I am looking forward to the BBC4 programme - I enjoyed the Sacred Music series presented by Simon Russell Beale - a good musician and probably the best actor of his generation.
BBC4 "Symphony" with Simon Russell Beale
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There was a press release with more details last Friday.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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BBC4 "Symphony" with Simon Russell Beale
Have people noticed that Simon Russell Beale is moving from sacred music to considering the development of the Symphony in a 4 part series starting this Thursday at 9pm on BBC4 TV.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016vgw7/episodes/guide"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Roehre
Originally posted by Caliban View PostHave people noticed that Simon Russell Beale is moving from sacred music to considering the development of the Symphony in a 4 part series starting this Thursday at 9pm on BBC4 TV.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016vgw7/episodes/guide
We'll wait patiently.
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Originally posted by gamba View PostWot ! no Charles Hazlewood !
(Isn't this Talking About Music rather than Arts and Ideas?)It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by french frank View PostHe's just finished a 6-part series of The Charles Hazlewood Show on Radio 2. I'm sort of half interested in what connections he makes between Elbow's Lippy Kids and Schnittke's Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra, but not enough to listen to the programme.
(Isn't this Talking About Music rather than Arts and Ideas?)
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Enjoyed the programme although I imagine that if you already had some knowledge on the subject it might have been a little lightweight.
Had the pleasure of being at St Pancras for the BBCSO performance of Ode to Joy as well which SBR introduced.The best music is the music that persuades us there is no other music in the world-- Alex Ross
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I agree, gingerjon. I found the programme interesting but thought that the explanation of the origins of the symphony was very sketchy. I look forward to the next instalments though.
I also found intriguing the anecdote about Beethoven weeping during an 1808 performance of Haydn's "Creation". I wonder how much of the music he could actually hear.
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Donnie Essen
Thought it sucked. A man works hard all day, then he tries to better himself through television on a Thursday evening, he wants to learn about the symphony, but all he gets to see is a big excuse to go on a jolly to foreign towns and chef's houses. Too much on the lives, not enough on the form and such, 'cept the most basic mentions. I don't know squat and I still didn't learn nothin'. I liked seeing Mark Elder, though, and I enjoyed the music, but the musical content there woulda filled like a page and half in a music book.
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