphony Chorus, Nikolaj Znaider conductor)

London Symphony Orchestra
Directed by Joseph Wolfe, Nikolaj Znaider and Gordan Nikolich

Sir Colin Davis specified that there should be no memorial service held for him: so instead the London Symphony Orchestra have decided to transform the concerts he was still scheduled to conduct into their own tribute to him. Reflecting his work with young musicians, the opening piece is played by students from two London colleges - Sir Colin held the Academy's International Chair of Conducting and Orchestral Studies. His son Joseph Wolfe conducts Sir Colin's beloved Berlioz, then Danish violinist and conductor Nikolaj Znaider directs the LSO in Mozart - Sir Colin once said "There is so much negative nonsense talked about Mozart, but he is - well, he's life itself". Sir Colin and Znaider had planned to play the work together.

Following the interval, the work that first inspired the teenage Colin Davis to become a conductor, directed by Gordan Nikolich, who was Leader of the LSO for many years under Sir Colin. The concert closes with Brahms's rarely-performed funeral song 'Nänie', a setting of a poem by Friedrich Schiller, which Brahms wrote in memory of a close friend

[salymap]

Someone's asking to have their ears boxed - seriously ams thank you - my eyes aren't up to all that.

I shall certainly listen to it tomorrow.

[Hornspieler]

Someone's asking to have their ears boxed - seriously ams thank you - my eyes aren't up to all that.

I shall certainly listen to it tomorrow.

.... as, I hope, will all.

HS

[Nick Armstrong]

Perhaps someone can fill in details of the works in due course.

Blimey, she's taking on staff now!

Someone's asking to have their ears boxed

That exchange gave me a good giggle, thanks both!!

I'll definitely tune in. Always love hearing the Strauss 'Festmusik' get an outing

[salymap]

Yes it's a sort of Goodbye to a great conductor who improved all through his long life.

RIP Sir Colin Davis

[Prommer]

Great to hear the LSO launch into LBV 8 (the piece that excited young Colin's passion for music) without a conductor on this occasion...

[salymap]

Yes I heard the first part and will listen to the 8th later My favourite Beethoven symphony too and reputedly the composer's also.

[LHC]

In the hall there was some minor disruption to the third movement of Beethoven's 8th when a member of the audience (who had perhaps over-imbibed during the interval) made a number of audible interjections. He stumbled out of the hall after the Symphony and so there were no further interruptions. However, I wondered if any of this was audible on the radio broadcast?

[Nick Armstrong]

a member of the audience (who had perhaps over-imbibed during the interval) made a number of audible interjections.

What was the gist of them - approving, disapproving, overwhelmed with sorrow at Sir Colin's loss...???

[Prommer]

Probably an ageing Hipster unused to such strong red wine... whether coming from the platform or the Barbican bar...

[PJPJ]

Lunchtime O'Boulez....

[Prommer]

Clearly our tippler was musically dyslexic and just LSOT it?

[Hornspieler]

Clearly our tippler was musically dyslexic and just LSOT it?

Hardly an occasion for cheap jokes on this thread.

HS

[salymap]

I listened to the Beethoven 8 later on iPlayer and thought it very four-square and in a way highlighting the need for the missing conductor, who would bring that necessary something to the performance.

Well done LSO though, the first orchestra I 'met' live. And thank goodness we still have Sir Colin's recordings.