Hallé/Elder play Shostakovich ‘Leningrad’ Symphony, Bridgewater Hall, Thurs 3rd Oct

[teamsaint]

looks like a solid turnout by Board Members tonight then.


Hope you all enjoy it. Should make for good radio .

[Petrushka]

The first live 'Leningrad' I attended was at the 1983 Proms on July 29 under Edward Downes. There's nothing quite so thrilling as a live 'Leningrad' and I've heard a couple from Jansons and Gergiev and one from Rostropovich.

[gedsmk]

There's nothing quite so thrilling as a live 'Leningrad' and I've heard a couple from Jansons and Gergiev and one from Rostropovich.

Couldn't agree more! CBSO with Nelsons in Birmingham, me sitting about 12 rows back in the stalls was one of the greatest concerts I've ever been to.

[DracoM]

Absolutely STAGGERING performance. The disciplined, impassioned articulation of the strings alone was worth the roar at the end.

That is what Radio 3 is about.

[jayne lee wilson]

Oh my heaven...

Why DOES this thing have such an effect on me?
I think I'd be happy if the Leningrad Symphony was the last music I ever heard.

Performance - Devastating.

[Hornspieler]

Oh dear, oh dear!

Talk about forced labour!

An idiot presenter just about summed that up for me.

Well, never mind. I expect most listeners were enthralled, but for me that was a mediochre travesty of what should be an inspiring work.

Maybe the film music festival we're having is not so bad after all.

HS

[DracoM]

You have GOT to be joking??

[MrGongGong]

What was the piano music that was on then changed to Shostakovitch ?

just now ?
My Dab radio does that sometimes .........

aha an announcer explains ...... Grr
on the rare occasions I randomly find something on the radio and wonder what it was , one would think the Website would tell me ?

[Flay]

I haven't heard the Shosty yet. But what did members make of the Britten?

I felt like I was listening to a metamorphosed version of Peter and the Wolf.

[teamsaint]

I just try to enjoy the music that i find myself listening to.

I enjoyed this a lot, though it wasn't faultless.

But I'm not really worried about faultless performances.

[Petrushka]

Couldn't agree more with both DracoM and Jayne. Staggering and devastating indeed. Can't wait to hear from the Northern Branch of the Forum in the hall.

[Petrushka]

I haven't heard the Shosty yet. But what did members make of the Britten?

I felt like I was listening to a metamorphosed version of Peter and the Wolf.

I felt that the Britten was, frankly, inconsequential stuff. The words spoke more to me than the music which, in my view, was hardly worth resurrecting.

[Mary Chambers]

I haven't heard the Shosty yet. But what did members make of the Britten?

I felt like I was listening to a metamorphosed version of Peter and the Wolf.

I've said before that I don't think it's a good idea to resurrect and reconstruct every little piece that Britten wrote, however trivial. This was much as I expected - efficient incidental music, written in his youth as a means of making a living. It had a certain curiosity value, but not really much more. Samuel West made a good job of the narration.

[Flosshilde]

Well, never mind. I expect most listeners were enthralled, but for me that was a mediochre travesty of what should be an inspiring work.

Well, that's put you all in your place!

[salymap]

I put the Britten on for two or three minutes - sounded very odd indeed- will pluck up courage to listen tomorrow, or not