Mahler 3 - LSO, Bychkov

[Curalach]

Summary execution would have been too good for him/her/it. What is it with LSO audiences? Mind you, after that effort, everybody else seemed to admit defeat so perhaps we should be grateful.

Sadly, it's not just the LSO audience. It seems to me that many people come to concerts festooned with iPhones and bottles of water but without a decent pocket handkerchief, or the ability to use it.

[Flosshilde]

Unfortunately young (& not so young) people don't use handkerchiefs these days (heaven knows what doting aunts do for Christmas presents - although probably most doting aunts are of an age that is unaware of handkerchiefs & the miriad uses they have )

[Steerpike]

At the Wigmore Hall they have a more-or-less sustained campaign against coughing. They do sometimes lecture the audience before a concert but the results are good, coughing is minimal (a miracle given the average age of the audience) and suitably stifled when it happens. The LSO note on the matter in the programme is very recessive. I do think they need to think about the problem.

[Petrushka]

At the Wigmore Hall they have a more-or-less sustained campaign against coughing. They do sometimes lecture the audience before a concert but the results are good, coughing is minimal (a miracle given the average age of the audience) and suitably stifled when it happens. The LSO note on the matter in the programme is very recessive. I do think they need to think about the problem.

Good for the Wigmore Hall! I think it's past the time when the Barbican, RFH and RAH confronted this problem by making an announcement from the stage just prior to the conductor's/artists entrance and at both halves of the concert (though the second could be as a reminder via the PA system). It's a pity that elements of the concert audience are selfish half-wits leading everyone to be treated as children but that's life!

[EnemyoftheStoat]

What's nice about the Wigmore Hall announcement is that it is done with good humour and doesn't come across as a lecture.

[Flosshilde]

Meanwhile, back to Bychkov (or should that be cough?), the Guardian wasn't terribly impressed - http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012...bychkov-review, although they did give it 3 stars. As it's almost unheard of for anything to get the full five three must count as not at all bad.

[HighlandDougie]

A chacun son gout - was I even at the same performance? While it may not have stormed the heavens, "uninvolving" is not a word I would use. Critics, doncha just luv 'em.

PS Liked the Bychcough

[EnemyoftheStoat]

A chacun son gout - was I even at the same performance? While it may not have stormed the heavens, "uninvolving" is not a word I would use. Critics, doncha just luv 'em.

PS Liked the Bychcough

Ah, I see it was Clements. Probably pissed off at having to stay for the whole concert...

He's very grudging with the stars in any case - http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/andrewclements

[Flosshilde]

A distinct resmblance to Michael Tippett, in my eyes.

http://www.steenslid.com/music/tippe.../tippett01.jpg