Wednesday 23/10/13 lpo/nezet-seguin/prokofiev/poulenc live r3

[edashtav]

8, surely, eh saly?

Sorry - Yes EIGHT - I can't count, I'm a ll fingers & thumbs.

[Bryn]

I do recall a Maida Vale R3 relay of the Concerti - a selection of 4 (or 6) I think - possibly during the 1990s; I must have the C90 somewhere - but no deck to play it on... let's not forget that Max Davies studied with him too.

That would most likely have been Numbers 1, 2, 7 and 8. They are available, played by the BBCSO under Zoltán Peskó as part of a survey of all 8 (1 and 8 were recorded at Studio 1, Maida Vale in June 1977, 2 and 7 being laid down at St. Pancras Town Hall in June 1978):



I got my set for a decidedly insignificant sum in an HMV sale.

Cornelius Cardew also studied orchestration with Petrassi. So that's at least two 'lefties' who were prepared to tolerate his association with fascist politics. There again, Cardew also chose to set the Ezra Pound translation of the Confucian Great Digest, though I seem to recall he never got permission from the Pound estate.

[jayne lee wilson]

That would most likely have been Numbers 1, 2, 7 and 8. They are available, played by the BBCSO under Zoltán Peskó as part of a survey of all 8 (1 and 8 were recorded at Studio 1, Maida Vale in June 1977, 2 and 7 being laid down at St. Pancras Town Hall in June 1978):



I got my set for a decidedly insignificant sum in an HMV sale.

Cornelius Cardew also studied orchestration with Petrassi. So that's at least two 'lefties' who were prepared to tolerate his association with fascist politics. There again, Cardew also chose to set the Ezra Pound translation of the Confucian Great Digest, though I seem to recall he never got permission from the Pound estate.

Thanks for the picture Bryn - that's the one I mentioned in msg 23, the one that got nicked. I hope the person who stole it will benefit from them for the rest of his life. Or sells it for a healthy profit on ebay...(it can only BE a profit...)

Do you know whether these were broadcast live in 1977 or thereabouts? I thought my memory was of a more recent concert (I can still recall the actual sound of it), but of course memory can play tricks...

[bluestateprommer]

This was a good concert, and I was especially interested in catching it because it features repertoire that's fairly off the wall, as JLW and others have noted. This makes the fact that YNS was the conductor of all the more interest, precisely because his programs tend <B>not</B> to be off the wall, if his Philly and Rotterdam programs are anything to go by. (His conducting of the world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage's new piano concerto in Rotterdam earlier this month is a very rare foray for him into new and/or unfamiliar repertoire, the exception that proves the rule.) The Poulenc concerto had a few shaky moments from the LPO musicians, hard to hide given how transparent the scoring is. The Prokofiev 7 was good, although I still remember Kirill Karabits' performance from Bournemouth some time back as a much stronger rendition. However, points to YNS for using Prokofiev's original quiet ending. Solid work also in the Poulenc Stabat Mater, which I'm not all that familiar with, although I had the general sense that Poulenc did it better later on with the Gloria. Overall, though, this is the kind of offbeat programming of which we need more, to get away from the over-familiar.