Afternoon Concert, British music

[BBMmk2]

Just been looking at the schedules for this week on Radio 3 and they have, what looks like a stupendous programme of the British Symphony and brass band music!! Dont miss!!

[Thropplenoggin]

British music lovers might like to know that Robert Simpson's Symphony No. 5 gets a rare day time outing this week.

Thurs, 3.35pm, after the opera on Afternoon on 3.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b026qhvb

(I don't know his work but am curious and will be listening.)

[teamsaint]

cheers Noggers. (And BBM)

Well worth a listen.

there are some of his works for decent used prices on market place .
The box set of Symphonies stays stubbornly at "Christmas present" prices.

[BBMmk2]

All that set from Hyperion, on Simpson's Symphonies, is well worth acquiring. Much rewards to be had, as with his brass band music as well!

[amateur51]

Afternoon on 3, British rarities

This afternoon there's some rarely heard British music in store

Ireland: Epic March for orchestra
2.10pm
Music While You Work - selection
Sincerely Yours - music of 'the Forces' Sweetheart' Dame Vera Lynn
Parker: Seascape, from Western Approaches
2.35pm
Addinsell: Warsaw Concerto
2.45pm
Walton, arr. Christopher Palmer: Henry V - A Shakespeare Scenario
Samuel West (narrator),
Laurie Ashworth (soprano),
Victor Sangiorgio (piano),
Hertfordshire Chorus,
BBC Concert Orchestra,
Keith Lockhart (conductor).

3.45pm
Balfour Gardiner: A Berkshire Idyll
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
David Parry (conductor).

4pm
Brian: Symphony no. 5 (The Wine of Summer)
Donald Maxwell (baritone),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Nicholas Kok (conductor).

[Pabmusic]

Appetising. I don't know whether I've heard the Havergal Brian, but the Balfour Gardiner will be interesting - completely new to me. The rest is familiar.

They could have got John Elliott to conduct Balfour, couldn't they?

[Padraig]

Well I declare it won't be me,

[Alf-Prufrock]

They could have got John Elliott to conduct Balfour, couldn't they?

I am afraid I do not know anything about John Elliott, but since the conductor is David Parry, a man who I think is absurdly neglected on the BBC and in concert halls generally - at least I have never had an opportunity to hear his work live - I am quite pleased with the choice.

And what fascinating progammes we are having this week in the afternoons!

[Stanfordian]

Balfour Gardiner's 'A Berkshire Idyll' has just been played on BBC R3. What an attractive work it is too. There seems to be virtually nothing of his works recorded. If 'A Berkshire Idyll' is typical of his output I think there is a niche there for a record label to start recording some of his works.

[Nick Armstrong]

Hope you're reading this, vinteuil !!

Yes, this concert (I've amended the date, ammy - it was this afternoon!) caught my ear too! It fell perfectly upon the ear as I happened to be cycling across London, and was passing the Churchill war bunker as the initial 'Britain is at war with Germany' radio announcement was played, and then was travelling along the Mall (Union Jacks still on all the flagpoles) and through Admiralty Arch into Trafalgar Square to the accompaniment of the Ireland.... then up the Strand back to the office to 'Calling all Workers' ... In the June sunshine it put me in a brilliant mood

It's not the first time I've heard a John Ireland piece in such circumstances - I first heard his 'London overture' on a similar cycle ride, and remember the serendipity of passing a

road sign just as the 'Piccadilly' theme occurred in the music. I enjoyed the moment!

[Serial_Apologist]

Hope you're reading this, vinteuil !!

Yes, this concert (I've amended the date, ammy - it was this afternoon!) caught my ear too! It fell perfectly upon the ear as I happened to be cycling across London, and was passing the Churchill war bunker as the initial 'Britain is at war with Germany' radio announcement was played, and then was travelling along the Mall (Union Jacks still on all the flagpoles) and through Admiralty Arch into Trafalgar Square to the accompaniment of the Ireland.... then up the Strand back to the office to 'Calling all Workers'

All workers?? I bet the Royal Family didn't put in an appearancet for your benefit though, Cali!

It's not the first time I've heard a John Ireland piece in such circumstances - I first heard his 'London overture' on a similar cycle ride, and remember the serendipity of passing a

road sign just as the 'Piccadilly' theme occurred in the music. I enjoyed the moment![/COLOR]

Years ago I took a girlfriend to the Sussex village of Amberley; we played a cassette of Ireland's "Amberley Wild Brooks" as an accompaniment.

[salymap]

Balfour Gardiner's 'A Berkshire Idyll' has just been played on BBC R3. What an attractive work it is too. There seems to be virtually nothing of his works recorded. If 'A Berkshire Idyll' is typical of his output I think there is a niche there for a record label to start recording some of his works.

The only work I know of Balfour Gardner is 'Shepherd Fennel's Dance' , an attractive light piece that Sargent and others programmed quite often.

I'd like to know more of his work but can't imagine JEG conducting it somehow.

[Nick Armstrong]

Years ago I took a girlfriend to the Sussex village of Amberley; we played a cassette of Ireland's "Amberley Wild Brooks" as an accompaniment.

To what...?

[Serial_Apologist]

To what...?

Fish & chips, from memory. Too many lace curtains lurking behind those cottage frontages in Amberley to allow for any sort of hanky-panky in the back of a car, Cali!

[Nick Armstrong]

Fish & chips, from memory. Too many lace curtains lurking behind those cottage frontages in Amberley to allow for any sort of hanky-panky in the back of a car, Cali!