Prom 37: Britten - War Requiem, LSO / LSC / BBC SC / Tiffin Boys' Choir, Pappano

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  • bluestateprommer
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    • Nov 2010
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    Prom 37: Britten - War Requiem, LSO / LSC / BBC SC / Tiffin Boys' Choir, Pappano

    Saturday 17 August 2024
    19:30
    Royal Albert Hall

    Britten: War Requiem, op. 66

    Natalya Romaniw, soprano
    Allan Clayton, tenor
    Will Liverman, baritone (Proms debut artist)

    London Symphony Orchestra
    London Symphony Chorus
    BBC Symphony Chorus
    Tiffin Boys’ Choir

    Sir Antonio Pappano, conductor​

    Sir Antonio Pappano and his London Symphony Orchestra are joined by three choirs and three outstanding vocal soloists for a work of hope that emerged from the ashes of destruction: Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem




    Live at the BBC Proms: Sir Antonio Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra.


    Sir Antonio Pappano and the LSO bring this haunting masterpiece to the Royal Albert Hall.

    Starts
    17-08-24 19:30
    Ends
    17-08-24 20:30
    Location
    Royal Albert Hall
  • Ein Heldenleben
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    • Apr 2014
    • 6783

    #2
    Allan Clayton’s singing in this is absolutely phenomenal. One of the glories of the age .

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    • LMcD
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      • Sep 2017
      • 8470

      #3
      Originally posted by bluestateprommer View Post
      Saturday 17 August 2024
      19:30
      Royal Albert Hall

      Britten: War Requiem, op. 66

      Natalya Romaniw, soprano
      Allan Clayton, tenor
      Will Liverman, baritone (Proms debut artist)

      London Symphony Orchestra
      London Symphony Chorus
      BBC Symphony Chorus
      Tiffin Boys’ Choir

      Sir Antonio Pappano, conductor​

      Sir Antonio Pappano and his London Symphony Orchestra are joined by three choirs and three outstanding vocal soloists for a work of hope that emerged from the ashes of destruction: Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem




      Live at the BBC Proms: Sir Antonio Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra.


      Sir Antonio Pappano and the LSO bring this haunting masterpiece to the Royal Albert Hall.
      60 minutes - the quickest ever performance of this work?

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      • Ein Heldenleben
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        • Apr 2014
        • 6783

        #4
        Originally posted by LMcD View Post

        60 minutes - the quickest ever performance of this work?
        I’m behind on Sounds .
        Doesn’t sound rushed .
        Currently on Hosanna In Exclesis - what glorious a piece of writing - one that always reminds me of Monteverdi Orfeo.
        Some superb singing with very much an operatic rather than concert hall “feel”
        Sadly listening on inferior equipment - some of the sound balance sounds that odd . Need to relisten in quality .

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        • edashtav
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          • Jul 2012
          • 3670

          #5
          Certainly faster than most but I clocked it at 75 minutes.

          Natalya Romaniw is a Welsh Ukrainian with a fine ringing voice. I've heard and always admired the poetic Allan Clayton in many works and parts. Is he or Ian Bostridge, the Peter Pears of our time? I'd probably choose Allan because Ian's idiosyncrasies can grate from time to time. Good to hear Will Livermore, a Black American who understands Britten's idiom - he''ll be singing in a forthcoming production of Peter Grimes.

          Great to listen to the polished and secure Tiffin School BOYS' choir accompanied by the Chamber organ in some distant gallery.

          BBC Symphony Chorus and the London Symphony Chorus sang with accuracy, intensity and dramatic flair.

          The LSO under its new Chief Conductor, Antonio Pappano were superb. Pappano showed a marvellous command of the score ensuring that we heard incidental details which we may have missed in earlier performances. Twice I heard echoes of Shostakovich at his bitter, satirical best. Of course, I picked up Britten's all too obvious debts to Verdi's Requiem, but overall this work shows Britten at his most searching and empathetic.

          How good was this performance? Well, I broke off and ordered a CD of Pappano's Italian recording of this great piece to fill a gaping hole on my heaving shelves.


