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[Roger Webb]

I'm currently in hospital (under investigation for gastritis), so if I were in a position to listen (I suppose I could try on Sounds) it would certainly be as I'd never heard it before, this being the first time in my 73 years I've been in a hospital overnight.

Sorry to hear that....get well soon! One stay only for me, double hernia op. Horrendous, didn't sleep a wink......almost wish there been R3 Unwind to send me off!!

[Roger Webb]

Never mind the billing - good concert this of underplayed music very persuasively performed.

Particularly the Arnold.....tremendous engineering tonight too! Oh, bit of a gaff from Ian Skelly proclaiming Arnold to be the sole composer of all the St Trinian's films' music!

[Ein Heldenleben]

Particularly the Arnold.....tremendous engineering tonight too! Oh, bit of a gaff from Ian Skelly proclaiming Arnold to be the sole composer of all the St Trinian's films' music!

Yes particularly rich silky string sounds in the last movement which I suspect would come across well on Quads. I think that lush last movement theme came in for some criticism - it is however my not -so -guilty- pleasure.

[Roger Webb]

Yes particularly rich silky string sounds in the last movement which I suspect would come across well on Quads. I think that lush last movement theme came in for some criticism - it is however my not -so -guilty- pleasure.

Yes, there are many such moments in Arnold! There are often such imaginative touches in his orchestration, for example that gentle theme that sounds like sunshine on wet pebbles - sounds fanciful, but it fills me with self-indulgent nostalgia - one can almost see the young Hayley Mills standing there!!!

The 'sound' of the music was enjoyable as a thing in its self - this is a regular guilty pleasure....bearing in mind FF's comment that there's more to music than the noise it makes, I reserve the right to have a good wallow occasionally.

[smittims]

Well said, Heldeleben , message 480 above. In these lean days we can do with more programmes like this one.

[Pulcinella]

Didn't have my Sounds password to hand (something else for my partner to bring in: ultrasound bank holiday backlog so test now not scheduled until tomorrow but being kept in for observation!) so I listened instead to the Andrew Penny Naxos recording on my iPod so I could be there in spirit.

[Pulcinella]

Looking forward to tonight's (29/04/25) concert: anyone remember any reviews?

Recorded at the Barbican on 12th March 2025. Presented by Martin Handley.

Béla Bartók: Cantata profana, Sz 94
Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Interval
Leos Janáček: Sinfonietta

Robin Tritschler (tenor)
Miklós Sebestyén (bass-baritone)
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

PS: I'll start a separate thread as I found some!

[LMcD]

I really enjoyed Sir James MacMillan's Euphonium Concerto. It was generous of him to have the world premiere of a work with strong personal associations premiered in Wales!

[smittims]

...and what a well-chosen programme. Well done, Sir James. I can't remember when the Holst Capriccio was last broadcast,and even some Stravinsky works are getting rarities these days .

It was a pleasure to have a piano recital for a change the previous evening, and Schubert too, which we shan't be getting at the Proms.

[LMcD]

...and what a well-chosen programme. Well done, Sir James. I can't remember when the Holst Capriccio was last broadcast,and even some Stravinsky works are getting rarities these days .

It was a pleasure to have a piano recital for a change the previous evening, and Schubert too, which we shan't be getting at the Proms.

A quick glance at the BBC tells me that it was broadcast on 27/1/1992 when Holst was Composer Of The Week, and previously on 21/3/1980.

[Ein Heldenleben]

...and what a well-chosen programme. Well done, Sir James. I can't remember when the Holst Capriccio was last broadcast,and even some Stravinsky works are getting rarities these days .

It was a pleasure to have a piano recital for a change the previous evening, and Schubert too, which we shan't be getting at the Proms.

Very good recital that …

[Pulcinella]

I really enjoyed Sir James MacMillan's Euphonium Concerto. It was generous of him to have the world premiere of a work with strong personal associations premiered in Wales!

Listened via Sounds last night, and thought both Stravinsky renditions to be rather thick and leaden: not enough bounce.
The Holst was new to me.

[Pulcinella]

A good line-up tonight (5/5/25), albeit all repeats.

Elgar
Violin Concerto
Anthony Marwood (violin)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Manze (conductor)
Recorded: Malvern Forum Theatre, Malvern, February 2025

Britten
Sinfonia da Requiem
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska (conductor)
Recorded: Barbican Hall, London, October 2019

Vaughan Williams
Symphony No 5
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
Recorded: Prichard-Jones Hall, Bangor, November 2024

[bluestateprommer]

Have been behind on R3 in Concert offerings, and thus trying to catch up (not wholly successfully). One that I caught before the deadline was the recent BBC Philharmonic performance with Nil Venditti conducting:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00298f4

This was a very enjoyable concert, and a nicely assembled program. It was notable in the 2nd half how much talk time NV got in the pre-music banter before Pulcinella, and her palpable enthusiasm for the work. Also, if anyone remembers the sudden foot stamp (heel stamp?) at the end of her Proms Beethoven 7 a few summers back, the same foot stomp happened at the end of the Stravinsky.

[edashtav]

Listened via Sounds last night, and thought both Stravinsky renditions to be rather thick and leaden: not enough bounce.
The Holst was new to me.

I heard the Stravinsky through your ears! Full marks to tthe orchestra for knowing their parts well but few marks to Jimmy who failed to rein them in.