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There was an exceptional performance of LvB 3 from the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Davin Zinman last night. Beautiful playing, with lots of detail brought out. I chanced on it halfway through the first movement and was intrigued to know who the performers were: quite a surprise to hear the back-announcement. Thoroughly recommended.
There was an exceptional performance of LvB 3 from the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Davin Zinman last night. Beautiful playing, with lots of detail brought out. I chanced on it halfway through the first movement and was intrigued to know who the performers were: quite a surprise to hear the back-announcement. Thoroughly recommended.
It will be interesting to compare it with David Zinman's recording with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich.
24/4/20 : 02:42 AM
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
L'Apotheose de la Danse - orchestral suite of dance music by Rameau
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski (conductor)
A wonderful 40 minutes of Rameau dances, immaculately and energetically played by Les Musiciens du Louvre at the 2003 Proms. Life-affirming stuff!
(PS I thought we had a thread for Early Music on TTN but I can't find it.)
This mornings programme included a Dowland lute song, played by Thomas Dunford, and sung by Thomas Dunford.
I wish more lutenists would do this - it seems to produce much better dynamics than when a separate singer is involved.
This mornings programme included a Dowland lute song, played by Thomas Dunford, and sung by Thomas Dunford.
I wish more lutenists would do this - it seems to produce much better dynamics than when a separate singer is involved.
I thought Dunford’s whole ‘set’ was marvellous.... well, the latter part which I heard, and the start which I listened to today having taken the unusual step of downloading a TTN just so I can have repeat access to it over the next month (including abroad)
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
As life returns to normal (no I'm not about to go off on a Covid 19 related theme...) I'm driving about more and appreciating T.T.N. again. What I most like about it is the lack of "background" chatter, information about forthcoming programmes and other "chatty" stuff. I fully appreciate I'm something of a dinosaur, but being just old enough to remember the presentational style of the Third Programme and early Radio 3, that's what I want!
Major Denis Bloodnok, Indian Army (RTD) Coward and Bar, currently residing in Barnet, Hertfordshire!
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This concert, a mix of the old and new - Bach and Loher, worked for me, probably because Sylvan Loher is quite melodic in his compositions.
Don't know a great deal about current vocal work composers, but he seems to fit in the MacMillan/ Taverner/Rutter league. He might be of interest to New Music Show adherents.
"MacMillan/ Taverner/Rutter league"/"New Music Show adherents". Not an association I would expect to encounter that often.
Sylvan Loher is a young Swiss composer and poet who turned to music when he first encountered Grieg as a child. He studied music in Basle. That he now lives in Oslo may suggest that Grieg's lyricism still informs his compositions.
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