Lunchtime Concerts one stop shop

[Ein Heldenleben]

Today's Music to Lunch (or Munch) to:
The Casals Quartet perform Mozart's 'Hunt' Quartet and Shostakovitch's 8th.

listened to it and enjoyed it greatly !

[oddoneout]

listened to it and enjoyed it greatly !

As did I, and it highlights one of the advantages I find of these short offerings, that I listen to music I might not otherwise. The Shostakovitch wouldn't be something I would switch on for but because it came with something I wanted to hear and wouldn't last too long in the scheme of things I carried on listening. I wouldn't make a point of hearing it again but neither would I turn off if it appeared in a programme.

[LMcD]

As did I, and it highlights one of the advantages I find of these short offerings, that I listen to music I might not otherwise. The Shostakovitch wouldn't be something I would switch on for but because it came with something I wanted to hear and wouldn't last too long in the scheme of things I carried on listening. I wouldn't make a point of hearing it again but neither would I turn off if it appeared in a programme.

2 greatly contrasting works beautifully played by this very talented Barcelona-based quartet.

[LMcD]

There are 4 live lunchtime concerts streamed live on Radio 3 and on-screen from Glasgow City Halls this week featuring Scottish artistes:
Tuesday - Michael Mofidian and Julia Lynch
Wednesday - Steven Osborne
Thursday - John Butt and Thomas Walker
Friday - Colin Currie

[bluestateprommer]

There are 4 live lunchtime concerts streamed live on Radio 3 and on-screen from Glasgow City Halls this week featuring Scottish artistes:
Tuesday - Michael Mofidian and Julia Lynch
Wednesday - Steven Osborne
Thursday - John Butt and Thomas Walker
Friday - Colin Currie

Evidently interest seems minimal on these Lunchtime Concerts from City Halls Glasgow, at least so far. Admittedly, there is one negative factor, namely Kate Molleson as presenter, as she has unfortunately not learned to turn off her subjective, gushing commentary here, even if she is undoubtedly pleased to partake of live music making there (as would we all be if we were there). But if you're willing to tolerate that as the price to pay for live music-making on R3, the two concerts so far have been all right, if maybe not with the cachet of the recent Wigmore Hall lockdown concerts.

I'd never heard of either Michael Mofidian or Julia Lynch prior to these concerts. MM's voice definitely has a deep heft, and at times, his vocal acting wasn't particularly subtle or deft. Likewise, JL occasionally had a slightly heavy touch at the keyboard, although she seemed to show a more relaxed confidence as the recital went on. But again, it was all right.

Steven Osborne is, of course, a very known quantity all around. He had one major slip of finger in D. 960, but in the grand scheme of things, not a big deal (and a reminder that this was indeed live and in the moment). The encore (won't spoil it if you haven't heard [even though I put it in the Forum Calendar already ;) ]) actually was quite appropriate after the vast scale of D. 960.

Also, major change for tomorrow: Kate Molleson noted that John Butt unfortunately was very recently taken ill. Nicky Spence and Malcolm Martineau have stepped into the breach, with what looks like a fantastic program, at least IMHO. This is also updated in the Forum Calendar as well. One of the selections will actually put the Roderick Williams "Woman's Hour" thesis to the test, namely NS' choice of Sondheim's "Losing My Mind" from Follies, because that song goes with the character of Sally Durant in the show.

[gurnemanz]

Evidently interest seems minimal on these Lunchtime Concerts from City Halls Glasgow, at least so far.

I'm listening. I like to discover new voices and enjoyed Michael Mofidian's recital. Slightly boomy in a resonant acoustic but well put across. Very interesting programme. I followed the texts for the less familiar Ravel and Tchaikovsky online.

[LMcD]

I'm listening. I like to discover new voices and enjoyed Michael Mofidian's recital. Slightly boomy in a resonant acoustic but well put across. Very interesting programme. I followed the texts for the less familiar Ravel and Tchaikovsky online.

My apologies to anybody who was expecting to see, as well as hear, these concerts. When I read that they were to be streamed, I assumed - wrongly - that they. would follow the example of the Wigmore Hall season. We greatly enjoyed Steven Osborne's performance of Schubert's last piano sonata today.

[gradus]

Serendipity, I switched on the car radio outside Waitrose waiting for my wife and the lunchtime recital by Nicky Spence and Malcolm Martineau appeared, apparently last-minute substitutes for the advertised gig. If you enjoy song recitals don't miss it, absolutely sensational.

[Constantbee]

Evidently interest seems minimal on these Lunchtime Concerts from City Halls Glasgow, at least so far.

