Prom 15: Paul Lewis plays Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ concerto – 25.07.18

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

So where's "Cavern"?

In the North of the Irish Republic, isn't it?

[vinteuil]

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No.. I don’t like Hear and Now on Saturday evenings , ferney, but I MUST do better by using the iPlayer... Don’t I recall hearing the Cave as composed by one of the American Minimalists at the South Bank, ten is so years ago? I think it was multi-media but remember it’s music as thin gruel.

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The Cave is the video opera Steve Reich and his wife Beryl Korot, ed - I dunno about the South Bank, but it was done at Huddersfield over twenty years ago. It uses the recorded speech samples technique that Reich had previously used in Different Trains, and the title refers to the joint origins of Judaism and Islam.
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.... my notes tell me -"The Cave a été commandé et coproduit en 1993 par les Wiener Festwochen, le Holland Festival, le Festival d'Automne à Paris/MC 93 Bobigny, le Hebbel Theater, le South Bank Centre et Brooklyn Academy of Music". I remember attending the opening night in Bobigny, Paris.

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/04/arts/music/04cave.html

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[BBMmk2]

Ben Gernon's First Prom. I was chatting to him the other day.

[bluestateprommer]

Ben Gernon's First Prom. I was chatting to him the other day.

Not quite. This was actually BG's second Prom. His first was the Peter Maxwell Davies 80th birthday Prom in 2014: https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ezzwhn

[edashtav]

The Cave is the video opera Steve Reich and his wife Beryl Korot, ed - I dunno about the South Bank, but it was done at Huddersfield over twenty years ago. It uses the recorded speech samples technique that Reich had previously used in Different Trains, and the title refers to the joint origins of Judaism and Islam.

Cave (no definite article, like Wigmore and Carnagie Halls) is about a post-environmental disaster world.

Yes... that’s The Cave that I experienced on the S. Bank, in the Festival Hall, I seem to remember. I’ll make a note to catch up with the (new) Cave. Thanks, ferney.

[Bergonzi]

Thank heavens that awful rubbish (tansy something) is over. What a load of garbage!!

[kernelbogey]

I watched the tv programme, presented by Hannah Kendall, at first thinking what a good idea to have a musician rather than a BBC presenter doing the presenting. But I quickly became disillusioned on two counts.

The interview with Paul Lewis came over as a series of banal questions that anyone could have asked. The interview was intercut with extracts from the concerto recorded in rehearsal. It was so obviously playing to the 'ignorant' that it was painful to behold. A waste of Hannah's understanding of music. Paul Lewis did not look too chuffed about it either.

Secondly, her delivery was very flat. The presenters from Radio 3 do at least know how to use their voices, and sadly this is a job she's not made for.

At least I found it interesting to watch the orchestra and Ben Gernon's conducting style; as JLW has commented, lovely detail came out.

[LMcD]

lso surely? bavarian rso.

definitely!

[LMcD]

Any reason for BBM's and my message having been decapitalized?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Any reason for BBM's and my message having been decapitalized?

Nothing has been edited on this side of the posting, LMcD - 'tis a mystery.

[LMcD]

Nothing has been edited on this side of the posting, LMcD - 'tis a mystery.

I was merely puzzled, not in any way perturbed (Unless, of course, it's further evidence that THEY'VE LANDED .....)