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  • peterthekeys
    Full Member
    • Aug 2014
    • 246

    Originally posted by Edgy 2 View Post
    John Ireland’s Cello Sonata is one of my desert island pieces.
    I've been a devoted John Ireland fan since my teens - I always seem to come back to his music. And in spite of how much I play and admire the piano music, I still think the Cello Sonata is arguably his finest work (I've seen it described as the greatest cello sonata since the Brahms.) Another work which runs it a close second is the Fantasy-sonata for clarinet and piano (I attended the Dartington Summer School a few years ago, and found a clarinettist who was really keen on it, and was over the moon when he found that I knew the piano part - he said that he hardly ever got chance to play it because he couldn't persuade any of his pianist friends to tackle it!)

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    • doversoul1
      Ex Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 7132

      This looks an interesting series.

      Czech Roots: 9th-12th July
      In the first of four programmes this week recorded at LSO St Luke's in London and exploring Czech music, pianist Christian Ihle Hadland plays works by Smetana and Martinů, excerpts from Janáček's cycle On an Overgrown Path, and Voříšek's Piano Sonata in B flat minor.
      Introduced by Fiona Talkington
      .

      Tuesday
      Smetana: 3 Czech Dances
      Janáček: On an Overgrown Path, Book II (selection)
      Martinů: Etude in A minor; Polka in A minor (from Etudes and Polkas, Book I)
      Voříšek: Sonata in B flat minor, Op 20
      Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
      Recorded at LSO St Luke's, London, on 10 May 2019

      Wednesday: Meccore String Quartet

      Thursday: Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver
      Violinist Chloe Hanslip and pianist Danny Driver play works by Janacek, Suk and Schulhoff.

      Friday: LSO Wind Ensemble

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      • LMcD
        Full Member
        • Sep 2017
        • 8410

        Originally posted by doversoul1 View Post
        This looks an interesting series.

        Czech Roots: 9th-12th July
        In the first of four programmes this week recorded at LSO St Luke's in London and exploring Czech music, pianist Christian Ihle Hadland plays works by Smetana and Martinů, excerpts from Janáček's cycle On an Overgrown Path, and Voříšek's Piano Sonata in B flat minor.
        Introduced by Fiona Talkington
        .

        Tuesday
        Smetana: 3 Czech Dances
        Janáček: On an Overgrown Path, Book II (selection)
        Martinů: Etude in A minor; Polka in A minor (from Etudes and Polkas, Book I)
        Voříšek: Sonata in B flat minor, Op 20
        Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
        Recorded at LSO St Luke's, London, on 10 May 2019

        Wednesday: Meccore String Quartet

        Thursday: Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver
        Violinist Chloe Hanslip and pianist Danny Driver play works by Janacek, Suk and Schulhoff.

        Friday: LSO Wind Ensemble
        https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006myx
        I, for one, will definitely be listening.

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        • Edgy 2
          Guest
          • Jan 2019
          • 2035

          Originally posted by peterthekeys View Post
          I've been a devoted John Ireland fan since my teens - I always seem to come back to his music. And in spite of how much I play and admire the piano music, I still think the Cello Sonata is arguably his finest work (I've seen it described as the greatest cello sonata since the Brahms.) Another work which runs it a close second is the Fantasy-sonata for clarinet and piano (I attended the Dartington Summer School a few years ago, and found a clarinettist who was really keen on it, and was over the moon when he found that I knew the piano part - he said that he hardly ever got chance to play it because he couldn't persuade any of his pianist friends to tackle it!)
          “Music is the best means we have of digesting time." — Igor Stravinsky

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          • Edgy 2
            Guest
            • Jan 2019
            • 2035

            Originally posted by LMcD View Post
            I, for one, will definitely be listening.
            Me too.
            “Music is the best means we have of digesting time." — Igor Stravinsky

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            • LMcD
              Full Member
              • Sep 2017
              • 8410


              A most attractive and varied programme of Czech piano music beautifully played, I thought, by Christian Ihle Hadland. The Vorisek sonata was a real discovery for me, a work composed shortly before the composer's death at the tragically early age of 34. AND - an added bonus - it was introduced by Fiona Talkington ….

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              • antongould
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 8780

                Originally posted by LMcD View Post

                A most attractive and varied programme of Czech piano music beautifully played, I thought, by Christian Ihle Hadland. The Vorisek sonata was a real discovery for me, a work composed shortly before the composer's death at the tragically early age of 34. AND - an added bonus - it was introduced by Fiona Talkington ….
                It was excellent IMVVHO .....

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                • Edgy 2
                  Guest
                  • Jan 2019
                  • 2035

                  Yep, from me too.
                  “Music is the best means we have of digesting time." — Igor Stravinsky

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                  • LMcD
                    Full Member
                    • Sep 2017
                    • 8410

                    An enjoyably varied programme of pieces by Beethoven, Mozart and Hindemith in today's Lunchtime Concert, the first of 4 from this year's West Cork Chamber Music Festival. The menu for the remaining 3 concerts looks pretty appetizing!
                    Last edited by LMcD; 03-09-19, 20:45.

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                    • doversoul1
                      Ex Member
                      • Dec 2010
                      • 7132

                      Something wonderful on Lunchtime Concert now (just finished).

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                      • LMcD
                        Full Member
                        • Sep 2017
                        • 8410

                        Originally posted by doversoul1 View Post
                        Something wonderful on Lunchtime Concert now (just finished).
                        https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00083q7
                        Wasn't it just?

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                        • Constantbee
                          Full Member
                          • Jul 2017
                          • 504

                          Originally posted by doversoul1 View Post
                          Something wonderful on Lunchtime Concert now (just finished).
                          https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00083q7


                          I like John Toal as a presenter. He has a gift for 'painting the scene' which a lot of music radio presenters seem to neglect these days (not only music radio presenters, either). Is BBC Ulster the only regional BBC station that features classical music programmes these days btw? We could certainly do with more.
                          And the tune ends too soon for us all

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                          • LMcD
                            Full Member
                            • Sep 2017
                            • 8410

                            A really lovely performance of Beethoven's Opus 70 No. 2 today. RTE supplies the BBC with music from the West Cork Festival. (Have you ever listened to RTE's Lyric FM, by the way? If you're tired of Radio 3, it's a better alternative than CFM in my view, and there's a 'full works' concert after lunch on weekdays).
                            I agree with you about John Toal, by the way.

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                            • LMcD
                              Full Member
                              • Sep 2017
                              • 8410

                              Another truly excellent Lunchtime Concert today, with the Maxwell Quartet playing a wonderfully varied selection of pieces. This was a late night concert recorded in Orkney in mid-Summer - how I would love to have been there!

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                              • BBMmk2
                                Late Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 20908

                                Anyone heard the Jess Gilliam concert?
                                Don’t cry for me
                                I go where music was born

                                J S Bach 1685-1750

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