LPO/Jurowski/RFH live 30/10/13/Ligeti/Lutoslawski/Schnittke Symphony no.1

[jayne lee wilson]

Amazed no-one has highlighted this astounding programme! So in the midst of work I thought I better had. No time for details now, but if you don't know the Schnittke... well, to describe it would be like giving out plot-spoilers but - don't miss it!

Ligeti Lontano
Lutoslawski Cello Concerto
Schnittke Symphony No.1

LPO/Jurowski

[Bryn]

Amazed no-one has highlighted this astounding programme! So in the midst of work I thought I better had. No time for details now, but if you don't know the Schnittke... well, to describe it would be like giving out plot-spoilers but - don't miss it!

Ligeti Lontano
Lutoslawski Cello Concerto
Schnittke Symphony No.1

LPO/Jurowski

Thanks for the warning. The 1st Symphony was the very first Schnittke I heard. I will not be tuning in tonight.*

[Bryn]

* I will, however, be accessing the concert in full via the iPlayer tomorrow morning.

[Serial_Apologist]

Bryn admits!

[Nick Armstrong]

Amazed no-one has highlighted this astounding programme! So in the midst of work I thought I better had. No time for details now, but if you don't know the Schnittke... well, to describe it would be like giving out plot-spoilers but - don't miss it!

Ligeti Lontano
Lutoslawski Cello Concerto
Schnittke Symphony No.1

LPO/Jurowski

Worth pointing out too that it's Michail Jurowski conducting, Vladimir's dad

[teamsaint]

Looks great.
That, or some Gerhard, or those Schoenberg Quartets, or that pile of stuff I was given today, or.....hmmmmm...what an age we live in for choice. on disc if not always .on radio One of the better aspects of modern life

[jayne lee wilson]

Superb performances in part one - sharply defined, very dynamic and cohesive. Moser has played the Lutoslawski frequently this year and how it showed! With stunningly immediate three-dimensional HDs sound to match. Wow.

Time to refuel with VERY strong coffee and then...take cover!

[Alison]

The first symphony will surely be a feast for our ears. The wait is nearly over.

[Bryn]

The first symphony will surely be a feast for our ears. The wait is nearly over.

More like a shock to the system.

[DracoM]

Fantastic, virtuosic evening. Truly exciting concert for once. No war horses, just top quality musicians investigating cutting edge symphonic stuff.

[edashtav]

Superb performances in part one - sharply defined, very dynamic and cohesive. Moser has played the Lutoslawski frequently this year and how it showed! With stunningly immediate three-dimensional HDs sound to match. Wow.

Time to refuel with VERY strong coffee and then...take cover!

I've missed Part 1 live but settled down with high expectations to the Symphony having enjoyed the little interview with Vladimir's father, Mikhail Jurowski. A by-product of some research into my listening records revealed that I've been battling with the Schnittke in four versions over 25 years. No "Shock of the New" for me, then, but I was delighted with this performance - apparently the first that Jurowski, snr, has conducted it. It was vivid, assured, confident, and the moods and idioms without name or number were projected with great style and wit.

I started to muse on the theme has "polystylism" become a recognisable style of its own?
Why?
Because whatever Schnittke's excursions, grotesqueries and plain thefts, his music has a coherent life and characteristic personality. Perhaps, a quotations sums my feelings:

Though various features did the sisters grace
A sister’s likeness was in every face.

Metamorphoses (Ovid, translated by John Addison)

[I look forward to part ! - two more 20th century classics on the iPlayer.[/I]

[EdgeleyRob]

Missed part 1.
That Schnittke thingy was terrific,never heard it before.
Like a big game of name that tune,super stuff indeed,talk about blown away.

[Alison]

It was terrific. Less chaotic tonight somehow ? It was almost as if the conductor had a 'quiet authority' even in the brash extremes of the work! Loved the performance though. What a versatile instrument the LPO has become.

[teamsaint]

Can't think i have ever heard anything quite like it. Certainly keeps you involved.

Wonder if there was a good crowd in? Must have been great in the hall.

[edashtav]

It was terrific. Less chaotic tonight somehow ? It was almost as if the conductor had a 'quiet authority' even in the brash extremes of the work! Loved the performance though. What a versatile instrument the LPO has become.

A perceptive thought, Alison. Was the key to it in Mikhail's remark that he wasn't a fan of improvisation and had taken bars from (I think) the second violin sonata to be the basis for one aleatoric section?