Prom 75 - 12.09.14: Cerha / Beethoven 9, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, etc., Gilbert

[Blotto]

A swazzling froth of orchestral swishousness - a slaptotic crust of crystalline empast - all the while, the dark ranges of Gilbert's glittering Gewandhaus timps, sumping and muzzled by their gorgeous twee.

Fizzled gurns and drewbewous fried puffs of poetic cream - Sound Songs murbling as the stumptuous strings winged their slooze with grace across a rapt Royal Albert.

Yet, in those Final, creosote Moments - We see Ourselves - reflected, spastic and knee-capped - before the Final Truth of Our deciduousness - as Beethoven's silent sobs boom into a cadenced trimimbiendissimo - and the throttle of our drip is turned to pork bate - We see, at last, the hushédness of luboubrient Stars!

[Nick Armstrong]

Blotto - I forbid you to delete that post in the morning !

[mercia]

well let's preserve it just in case

A swazzling froth of orchestral swishousness - a slaptotic crust of crystalline empast - all the while, the dark ranges of Gilbert's glittering Gewandhaus timps, sumping and muzzled by their gorgeous twee.

Fizzled gurns and drewbewous fried puffs of poetic cream - Sound Songs murbling as the stumptuous strings winged their slooze with grace across a rapt Royal Albert.

Yet, in those Final, creosote Moments - We see Ourselves - reflected, spastic and knee-capped - before the Final Truth of Our deciduousness - as Beethoven's silent sobs boom into a cadenced trimimbiendissimo - and the throttle of our drip is turned to pork bate - We see, at last, the hushédness of luboubrient Stars!

[Nick Armstrong]

well let's preserve it just in case

Well done, Wilson, I was wondering which of you would come up with that first! Ahem...!

[PJPJ]

A swazzling froth of orchestral swishousness - a slaptotic crust of crystalline empast - all the while, the dark ranges of Gilbert's glittering Gewandhaus timps, sumping and muzzled by their gorgeous twee.

Fizzled gurns and drewbewous fried puffs of poetic cream - Sound Songs murbling as the stumptuous strings winged their slooze with grace across a rapt Royal Albert.

Yet, in those Final, creosote Moments - We see Ourselves - reflected, spastic and knee-capped - before the Final Truth of Our deciduousness - as Beethoven's silent sobs boom into a cadenced trimimbiendissimo - and the throttle of our drip is turned to pork bate - We see, at last, the hushédness of luboubrient Stars!

That's all very well for you to say......

[Alison]

Ah so Blotto might be Ian McMillan ...

[Blotto]

Blotto - I forbid you to delete that post in the morning !

I wouldn't dream of it, c.

I haven't heard the concert, of course, but I just had to delight you all with my opinion. How did you get through the evening without it?



Because you're worth it.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I haven't heard the concert, of course, but I just had to give you all the benefit of my wisdom.

And we're all very grateful, Thro ... err ... Blotto.

[amateur51]

And we're all very grateful, Thro ... err ... Blotto.

[Barbirollians]

I wonder if Kurt Masur ever returns to the orchestra. Now there's someone who would have conveyed far more depth than we heard tonight!

His 1989 was it ? Proms performance was quite stupendous . I remember driving home listening to it to my parents that summer and my mother being baffled why I stayed in the car for half an hour after getting home

[Barbirollians]

I don't think HIPP can be blamed in any way for a performance that seemed almost bereft of any memorable interpretative ideas. Whoever these "people" are, it's a fair bet they don't want to hear the work conducted with such dreary lack of interest. It's such a pity Chailly wasn't conducting. This felt to me like a great orchestra wasted. And, as I say, HIPP had nothing to do with it. More a case of just plain dull.

Exactly the first three movements sounded to me as if Alan Gilbert wanted to justify the criticisms of Spohr and others . The choir and soloists tried to rescue it but all too late.

[Flosshilde]

A strange and disconcerting lack of pulse informed this performance to my ears.

Perhaps they did as Petrushka suggested -

Chailly and the Gewandhaus played this same programme in the Barbican in November 2011 at which I was present.
I do wonder, though, whether the Leipzigers, fully conversant with Chailly's interpretation of the Beethoven 9 having played it with him many times, will actually give us that without the need for Alan Gilbert to be there at all?

& discovered they do need to follow the conductor in front of them after all?

[Flosshilde]

And we're all very grateful, Thro ... err ... Blotto.

Surely not someone else creeping back under a pseudonym after they flounced off in a huff?

[Lento]

Any comments on the balance/R3 broadcast? The cello appearance of the Ode theme v soft, but then the bassoon seemed extremely highlighted, rather unnaturally, perhaps.

"Dull is how Gilbert has sometimes been described, but this performance was anything but", according to Ivan Hewett. Must admit I liked the faster tempi.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/proms/11094044/BBC-Proms-2014-Leipzig-Gewandhaus-Orchestra-review-touched-with-passing-beauties.html

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Well done, Wilson, I was wondering which of you would come up with that first! Ahem...!