Afternoon Concert, British music

[teamsaint]

there's an Elgar plaque in downmarket West Kensington, in Avonmore Road that I happened upon.

good luck cycling down the A4 to have a gleg though......

wouldn't it be lovely if somebody could spot a Byron Blue Plaque on the Sterndale Bennett Hotel.....

[vinteuil]

there's an Elgar plaque in downmarket West Kensington, in Avonmore Road that I happened upon.

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... Avonmore Road of course a biscuit's toss from Brook Green, famous for Holst and the subject of a Kipling story.

http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/rg_bruggle1.htm

[Beef Oven!]

Nice ‘hood, Cali

[EdgeleyRob]

I might just take up that suggestion, Cali - I often pay visits to Cheyney Walk to pay my respects to the Vaughan Williams plaque. I haven't yet been to the impressive Regency terrace off Regent's Park to see if there's another one there - it being where RVW lived his final years.

By the way, am I right in thinking Queensborough Terrace to the the one which has an artificial frontage consistent with the remainder, built to conceal the District/Circle Line which passes underneath at that point?

Yes there is an RVW blue plaque at Hanover Terrace S_A,and one for H G Wells a couple of doors along.

Yes Cali that was a lovely programme today.

[EdgeleyRob]

It's certainly less widely performed than one might expect, given how attractive a work it is, but there are several ensembles that have it in their repertoires.

Does anyone here know anything about Bridge's early D minor trio?

I was mistaken,the D Minor isn't on you tube,that is the Phantasie Trio in C Minor.
I should have known really because the Phantasie is always referred to as 'Piano Trio No 1' on record and on the web.
I wonder if the D Minor is lost and was never published ?

[subcontrabass]

I wonder if the D Minor is lost and was never published ?

The Music of Frank Bridge by Fabian Huss (published 2015) states that the D minor Piano Trio is now lost.

[EdgeleyRob]

The Music of Frank Bridge by Fabian Huss (published 2015) states that the D minor Piano Trio is now lost.

Thank you sub

[ahinton]

The Music of Frank Bridge by Fabian Huss (published 2015) states that the D minor Piano Trio is now lost.

Many thanks for this. It might have been of no great consequence given its date but one can never tell; look, for example, at Strauss's cello sonata, also written in his latter 'teens...

[Nick Armstrong]

Some good stuff coming up this afternoon

2pm
Malcolm Arnold: Tam O'Shanter
William Walton: Funeral March from Hamlet
Arnold Guitar Concerto

c.2.40pm
Walton: Spitfire Prelude and Fugue
Arnold: Serenade
Arnold: Symphony No 6
Craig Ogden (guitar)
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor John Gibbons

c.3.20pm
William Alwyn: Odd Man Out Suite

Bit of an Arnold-fest this week - heard the flute concerto for the first time yesterday afternoon...

[BBMmk2]

Thanks for the heads up, on this Cali will listen this afternoon!! :)

[Serial_Apologist]

The slow movement of Arnold 6 is rather unusual, in that halfway through its grim procession the tempo breaks into a lopsided sort of 3/4 and the music goes briefly into a passage of repeated modal chords that might have been written by Gil Evans for Miles's trumpet some years before.

[Beef Oven!]

The slow movement of Arnold 6 is rather unusual, in that halfway through its grim procession the tempo breaks into a lopsided sort of 3/4 and the music goes briefly into a passage of repeated modal chords that might have been written by Gil Evans for Miles's trumpet some years before.

I listened to my Conifer CD of that a short while go and had a very similar thought. And I don’t remember it having that effect on me when I first bought the CD about 20 years ago - when I played it recently, it was quite a surprise. Another example how Julian Barnes may have a point about memory.

[Nick Armstrong]

The slow movement of Arnold 6 is rather unusual, in that halfway through its grim procession the tempo breaks into a lopsided sort of 3/4 and the music goes briefly into a passage of repeated modal chords that might have been written by Gil Evans for Miles's trumpet some years before.

Yes - spotted that section, indeed. And the shade of Charlie Parker explicitly haunts the first movement.

There's another ghost who is very present in the slow movement - Shostakovich, whose DSCH motif is repeated times without number...

That said, Arnold's 6th is a long way from displacing his 5th in my affections, on this hearing.

[BBMmk2]

Indeed Cali, and SA, on all counts, Not one of the best of MA's works but worth hearing still, all the same. I haven't got round to hearing his 5th yet. But will do.

[Serial_Apologist]

There's another ghost who is very present in the slow movement - Shostakovich, whose DSCH motif is repeated times without number...

I'd never noticed that!!! - though I've always thought the forced joviality of the finale to have more than a tinge of the Shosties about it.