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

[teamsaint]

Fortunately a separate coach was provided for the people who would have got off at Tiverton, and after an agonising crawl through the outskirts of Taunton we made good speed on the M5 and got to St Davids station at about 6.15. A taxi got me to the theatre in time to sort myself out and persuade someone to look after my small rucksack.

Xerxes (for that was last night's opera) was well sung - Clint van der Linde an excellent countertenor I hadn't come across before, though Julia Riley in the title role was rather quiet and I was glad to be sitting near the front - but the practice of updating everything to WW2 is becoming a bit of a cliche, and a spitfire does not provide as much shade as a plane tree.

Glad you got there Ok, sounds like it was worth the effort.

[Pulcinella]

Friday 13 January 2017
JSB: French suites
Angela Hewitt

(York University)

[EdgeleyRob]

More freebies arrived today.
Salford bit for me but I wonder if any of our southern contingent will be at the first half of this particular afternoon on 3 to hear McEwen's Solway Symphony live,what a rare treat !

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b084vwbb

[EdgeleyRob]

Yet another free one next week,don't think this is live on the radio though

http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e9vv2m

[Nick Armstrong]

Yet another free one next week,don't think this is live on the radio though

http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e9vv2m

Dammit that a good one!!! Envious !

[teamsaint]

performers
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski, conductor
Jan Lisiecki, piano
repertoire
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka: Valse-fantasie in B minor
Fryderyk Chopin: Piano Concerto No.1
Sergey Rachmaninov: Symphony No.1

Tomorrow night, at the RFH.

Just snaffled the last ticket in the choir.

Looking like a good attendance for this one.

Although not as good as for The Human League tonight at the same venue.......

[Petrushka]

Totally forgotten I'd applied for a ticket for the following concert but this is a problem with sending off for tickets a year or more in advance. Saw it listed as being broadcast on R3 in the latest BBC Music Magazine and thought 'I'm sure I have a ticket for this'...

Turnage: Remembering In Memoriam Evan Scofield (world premiere)
Mahler: Symphony No 6

London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle

In the Barbican on January 19 2017.

Something to look forward to in the post-Christmas gloom. It's Rattle's 62nd birthday as well.

[teamsaint]

Anybody going to be in the virtual queue for Rattle's 2018 concerts at the RFH with the BPO?

https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/119011-sir-simon-rattle-and-berliner-philharmoniker-2018

I quite fancy the second one , but it's a long way ahead to book and not cheap, unless you are in the back few rows.

[Beef Oven!]

Anybody going to be in the virtual queue for Rattle's 2018 concerts at the RFH with the BPO?

https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/119011-sir-simon-rattle-and-berliner-philharmoniker-2018

I quite fancy the second one , but it's a long way ahead to book and not cheap, unless you are in the back few rows.

"Before and After" - they say, "Canteen's committed to honest food that's nationally sourced, skilfully made and fairly priced, unlike our tickets”

Arm and a leg job (I suppose you’d get the second ticket at a half-price concession with your blue badge after your arm and leg have gone).

Jokes aside, I think £125 is a bit steep. We need a new venue in London to provide some competition and drive prices down to 90p.

[teamsaint]

"Before and After" - they say, "Canteen's committed to honest food that's nationally sourced, skilfully made and fairly priced, unlike our tickets”

Arm and a leg job (I suppose you’d get the second ticket at a half-price concession with your blue badge after your arm and leg have gone).

Jokes aside, I think £125 is a bit steep. We need a new venue in London to provide some competition and drive prices down to 90p.

if you have 90 p to waste , I'd suggest putting it towards a copy of the Guardian and have a really good laugh at the utter ***** in their article about the same concerts.

[EdgeleyRob]

Salford freebie tomorrow
It's on the wireless

Foulds - Le Cabaret Overture
Bridge - Summer
Walton - Violin Concerto
Arnold - Electra

BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon conductor
Alexandra Wood violin

[Alison]

Salford freebie tomorrow
It's on the wireless

Foulds - Le Cabaret Overture
Bridge - Summer
Walton - Violin Concerto
Arnold - Electra

BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon conductor
Alexandra Wood violin

Don't know Electra - interesting.

[EdgeleyRob]

Don't know Electra - interesting.

New to me too Alison

It's included in a Chandos cd of MA's ballet music

[Alison]

New to me too Alison

It's included in a Chandos cd of MA's ballet music

Rarely a dud with Sir Malcolm.

[rauschwerk]

This Friday at the Barbican: BBCSO/Oramo play Shostakovich 10 and a new fiddle concerto by Michael Zev Gordon. Last time I heard this conductor and orchestra, in Nielsen 4, it was very exciting indeed.