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

[teamsaint]

A good evening ts. Three very talented musicians. Phil Beer's violin playing great as was his guitar work. Steve Knightly - as good as you say, although I wouldn't listen to him all day as that would not leave time for Miranda - great bass-playing, lovely tight harmonies and her solo unaccompanied vocal the highlight of the evening - I would have like to have heard more of her, maybe with some gentle instrumental accompaniment from the other two! Pleased they made the trip over the great divide to see us! Steve did a more than half decent Dylan job on 'Don't think twice it'a all right' - I remembered every word from 1965!

Thanks Cloughie.

Steve has a great knack of choosing songs to cover. He did one by pink when i saw him playing a solo set in the summer and it went down a storm.
Miranda's cover of my Sister the Moon is quite stunning.
Glad you had a good night. I'm looking forward to seeing them next year now !!

[jean]

Two concerts in York this weekend.

The York Waits Christmas concert in Halifax on Saturday, and the next day in York Stile Antico ars singing Clemens, Praetorius and Lassus. During the day they're doing a workshop, which should be interesting - usually such workshops are led by some charismatic Early Music specialist or other, but as Stile Antico don't work with a conductor, it relmains to be seen how they'll handle it.

[John Wright]

Very much enjoyed 'Messiah' at Warwick Arts Centre.
All the singers in great voice, fabulous choir (numbered about 40), very good small orchestra with harpsichord and a small organ.
The choir could be loud when required, and were exquisitely quiet in one of the latter choruses. The lead violin accompaniment to the last solo by Elin Manahan-Thomas was a delight.

[John Wright]

Was reminded today that we got caught out by the 'standing up' during the Hallelujah chorus, I had forgotten about this tradition though I had read about it and George II several times before e.g. in Keates 'Handel The Man And His Music', but I notice now that Wikipedia states George II never attended a performance ??

[Nick Armstrong]

Recently (fortunately) been reminded that it's only one week to go to the Simon Bolívar Orchestra / Dudamel Mahler 5 at the RFH !!

[teamsaint]

Recently (fortunately) been reminded that it's only one week to go to the Simon Bolívar Orchestra / Dudamel Mahler 5 at the RFH !!

tickets selling for big money on Viagogo, if you need to get the Xmas bills paid!!

first up for me is Rattle and the LSO playing Rite of spring, plus some Ligeti/Berg/Webern on Jan 15th at the Barbican. (Its great, man).

At least one other boarder there, IIRC, because I was prompted to book by somebody else.

[gurnemanz]

tickets selling for big money on Viagogo, if you need to get the Xmas bills paid!!

first up for me is Rattle and the LSO playing Rite of spring, plus some Ligeti/Berg/Webern on Jan 15th at the Barbican. (Its great, man).

A few days before we're going to Ratlle doing Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri. I'm a Schumann fan and have never heard this rarely performed work live. If not "excited" certainly very curious.

[teamsaint]

A few days before we're going to Ratlle doing Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri. I'm a Schumann fan and have never heard this rarely performed work live. If not "excited" certainly very curious.

Sounds interesting indeed.
The BSO are doing a couple of performances of Schumann Symphony # 2 at the end of January, which i intend to catch.

[Beef Oven!]

Recently (fortunately) been reminded that it's only one week to go to the Simon Bolívar Orchestra / Dudamel Mahler 5 at the RFH !!

Go Gustavo!

[teamsaint]

A few days before we're going to Ratlle doing Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri. I'm a Schumann fan and have never heard this rarely performed work live. If not "excited" certainly very curious.

THis is being Broadcast live on R3.

[P. G. Tipps]

Live video relay this evening at 06.00pm of Bruckner 8 by the BPO/Blomstedt ....

Does this count? It certainly should as my armchair ticket cost me 9.95 Euros!

[marvin]

Live video relay this evening at 06.00pm of Bruckner 8 by the BPO/Blomstedt ....

Does this count? It certainly should as my armchair ticket cost me 9.95 Euros!

Yes I watched it. Ausgezeichnet and wunderbar. I have an annual ticket - useful for an agoraphobe who'd love to be sitting there in the Philharmonie, before I depart this irksome life.

[teamsaint]

BSO.
Chopin PC # 2
Schumann Symphony #2

Krabits /Yulianna Avdeeva.

Wednesday week.

[Nick Armstrong]

Thursday 12th February - RFH - Philharmonia under Salonen in ...

... a concert performance of 'L'Enfant et les Sortilèges' ... supported by the G major piano concerto with Mitsuko Uchida!

A dream of a concert for me.

But what a night of music making in London... At t'other place, there's only the Berlin Phil under Rattle playing Sibelius 5, 6 & 7 !!

(The latter is live on the radio )

[teamsaint]

Just managed to bag a couple of tix for a concert at the new Philharmonie in Paris.

Bit of Mahler .

http://bachtrack.com/concert-listing/philharmonie-1-grande-salle/paris-orchestra-paavo-jarvi-renaud-capucon-orchestre-de-paris/27-may-2015/20-30

Tickets seem to be in great demand, unsurprisingly, at the moment.