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.

[smittims]

It may seem churlish to complain about the broadcast of anything by Handel, but I'm wondering if 'lascia la spina' or its alternative version 'lascio ch'io pianga ' is turning into the 21st century equvalent of 'Handel's Largo' . It was on TTN this morning and on 'Sunday Morning' two days ago, and I'm sure they've broadcast it three or four times in the last few months. And am I the only person who feels it's getting played more and more slowly each time?

[LMcD]

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?'.

Talking of little garden sheds, I watched 'Room' last night - I imagine Mahler's lakeside retreat was better equipped than poor Jack's.

[kernelbogey]

Mozart Violin Concertos 3,4 &1
Super performances from David Grimal and Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra
Lovely tone from soloist and inspiring cadenzas
20.4.2025 0030

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0029x86