Through the Night

[Pianorak]

6:34 AM today (Through the Night):

Kilar, Wojciech (b. 1932)
Piano Concerto
Peter Jablonski (piano), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski (conductor).

Had never heard of it. Strangely irritating but hypnotic first movement.

[Pianorak]

Through the Night

Through the Night next week - positively ablaze, to borrow Am5l's words. Lots of piano and chamber music. Thank you Jonathan Swain. Saturday includes a piece by Daniil Trifonov, a worthy Gold Medal winner at last year's Tchaikovsky Competition. He can also be heard next Friday (23rd) in Tchaikovsky PC No. 1 with Mikhail Pletnev conducting. Also on 23rd Imogen Cooper live from Kings Place in Schubert. Khatia Buniatishvili plays Chopin PC No. 2 Wed at 2.10pm. Thank goodness for BBCiPlayer.

[amateur51]

Through the Night next week - positively ablaze, to borrow Am5l's words. Lots of piano and chamber music. Thank you Jonathan Swain. Saturday includes a piece by Daniil Trifonov, a worthy Gold Medal winner at last year's Tchaikovsky Competition. He can also be heard next Friday (23rd) in Tchaikovsky PC No. 1 with Mikhail Pletnev conducting. Also on 23rd Imogen Cooper live from Kings Place in Schubert. Khatia Buniatishvili plays Chopin PC No. 2 Wed at 2.10pm. Thank goodness for BBCiPlayer.

Thanks for the alerts, pianorak!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

indeed

[EdgeleyRob]

Thank goodness for BBCiPlayer.

[Nick Armstrong]

Through the Night next week - positively ablaze, to borrow Am5l's words. Lots of piano and chamber music. Thank you Jonathan Swain.

Indeed! It's the early hours of Wednesday 21st that enthuse me particularly - I've set the whole thing to record to SD card in suitable tranches (for morning listening & an antidote to Schubert dedications and requests ): a concert from Concerto Copenhagen to start, chamber pieces I don't know from Rubbra and Stenhammar, Ibert's "Petite Suite", Bach, Salieri, Telemann, Obrecht, Debussy's "L'isle Joyeuse"... Fantastic 6 hours' worth

[amateur51]

Indeed! It's the early hours of Wednesday 21st that enthuse me particularly - I've set the whole thing to record to SD card in suitable tranches (for morning listening & an antidote to Schubert dedications and requests ): a concert from Concerto Copenhagen to start, chamber pieces I don't know from Rubbra and Stenhammar, Ibert's "Petite Suite", Bach, Salieri, Telemann, Obrecht, Debussy's "L'isle Joyeuse"... Fantastic 6 hours' worth

Juss perfick, innit Caliban

Why you could almost follow this template and create an entire radio station

[kernelbogey]

In a spell of insomnia last night I caught the Concerto for Horn, Timpani and Strings in D major by Frantisek Xaver Pokorny, (1729-1794) - of whom I'd never heard.

Jonathan pointed out the double-stopping in the last movement, which I'd never heard of, let alone heard, before.

I don't know why there were, apparently, so many composers working in Bohemia in the Baroque period. I assume this is to do with patronage.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

In a spell of insomnia last night I caught the Concerto for Horn, Timpani and Strings in D major by Frantisek Xaver Pokorny, (1729-1794) - of whom I'd never heard.

Jonathan pointed out the double-stopping in the last movement, which I'd never heard of, let alone heard, before.

Missed this; but is it like the chordal multiphonics of Weber's Horn Concertino?

http://home.tiscali.nl/multiphonics/what%20is%20multiphonics.html

One for Hornspieler/Waldhorn, methinks!

[subcontrabass]

In a spell of insomnia last night I caught the Concerto for Horn, Timpani and Strings in D major by Frantisek Xaver Pokorny, (1729-1794) - of whom I'd never heard.

Jonathan pointed out the double-stopping in the last movement, which I'd never heard of, let alone heard, before.

Actually the FIRST movement (you have to listen carefully to Jonathan to hear that). Not very spectacular. I have heard much more flamboyant use of horn chords from Alan Civil in his cadenzas to one of the Mozart horn concertos.

[Crowcatcher]

Since I completely lost patience with "Breakfast" about a year ago I have been recording TTN on my Freesat box and listening to most of it through the worst parts of R3's day (6:30 - 12:00). This is as well as listening to snatches of it "live" during my semi-insomniacal moments, and I find that, even with some of the infrequent repeats of certain pieces, it never fails to disappoint.
So, if you have a Freesat or Freeview PVR, here is a good solution to listening to what is the best of R3.
The other method I use is, having bought a secondhand laptop fairly cheaply, to plug into my main hi-fi or the radio in the kitchen and listen to any of the previous week's via 'listen again'.

[kernelbogey]

[...] it never fails to disappoint.[...]

Surely you don't mean this?

[Crowcatcher]

Many thanks for pointing out my error kernelbogey - early hours and all that!!
"TTN never disappoints" - and this week it is good to hear some Schubert decently presented, rather than all that daytime "flannel"

[mercia]

rather off topic, but looking at the Radio 3 schedule for Saturday 14 April 1am - 7am, it says "off-air", I wonder why.

[Bryn]

rather off topic, but looking at the Radio 3 schedule for Saturday 14 April 1am - 7am, it says "off-air", I wonder why.

Strange indeed, and the Friday 13th () ends with World on 3 at 23:00.