Afternoon Concert, British music

**BBMmk2** · 27-06-13, 09:00

I thought that concert was rather good with the BBC CO. Hearing the audience enjoying it too, was a plus! Not often you have the audience singing along! :)

**Nick Armstrong** · 27-06-13, 12:27

Originally posted by salymap View Post

My message 24 re the BALFOUR GARDINER piece and a CD of British music got somewhat mangled and some of it appeared in the middle of Cali's earlier post.

Perhaps Rumpole can kindly sort it when he appears. Many thanks.

saly

Now then now then what's all this 'ere?!

**amateur51** · 27-06-13, 15:16

Originally posted by Caliban View Post

Now then now then what's all this 'ere?!

You woz warned, Cali - she's taking on staff, I tells ya!

**Nick Armstrong** · 27-06-13, 15:30

Originally posted by amateur51 View Post

You woz warned, Cali - she's taking on staff, I tells ya!

No I am a volunteer delighted to be of service, and hever-so 'umble...

Saly: I think Modom will find Modom's post restored to proper order and I trust to Modom's satisfaction...?

**BBMmk2** · 27-06-13, 15:41

I can always offer asisstance!?

**salymap** · 27-06-13, 17:28

Originally posted by salymap View Post

Whoops, sorry Cali. I was sure I'd seen it spelt without an 'i' in the past, probably in the RT.

Anyway, I've found my recording of Shepherd Fennel's Dance, Sargent and the liverpool Phil.
A Dutton transfer with a very nice selection of English music bits and bobs, Webster Booth singing'Onaway Awake Beloved from Hiawatha, etc etc

You'll all be too young to remember him

The Beeb should have this disc for their English music month.

[Greetings from your faithful ole Rump

)

Thanks a lot 'faithful old, err Rump'

, It's a great CD, lost in the muddle.

**Padraig** · 27-06-13, 19:49

[QUOTE=Alf-Prufrock;307467]Oh dear, red face aglow here. I quite missed the reference, but my excuse can be that the spelling distracted my comprehension - I am sure he spells his name 'Eliot'. That might have alerted me better!QUOTE]

Perhaps message 3 makes some sense now

Mind you, I was also thinking of the Balfour Declaration - how bizarre!

**maestro267** · 27-06-13, 20:24

I listened to the Havergal Brian symphony this morning. Really enjoyed it! It seemed to end quite abruptly, but that's not a bad thing. It ended when the composer wanted it to end.

Shame it's not recorded. Having had the 1st Symphony for a while, this year I've added Nos. 3, 4 & 12 to my collection, with the intention of getting more of them.

**EdgeleyRob** · 27-06-13, 20:57

Originally posted by maestro267 View Post

I listened to the Havergal Brian symphony this morning. Really enjoyed it! It seemed to end quite abruptly, but that's not a bad thing. It ended when the composer wanted it to end.

Shame it's not recorded. Having had the 1st Symphony for a while, this year I've added Nos. 3, 4 & 12 to my collection, with the intention of getting more of them.

I have a few of them,but I want them all !!.
I've just posted,on the what are you listening to thread,that we need a complete cycle.

**EdgeleyRob** · 27-06-13, 22:25

John Veale,3rd Symphony (Radio 3 this afternoon).
Never previously heard of him,this was quite a discovery.
The percussionists certainly earn their corn!

**ferneyhoughgeliebte** · 28-06-13, 09:04

Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View Post

The percussionists certainly earn their corn!

They regularly do, Edgey.

But they're more frequently paid peanuts.

**Nick Armstrong** · 19-10-16, 20:33

Resurrecting this old and relevant thread to say how much I've been enjoying some of the afternoon programming this week, and what an enormous difference it makes to have the ideal tones of Penny Gore presenting. Taking over from Fiona Talkington on lunchtime concert duty, it makes for several hours of pretty faultless broadcasting across the middle of the day

**EdgeleyRob** · 19-10-16, 21:18

Oh yes Cali,no need for cds during the afternoon

Yesterday Ao3 was especially rewarding

Daniel Jones: Ieuenctid Overture
Alun Hoddinott: Horn Concerto
John Hardy: Blue Letters from Tanganyika
Lennox Berkeley: Four Poems of St Teresa of Avila
William Mathias: Symphony No.1
Iain Hamilton: Symphony No.1

For anyone listening via I player the listings on the R3 website for yesterday don't exactly match what was broadcast,for example the Berkeley is listed as his Divertimento and the Elgar pieces were actually part of today's programme

**EdgeleyRob** · 13-11-16, 21:05

Next week,Monday,Wednesday and Friday look good.

**Serial_Apologist** · 14-11-16, 14:37

Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View Post

Next week,Monday,Wednesday and Friday look good.

Right now I'm listening to Frank Bridge's 1903 symphonic poem "Mid of the Night", having listened to Hickox's version on youtube earlier to get a feel of the piece, which for a 23-year old composer sounds pretty amazing. The idiom is quite advanced for its time and place in several passages, evoking parallels with Bartok's contemporaneous "Kossuth" - whole-tone passages and other unresolved harmonic means used more in the cadence-suspending manner of Schoenberg's near-contemporary "Pelleas und Melisande" than in Debussy's contemporary opera of that name. Commenters below the link made comparisons with Bax and Tchaikovsky, but to these ears the Bax association would be a bit early - none of the French influences are yet apparent - and if a Tchaikovskyian tinge is detectable around minute 13, like all the others Bridge was incorporating - Wagner and Strauss especially - they are blended into his own voice in that way the composer managed to do right through to the end. A man whose music never ceases to fascinate.