BaL 22.05.21 - Shostakovich: Piano Concerto no. 2

[cloughie]

Not surprised Giltburg was chosen . I heard him play the DSCH concerto for Piano and Trumpet (with Alison Balsom) in Plymouth . His playing of the notorious stride section was absolutely incredible. He’s also just released a fine late Beethoven CD.

Available from Harold Moores on Amazon for £3, which would be attractive except fot the small matter of £4.87 postage! - do they provide luch for the post deliverer?

[Maclintick]

I love the concerto but there’s a bit of the first movement which always reminds me of ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’.

I always hear "What shall we do with the drunken sailor ?". Agree re mic quality, but she made good points.

[Bryn]

The Giltburg currently being imported from QOBUZ. Not the easiest to find via their appallingly bad search engine. Best to search for "Shostakovich piano concertos string quartet".

[pastoralguy]

The reviewer discussing recent choral releases has even worse sound quality in her connection.

[Ein Heldenleben]

If you thought the sound quality on the BAL reviewer was bad , the reviewer on these choral records sounds like she’s been put through a cheap echo unit...which is a shame as the music being reviewed is terrific.

[Ein Heldenleben]

The reviewer discussing recent choral releases has even worse sound quality in her connection.

Now you’ve taken the words off my keyboard!

Seriously though that Howells Magnificat recording sounds special

[Barbirollians]

She sounds like she is zooming in from her bathroom.

[mikealdren]

For once in my life, I welcome AMcG’s interjections. It’s as though a more knowledgeable version of Elizabeth Alker were doing the review, with extra gushing and excessive use of the pronouns “I” and “me”.

RR presented by a,, sort of,, like,, kind of,, teenager. The choice of recordings seemed even more restricted than usual but it did give a meaningful comparison of the selected few.

[Ein Heldenleben]

RR presented by a,, sort of,, like,, kind of,, teenager. The choice of recordings seemed even more restricted than usual but it did give a meaningful comparison of the selected few.

I think we should cut her a bit of slack ( to get down with the kidz) . Not every one needs to sound like a Professor and she knows what she’s talking about . She certainly has a very interesting range of musical and theatric pursuits. Good luck to her ....

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

RR presented by a,, sort of,, like,, kind of,, teenager. The choice of recordings seemed even more restricted than usual but it did give a meaningful comparison of the selected few.

Pardon my suspicious mind, but Record Review has been so dreadful this morning (apart from the actual music) that I wonder whether it's all part of the New Saturday Morning Plan: Piano Flow - Happy Harmonies - Elizabeth Alker - Newly Gushing Record Review - The Gasper - This Classical Life...

[cloughie]

I always hear "What shall we do with the drunken sailor ?". Agree re mic quality, but she made good points.

I think they’re both in there somewhere.

The couplings of the Giltburg look interesting with some of his own piano transcriptions of Shostakovich’s SQ8 and a movt of SQ2.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I think we should cut her a bit of slack ( to get down with the kidz) . Not every one needs to sound like a Professor and she knows what she’s talking about . She certainly has a very interesting range of musical and theatric pursuits. Good luck to her ....

True, but when you're broadcasting on a national radio station, you shouldn't be floundering for words. Antony Hopkins knew what he was talking about, just as Andrew McGregor does now. We don't need work-experience amateurs on Radio 3.

[Ein Heldenleben]

True, but when you're broadcasting on a national radio station, you shouldn't be floundering for words. Antony Hopkins knew what he was talking about, just as Andrew McGregor does now. We don't need work-experience amateurs on Radio 3.

I don’t think she was floundering for words and I could clearly understand the points she was making . Nor do I think she is a “work-experience amateur” .She is clearly a highly accomplished musician (perhaps more so than either AH or AM) who does not express herself in the traditional RP Oxbridgian R3 mode. I do wish that like so many she didn’t use “So” at the start of so many sentences though.

[cloughie]

True, but when you're broadcasting on a national radio station, you shouldn't be floundering for words. Antony Hopkins knew what he was talking about, just as Andrew McGregor does now. We don't need work-experience amateurs on Radio 3.

I’d sooner have someone who stumbles with their words but knows their subject than a smooth talking bulshitter.

[Bryn]

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