Segerstam/Bruckner 8 - Barbican, 28.2.15

[jayne lee wilson]

After all this, I was looking through the Barbican programme... and discover that Rattle will be humming through Bruckner 8 with the LSO on 15th April 2016. Preceded by a Messiaen piece before the interval.

Don't think Leif will ever be allowed to programme more than one thing in a concert ever again! Not by Radio 3 anyway...

Following on from my comments on his EMI 4th and 7th (msg 115), a quick delve into the Berlin DCH Archive reveals three 7ths and three 9ths (but only one complete), with Rattle and the Philharmoniker over the last 5 years, and one 8th - the latter with the Orchestra Academy of the BPO. Apart from the 7th, he did the 4th with the CBSO in 1996, and first played it with the BBCSSO as an assistant years before that.

[Nick Armstrong]

Actually Petroc was pronouncing it to rhyme with 'Rafe'...so perhaps the message to the BBCSO should be: Keep the Leif!

He was right; hence Mr H's witty speculations:

Perhaps Segerstam will next turn his attentions to Vaughan Williams, although that might prompt certain detractors to ponder the question as to whether it would be safe to have Leif conduct Rafe...

[Prommer]

He was right; hence Mr H's witty speculations:

Ah yes, rather better than mine!!

[Lento]

Oh, groaaaaaan!

When a man's tired of Bruckner........

[Tevot]

Has anyone else noticed you never see Segerstam and Brian Blessed together in the same room? Just saying......

"BRUCKNER'S ALIVE !!!"

[Prommer]

Sorry, we've done that gag too already...!

[Flosshilde]

I'd really prefer to forget all these awful puns -


So it's a cup of the Waters of Leif for my bedtime drink.

[Bryn]

It's not only Bruckner that Segerstam makes a big noise of. There's also Leif's Leifs:

from:

[Beef Oven!]

I'd really prefer to forget all these awful puns -


So it's a cup of the Waters of Leif for my bedtime drink.

I'll drink to that - Leifbruamilch?

[Prommer]

Mine will be a bottle of ice cold Leif Blonde

[ahinton]

I'll drink to that - Leifbruamilch?

That's one of the best of them! The pun, that is, not the "wine" (which I imagine that you'd be unable to purchase from Leifwaites and isn't worth the price of a first class stam)...

[Karafan]

"BRUCKNER'S ALIVE !!!"

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Sorry, we've done that gag too already...!

It's the way he tells 'em ...

[Prommer]

Oh leif it out...

[Beef Oven!]

So now we have turned Beef Oven in to Leif Oven, but not quite yet... ferneyhoughgeLeifte?

Well, clearly we have not all felt the Breath of Leif upon us...

Actually Petroc was pronouncing it to rhyme with 'Rafe'...so perhaps the message to the BBCSO should be: Keep the Leif!

As does The Queen.

Maybe we should take a leif out of her book?