Prom 67 - 7.09.14: Qatar PO, Matsuev / Chang

[teamsaint]

Hmmm.... it's probably NOT 'ok to say that' - at least in her country, if not here.
Please go and wash your mouth out with 'Listerine' or something similar.

Back on topic, ( ahem)'
, it presumably WOULD be ok for Ms Chang to say that ER is Sexy .

What a crazy mixed up world.

edit.....i didnt mean to suggest that she would be incorrect , of course !!

[pureimagination]

Personally I enjoyed this prom very much and do not question (unlike post from Petrushka [in The 2014 Proms Season - what are your thoughts and feelings? thread] the legitimacy of having world symphony orchestra's we may not be familiar with playing at the proms. If I attend or hear a live concert I expect there to be differences between pieces depending on whose performing them and my favourite recordings [or other memorable concerts]. I expect the differences to be subtle - tempo, conductors preference or individual musicians interpretations etc unless I've been told beforehand to expect a completely different arrangement. I always have that favourite recording to listen to (which will vary from others here) and hearing it interpreted slightly differently doesn't put me off or make me want to throw my hand up in the air.

[Pabmusic]

...Please go and wash your mouth out with 'Listerine' or something similar.

Listerine was famously invented as a surgical antiseptic (ie: for cleaning operating tables) then re-branded as a treatment for gonorrhea, then - about 1920 - as a mouthwash. The thing is that in order to sell it as a mouthwash, they invented a fictitious condition - 'halitosis' - that you need to protect against.

It's one of the best examples of commercial manipulation.

[ardcarp]

Personally I enjoyed this prom very much and do not question (unlike post from Petrushka [in The 2014 Proms Season - what are your thoughts and feelings? thread] the legitimacy of having world symphony orchestra's we may not be familiar with playing at the proms. If I attend or hear a live concert I expect there to be differences between pieces depending on whose performing them and my favourite recordings [or other memorable concerts]. I expect the differences to be subtle - tempo, conductors preference or individual musicians interpretations etc unless I've been told beforehand to expect a completely different arrangement. I always have that favourite recording to listen to (which will vary from others here) and hearing it interpreted slightly differently doesn't put me off or make me want to throw my hand up in the air.

Bravo, pureimagination!

[Nick Armstrong]

Personally I enjoyed this prom very much.

Were you in the hall? in the arena? I wonder if the concerto came across with the sense of violent
impact conveyed on TV?

[Tony Halstead]

Back on topic, ( ahem)'
, it presumably WOULD be ok for Ms Chang to say that ER is Sexy .

What a crazy mixed up world.

edit.....i didnt mean to suggest that she would be incorrect , of course !!

er, er...ER..( no pun intended), you've lost me now. Who or what is 'ER'?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

er, er...ER..( no pun intended), you've lost me now. Who or what is 'ER'?

Never posted a letter, Tony?


- a reference to Edgeley Rob, I believe.

[Barbirollians]

Matsuev seemed almost entirely incapable of yielding to the melodies at all or playing quietly . The least beautiful performance of this concerto I have ever heard .

[pastoralguy]

Matsuev seemed almost entirely incapable of yielding to the melodies at all or playing quietly . The least beautiful performance of this concerto I have ever heard .

[Hornspieler]

Matsuev seemed almost entirely incapable of yielding to the melodies at all or playing quietly . The least beautiful performance of this concerto I have ever heard .

This was a part of my review of this concert, but I was shouted down by certain people who wouldn't know where to find middle C on a piano keyboard.

HS

[Tony Halstead]

This was a part of my review of this concert, but I was shouted down by certain people who wouldn't know where to find middle C on a piano keyboard.

HS

[Nick Armstrong]

This was a part of my review of this concert, but I was shouted down by certain people who wouldn't know where to find middle C on a piano keyboard.

HS

Since your post #34 only one person has expressed a different view from yours HS - so do you mean a review somewhere else? There's been no shouting here that I can detect. Hope you aren't hearing voices!

[Hornspieler]

Since your post #34 only one person has expressed a different view from yours HS - so do you mean a review somewhere else? There's been no shouting here that I can detect. Hope you aren't hearing voices!

The original complainant's vitriolic rant immediately won the approval of two further message boarders.

Water off a duck's back, Cali.

I'm off to my bed

HS

[Nick Armstrong]

The original complainant's vitriolic rant immediately won the approval of two further message boarders.

Water off a duck's back, Cali.

I'm off to my bed

HS

Ah! The vitriolic rant must have been deleted... No sign of it that I can see.

Good night, HS

[Barbirollians]

After having just listened to it again - I feel that Matsuev and Chang could do with listening to the Rachmaninov/Stokowski recording !