What was your last concert?

[edashtav]

HighlandDougie writes of Turangalila in Edinburgh:” I’m still not sure that the music isn’t just on the wrong side of being trashy but it makes a glorious noise.”

I wonder how many other Boarders share his worry? I do, for sure.

[richardfinegold]

HighlandDougie writes of Turangalila in Edinburgh:” I’m still not sure that the music isn’t just on the wrong side of being trashy but it makes a glorious noise.”

I wonder how many other Boarders share his worry? I do, for sure.

Count me in

[Joseph K]

HighlandDougie writes of Turangalila in Edinburgh:” I’m still not sure that the music isn’t just on the wrong side of being trashy but it makes a glorious noise.”

I wonder how many other Boarders share his worry? I do, for sure.

I love it, and while I do not find it at all trashy, I did notice the similarity between The Joy Of The Blood Of The Stars movement and 'We're off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz' song from that film. But I don't think it's a problem.

[Bryn]

I love it, and while I do not find it at all trashy, I did notice the similarity between The Joy Of The Blood Of The Stars movement and 'We're off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz' song from that film. But I don't think it's a problem.

I wish you had not mentioned the similarity. It had never struck me. Now I will be unable to disengage the two.

[french frank]

From The Guardian archive, Eric Blom's 1953 review of the symphony, broadcast on the BBC Third Programme:

"Being well seasoned to that sort of thing, I could bear the harsh sounds that must have made many listeners in their homes turn off their sets precipitately; but the “beautiful” passages of a lushness never experienced before outside a cinema during the organ interlude, were not easily endurable."

The whole review is fascinating.

[Serial_Apologist]

Count me in

I'm with Boulez on this work. It would be fine had the composer just kept the opening movement and the ones numbered Turangalila and ditched the rest, especially the godawful Song of Love.

[Dave2002]

I'm with Boulez on this work. It would be fine had the composer just kept the opening movement and the ones numbered Turangalila and ditched the rest, especially the godawful Song of Love.

Now you have me wondering. From recollection I like almost all of it - but there might indeed be sections which could be excised - though which I can't think straight off. The ending could perhaps be described as trashy - but I don't care - I like that.

[silvestrione]

We went to a marvellous concert at Snape with Hyeyoon Park and Benjamin Grosvenor, playing, amongst other things, 'The Lark Ascending', and ending with the Franck Violin and Piano Sonata. And then an encore! Thrilling! But we did not know what it was..just wondering if anyone else was there, and knows what it was?

[HighlandDougie]

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor, Op. 30/Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op. 44

Evgeny Kissin (Piano)/Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo/Kazuki Yamada

One might have thought that one was at a concert in St Petersburg, given the Russian being spoken in the hall but glad to see that Kissin, no friend of Putin or his siloviki cronies, wasn't being boycotted as a result of his outspoken opposition to Mad Vlad. As expected, a dazzling display of virtuosity but the first encore, one of the Melodies, emphasised that there is so much more to him than seemingly effortless pianism. Fine performance of the symphony from Yamada, who is an energetic conductor. Orchestra was in good form. Lots of botox and Chanel on display (the plush seats have a hook on their back so that one might hang one's bag from it - and "out-bag" one's neighbours). It is Monte Carlo, after all.

[Pulcinella]

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor, Op. 30/Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op. 44

Evgeny Kissin (Piano)/Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo/Kazuki Yamada

One might have thought that one was at a concert in St Petersburg, given the Russian being spoken in the hall but glad to see that Kissin, no friend of Putin or his siloviki cronies, wasn't being boycotted as a result of his outspoken opposition to Mad Vlad. As expected, a dazzling display of virtuosity but the first encore, one of the Melodies, emphasised that there is so much more to him than seemingly effortless pianism. Fine performance of the symphony from Yamada, who is an energetic conductor. Orchestra was in good form. Lots of botox and Chanel on display (the plush seats have a hook on their back so that one might hang one's bag from it - and "out-bag" one's neighbours). It is Monte Carlo, after all.

Do the people sitting behind not have a good rummage through the bags to look at what's inside?

[Beresford]

Huddersfield (hcmf) - 18th November - Rebecca Saunders - SKULL - first UK performance. Oslo Sinfonietta - about 20 instruments - making some wonderful noises. I still don't feel I know how to listen to this music, but it certainly gets into me, in a good way. She makes the loud climaxes without any of the bombast of other composers - not sure how she does it.

[LMcD]

Huddersfield (hcmf) - 18th November - Rebecca Saunders - SKULL - first UK performance. Oslo Sinfonietta - about 20 instruments - making some wonderful noises. I still don't feel I know how to listen to this music, but it certainly gets into me, in a good way. She makes the loud climaxes without any of the bombast of other composers - not sure how she does it.

This lunchtime - Haydn's Piano Trio No. 21 and Beethoven's 'Archduke' Trio. The piano part in the 3rd movement of the latter is a striking early indication of the direction in which LvB was heading.

[gurnemanz]

A first for us recently was a Lieder recital in the Ustinov Theatre, Bath. A very enjoyable and originally programmed evening from Sophie Bevan and other half, Ryan Wigglesworth, on piano in early songs by Schubert, Johanna Müller-Hermann and Mahler.

[Pulcinella]

Can anyone point me to the 'Future concerts you're excited to have tickets for' thread?
My searches have proved fruitless, so I might be misremembering its title.

[prb]

Can anyone point me to the 'Future concerts you're excited to have tickets for' thread?
My searches have proved fruitless, so I might be misremembering its title.

Here you go:

https://www.for3.org/forums/forum/classical-forum/talking-about-music/8126-future-concerts-you-re-excited-to-have-tickets-for