Prom 54 (30.08.20) Sir Simon Rattle - live

[parkepr]

No symphonies though...?

I heard him do RVW 5 at the RFH back in the 90s as part of "Towards The Millennium" with the CBSO... My first time hearing the piece... Loved it..

[silvestrione]

I heard him do RVW 5 at the RFH back in the 90s as part of "Towards The Millennium" with the CBSO... My first time hearing the piece... Loved it..

I was there also, parkepr, as I said in #17 above. Though, on that occasion, as I explained, my experience was different from yours!

[Nick Armstrong]

I don't think that I could hear a finer performance of VW5, utterly beautiful and deeply moving.

Yes, have now listened & watched, and it’s a marvellous performance... gaining much from the space and air around the players, it seemed to me (and, dare I say it, the absence of coughing during and applause afterwards....). The pacing was pretty near ideal, to my ears, and a reminder that not wallowing was a hallmark of RVW’s own performance at the same venue (heard a couple of weeks back on a Martin Handley Breakfast.

Ades seemed amazingly derivative to me - and I mean derivative / imitative of older and far less recent pieces, Part being just one example.
i.e. if you had not known it was a 'world premiere', would you not have ascribed it to Part etc?

Completely agreed. Underwhelming. (An ‘instant classic’ in the same sense as Nescafé is ‘instant coffee’)

[Bryn]

Yes, have now listened & watched, and it’s a marvellous performance... gaining much from the space and air around the players, it seemed to me (and, dare I say it, the absence of coughing during and applause afterwards....). The pacing was pretty near ideal, to my ears, and a reminder that not wallowing was a hallmark of RVW’s own performance at the same venue (heard a couple of weeks back on a Martin Handley Breakfast.



Completely agreed. Underwhelming. (An ‘instant classic’ in the same sense as Nescafé is ‘instant coffee’)

Spray-dried, rather than freeze-dried, to boot.

[kernelbogey]

...An ‘instant classic’ in the same sense as Nescafé is ‘instant coffee’

Not 'essential' then....

[Nick Armstrong]

Not 'essential' then....

Shhhh... don’t give ‘em programme ideas!

[kernelbogey]

Or we could have it followed by some Saturday Dawn Sounds From Barnsley on a Saturday morming....

[cloughie]

Or we could have it followed by some Saturday Dawn Sounds From Barnsley on a Saturday morming....

At least Ades doesn’t use a egg slicer!

[Barbirollians]

I heard him do RVW 5 at the RFH back in the 90s as part of "Towards The Millennium" with the CBSO... My first time hearing the piece... Loved it..

An outstanding concert especially the VW5 and Elgar Introduction and Allegro . I rather enjoyed the Ades and the Gabrieli too.

[Edgy 2]

Or we could have it followed by some Saturday Dawn Sounds From Barnsley on a Saturday morming....

At least Ades doesn’t use a egg slicer!

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[LMcD]

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Apparently some egg slicers have thin wires that can be played as musical instruments, although I don't know whether cloughie has a particular composer in mind. A chap called Joe Acheson wrote a piece for egg-slicer harp. It sounds like the sort of thing that would have interested Gerard Hoffnung.

[Edgy 2]

Apparently some egg slicers have thin wires that can be played as musical instruments, although I don't know whether cloughie has a particular composer in mind. A chap called Joe Acheson wrote a piece for egg-slicer harp. It sounds like the sort of thing that would have interested Gerard Hoffnung.

Ah,and Barnsley ?

[kernelbogey]

Apparently some egg slicers have thin wires that can be played as musical instruments, although I don't know whether cloughie has a particular composer in mind. A chap called Joe Acheson wrote a piece for egg-slicer harp. It sounds like the sort of thing that would have interested Gerard Hoffnung.

Some sort of yoke, no doubt....

(I'll get me coat.)

[kernelbogey]

Ah,and Barnsley ?

A reference to Saturday Breakfast, and its irritating feature called Saturday Sounds. If Barnsley hasn't featured yet, I'm sure it will. (I believe it's north of Watford, by some margin.)

[cloughie]

A reference to Saturday Breakfast, and its irritating feature called Saturday Sounds. If Barnsley hasn't featured yet, I'm sure it will. (I believe it's north of Watford, by some margin.)

Which last Saturday featured the use of a rather tuneless egg slicer! By the way, Mr Bogeyman if you don’t know anything about Barnsley don’t randomly mention it - I have fond memories of the town from a very early age! Watch out edge, he’ll be taking a swipe at Stockport next which he no doubt thinks is also some name of a place north of Watford, wherever that is ?