Prom 42 - 17.08.14: 'Lest We Forget', BBC SSO, Clayton / Williams / Manze

[Barbirollians]

Bravo -Pabs - lovely sensitive orchestration and a splendid performance too . Just a shame we did not get all eleven from them tonight !

Stephan piece was interesting and rather more appealing to me than the Kelly .

[Petrushka]

Bravo -Pabs - lovely sensitive orchestration and a splendid performance too . Just a shame we did not get all eleven from them tonight !

Stephan piece was interesting and rather more appealing to me than the Kelly .

I'd go along with all that and would add praise for the excellent enunciation of the poems from Roderick Williams.

[Pabmusic]

Bravo -Pabs - lovely sensitive orchestration and a splendid performance too . Just a shame we did not get all eleven from them tonight !

Stephan piece was interesting and rather more appealing to me than the Kelly .

Thanks - I listened to it and it works well in orchestral colours (many songs wouldn't) doesn't it? I'd have liked all eleven to have been done, partly because "Bredon Hill" and "On the Idle Hill of Summer" are substantial pieces and gave really good opportunities for orchestration.

Second half soon...

[EdgeleyRob]

Great stuff,thanks Pabmusic.
Lovely first half,and the wonder that is RVW 3 (with a tenor!)to come.

[Barbirollians]

How lovely that this concert is being introduced by Penny Gore - what a professional she is compared to Trelawney and Derham.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Bravo -Pabs - lovely sensitive orchestration and a splendid performance too . Just a shame we did not get all eleven from them tonight !

[EdgeleyRob]

Some weren't sure when to start applauding,at least let me wipe away the tears first.
Manze is the man.
Penny Gore quoting the great man 'no lambkins frisking here'.

Absolutely heartbreaking music,for me anyhow,and this performance hit the spot.

[mangerton]

Bravo -Pabs - lovely sensitive orchestration and a splendid performance too . Just a shame we did not get all eleven from them tonight !

Yes, I must second that. Excellent all round.

[mangerton]

How lovely that this concert is being introduced by Penny Gore - what a professional she is compared to Trelawney and Derham.

H'mmm. Pity she said that Frederick Kelly won a medal in the 1908 Olympics for the English rowing team.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

H'mmm. Pity she said that Frederick Kelly won a medal in the 1908 Olympics for the English rowing team.

I missed that one, but yes.

[Bryn]

H'mmm. Pity she said that Frederick Kelly won a medal in the 1908 Olympics for the English rowing team.

Where was the error. Kelly was certainly in the Gold winning Eight.

[french frank]

Great Britain?

[Bryn]

Great Britain?

Ah. Lenin made a not dissimilar error re. the Scottish communist John MacLean, referring to him as "MacLean of England".

[seabright]

To quote the RVW3 score's 4th movement instructions: "Soprano or Tenor Solo (Distant)" with the vocal line additionally cued into the clarinet part "to be played by 1st clarinet when there is no vocal soloist." I wonder if anyone remembers Andre Previn doing just that in an RFH performance many years ago, when Jack Brymer played the vocal part on his clarinet, thus saving on the expense of engaging a soprano for a minute or so of music. Incidentally, was the "distant" tenor stationed up in the gallery tonight?

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

Incidentally, was the "distant" tenor stationed up in the gallery tonight?

No. He was singing from the organ seat, just above the bust of Sir Henry Wood. A pity - I had assumed the Gallery would have been used.