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

[amateur51]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0lrQdFmL9U

Strange how others see us, isn't it.

I had something more like this in mind ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwNQdvi3pq0

[amateur51]

She keeps wolves.....

Caliban keeps ocelots, RT ... I thought everyone knew that

[Nick Armstrong]

Caliban keeps ocelots, RT ... I thought everyone knew that

Caliban peruses his bound copy of the Radio Times....



"More of that damned film music, I see, Oedipus....!"

[Richard Tarleton]

I guessed there would be a jewelled collar...

[Zucchini]

Could equally imagine Helene to be charming or waspish!

Maestro Abbado would er, consider the latter er, a massive understatement

[Simon B]

Full report later, please, Simon. So sorry I can't be there.

Not the right thread for it perhaps (and phone battery is waning) but in brief:

Clear, meticulous, tremendously accurate unanimous playing. But, almost unbelievably slow almost from start to finish. It must have taken just shy of 90 minutes, which if not an actual record can't be far off. This was advantageous in places in terms of a chance to take in the barrage of material...

Interesting all the same, always good to see the grand old man at work and the obvious respect of the members of the LSO.

Other opinions should be available as I'm sure other MB'ers were in attendance (along with at least one other conductor in the stalls)...

[teamsaint]

Bartok PC#3, Mahler 5.

BSO/Lupu/Dausgaard at Poole Lighthouse.

Yum

[Beef Oven!]

Bartok PC#3, Mahler 5.

BSO/Lupu/Dausgaard at Poole Lighthouse.

Yum

Nice one Cyril.

[Thropplenoggin]

Brahms: Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 4 - Riccardo Chailly, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Leonidas Kavakos violin.

At the Barbican later this month.

[teamsaint]

Brahms: Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 4 - Riccardo Chailly, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Leonidas Kavakos violin.

At the Barbican later this month.

Nice. I am pencilling in the Nelsons PC2 Symphony #4 at the RFH January.

[pastoralguy]

Brahms: Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 4 - Riccardo Chailly, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Leonidas Kavakos violin.

At the Barbican later this month.

Am counting down the minutes to this one. (As well as a trip to the big city for this provincial boy!)

[amateur51]

Bartok PC#3, Mahler 5.

BSO/Lupu/Dausgaard at Poole Lighthouse.

Yum

Yum indeed, any chance to hear/see Radu Lupu is to be seized, where practicable

Sadly he's not coming to London for the foreseeable future, tho' he's widely available in much of Europe

http://www.bachtrack.com/find-a-concert/who/performer=83-radu-lupu

[teamsaint]

Yum indeed, any chance to hear/see Radu Lupu is to be seized, where practicable

Sadly he's not coming to London for the foreseeable future, tho' he's widely available in much of Europe

http://www.bachtrack.com/find-a-conc...r=83-radu-lupu

you could try Basingstoke, Ams. Its not that far from london. In fact its like a little bit of it.........

and there is the "suffering for art" aspect of a trip to Basingstoke.....

[Thropplenoggin]

Am counting down the minutes to this one. (As well as a trip to the big city for this provincial boy!)

The excerpts of the new Chailly/Gewandhausorchester Leipzig cycle on CD Review this morning further whetted my appetite.

[Dave2002]

you could try Basingstoke, Ams. Its not that far from london. In fact its like a little bit of it.........

and there is the "suffering for art" aspect of a trip to Basingstoke.....

I was unable to hear Lupu years ago, but Mrs D went, and the general opinion seemed to be that it was a recital of a lifetime - Schubert. Unfortunately I can't do either Poole or Basingstoke this year, and I'm unlikely to start chasing him round Europe or the USA.

Another pianist I'd like to hear is Martino Tirimo - he's in Richmond next month. I'd prefer a different programme, but I'll probably go anyway as I think he's very good. http://richmondconcerts.co.uk/season52/concert3.shtml

For something much more immediate I'm looking forward to tonight's concert in Claygate with Lucy Hall and Gavin Roberts in a programme of songs to include Schubert, Brahms, Strauss, Duparc, Debussy, Poulenc, Britten, Alison Bauld, Graham Ross and Madeleine Dring. Lucy and Gavin recently won first prize in a competition in Oxford. http://www.ocms-music.org.uk/concert...y-hall-soprano

I suspect the Quilter songs mentioned on the web site have been dropped, though one never knows whether they might appear as an encore.