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

[teamsaint]

a freebie.
Thursday 6.00 hopefully.

http://southbanksinfonia.co.uk/event/300415/

Martinu ,and arrangement of " metamorphosen" for Septet.

anybody else been to any of these rush hour concerts?

[Beef Oven!]

a freebie.
Thursday 6.00 hopefully.

http://southbanksinfonia.co.uk/event/300415/

Martinu ,and arrangement of " metamorphosen" for Septet.

anybody else been to any of these rush hour concerts?

Didn't the idea come from New York?

[teamsaint]

Didn't the idea come from New York?

No, I'm sure some europeans have previously combined Martinu and Strauss on concert programmes.


Sorry, couldnt resist. Yes, as we know all the best ideas come from America.

[MrGongGong]

Sorry, couldnt resist. Yes, as we know all the best ideas come from America.

I thought all great inventions came from Scotland ?

[Beef Oven!]

I thought all great inventions came from Scotland ?

No, according to the BBC, most things were invented by Muslims who weren't living in Scotland.

[gurnemanz]

Off to Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford-on Avon, this Friday - really interesting looking show with Barbara Hannigan and Britten Sinfonia.

[Barbirollians]

Not a concert but to say goodbye to the John Copley staging of La Boheme with Netrebko and Calleja at the ROH in JUne .

[kernelbogey]

We are about half way through the eighth Winchester Chamber Music Festival. Dvorak, Schubert, Mozart, Martinu, Janacek et al. If you live within reach, one to bookmark for next May.

[ARBurton]

Andris Nelsons conducting Parsifal at Symphony Hall Birmingham - tomorrow!

[ARBurton]

Well what a magnificent parsifal that was. Just marvellous. Superb playing, magnificent choir, and James Rutherford and Mihoko Fujimura outstanding as Gurnemanz and Kundry.
But where were Radio 3???? A major highlight in this country's musical life ignored. Shocking.

[Beef Oven!]

Jean Sibelius

Royal Festival Hall London

Thursday 11th June 2015

Evening kick off.

Vladimir Ashkenazy, Philharmonia.

Symphony #2
Luonnotar, Andante Festivo etc Helena Juntunen, Soprano


Just bought a ticket a minute ago, on line. A fair few seats left. Hurry, when they're gone, they're gone

[Richard Tarleton]

Natalie Clein, 7 June, playing 3 Bach cello suites (1,2,6), in the Oak Hall at Rhosygilwen. Happily for us Ms Clein is a regular at this venue.

[ARBurton]

The Times awarded 5 stars just as you describe. It must have been a wonderful evening. Since it's not viewable online the last para reads: "On the podium Nelsons continually leapt from his seat to press the score's surges of ecstasy or the sublime. Yet every phase and detail seemed part of an organic whole driven by a conductor and splendiferous orchestra in perfect sync. at least for a few more weeks."

I was wrong - Rutherford was Amfortas, Zeppenfeld was Gurnemanz. But I wasn`t wrong about the performance.

[Petrushka]

Next Sunday, June 14 in the Barbican, London.

Mozart Violin Concerto No 3
Mahler Symphony No 1

Alina Ibragimova (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Haitink

[richardfinegold]

We are due to see Muti onduct the Scriabin Poeme of Ectasy and Tchaikovsky Manfred this Saturday.
The Manfred is a work that I really enjoy, but seems to be the Rodney Dangerfield of Tchaikovsky Symphonies--it doesn't get any respect. Every critic or Internet Forum delights in bashing it. I admit that it is a flawed masterpiece, but a masterpiece nonetheless, certainly better than the Composer's numbered Second and Third Symphonies, with the middle movements at least being first rate Tchaikovsky.
I wish I could e as enthusiastic about the Scriabin, a piece that has never clicked for me.