Originally posted by Beef Oven
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What was your last concert?
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Beef Oven
That must've been a great concert. I get to as many Britten operas as possible, especially at the ENO, but I have never seen the requiem performed. I have the Hickox recording on Chandos and because your post whetted my appetite, I picked up the Britten, Pears et al on Decca two minutes ago from Amazon. Quite a bargain at £6.49! I thought it would be rude not to buy it at that price!Originally posted by amateur51 View PostI hadn't seen him since 2005 when he conducted a performance at the RFH of Britten's War Requiem which was recorded and is now released on CD.
http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/LPO/LPO0010
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Originally posted by french frank View Post..the Padmore/Lewis Winterreise. Anyone heard it?
Enjoy! (..as the forum's New York representative would say)
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Originally posted by Osborn View PostYes, it was probably the highlight of our local music festival last year.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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Arcadi Volodos and the Philharmonia conducted by Tugan Sokhiev at the RFH last night. The conductor was new to me, but he got fine playing from the orchestra, and Volodos was excellent. I bumped into an acquaintance who said that Volodos played Brahms as if it was Tchaikovsky, but if so that proved to be an advantage ! Actually, I thought that perhaps he pulled the tempo about a bit in the early stages, but then the performance got into its stride, and the famous slow movement cello solo was gloriously played by Timoth Walden, while Volodos watched admiringly before joining him.
No reservations at all after the interval when we heard a stunning performance of Shostakovich's Eighth. Last September I briefly visited Volgograd, and saw the huge WWII monument there with the enormous statue of Mother Russia brandishing a sword at the sky. In fact the whole city, once Stalingrad, seems like one huge tragic symbol, and so does this wonderful symphony. Terrific playing, especially those haunting wind solos, the cor anglais in particular. I shall certainly look out for this conductor in future, has anybody else seen him, perhaps in the opera house ?
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Originally posted by Ferretfancy View PostI shall certainly look out for this conductor in future, has anybody else seen him, perhaps in the opera house ?
Snow last night - should put everyone in the mood for tonight's Winterreise ...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 PostGood question! He was appointed musical director at the WNO when Carlo Rizzi gave up the first time. Sokhiev was a 20-something and devised an interesting Russian season but walked out and left them in the lurch. I guess he thought he could do better than WNO - and was probably right. But it was a bit shabby, nevertheless. So, no, when the performance I'd booked for arrived he'd already departed
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Originally posted by aeolium View PostPerhaps it was just a case - as with Welser-Most and the LPO - of the appointment simply coming up too early in his career.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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I'm glad Sokhiev is now having some success. And it has - eventually - turned out well for WNO also, as their current music director Lothar Koenigs is imo the best they have had since Charles Mackerras in the late 1980s. And to keep (vaguely) on topic, my next 'concert' will be WNO's Beatrice & Benedict at Cardiff in a couple of weeks.
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Originally posted by aeolium View Postmy next 'concert' will be WNO's Beatrice & Benedict at Cardiff in a couple of weeks.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 PostTomorrow night my last concert will have been the Padmore/Lewis Winterreise.
Anyone heard it?
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Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostI hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did, ff.
I missed Padmore/Lewis performing Die Schöne Müllerin at St George's last June. Pleasing to think of the building dating from exactly the same period as the poet and the composer. Unfortunately, I think I'm behind a pillar as it was almost sold out when I booked two days ago.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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