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  • Richard Tarleton

    Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
    Last Saturday, my school (where I work), had held a magnificent concert that was played by Emma Johnson(clarinet), Andrew Lloyd Webber(cello), and John lill(piano).

    The main works were LvB's and Brahms Clarinet Trios. These were marvelously executed performances from the above artists. Lots of black notes there, talking of which, with the artists' solo spots, John Lill gave a stonker of performance of Prok's Toccata, Op.7. It was given a standing ovation!
    Wow! He played this in his final recital in the course of winning the Moscow competition in 1970 - he shared first prize with Krainev. This was included in a documentary about that year's competition aired at the time - thrilling stuff.

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    • Osborn

      You lucky so & so! (the Prok Toccata would be a wonderful encore for the brave!)

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      • Oldcrofter
        Full Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 226

        Snap, Aeolium ! However, we were there on Saturday afternoon and for the Sat. evening concert. What a delightful young quartet of outstanding musicians the Carducci are !

        The afternoon event had beautifully chosen extracts from string quartets featured in the festival, played for the total enjoyment of all the children, sitting just in front of the musicians, captivated by the music and stimulated into producing art works after listening to and participating in the music for 45 minutes. Each member of the Carducci quartet spoke to the young listeners, treating them as intelligent people capable of using the music to evoke pictures in their minds.

        The evening concert : Mozart K464 'The Drum' string quartet in A, Faure's song cycle 'Mirages' and Barber's Three Songs Op.10, wonderfully performed by baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Julius Drake who also joined the Carducci quartet for the final work of the evening, the Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor.

        An absolute joy - in particular seeing the ability of Careducci to entertain, stimulate and delight young and old alike at different times in the day. They had also attracted a party of teenagers and, I guess, their teachers to the evening concert from the Cotswold School (a comprehensive school) in Bourton on the Water - that's something you don't often see !

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        • aeolium
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 3992

          I couldn't make any of the Saturday events, Oldcrofter, otherwise I certainly would have tried to get to the evening concert at least. Roderick Williams was excellent, I thought, and also gave some impressive introductions to the Finzi song cycle and the Barber song on the Sunday.

          And speaking of John Lill, I will be seeing him give a recital at Malvern on Saturday.

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          • Tony Halstead
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 1717

            My 'last concert' as a listener was last night at the Barbican Hall, London, where I heard a very special - very fine - performance of Mahler's 4th symphony, played by the LSO conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas. The excellent soprano soloist ( 4th movement) was Elizabeth Watts.
            A lovely performance with a huge dynamic range and a clarity that made the Barbican seem like a pretty decent concert hall!

            My 'last concert' as a player was about 2 or 3 weeks ago when I played the Strauss Horn Concerto no 1 with an excellent amateur orchestra in a very cold ( but visually lovely) church in a beautiful Shropshire town.

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            • marvin
              Full Member
              • Jul 2011
              • 173

              My last concert was at the Fairfield Halls on Wednesday. The RPO conducted by Andrew Litton with Nigel Kenneday playing Brahms' Violin Concerto where he played the Fritz Kreisler cadenza in the first movement (not impressed really this cadenza).
              There did not appear to be any efficient air circulation in this hall and the full auditorioum and occupants were melting in the heat.

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              • Richard Tarleton

                I'm looking forward to my next concert - I daresay there are still tickets.

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                • BBMmk2
                  Late Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 20908

                  Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                  More likely to have been his cello-playing brother Julian, BBM?
                  Doh! Goodness how stupid of me!
                  Don’t cry for me
                  I go where music was born

                  J S Bach 1685-1750

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                  • BBMmk2
                    Late Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 20908

                    Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
                    Wow! He played this in his final recital in the course of winning the Moscow competition in 1970 - he shared first prize with Krainev. This was included in a documentary about that year's competition aired at the time - thrilling stuff.
                    That mustve ben quite an event!
                    Don’t cry for me
                    I go where music was born

                    J S Bach 1685-1750

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                    • rauschwerk
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 1480

                      Hadleigh, Suffolk, last night: Psalmody and Essex Baroque Orchestra directed by Peter Holman in a 'Venetian Vespers'. All the music by Vivaldi except for one piece by Porpora. Very well performed and a lot less monotonous than I had expected. The highlight for me was Timothy Travers-Brown's effortlessly virtuosic and expressive singing of Nisi Dominus which understandably got the biggest ovation of the evening.

                      Amused to see PH conducting with a ballpoint pen - very HIPP. what? I did think afterwards that I had had enough journeys around the circle of fifths to last me for a week or so!

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                      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                        Gone fishin'
                        • Sep 2011
                        • 30163

                        Originally posted by rauschwerk View Post
                        Amused to see PH conducting with a ballpoint pen - very HIPP. what?
                        Essex Biro-que Orchestra?

                        I did think afterwards that I had had enough journeys around the circle of fifths to last me for a week or so!
                        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                        • Richard Tarleton

                          To St David's Cathedral last night for an all-Byrd programme by Cardinall's Music - powerful stuff. 5-part mass and music related to Corpus Christi - with brief, elegant, erudite and entertaining intros by Andrew Carwood. Most enjoyable. Next week, by total contrast, to Cardiff for Eine Alpensinfonie

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                          • french frank
                            Administrator/Moderator
                            • Feb 2007
                            • 30241

                            I learned from my mistake a few weeks back when I was too late booking for Winterreise and found myself in a 'Limited View' seat behind a pillar. I could see Paul Lewis but Mark Padmore was hidden for the entire concert.

                            For tonight I've splurged out on a central stalls seat for Schwanengesang which I'm not familiar with. What's the best way to approach the work(s)? Other than having a vaguely valedictory theme, I'm not sure what to expect. Does it come over as individual songs or can one construct a narrative?
                            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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                            • DracoM
                              Host
                              • Mar 2007
                              • 12960

                              Tasmin Little live in my Dales village in a stunning concert as part of the ongoing local Music Festival.

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                              • amateur51

                                Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                                Doh! Goodness how stupid of me!
                                These things happen BBM - blimey I should know!

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