Ferneyhough at the Barbican

[Bryn]

Actually it was the content of the evening concert, plus the 2nd String Quartet from an afternoon concert. Whether other items will turn up later is open to question, though the supposed policy at Radio 3 is not to put on works which are not to be broadcast.

[Trudge]

I think the only other work that could be broadcast is the Quatuor Diotima's performance of Sonatas for String Quartet. (And I would very much like to hear that again.) Only two other pieces were played live on the day, both by Guildhall students - Cassandra's Dream Song, as an interlude in a 'meet the composer' between BF and Tom Service, and Lemma-Icon-Epigram, at the start of a short concert of works by Guildhall composers. I don't think the BBC were recording either.

[silvestrione]

Is there the tiniest scintilla of a chance that these Brian Ferneyhough concerts from the Barbican will make it to Po3 / BBC iPlayer, for poor folk like me on the other side of the pond?

The String Quartet 2, and the full evening concert, ARE available on the iplayer: see 'Hear and Now', 10.30 last Saturday.
My favourite was 'Plotzlichkeit', rather than the 'wall of sound' La Terre est un homme' which Tom Service was so keen on.

[Paul Sherratt]

>>>I heard the piece about this on today's Today programme.



Not 'Breakfast' ?

[Caliban]

My favourite was 'Plotzlichkeit'

Referred to, I happen to know, by the orchestra (none too affectionately) as "Plopshite"....

[Bryn]

Referred to, I happen to know, by the orchestra (none too affectionately) as "Plopshite"....

Well, that orchestra intrument players for you. Would that a few of them at least were also musicians.