Simone Dinnerstein in a Schumann recital from Wigmore Hall today. Sheer pleasure throughout, a sensitively played Arabeske, a Kreisleriana that reminded me of just what an extraordinary piece it is and delightful Kinderszenen encores, all broadcast in excellent sound.
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Steven Osborne interpreting Debussy Etudes from Wigmore Hall broadcast on 5th December. I wasn't expecting to like this recital, but I found it so enthralling I have listened through three times. He has put a lot of effort into bringing out the expressive possibilities of what are sometimes thought of as dry pieces. There is a lot of peculiarly Scottish charm, very different from French charm.Comment
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And if you want to watch as well as listen, it’s available on the Wigmore Hall's website as a video on demand for (I think) the next month or so. I was very happy to be there in the hall for this one: it was, indeed, enthralling.Comment
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Fiona Talkington says she will be doing less talking as they playing on through all the pieces, certainly entertaining while I wait for my baking to bake.
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Looking forward to Lea Desandre and Jupiter Ensemble on today's Lunchtime Concert. https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on...e-202301301300Comment
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Pity she not singing in English though.Annoyingly listening to and commenting on radio 3...Comment
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Clear from the very first piece that Provenzale was a very considerable composer indeed. The Wigmore website has translations but for those of us with opera -speak Italian they are not necessary given the singers superb diction.Originally posted by gurnemanz View PostComment
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Fair enough, radio 3 is more Covent Garden than me who more likely to be at the coliseum watching the eno. It does sound nice anyway, whatever she is singing.Annoyingly listening to and commenting on radio 3...Comment
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A treat! Spoilt rotten with live video stream + texts and translations online. Also a bonus encore not on R3, their party piece - "We are the Ocean, each on a drop", highlighting each performer individually.Comment
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Except that the first 3 composers were apparently yesterday's concert, so is it Ravel and Brahms today, but with more Dvorak, Smetana and Harry Burleigh in between? Or another confusing schedule listing?Today's programme includes music by Dvorak, Smetana and Harry Burleigh.
Ravel – Sonatine for piano
Brahms – Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115Comment
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It was a careless cut and paste; the concert was Ravel and Brahms.Comment
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Ooo mostly Mozart today, looks good.
PIanist Llŷr Williams devises a programme for the Perth Concert Hall audience that connects Mozart and Haydn with a little French twist. Ravel's Menuet was written for the anniversary of Haydn's death in 1809. Debussy also contributed to this initiative along with several other prominent french composers of the day and created a hommage in waltz form, based on the translation of Haydn's name into corresponding note pitches as Ravel had done. Poulenc's short miniatures entitled Novelette are written in a similar vein and were published as a set of three short works dedicated to close friends. The concert by Llŷr Williams culminates in a Mozart double-bill of his C minor Fantasia and Piano Sonata also in C minor which were, unusually, published together and are often performed as a pair. The Sonata is dedicated to his pupil Therese von Trattner, who was also the wife of his landlord, and was probably intended for domestic performance or teaching purposes. It translates effortlessly into a modern concert platform nevertheless.Annoyingly listening to and commenting on radio 3...Comment
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Looks like another good concert today,missed some of yesterday's but will skip a listen again and just enjoy the new concert. Lots of flute by the looks of it.Annoyingly listening to and commenting on radio 3...Comment
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Late to this as been out but seems lovely, think I will try listen to it again when it available.
Award-winning young Italian violinist Francesca Dego brings an all-Mozart programme of sonatas to the Perth Concert Hall, featuring three contrasting sonatas. The short and simple Sonatas in G and A were written while visiting Mannheim, in south-west Germany, a highly influential centre for innovation and the development of the orchestra. The Sonata K454 written six years later in Vienna is a more substantial proposition. According to a story told by Constanze, his wife, Mozart did not leave himself time to write down the piano part of K454 before its performance in Vienna and so performed with a blank sheet of paper on the stand - much to the admiration of Emperor Joseph II - according to the story.Annoyingly listening to and commenting on radio 3...Comment
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