Through the Night

[Serial_Apologist]

I think this was just the BBC's faulty information retrieval system which has:



Which I would interpret as meaning the arrangement was the one attributed to Benno Sachs, Heinz Holliger conducted the Basel Chamber Orchestra and Arnold Schoenberg's name was, um, mentioned somewhere (Schoenberg Verein presumably}.

Yes, on closer examination that seems the explanation.

[antongould]

The wonderful TTN with the Master J Swain has introduced me to many delights but perhaps the best recently, IMVVHO, is CPE Bach’s Cello Concerto in A Major Wq.172 on the of 9 December broadcast, so about, sadly, to disappear down the Sounds black hole

[smittims]

If you can fork out for Harmonia Mundi HMU 907403 you'll find a sparkilng performance of Wq172 by Alison McGillivray and the English Concert directed by Andrew Manze, with the four famous symphonies of Wq181.

[antongould]

If you can fork out for Harmonia Mundi HMU 907403 you'll find a sparkilng performance of Wq172 by Alison McGillivray and the English Concert directed by Andrew Manze, with the four famous symphonies of Wq181.

Thank you very much I will listen on my streaming service ….:::

[Nick Armstrong]

The wonderful TTN with the Master J Swain has introduced me to many delights

NB An exceptional Rachmaninov Second Symphony the other night, about 45 minutes in:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001v1n1?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

Well worth a repeat listen or two

[kernelbogey]

The wonderful TTN with the Master J Swain has introduced me to many delights...

Indeed, Anton! Master Jonathan has a remarkable ability to compress into a few fresh words the known obvious about a work - or some enchanting new perspective: tonight that Schubert met the cellist who later commissioned the Trout Quintet while they were on holiday; and his summation of Mozart's Symphony No41 as ' perhaps it's the crowning glory of the Classical Symphony'. The performance of K551 by the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra under Rene Jacobs, from the Herne Early Music Festival, was a cracker.

[smittims]

I wonder if this ability to say something valuable about music is simply a gift, or if it can be acquired by study. If so, I wish some of Radio 3's other speakers would try it. Over the years I've heard no end of empty prattle which simply frustrates the listener, but occasionally a brief shaft of light, such as Imogen Cooper explaining Schubert's sudden shift from F minor to B major in his Klavierstuck D946 no.1, or a now forgotten speaker who got me interested in Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande by saying 'On the surface it has all the elements of a fairy tale, except there's no magic. Those people are out there in their own.'

[hmvman]

... such as Imogen Cooper explaining Schubert's sudden shift from F minor to B major in his Klavierstuck D946 no.1,

That sounds dangerously 'elitist' and 'inaccessible'. Horses might be frightened!

[smedley23]

I had the pleasure of teaching Catriona Young in the early 1970's. She has just retired from the BBC - and her stint in through the night has ended. Each 2 week block contains 8 new programmes and 6 repeats. When Danielle took over from Catriona, she obviously had no old programmes to be repeated - so Catriona provided the repeats for the first few months. Now, Danielle has sufficient 'back catalogue' to provide a full 2 weeks of programmes - so the single programme from Catriona a week or two ago will have been her last!!

[hmvman]

Just been listening to the beginning of last night's TTN while trying to do my tax return. The items from the Bern Symphony Orchestra - Stravinsky Pulcinella suite and the Mendelssohn E minor violin concerto - sound superb. Excellent recorded sound quality with great detail and balance. Tobias Feldmann gives an excellent performance in the concerto.

Work on the tax return stopped as I had to just listen!

[kindofblue]

Just been listening to the beginning of last night's TTN while trying to do my tax return. The items from the Bern Symphony Orchestra - Stravinsky Pulcinella suite and the Mendelssohn E minor violin concerto - sound superb. Excellent recorded sound quality with great detail and balance. Tobias Feldmann gives an excellent performance in the concerto.

Work on the tax return stopped as I had to just listen!

I'm sure HMRC will be sympathetic to your excuses should you fail to meet the deadline!

[hmvman]

I'm sure HMRC will be sympathetic to your excuses should you fail to meet the deadline!

I'm quite sure....

[antongould]

I had the pleasure of teaching Catriona Young in the early 1970's. She has just retired from the BBC - and her stint in through the night has ended. Each 2 week block contains 8 new programmes and 6 repeats. When Danielle took over from Catriona, she obviously had no old programmes to be repeated - so Catriona provided the repeats for the first few months. Now, Danielle has sufficient 'back catalogue' to provide a full 2 weeks of programmes - so the single programme from Catriona a week or two ago will have been her last!!

sorry to see her go …….

[LMcD]

Am I right in thinking that, originally, all or most of the performances played on TTN were of European origin? There now seem to be quite a few from Canada and Australia (and possibly elsewhere).
I, too, shall miss Catriona!

[mopsus]

Am I right in thinking that, originally, all or most of the performances played on TTN were of European origin? There now seem to be quite a few from Canada and Australia (and possibly elsewhere).
I, too, shall miss Catriona!

I don't listen to TTN now but used to quite a lot in the early years of the millennium. In those days there were certainly a lot of performers from Canada. We used to joke about a typical 3am item being played by an imaginary group I named the 'Saskatchewan Strings'.