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  • ardcarp
    Late member
    • Nov 2010
    • 11102

    #16
    Whilst one is grateful that the Beeb is devoting a dedicated slot to the Leeds competition, have they not missed the opportunity of that great buzz of a live final?

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    • aka Calum Da Jazbo
      Late member
      • Nov 2010
      • 9173

      #17
      i very much enjoyed last night's performance, thought he was a touch old fashioned in his sense of rhythm and altogether rather 19th century looking ...charming but a also a little absent minded perhaps?
      According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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      • Pianorak
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 3127

        #18
        Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
        Whilst one is grateful that the Beeb is devoting a dedicated slot to the Leeds competition, have they not missed the opportunity of that great buzz of a live final?
        Yes and No. It was live on R3 . . .
        My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)

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        • rauschwerk
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 1481

          #19
          I'm catching up on this at a very leisurely pace, recording episodes from BBCHD which are going out around midnight each Sunday. One episode remains to be broadcast. I have now heard Schwizgebel, Gillham, Osokins and the guy who played Prokofiev 2 (what a mad piece!). It's all been immensely enjoyable so far, though I detected a sudden decline in sound quality (meaning balance) between episodes 3 and 4.

          I do yearn for the days when the final concerts were broadcast as concerts.

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26525

            #20
            Originally posted by rauschwerk View Post
            I'm catching up on this at a very leisurely pace, recording episodes from BBCHD which are going out around midnight each Sunday. One episode remains to be broadcast. I have now heard Schwizgebel, Gillham, Osokins and the guy who played Prokofiev 2 (what a mad piece!). It's all been immensely enjoyable so far, though I detected a sudden decline in sound quality (meaning balance) between episodes 3 and 4.

            I do yearn for the days when the final concerts were broadcast as concerts.
            Me too rausch. I actually watched the final episode at last in its BBC4 manifestation so - belatedly - heard the result. I had 2 favourite performances, and shall keep those in their BBCHD guise for repeated listening.

            (A kind BBC person let me have a DVD of Sunwook Kim's winning performance of Brahms PC1 in 2006, the first half of which I'd missed - I watch/listen to that regularly as one of my favourite performances of all of that piece, terrific (inc. Hallé/Elder) )

            I've been reasonably impressed by Ms Klein's introdutions too - she's the most natural and appealing of all the 'telly classical' presenters, imv.
            "...the isle is full of noises,
            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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            • Richard Tarleton

              #21
              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              Me too rausch. I actually watched the final episode at last in its BBC4 manifestation so - belatedly - heard the result. I had 2 favourite performances, and shall keep those in their BBCHD guise for repeated listening.

              I've been reasonably impressed by Ms Klein's introdutions too - she's the most natural and appealing of all the 'telly classical' presenters, imv.
              Not sure if rausch is keeping the result as a surprise, in which case spoiler alert - and I only caught 2 episodes, Schwizgebel's (someone needs to speak severely to him about those facial expressions) and the winner's. What a performance. Dame Fanny looked delighted on camera.

              Agreed re Ms Klein. I particularly enjoyed her piece to camera talking about the Emperor where she played a few bars of the slow movement. I like those presenters who can do it as well as talk about it!

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              • amateur51

                #22
                Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
                Not sure if rausch is keeping the result as a surprise, in which case spoiler alert - and I only caught 2 episodes, Schwizgebel's (someone needs to speak severely to him about those facial expressions) and the winner's. What a performance. Dame Fanny looked delighted on camera.

                Agreed re Ms Klein. I particularly enjoyed her piece to camera talking about the Emperor where she played a few bars of the slow movement. I like those presenters who can do it as well as talk about it!
                I seem to remember that someone took Brendel aside when he was still a relatively young artist and advised much the same, advice that he tried to act on. Uchida has certainly calmed down from the days when she appeared to be having a nervous breakdown playing Mozart

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                • rauschwerk
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 1481

                  #23
                  Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                  I seem to remember that someone took Brendel aside when he was still a relatively young artist and advised much the same, advice that he tried to act on.
                  I believe it was his wife, after he launched his specs over his head on to the platform! That's mentioned in one of his books, though I forget which.

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                  • amateur51

                    #24
                    Originally posted by rauschwerk View Post
                    I believe it was his wife, after he launched his specs over his head on to the platform! That's mentioned in one of his books, though I forget which.
                    I knew I'd read something - many thanks rauschwerk

                    He developed a tendency to turn away from the audience in extremis & I sometimes wondered what ghastly mugging was going on.

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                    • rauschwerk
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 1481

                      #25
                      Just as a matter of interest, how does one follow Mark Elder's beat?

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