Mozart Clarinet Concerto and and Bruckner 7th Symphony tonight 11/5/12

[RobertLeDiable]

The engineers don't seem to have mastered the rather bright, reverberant acoustic do they?

The Music Hall in Aberdeen is one of the best medium sized halls in the country. The acoustic is nicely resonant and warm. I heard only the Bruckner but the sound was perfect for that, and a very impressive performance too.

[Richard Tarleton]

The Music Hall in Aberdeen is one of the best medium sized halls in the country. The acoustic is nicely resonant and warm. I heard only the Bruckner but the sound was perfect for that, and a very impressive performance too.

A fine performance. He took it at a cracking pace, I thought.

[jayne lee wilson]

As I intimated earlier, I couldn't face a complete Bruckner 7 tonight; but I lent an ear to the conclusion of the first movement and the balance anomalies of the Mozart had indeed been corrected. Smooth, spacious and powerful - nicely resonant with no excess brightness.

[jayne lee wilson]

A fine performance. He took it at a cracking pace, I thought.

Glad to hear it! I always preferred a brisk approach to the 7th, epitomised by Haitink's two Concertgebouw recordings, especially the live one from 1972 in the Q Disc Radio Recordings Box. That towering Brucknerian Knappertsbusch tended not to hang around either, for all the frequent impurity of his texts.

[Hornspieler]

A fine performance. He took it at a cracking pace, I thought.

I really enjoyed last night's performances and I envy the good citizens of Edinburgh for their opportunity to hear this concert live on Sunday.

For me, the highlight of the symphony is in the slow movement, where the choir of Wagner Tubas is playing a lingering melody and the horn suddenly crashes in over the top; taking charge of the situation. A spine-tingling moment!

Well done all!

HS

[Brassbandmaestro]

I will look forward to this on iplayer!

[Maclintick]

I will look forward to this on iplayer!

I don't think you'll be disappointed BBM. One of the chief glories of the BBC Scottish is their wonderful brass section, who excelled on this occasion, with rotary valve trumpets glistening in resonant string textures. To my mind, Runnicles and his players delivered an authentically Brucknerian experience which bodes well for their forthcoming Bruckner 8 in the Proms.

[Barbirollians]

I only caught the Mozart and found it unremarkable . Frost always does his best with the part but the BBCSO/Runnicles gave a very expressionless almost emaciated accompaniment like Norrington on a bad day .

[Colonel Danby]

I've almost reached the end of Bruckner 7 on listen again, and it's a fine account with the BBC Scots, the brass especially good: I'm a great Runnicles fan, and I too will try to get to the Albert Hall for his 8th if possible.

On record I've got Rattle/CBSO and VPO/Karajan, and though I tend not to collect multiple recordings of the same work, I am saved by the fact that they do use different editions! Compare and contrast...