Tomorrow is non-stop Liszt

[Guest]

Radio 3 celebrates Franz Liszt's bicentenary with a special day of concerts from all over the European Broadcasting Union. The day starts with BBC Singers in a programme of Liszt's vocal music from Wigmore Hall in London. Then to Raiding where Liszt was born, for some of his symphonic poems, a form which he invented. Liszt's Hungarian background is represented through a performance of his mighty oratorio, Christus from Budapest. After retiring from the concert platform at the age of only 35, Liszt settled in Weimar, and the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra concert from there includes his Faust Symphony. Liszt spent his final years in Bayreuth, and the day finishes with a live concert from the Grosses Festspielhaus featuring his Second Piano Concerto, performed by Konstantin Sherbakov.

And it goes on ........ and on ........ until 20:45 except for a bit of Tannhauser. Well, I'm up for it. Anyone else (I love these total immersions) Edit: It starts at midday

[Bryn]

Crossed fingers that Christus is made available in HD Sound via the iPlayer's on demand facility. I've programmed the Pure Bug to save the DAB mp2, just in case they dump a 56kbps HE-AAC version on us.

[Nick Armstrong]

And it goes on ........ and on ........ until 20:45 except for a bit of Tannhauser. Well, I'm up for it. Anyone else (I love these total immersions) Edit: It starts at midday

(Actually, sensible people seem to be recommending 'Christus' so I might have a go. But all-day immersion? No.... )

[Anna]

If Bryn recommends Christus, then that's the bee's knees pour moi! After France kick the Kiwis out of touch, of course! No, seriously, I think I'll go along with Liszt-Fest, well, you know, a lot of people like Alkan as well. Now, is that weird?

[Roehre]

I'll go for the BBC-singers programme (with some works not even represented on CD AFAIK) and the An die Künstler which starts the programme in which the Faust-symphony is the main piece.
I do know the Christus-oratorio fairly well. The evening programme re Liszt and the Gipsies (8pm) seems to me of interest too.

[Simon]

I've programmed the Pure Bug to save the DAB mp2, just in case they dump a 56kbps HE-AAC version on us.

Earth to BH ... earth to BH ...

If you are going to contribute to this forum, it would almost certainly be more useful if you'd do so in a language that other people could understand.

We aren't all audiotechnophiles you know!

[MrGongGong]

Earth to BH ... earth to BH ...

If you are going to contribute to this forum, it would almost certainly be more useful if you'd do so in a language that other people could understand.

We aren't all audiotechnophiles you know!

Makes perfect sense to me
and if it didn't , I have a magic box which lets me find out stuff I don't know about

[Bryn]

Be fair MrGG, it might just require the engagement of more than one brain cell simultaneously, and the poor little lad might not have got the hang of Internet search facilities, such as that provided by Google, yet. Do also bear in mind the contempt Marx noted for anything vaguely theoretical among the English. You would not expect the archetypical little Englander to change such ways, surely?

[kernowvectis]

And, just before the 8.00am news this morning, I noticed Clemency Burton Hill refer to "Birthday Boy Liszt".

[french frank]

And, just before the 8.00am news this morning, I noticed Clemency Burton Hill refer to "Birthday Boy Liszt".

I think it's on the list of recommended phrases for R3 presenters. Like 'kick off' rather than 'begin'. 'Poster boy' now recommended for the other days of the year.

[mercia]

I like the way Rob has put us in the mood for the kick-off of Liszt day with a Bruckner motet and Bach fugue

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

R6 is featuring Brian Wilson at the moment ....

[Roehre]

Enjoyable choir-concert to start with, a pity that the BBC-singers use a vibrato that wide that you can drive a car through it. I seem to recall they were much better in the past than at the present.

Nevertheless good to hear thos choral pieces of Liszt's, though I must say that I prefer Beethoven' or Mussorgsky's versions of Faust's Song of the flea.

For today's programs see also http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...n-(Sun-23-Oct)

[EdgeleyRob]

I've programmed the Pure Bug to save the DAB mp2, just in case they dump a 56kbps HE-AAC version on us.

[mercia]

I enjoyed the male-voice items with piano
Hungaria didn't do much for me. In parts it sounded like the soundtrack to a silent film, in my view.
Battle of the Huns and Hamlet, but no Mazeppa.
EDIT - shouldn't Liszt day include a solo piano recital?