Proms at ... Wilton's Music Hall - 2.09.17

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  • Eine Alpensinfonie
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    • Nov 2010
    • 20569

    Proms at ... Wilton's Music Hall - 2.09.17

    15:00 & 19.30 Saturday 2 September 2017
    Wilton's Music Hall

    John Luther Adams: songbirdsongs (excerpts)
    Olivier Messiaen: Le merle noir
    Rebecca Saunders: Molly's Song 3
    Peter Maxwell Davies: Eight Songs for a Mad King


    Jennifer France soprano
    Marcus Farnsworth baritone
    Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
    Sian Edwards conductor
    Olivia Fuchs stage director

    Dating from the mid-19th century, Wilton's is the world's oldest surviving music hall. With its tumbledown beauty and colourful history, it's the perfect space for a staged performance of Peter Maxwell Davies's Eight Songs for a Mad King - a dramatic monologue exploring the crazed fantasies and crumbling visions of George III.
    The fluttering and chattering of the king's pet bullfinches which run through the work find an echo in bird-inspired pieces by Messiaen and Handel, as well as Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer John Luther Adams.
    Sian Edwards conducts the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, with exciting young British soloists Jennifer France and Marcus Farnsworth.
    Last edited by Eine Alpensinfonie; 30-08-17, 09:11.
  • Eine Alpensinfonie
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    • Nov 2010
    • 20569

    #2
    Where?

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    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
      Gone fishin'
      • Sep 2011
      • 30163

      #3
      Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
      Where?
      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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      • Bryn
        Banned
        • Mar 2007
        • 24688

        #4
        Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
        15:00 & 19.30 Saturday 2 September 2017
        Wilton's Music Hall

        John Luther Adams: songbirdsongs (excerpts)
        Olivier Messiaen: Le merle noir
        Rebecca Saunders: Molly's Song 3
        Peter Maxwell Davies: Eight Songs for a Mad King


        Jennifer France soprano
        Marcus Farnsworth baritone
        Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
        Sian Edwards conductor
        Olivia Fuchs stage director

        Dating from the mid-19th century, Wilton's is the world's oldest surviving music hall. With its tumbledown beauty and colourful history, it's the perfect space for a staged performance of Peter Maxwell Davies's Eight Songs for a Mad King - a dramatic monologue exploring the crazed fantasies and crumbling visions of George III.
        The fluttering and chattering of the king's pet bullfinches which run through the work find an echo in bird-inspired pieces by Messiaen and Handel, as well as Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer John Luther Adams.
        Sian Edwards conducts the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, with exciting young British soloists Jennifer France and Marcus Farnsworth.
        Brilliant venue, but what are the Promming arrangements?

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        • Darkbloom
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          • Feb 2015
          • 706

          #5
          Originally posted by Bryn View Post
          Brilliant venue, but what are the Promming arrangements?
          Here you are:

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          • Eine Alpensinfonie
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 20569

            #6
            Originally posted by Darkbloom View Post
            A little more detail about what "limited promming" means would be helpful.
            Last edited by Eine Alpensinfonie; 30-08-17, 14:08.

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            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
              Gone fishin'
              • Sep 2011
              • 30163

              #7
              Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
              A little more detail about what "limited priming" means would be helpful.
              Well - look at the paintwork:

              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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              • Eine Alpensinfonie
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                • Nov 2010
                • 20569

                #8
                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                Well - look at the paintwork:



                Oops. Will edit.

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                • Bryn
                  Banned
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 24688

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Darkbloom View Post
                  Thank you. Looks like an early rise is called for.

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                  • bluestateprommer
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 3007

                    #10
                    First, the slightly tweaked program:

                    John Luther Adams: songbirdsongs – excerpts
                    Messiaen: Le merle noir
                    Anon.: 'Mad Maudlin’s Search for Her Tom O’Bedlam'
                    Rebecca Saunders: Molly’s Song 3
                    Handel: Rinaldo – 'Augelletti, che cantate'
                    Peter Maxwell Davies: Eight Songs for a Mad King

                    There were some pauses, though obviously not a full interval, which means you have to put up with TS filling the dead air between those segments (although I think that there is a legitimate technical reason why there can't be too much silence on the radio, something to do with emergency systems kicking in), although those do include some clips of Olivia Fuchs speaking about her concept for the concert. All that aside, this was a very well performed concert all around. Marcus Farnsworth was perhaps a tad less histrionic than what I recall of Julius Eastman on the classic recording with the Fires of London. Even more than usual, it sounds as though with the theatrical nature of this concert, you really had to be there. Will be interesting to have a first-hand report from anyone at this concert.

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                    • LeMartinPecheur
                      Full Member
                      • Apr 2007
                      • 4717

                      #11
                      Originally posted by bluestateprommer View Post
                      First, the slightly tweaked program:

                      John Luther Adams: songbirdsongs – excerpts
                      Messiaen: Le merle noir
                      Anon.: 'Mad Maudlin’s Search for Her Tom O’Bedlam'
                      Rebecca Saunders: Molly’s Song 3
                      Handel: Rinaldo – 'Augelletti, che cantate'
                      Peter Maxwell Davies: Eight Songs for a Mad King

                      [...] Marcus Farnsworth was perhaps a tad less histrionic than what I recall of Julius Eastman on the classic recording with the Fires of London. Even more than usual, it sounds as though with the theatrical nature of this concert, you really had to be there. Will be interesting to have a first-hand report from anyone at this concert.
                      I listened, partly because I've been trying for some 45 years to get my head round PMD in all his phases except the simple pleasures of his most popular/tuneful, and partly because I've been hugely impressed by Marcus Farnsworth in some 'new music' down here in Kernow.

                      Was mightily by both today. I need to revisit Eastman, but MF's delivery was beautiful without, imo, detracting from the power and (presumably) the intended effect of the score. Brilliant, don't miss it on IPlayer if you didn't catch it live!

                      [For violists, there's the guilty pleasure of hearing a violin being smashed up onstage]
                      I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!

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