Future concerts you're excited to have tickets for.....

[EnemyoftheStoat]

See - they do work.

Even if you don't end up listening to it on the radio?

[Ein Heldenleben]

Even if you don't end up listening to it on the radio?

Well I’ll be listening…

[kernelbogey]

See - they do work.

It will be the second time in a few weeks that I will have travelled to London for a live concert as a result of a mention on air: the other being Kate Molleson mentioning the Bach St Matthew Passion at Wigmore Hall. (I don't get out much.)

[Ein Heldenleben]

It will be the second time in a few weeks that I will have travelled to London for a live concert as a result of a mention on air: the other being Kate Molleson mentioning the Bach St Matthew Passion at Wigmore Hall. (I don't get out much.)

Bit of a mammoth trek for me but I’ve just about got the energy to turn on the hi-fi

[Ein Heldenleben]

Mahler 2 at RFH on Wednesday 8/6 - and all thanks to a Radio 3 trail!

I hope it sounded as good in the Hall as it did at home . Some truly splendid playing and a magnificent sound balance The organ at the end overwhelming . So good I’m listening to the last 20 minutes again.

[Belgrove]

I hope it sounded as good in the Hall as it did at home . Some truly splendid playing and a magnificent sound balance The organ at the end overwhelming . So good I’m listening to the last 20 minutes again.

I attended the rehearsal this afternoon and it sounded fine (some work on getting the off-stage band coordinated). The soloists and choir were impressive. It’s the first time I’ve heard a live performance, but I still fail to get this work. It like a jigsaw whose pieces have been forced into place. Later Mahler makes more sense.

[Ein Heldenleben]

I attended the rehearsal this afternoon and it sounded fine (some work on getting the off-stage band coordinated). The soloists and choir were impressive. It’s the first time I’ve heard a live performance, but I still fail to get this work. It like a jigsaw whose pieces have been forced into place. Later Mahler makes more sense.

I thought the soprano’s voice especially beautiful- soaring so wonderfully out of Mahler’s consummate musical texture. I think when you’ve heard the work as often as I have it coheres more. Funnily enough it’s 7 and 8 esp 8 that I struggle with.

[kernelbogey]

Mahler 2 at RFH on Wednesday 8/6 - and all thanks to a Radio 3 trail!

It was magnificent - I think near-perfect. I've heard it live once before - Maazel at the RAH decades ago - which in memory was perhaps more spiritual than last night's. Santtu-Matias Rouvali (new to me) is clearly an inspired and inspiring musician. The orchestral tutti with massed percussion were shattering, the wind and brass solos lyrical, soloists and choir a perfect blend.

I can understand Belgrove's comment about 'a jigsaw whose pieces have been forced into place', and I found myself wondering, towards the end, about Mahler's ecstatic response to the Christian vision of redemption. Perhaps there is an emotional line, from the anguish of the first movement, through Der Mensch liegt in groesster Pein! to the final bars, which my younger self felt in Maazel's interpretation and which Rouvali's technically brilliant account didn't quite achieve; though perhaps that fault (if it is such) belongs more with Gustav than Santtu.

[Ein Heldenleben]

It was magnificent - I think near-perfect. I've heard it live once before - Maazel at the RAH decades ago - which in memory was perhaps more spiritual than last night's. Santtu-Matias Rouvali (new to me) is clearly an inspired and inspiring musician. The orchestral tutti with massed percussion were shattering, the wind and brass solos lyrical, soloists and choir a perfect blend.

I can understand Belgrove's comment about 'a jigsaw whose pieces have been forced into place', and I found myself wondering, towards the end, about Mahler's ecstatic response to the Christian vision of redemption. Perhaps there is an emotional line, from the anguish of the first movement, through Der Mensch liegt in groesster Pein! to the final bars, which my younger self felt in Maazel's interpretation and which Rouvali's technically brilliant account didn't quite achieve; though perhaps that fault (if it is such) belongs more with Gustav than Santtu.

I think you will enjoy the recording . I thought the sound balance absolutely exceptional . That organ at the end had the nails coming out of the floorboards (apologies neighbours )

[gradus]

Angela Hewitt at Snape Summer Proms - Bach and Brahms.

[teamsaint]

Angela Hewitt at Snape Summer Proms - Bach and Brahms.

Nice. I’m gently envious.

[Pulcinella]

A bit tempted by this, which I've found will be while I'm spending a few days in Ravello (flight/self-catering apartment just booked), but at €50 per ticket it's perhaps one to think about and decide when we get there.

BELVEDERE DI VILLA RUFOLO
Sabato 3 settembre
Belvedere di Villa Rufolo, ore 19.30
Orchestra Sinfonica della Radio di Berlino
Direttore Vladimir Jurowski
Vilde Frang, violino
Musiche di Mozart, Bartók, Schubert
Posto unico € 50

Programma
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni, Ouverture

Béla Bartók
Concerto n.1 per violino e orchestra, BB 48a, SZ 36

***

Franz Schubert
Sinfonia n.9 in do maggiore “La grande” D.944

[Bryn]

Having swapped my digital membership for venue membership in order to avail myself of the relevant discount, I have just successfully booked for all four events of https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/eddie-prevost-at-80/


Fortunately, all four are on Saturday nights, so I should be able to get the later last train back home from Waterloo. It only runs on Friday and Saturday nights.

[Historian]

A bit tempted by this, which I've found will be while I'm spending a few days in Ravello (flight/self-catering apartment just booked), but at €50 per ticket it's perhaps one to think about and decide when we get there.

BELVEDERE DI VILLA RUFOLO
Sabato 3 settembre
Belvedere di Villa Rufolo, ore 19.30
Orchestra Sinfonica della Radio di Berlino
Direttore Vladimir Jurowski
Vilde Frang, violino
Musiche di Mozart, Bartók, Schubert
Posto unico € 50

It looks quite a nice view...

[Pulcinella]

It looks quite a nice view...

Indeed it does, so the temptation factor is increasing.
After all, any money I've got saved in the bank is decreasing in value by about 10% at present, and earning pitiful interest, so why not spend €50 of it on a good night out?