Lunchtime Concerts one stop shop

[Bergonzi]

7 February
Robin Tritschler sings Schubert, Wolf and other

Today's programme features works by Schubert, Schumann, Wolf and Wilhelm Kilmayer. They are performed by BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Calidore String Quartet and tenor graduate of the scheme Robin Tritschler. Robin is accompanied by Chris Glynn....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08sltxd

I don’t know if a well trained voice should be described as natural but Robin Tritschler sounds like a young man bursting in to songs just for his own pleasure. Lovely voice

The Calidor String Quartet were excellent too!

EDIT: I realise that this was a different concert to the one I heard where they played Beethoven Op 135 - but I bet it was still very good.

[LMcD]

I've thoroughly enjoyed this week's (Tuesday to Friday) Lunchtime Concerts, compiled from the 2017 Bath Mozartfest. Some excellent Beethoven from Imogen Cooper today, plus the admirable Alban Gerhatdt and Steven Osborne in a Debussy sonata. Strongly recommended!

[zola]

I've thoroughly enjoyed this week's (Tuesday to Friday) Lunchtime Concerts, compiled from the 2017 Bath Mozartfest. Some excellent Beethoven from Imogen Cooper today, plus the admirable Alban Gerhatdt and Steven Osborne in a Debussy sonata. Strongly recommended!

There has certainly been some excellent music making in this slot this week. But I am slightly less satisfied by the increasingly common adoption of a cut and paste hour rather than a single coherent recital. I fear it could be another example of the assumption that the attention span of listeners will not run to such a thing as an hour by the same performer(s).

[gurnemanz]

7 February
Robin Tritschler sings Schubert, Wolf and other

Today's programme features works by Schubert, Schumann, Wolf and Wilhelm Kilmayer. They are performed by BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Calidore String Quartet and tenor graduate of the scheme Robin Tritschler. Robin is accompanied by Chris Glynn....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08sltxd

I don’t know if a well trained voice should be described as natural but r sounds like a young man bursting in to songs just for his own pleasure. Lovely voice

I agree about Robin Tritschler's attractive fresh-sounding voice and have been enjoying his Robert Franz disc, recently issued on Hyperion - unfamiliar repertoire beautifully presented.

[oddoneout]

There has certainly been some excellent music making in this slot this week. But I am slightly less satisfied by the increasingly common adoption of a cut and paste hour rather than a single coherent recital. I fear it could be another example of the assumption that the attention span of listeners will not run to such a thing as an hour by the same performer(s).

I wonder what the justification(if any) is for such an approach? If the resources have been put into recording the concert then it can't be a cost issue. The time slot is there to be filled, why not use it? On a personal level I do find the chopping and changing a bit disorientating on occasion if I miss the announcements and haven't made a note beforehand of what's being broadcast.

[DracoM]

[LMcD]

If the aim of these broadcasts was to give a flavour of the range and quality of the concerts that comprised the festival, I think they succeeded, at least for me. A total of 11 items in 4 hours is a far cry from the relentless procession of short, unrelated pieces - plus chat - that now characterize Radio 3's a.m. output. With particular reference to yesterday's programme, I found the mixture (if that's your word of choice) of early(ish) and late Beethoven piano pieces and a much later French chamber work most delightful and nourishing.

[oddoneout]

But I am slightly less satisfied by the increasingly common adoption of a cut and paste hour rather than a single coherent recital.

My comment related to this general observation/concern rather than the specific festival output.
Live recordings pick up more than just the notes and when a subsequent broadcast of the concert interrupts that train of thought and feeling, and rapport with the audience, which can be quite noticeable even at the one remove of the radio listener, I often find that unsatisfactory, particularly for something like solo vocal or instrumental music. There is also a part of me which says that when a recital(in particular) has been conceived as a whole then both performers and listeners deserve for it to be heard as that whole, but I accept that increasingly that doesn't seem to fit with what those in charge want to put out.

[LMcD]

My comment related to this general observation/concern rather than the specific festival output.
Live recordings pick up more than just the notes and when a subsequent broadcast of the concert interrupts that train of thought and feeling, and rapport with the audience, which can be quite noticeable even at the one remove of the radio listener, I often find that unsatisfactory, particularly for something like solo vocal or instrumental music. There is also a part of me which says that when a recital(in particular) has been conceived as a whole then both performers and listeners deserve for it to be heard as that whole, but I accept that increasingly that doesn't seem to fit with what those in charge want to put out.

As most recitals last more than an hour, a degree of editing is inevitable unless the Lunchtime Recital is given a longer (and presumably variable) slot. This could play havoc with the afternoon schedules.

[french frank]

As most recitals last more than an hour, a degree of editing is inevitable unless the Lunchtime Recital is given a longer (and presumably variable) slot. This could play havoc with the afternoon schedules.

That used to be the whole point of having a live In Tune - it could adjust its content to accommodate the overrun. Similarly Late Junction could accommodate the overrun of the evening concert. It was just necessary for live programming to end on the dot of midnight so that Through The Night could begin on time for all the European broadcasters taking Euroclassic Notturno.

ADD: Apparently, Radio 3 still holds to the view that programmes should be given the time they take.

[oddoneout]

As most recitals last more than an hour, a degree of editing is inevitable unless the Lunchtime Recital is given a longer (and presumably variable) slot. This could play havoc with the afternoon schedules.

Editing isn't quite as disruptive as insertion of items from other concerts.Regarding disruption to afternoon schedules,my attempts to tune in for specific items suggests that the order, timing and occasionally content aren't so fixed in stone that they couldn't accommodate a lunchtime live overrun. The content of said concert isn't exactly going to be a complete unknown so it shouldn't be that difficult to work round - any encores can(and do)get ditched if necessary. On those occasions when indisposition necessitates different artist/music that seems to be manageable, so it is possible.
Ditching trailers would provide some wriggle room, given the excessive and increasing amount of airtime they occupy; pity that they now take priority over real programmes when things get adrift.

[doversoul1]

Malcolm Martineau, a life in song

Monday’s programme.
In this series Malcolm Martineau, A Life in Song, the acclaimed accompanist and song specialist is joined by mezzo soprano Kitty Whately with French repertoire perfectly suited for the mezzo soprano voice by Ravel, Berlioz and Faure

Berlioz: Les Nuits d'ete
Faure: La Bonne Chanson
Poulenc: Tel jour, tel nuit
Ravel: Cinq Melodies Grecques

Kitty Whately, mezzo-soprano
Simon Keenlyside, baritone
Malcolm Martineau, piano.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09wvpnc

We can’t see how the concerts are organised (chopped-up or in full), it looks a very good week for song recital fans.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Monday’s programme.

That's the Tuesday - Friday schedules, dovers (today we had a piano recital). Otherwise, as you say, a very good week.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Today's recital (repeated next Sunday) was an interesting programme of piano Music by Messiaen, Saariaho, Ligeti, and Schumann given at the Wigmore Hall by Danny Driver.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09wvkv1#play

[doversoul1]

That's the Tuesday - Friday schedules, dovers (today we had a piano recital). Otherwise, as you say, a very good week.

Still suffering from jet-lag