What was your last concert?

[Pulcinella]

Here you go:

https://www.for3.org/forums/forum/classical-forum/talking-about-music/8126-future-concerts-you-re-excited-to-have-tickets-for

Thanks!
I'd better contribute to it now.

[LMcD]

This afternoon at our local church:' Music for Mother's Day'

Dvorak: Tales My Mother Told Me
Bach: Ricercare a 6-part fugue from A Musical Offering
Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht (preceded by a reading of Dehmel's poem)
Brahms: Sextet Opus 18

Quartetto Familia and Friends

[Ian Thumwood]

I'm with Boulez on this work. It would be fine had the composer just kept the opening movement and the ones numbered Turangalila and ditched the rest, especially the godawful Song of Love.

WTF!

SA

This is one of my favourite pieces of Classical Music. I particularly love this slow music and think the transcribe blackbird song is one of the most evocative pieces of 20th century composition. I have this on record and have heard the Turangalila performed live in concert. Messaien's orchestral voicings are incredible.

For what it is wirth, my Mum was very much into composers like Beethoven, Chopin and Schubert and I was forever trying to get her taste to broaden after she had been put off 20th century music by her familiarity with Stavinsky where she learned the piano transcription of Right of Spring when she was a teenager. I took her to hear the Messaien symphony and was absolutely loved it. To hear the music performed live is a spectacular experience which I feel is hard to beat when it comes to large scale classical works.

If you are a birdwatcher like me, I think the appeal is enahnced even more.

After reading your post, I am worried that you might be turning into Jeremy Clarkson! ??

[LMcD]

WTF!

SA

This is one of my favourite pieces of Classical Music. I particularly love this slow music and think the transcribe blackbird song is one of the most evocative pieces of 20th century composition. I have this on record and have heard the Turangalila performed live in concert. Messaien's orchestral voicings are incredible.

For what it is wirth, my Mum was very much into composers like Beethoven, Chopin and Schubert and I was forever trying to get her taste to broaden after she had been put off 20th century music by her familiarity with Stavinsky where she learned the piano transcription of Right of Spring when she was a teenager. I took her to hear the Messaien symphony and was absolutely loved it. To hear the music performed live is a spectacular experience which I feel is hard to beat when it comes to large scale classical works.

If you are a birdwatcher like me, I think the appeal is enahnced even more.

After reading your post, I am worried that you might be turning into Jeremy Clarkson! ??

The Right of Spring is, of course, to follow Winter and precede Summer. I'm not sure what Autumn is or isn't entitled to do.

[rauschwerk]

At Snape last night: The Sixteen with Robert Quinney (organ) in the Duruflé Requiem and Gregorian motets, together with other French and Swiss sacred music. Having read a mixed review in the Guardian of this programme given at St Martin-in-the-Fields, I wasn't sure what to expect. However, I found the whole concert most satisfying, without any of the shortcomings described by Flora Willson. (Perhaps the digital organ didn't have any of the 'gritty' sounds she disliked.) That said, I do prefer the orchestral version of the Duruflé.

[rauschwerk]

A great pleasure to return to the Sheffield Crucible Studio in the company of old friends, for the opening concert in a series marking 40 years of Music in the Round. Last night we had Ensemble 360 in Fauré's first piano quartet and Louise Farrenc' s Nonet. The playing of Tim Horton reminded us all of what an excellent chamber musician he is. I hadn't heard the Farrenc before. A conservative piece for sure but so beautifully written, and one could see how much pleasure it gave the musicians.

[kuligin]

The Halle last Wednesday afternoon, a last chance to see Elder as I can not attend his swan song in June being away.

Dvorak Scherzo Capricioso, Butterfield Shropshire Lad, Elgar Enigma, all pieces that are at the centre of Elder’s repertoire and all wonderfully played by the Halle, he is leaving the orchestra in the best condition I have heard it and I go back to Barbirolli’s 70th birthday concert ( Introduction and Allegro, V W 6, Beethoven 7).

In between Stephen Hough played his own piano concerto. It sounded like film music. In the notes he said all pianists used to write concertos in the past. I think most composers then were superb pianists and many wrote concertos which is a different matter.

[Pulcinella]

The Halle last Wednesday afternoon, a last chance to see Elder as I can not attend his swan song in June being away.

Dvorak Scherzo Capricioso, Butterfield Shropshire Lad, Elgar Enigma, all pieces that are at the centre of Elder’s repertoire and all wonderfully played by the Halle, he is leaving the orchestra in the best condition I have heard it and I go back to Barbirolli’s 70th birthday concert ( Introduction and Allegro, V W 6, Beethoven 7).

In between Stephen Hough played his own piano concerto. It sounded like film music. In the notes he said all pianists used to write concertos in the past. I think most composers then were superb pianists and many wrote concertos which is a different matter.

Times review (Friday) of that concert:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/2bb0f5c2-0254-4989-a8ea-9437ddfc07d7?shareToken=f7971b567ad7e71d1c20369c1d1142b7

[Roger Webb]

Times review (Friday) of that concert:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/2bb0f5c2-0254-4989-a8ea-9437ddfc07d7?shareToken=f7971b567ad7e71d1c20369c1d 1142b7

The T Service just played a bit as Sir Stephen was his guest. I had sent a message to Tom asking whether he would question his guest about the brevity (just one movt of S-S 5th Pc) of his appearance on the LNotP......he didn't!

Edit. The above concert is down for Evening Concert on Wed 22nd next week.

[kuligin]

My ears are clearly not in tune with current taste. Yes the audience reaction was warm, as it was a few weeks ago for Arnold’s Peterloo which in my view is just as banal.

if that Concerto is taken up by other pianists and is being played in ten years time I will be amazed.

I miss the Elder Mahler 5 as I am away to hear the Ring in Berlin,it’s far cheaper than the ROH both in ticket prices and accommodation. In fact this year I will attend 2 Opera North performances 1 at RNCM and 5 in Berlin and three at the Opera Comique which says something about opera in the UK or my odd taste of preferring Rameau to Puccini.

[rauschwerk]

I heard that same Hallé programme at Sheffield City Hall last night. Sir Stephen's concerto made very little impression on me. It was the kind of piece which needed at least one memorable tune, but lacked any. He didn't seem to give the orchestra anything interesting to do.

The rest of the programme was thoroughly memorable, fortunately, and I was extremely glad to have been there.