Through the Night

[oddoneout]

Single movement from a Beethoven quartet this morning, is nothing immune from the SJ virus?

[kernelbogey]

Those "The Young Maverick" CDs are currently ~£7 (inc. postage) secondhand on Amazon and far too tempting.

I bought a copy of the Young Maverick from a German retailer. Magnificent record.

[LMcD]

Single movement from a Beethoven quartet this morning, is nothing immune from the SJ virus?

This week's CotW features extracts from single movements of Mahler symphonies.

[Ein Heldenleben]

This week's CotW features extracts from single movements of Mahler symphonies.

I think given the format that’s unavoidable.Otherwise Wagner Bruckner and Mahler would never make it into the series. Even playing a whole Beethoven symphony would take up too much of the programme.

[french frank]

This week's CotW features extracts from single movements of Mahler symphonies.

CoTW is classified as a music documentary programme. I don’t think extracts were ever verboten.

[smittims]

A I recall, though,they didn't use to talk over the music, as they do now. That's one reason why I usually switch it off , another being the 'Blue Peter ' style patronising tone to the listener : 'Let's join Maller (sic) in his little garden shed . Won't that be fun, children?'.

[Nick Armstrong]

Superlative concert performance of Schumann’s Second Symphony in the early hours of this morning, from the Berlin RSO under Antonello Manacorda.

A brilliantly fleet-of-foot scherzo, and I’ve never heard such an effective accelerando through the two bars of repeated notes (on timps, basses etc.) which start the coda. It’s not marked in the score I looked at, but it came over as completely natural and brought the movement to an even faster, exhilarating close.