BaL 15.06.13 - Verdi's Rigoletto

[silvestrione]

Just in case the BBC are listening/watching, I'll add my voice: RO in an Interpretation on Records series would be bliss, but failing that, at least let's have him in that far-too-long-overdue Eroica BAL.

[akiralx]

I see he is 70 this year. While poring over old Gramophone reviews I noticed his review of a Rachmaninov Third piano concerto, though these days he seems to concentrate on his favourite Bruckner, Rossini and Beethoven.

A couple of his R3 bons mots I just about recall: after the autumnal closing bars of Brahms' Third Symphony, there was a welcome reflective pause, before he quietly intoned 'the embers die down...'

And introducing a flashy orchestra showpiece (perhaps Espana) - 'In the words of the late Dick Emery: you are awful, but I like you'.

[silvestrione]

Or how about 'Are they genuinely radical second thoughts or simply random acts of virtuoso naughtiness designed to shock the toffs?'....on the changes Beethoven made to the piano part of the Fourth Concerto in the later chamber version, done at the request of Prince somebody or other.

[Karafan]

I see he is 70 this year. While poring over old Gramophone reviews I noticed his review of a Rachmaninov Third piano concerto, though these days he seems to concentrate on his favourite Bruckner, Rossini and Beethoven.

A couple of his R3 bons mots I just about recall: after the autumnal closing bars of Brahms' Third Symphony, there was a welcome reflective pause, before he quietly intoned 'the embers die down...'

And introducing a flashy orchestra showpiece (perhaps Espana) - 'In the words of the late Dick Emery: you are awful, but I like you'.

Ha! Yes, I remember both of these Akiralx!