Percussionist Colin Currie playing solo on Friday was worth the listen IMHO. Maybe percussion in performance isn't for everybody but I'd been impressed by his quartet at a R3 lunchtime concert at the Wigmore Hall (1 July 2019), squeezed in on the annual trip to London . The only review of the GCH concert I can find is from The Times. It's generally positive but only available in full to subscribers:

"This week’s BBC lunchtime concerts from Glasgow have had a slightly sedate air about them, something that’s perhaps unavoidable when the artists perform to an empty hall. Trust Colin Currie to set off a bomb under that notion.

The star performer must have packed the stage with instruments for his hour-long recital of music written for a solo percussionist, such was the pulsing, thumping variety of what was on offer. There can’t be many music lovers who’d consciously sit down to listen to an hour of percussion, but Currie showed us what we’re missing out on. Notes fly at the audience like hail in a storm."

The US press carried an interesting article during the week about drumming being used as an intervention for anxiety by participants in the Covid track and trace programme. Listening to it could be ... well ... maybe almost as therapeutic as participating

Personally I don't find Kate Molleson so bad. Don't know how old she is but she probably younger than she sounds. Maybe the voluble commentary could be due just to lack of experience. She does an excellent job on the New Music Show IMHO.

[gradus]

Percussionist Colin Currie playing solo on Friday was worth the listen IMHO. Maybe percussion in performance isn't for everybody but I'd been impressed by his quartet at a R3 lunchtime concert at the Wigmore Hall (1 July 2019), squeezed in on the annual trip to London . The only review of the GCH concert I can find is from The Times. It's generally positive but only available in full to subscribers:

"This week’s BBC lunchtime concerts from Glasgow have had a slightly sedate air about them, something that’s perhaps unavoidable when the artists perform to an empty hall. Trust Colin Currie to set off a bomb under that notion.

The star performer must have packed the stage with instruments for his hour-long recital of music written for a solo percussionist, such was the pulsing, thumping variety of what was on offer. There can’t be many music lovers who’d consciously sit down to listen to an hour of percussion, but Currie showed us what we’re missing out on. Notes fly at the audience like hail in a storm."

The US press carried an interesting article during the week about drumming being used as an intervention for anxiety by participants in the Covid track and trace programme. Listening to it could be ... well ... maybe almost as therapeutic as participating

Personally I don't find Kate Molleson so bad. Don't know how old she is but she probably younger than she sounds. Maybe the voluble commentary could be due just to lack of experience. She does an excellent job on the New Music Show IMHO.

'Slightly sedate air ...', most certainly not imv, I wonder if The Times critic heard messrs Spence and Martineau the previous day?

[LMcD]

This week's concerts (Tue-Fri), recorded in Manchester, offer a wonderfully eclectic mix. Today, for example we have Jehan Alain arr. 0Raaf Hekkema, Durufle arr. Jelte Althuis, Granados, De Falla and Shostakovitch's 9th string quartet. I think these concerts offer a useful musical 'half-way house' between the fragmentary, and fragmented, offerings of the morning schedule and the substantial full works of the afternoon.

[edashtav]

This week's concerts (Tue-Fri), recorded in Manchester, offer a wonderfully eclectic mix. Today, for example we have Jehan Alain arr. 0Raaf Hekkema, Durufle arr. Jelte Althuis, Granados, De Falla and Shostakovitch's 9th string quartet. I think these concerts offer a useful musical 'half-way house' between the fragmentary, and fragmented, offerings of the morning schedule and the substantial full works of the afternoon.

Yes, they offer a good bridge. It was good to hear a fresh interpretation of Shostakovich's 9th String Quartet.

[Nick Armstrong]

This week's concerts (Tue-Fri), recorded in Manchester, offer a wonderfully eclectic mix. Today, for example we have Jehan Alain arr. 0Raaf Hekkema, Durufle arr. Jelte Althuis, Granados, De Falla and Shostakovitch's 9th string quartet. I think these concerts offer a useful musical 'half-way house' between the fragmentary, and fragmented, offerings of the morning schedule and the substantial full works of the afternoon.

Tuned in specifically for the Alain & Duruflé transcriptions; I love what Calefax do, and thought the performances were delightful, of pieces I’m very fond of.

[LMcD]

I didn't know that Dvorak's Quintet Opus 97 was also called the 'American'. Anyway, it can be heard at just after 1.00 p.m. today together with Shostakovitch's 8th string quartet. The Pavel Haas Quartet are joined by Krzysztof Chorzelski for the Dvorak.
There was a lovely performance of Brahms's Opus 34 Quintet yesterday.

[cmr_for3]

I'm behind the cure as always. Currently listening to the 3rd of the Manchester concerts https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000l2v5 and Bach: Suite in C minor BWV 997
Milos Karadaglic, guitar is just marvelous in my view.