Lunchtime Concerts one stop shop

[Ein Heldenleben]

This Pavel Kolesnikov Schubert G major is very beautifully played - tremendous dynamic control and voicing in the first movement.

Ooh that was alarming no second movement - he’s now playing some Couperin - very rhythmically freely - a bit like Bill Evans ?

Now he’s playing the second movement of the G major - this is a bit bonkers perhaps ? He can certainly shape a phrase though..

[oddoneout]

This Pavel Kolesnikov Schubert G major is very beautifully played - tremendous dynamic control and voicing in the first movement.

Ooh that was alarming no second movement - he’s now playing some Couperin - very rhythmically freely - a bit like Bill Evans ?

Now he’s playing the second movement of the G major - this is a bit bonkers perhaps ? He can certainly shape a phrase though..

A multidecker sandwich with Schubert being the bread slices.

[Edgy 2]

This Pavel Kolesnikov Schubert G major is very beautifully played - tremendous dynamic control and voicing in the first movement.

Ooh that was alarming no second movement - he’s now playing some Couperin - very rhythmically freely - a bit like Bill Evans ?

Now he’s playing the second movement of the G major - this is a bit bonkers perhaps ? He can certainly shape a phrase though..

A multidecker sandwich with Schubert being the bread slices.

It was publicised as being played this way beforehand, very nearly put me off going but I'm glad it didn't, well worth a tenner

[Ein Heldenleben]

It was publicised as being played this way beforehand, very nearly put me off going but I'm glad it didn't, well worth a tenner

What was confusing was that the Sounds webpages has the contents of the recital but gave no indication of the interweaving until one by one the tracks emerged in the track list . And I missed the opening announcement..
Good to hear the programme for the concert was accurate!

[Edgy 2]

This evening, wonderful performances of Elgar's Violin Sonata, String Quartet and Piano Quintet from Edinburgh broadcast last week

Gina McCormack, Martin Roscoe and the Brodsky Quartet

[gradus]

Ingrid Fliter giving the Wigmore Hall recital today:

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Sonata in E minor HXVI/34
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) Sonata in C sharp minor Kk247
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Etudes symphoniques Op. 13 (with the posthumous études)
Last time I heard the op. 13 played by her it was outstanding.

[gradus]

A really enjoyable recital by a pianist who plays Schumann as I like to hear his music ie with all the technical facility needed allied to a romantic sensibility eschewing flashy playing, I wish she performed in the UK more often.

[ostuni]

I was there in the hall, and agree wholeheartedly about her Schumann playing - though I wasn’t quite convinced by the insertion of two of the posthumous études after the published Finale (a piece stuffed full of Final Gestures, surely?!). I suspect R3 listeners didn’t get to hear the encore: Chopin's op27/2 Nocturne; I was very pleased to hear this: her recording of the Nocturnes strikes me as one of the very finest modern ones.

[gradus]

The only other time I heard her play op.13 she played the posthumous studies in the same order which I rather enjoy. Good to hear the extra studies in any order, some wonderful inspiration there, thanks I think to Brahms for ensuring their publication.

[gradus]

Steven Osborne on top form in an all Debussy lunchtime recital today. The 2 Arabesques, the Ballade, La Plus que Lente, two short pieces and the first book of Studies, finishing with Pour le Piano. Would have been enjoyable to hear his introductions to the audience but altogether wonderful.

[Beresford]

Yesterday's (2Aug) lunchtime concert from Schwetzingen - the Mendelson octet played by the Belcea Quartet and Quatuor Ébène. I only heard part of it in the car, but it was very gripping. Most times I have heard it before I thought it a bit too polite, but not this. I will listen again later.

[Ein Heldenleben]

Yesterday's (2Aug) lunchtime concert from Schwetzingen - the Mendelson octet played by the Belcea Quartet and Quatuor Ébène. I only heard part of it in the car, but it was very gripping. Most times I have heard it before I thought it a bit too polite, but not this. I will listen again later.

Yea it was an absolutely magnificent performance.

[Ein Heldenleben]

For fans of John McCormack and the songs of Haydn Wood there is some truly lovely lyric tenor singing from Alessandro Fisher in this Lunchtime recital . Thrilling top notes and a pleasing vibrato.

[bluestateprommer]

Catching up, late as usual, with R3's offerings on Lunchtime Concert, specifically the "Perspectives on Vaughan Williams" series from the Oxford Lieder Festival:
(1) Kathryn Rudge and Sholto Kynoch
(2) Ashley Riches and Anna Tilbrook
(3) Ailish Tynan and Libby Burgess
(4) Alessandro Fisher and William Vann

Must confess that I've only listened to the first two so far.

The big surprise, however, at least to me, was the presenter, Al Ryan. Perhaps I'm just very late to the game and he's been introducing live concerts as a presenter for some time now, but the Rudge/Kynoch recital was the first time I've heard AR in that context, as opposed to him being the announcer back at Broadcasting House after a Prom.

[gradus]

Steven Osborne in an all Debussy programme today -Studies and two short pieces - tremendous playing.