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

[worlingworth1]

After two years of missing them in Europe finally booked to see "Fanfare Ciocârlia" at the Apex Bury St Edmunds in the new year

[ARBurton]

I was quite excited to have won the chance, in a ballot, to buy tickets for the Mariinsky Gergiev Walkure and Gotterdammerung at the Birmingham Hippodrome this week, for £30 per seat instead of the correct price of £200.
Then I attended said Walkure, and despaired.
Then I attended the said Gotterdammerung, and after an Act 1 in which the company might have redeemed itself, Act 2 was so unutterably appalling in every conceivable respect (devoid of anything even approaching a redeeming feature) that despair no longer seemed adequate.....

[Nick Armstrong]

I was quite excited to have won the chance, in a ballot, to buy tickets for the Mariinsky Gergiev Walkure and Gotterdammerung at the Birmingham Hippodrome this week, for £30 per seat instead of the correct price of £200.
Then I attended said Walkure, and despaired.
Then I attended the said Gotterdammerung, and after an Act 1 in which the company might have redeemed itself, Act 2 was so unutterably appalling in every conceivable respect (devoid of anything even approaching a redeeming feature) that despair no longer seemed adequate.....

Sorry to hear that but not surprised. I empathise - I once had to sit through an appalling Gotterdammerung. Like you, I'm not sure what the right word is to describe the experience....

[Nick Armstrong]

Long-awaited first trip to hear Radu Lupu live this week! (There are still good seats available....)


Reading Concert Hall, Thursday 27 November, 7.30pm

Radu Lupu, Piano


BRAHMS: Variations on an Original Theme Op.21 No.1

BEETHOVEN: 32 Variations in C minor on an Original Theme WoO.80

MOZART: Variations on a Minuet by Duport K.573

SCHUBERT: Sonata in G D.894

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NB - teamsaint - he's doing the same programme at Southampton Uni on Tuesday at 8pm!

[antongould]

Southampton has a university?

[teamsaint]

you obviously missed the news of Southampton it being given full University status a decade before Newcastle, and half a century before others in the north east.
just to confirm, you can see Southampton in these 'ere new fangled league tables.

I think if you look closely, you can see some of the Northern eastern ones down the bottom in small print.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankings_of_universities_in_the_United_Kingdom

cheeky Monkey Hanger !!

( I think that counts as a bite !!)

[antongould]

Durham University where 17% of monkey hangers studied is the third oldest University in England leaving Soton trailing in its wake - and as a major posting of the day reminds us North of the Watford Gap we have .......


".....immense drawbacks - to my being accepted by the London musical hierarchy: (1) I am a northerner ...."

[teamsaint]

oh yes, forgot about Durham.

well its SO far away !! (love the stats by the way, keep 'em coming).

Lovely thoughts from AB in FFs email....though some northerners seem to have made it.......!!

back on topic, I'm seeing Carmen, (WNO) on Thursday.

Yes, we even have opera down here, though I expect it will be an abridged version so us Forest Folk can enjoy it without having to concentrate for too long....

[antongould]

Enjoy Carmen my friend, like I think yourself, opera is a book that is just starting to open.....2014 Mozart tomorrow the world. You never know Rumpole may join us.......

[amateur51]

Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande (semi-staged) Philharmonia & Esa-Pekka Salonen, plenty of seats left

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande (semi-staged) Philharmonia & Esa-Pekka Salonen, plenty of seats left

And now with Sandrine Piau stepping in as Mélisande...

[HighlandDougie]

Perhaps "excited" to have tickets is a bit strong, but I'm dragging some friends to the Barbican this Friday to hear un de mes héros - Marc Minkowski - take the BBC Symphony Orchestra through its paces in Schubert's Symphony No 4, the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (with Katerina Karnéus standing in for Roderick Williams) and the Symphony No 1 in E major by Hans Rott. And, next month, again at the Barbican, a work I'm ashamed to say I've never heard in the flesh, the Messiah, with Richard Egarr, AAM forces and various soloists.

[amateur51]

And now with Sandrine Piau stepping in as Mélisande...

My cup runneth over

[Alison]

Perhaps "excited" to have tickets is a bit strong, but I'm dragging some friends to the Barbican this Friday to hear un de mes héros - Marc Minkowski - take the BBC Symphony Orchestra through its paces in Schubert's Symphony No 4, the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (with Katerina Karnéus standing in for Roderick Williams) and the Symphony No 1 in E major by Hans Rott. And, next month, again at the Barbican, a work I'm ashamed to say I've never heard in the flesh, the Messiah, with Richard Egarr, AAM forces and various soloists.

Great choice of concert I'd say, HD. Enjoyed it very much and sounded as if the audience did too. One to stay in the memory.

[gurnemanz]

Perhaps "excited" to have tickets is a bit strong, but I'm dragging some friends to the Barbican this Friday to hear un de mes héros - Marc Minkowski - take the BBC Symphony Orchestra through its paces in Schubert's Symphony No 4, the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (with Katerina Karnéus standing in for Roderick Williams).

Strangely enough, we had Roderick W. standing for Mark Padmore in Mahler at Wilts Music Centre last year. Very good it was too.