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          • edashtav
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            • Jul 2012
            • 3670

            #6
            Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post
            Allan Clayton’s singing in this is absolutely phenomenal. One of the glories of the age .
            :irony3:

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            • Petrushka
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              • Nov 2010
              • 12251

              #7
              I've been spoilt in this piece by having heard Galina Vishnevskaya singing the soprano part, albeit late in her career (1983) but still terrific.

              I wonder if I had some gremlins in my audio system somewhere as I found Allan Clayton's voice much too quiet at times, to the point of inaudiblity. The full chorus sounded great, however, as did the boys' choir.
              "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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              • Ein Heldenleben
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                • Apr 2014
                • 6783

                #8
                Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
                I've been spoilt in this piece by having heard Galina Vishnevskaya singing the soprano part, albeit late in her career (1983) but still terrific.

                I wonder if I had some gremlins in my audio system somewhere as I found Allan Clayton's voice much too quiet at times, to the point of inaudiblity. The full chorus sounded great, however, as did the boys' choir.
                Sounded fine on a smart speaker though his voice was tiring by the end a tad . One of those singers who really doesn’t hold back I think.

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                • Dave2002
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                  • Dec 2010
                  • 18016

                  #9
                  Originally posted by LMcD View Post

                  60 minutes - the quickest ever performance of this work?
                  It started late, but from where I was sitting it did seem to take more than an hour, finishing just before 9pm.

                  Maybe time flows more slowly in the RAH.

                  The organ entry towards the end was a slight surprise - very powerful. I doubt that many would have experienced anything like that from a radio.

                  Looked like it was being televised, so would be good to watch bits of it again, for example to spot which parts precisely were being taken by the chamber orchestra and soloists. The boy’s choir was up in the gallery.

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                  • LMcD
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                    • Sep 2017
                    • 8470

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
                    It started late, but from where I was sitting it did seem to take more than an hour, finishing just before 9pm.

                    Maybe time flows more slowly in the RAH.

                    The organ entry towards the end was a slight surprise - very powerful. I doubt that many would have experienced anything like that from a radio.

                    Looked like it was being televised, so would be good to watch bits of it again, for example to spot which parts precisely were being taken by the chamber orchestra and soloists. The boy’s choir was up in the gallery.
                    Initial post gives a start time of 19.30 and an end time of 20.30.

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26536

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
                      Looked like it was being [WILL BE] televised, so would be good to watch bits of it again..
                      Tonight (Sunday) on BBCFour at 8pm
                      "...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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                      • LMcD
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                        • Sep 2017
                        • 8470

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Nick Armstrong View Post

                        Tonight (Sunday) on BBCFour at 8pm
                        Presented - I'm pleased to see - by Petroc Trelawny, and not Clive Myrie, Tom Service or Katie Derham.

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                        • Pulcinella
                          Host
                          • Feb 2014
                          • 10941

                          #13
                          Originally posted by LMcD View Post

                          Presented - I'm pleased to see - by Petroc Trelawny, and not Clive Myrie, Tom Service or Katie Derham.
                          Hurrah!
                          And we got our system sorted out by the kind folk at Richer Sounds (I'm ashamed to say that I hadn't spotted that a lead had become disconnected: ) so we can send the TV sound through the Hi-Fi system.

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                          • LMcD
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                            • Sep 2017
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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post

                            Hurrah!
                            And we got our system sorted out by the kind folk at Richer Sounds (I'm ashamed to say that I hadn't spotted that a lead had become disconnected: ) so we can send the TV sound through the Hi-Fi system.
                            I'm quite enjoying tonight's Prom, to which, I've been told twice in the last 10 minutes, I'm currently listening.

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                            • Pulcinella
                              Host
                              • Feb 2014
                              • 10941

                              #15
                              Five stars from Richard Morrison in The Times:

                              As this performance at the Albert Hall showed, Britten’s extraordinary hybrid work — mixing Catholic liturgy and pacifist poetry — will always be relevant

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