Nothing booked, but i must get one for the oct 10 Brahms RFH concert.
Seeing the B 52's at the O2 indigo in August.
Seeing the B 52's at the O2 indigo in August.
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Argerich with Manchester Camerata next weekComment
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All at the Bridgewater Hall:-
October 3rd: Britten Britten in America (World premiere)
Shostakovich \symphony No.7. (Leningrad)
Halle/Mark Elder.
October 24th: Rihm A Tribute (Uber die Linie VIII)
Brahms A German Requiem.
Halle/Markus Stenz.
January 23rd: R. Strauss Festival Prelude, Various Lieder, An Alpine Symphony.
Combined Halle and BBC Philharmonic/Juanjo Mena.
February 1st: R, Strauss Death and Transfiguration, Brentano Songs.
Shostakovich Symphony No.10
BBC Philharmonic/Gunter Herbig.
March 29th: Elgar Introduction and Allegro for strings.
Delius Brigg Fair.
Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony.
May 22nd: Brahms Nanie
Mahler Symphony No.9
Halle/Mark Elder.
Also Opera North's Peter Grimes ar the Lowry Theatre in November.
In the new year, the Halle, BBC Philharmonic and Manchester Camerata and giving a series of concerts entitled 'Strauss's Voice'. I hope to get to more of them on addition to the concerts mentioned above for which I already have tickets.Comment
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A gradely list, AjAjAjH and how wonderful to see the return of Maestro Herbig - I'll look forward to your report on that concert pleaseOriginally posted by AjAjAjH View Post
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These all look exciting concerts. God willing I shall be there at the Bridgwater and also for the Argerich concert with the Camerata.Originally posted by AjAjAjH View PostComment
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Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
Couldn't agree more. Last time I saw him, he conducted Bruckner 8 to a near empty Bridgewater Hall during the period when the BBC insisted that live broadcast concerts began at 7.00p.m.Comment
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"...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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Originally posted by Caliban View Post
I'll add
because I commented about the concert on the old BBC3 forum and wrote that I had seen a great maestro at work.
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I remember a discussion - was it as long ago as on the old boards...?Originally posted by AjAjAjH View PostI'll add because I commented about the concert on the old BBC3 forum and wrote that I had seen a great maestro at work.
I've never heard him live. I remember some great radio concerts though (a Shostakovich 15 in particular).
"...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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I have taken next week off to make full use a season ticket for the Dante String Quartet's festival in E Cornwall/ W Devonhttp://www.dantefestival.org/index.htm
Believe I may see our kernelbogey there...I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!Comment
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They're new to me - I shall be catching them in the unusual surroundings of a N Pembrokeshire hotel on 24 July playing Haydn, Debussy, Ravel. Part of the Fishguard Festival.Originally posted by LeMartinPecheur View Post
Also looking forward to Peter Donohoe, whom I haven't heard for a while, playing Mozart K331, Chopin Op 58 and Liszt Années vol 2, in the Oak Hall at Rhosygilwen on Sunday 21.Comment
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This looks interesting, unfortunately I'm otherwise occupied on the evening.
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About 30 years ago I saw him conduct it to an almost empty Free Trade Hall during the period when the BBC made no attempt to publicise the concerts.Originally posted by AjAjAjH View Post
The audience, such as it was, had to enter the building through a mean, anonymous basement door round the back, which was opened grudgingly at around 7.15pm. Fortunately I went with a friend who knew what the job was: had I turned up alone, I would have tried the glass doors at the front and concluded the place was locked up.
Nobody seemed to have got tickets in advance, so we queued at a makeshift ticket booth staffed by an uncivil operative who didn't seem to have any change. You then made your way to your seat via some particularly crepuscular corridors and stairs one never encountered when the Halle was playing there. About 150 people then lolled around the hall, many with their legs over the back of the seat in front, and moving to better seats than the ones they had paid for after the first work finished.
That's something the Bridgewater Hall is conspicuously lacking - a maze of back stairs and corridors. You could always get out of the FTH very quickly after the concert if you knew your way round them.
It is quite likely that that performance was my first proper encounter with Bruckner.Comment
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