Prom 60: Marin Alsop & Baltimore Symphony Orchestra – 27.08.18

[LMcD]

What was M Thibaudet's encore? SK merely described it as 'a salon piece by Schubert'.
I'm afraid I soon forgot all about the Bernstein once the Shostakovitch was under way.
Loved the Finnish folk song encore that followed the concert!

[kernelbogey]

J-Y Thibaudet looks extraordinarily like a middle-aged Bernstein from some angles! Gave me quite a turn when I switched on with Age of Anxiety already underway and thought What trickery is this?!

Also intrigued that he'd asked Michael Caine to be his page turner!

[muzzer]

Yes likewise glad not to be the only one noticing that resemblance. Oh, and “The other night I drifted nice continental drift divide Mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein, Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs, Birthday party, cheesecake, jellybean,” anyone ....?

[Nick Armstrong]

So, it wasn't just me! #lennytributebarnet

[jayne lee wilson]

Yes, but what about the piece? Symphony No.2 by Leonard Bernstein?
I'll try to get back to the Prom now computer-things are sort-of-OK again, but early this morning I listened again to the new Zimerman/Rattle... and I was just in heaven..oh God, how wonderful is that? Orchestra, soloist, conductor at a rare peak... "Record of the Year" written all over it.. but surely it's Lenny's finest orchestral achievement anyway? (**)

It is a lucky work on record now, with Foss/Bernstein, Entremont/Bernstein, Tocco/Slatkin, and now the new Berlin one and the Rana/Pappano in the complete, very luxuriously packaged set.

(**) yes, I am aware that Zimerman could be jazzier or snappier in the Masque, but that isn't what this performance is about...

[Bryn]

What was M Thibaudet's encore? SK merely described it as 'a salon piece by Schubert'.

Kupelwieser Waltz in G flat major D.AI/14, I think (not a waltz in G, as suggested ny PT).

[bluestateprommer]

Yes, but what about the piece? Symphony No.2 by Leonard Bernstein?
I'll try to get back to the Prom now computer-things are sort-of-OK again...

New chance to hear this Baltimore SO Prom on New Year's Eve (and 30 days after), before the rebroadcast of The Last Night (I don't think that I need to bump that thread up):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001tjy

[hunglol]

this concert with the ever-popular Marin Alsop and the Baltimore