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Wonderful Arabesque encore . Horowitz level Schumann playing ….Boris G could learn a thing or two… -
This Tschaik 5 is red hot as well…..tremendousComment
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Fantastic concert! Beethoven and Tchaikovsky coming up really fresh as newly discovered.Originally posted by Prommer View Post
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That Tchaikovsky 5th was everything the recent VPO Pathetique was not. Urgent, completely committed , powerfully rhythmic . Gardner knocks spots off F W-M as a conductor…Comment
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Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post
Absolutely! Playing and conducting with a passion worthy of Mravinsky. The VPO played the right notes in the right order; that was it. If I’d attended that prom I would have inclined to have asked for a considerable refund on the very top price I’d paid for a ticket,
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I came in towards the end of the 3rd movement but was very taken with what I heard. The last movement made me smile, as the wonderful grumbling from cellos and basses was made very obvious rather than as too often happens just being a rather amorphous 'noise'. It sounded like a somewhat discontented conversation being held to one side of the main event upper strings.
This was one of the symphonies I was lucky enough to play in my youth; I enjoyed it at the time and that enjoyment has stayed with me ever since, but there's an extra pleasure when a performance gives a slightly different take on the well known, as this did.Comment
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2 October live concert by RLPO and Manze looks good with Butterworth, Debussy, Wood/Pictures coupled with Simpson and Fitkin. A new cd by these forces of Butterworth and Holst is excellent. Looking forward to hearing the orchestra’s superb bell collection in the Pictures!Comment
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Gardner completely rushed the last bars with the brass! Needs to be much more 'final' than that.Last edited by Prommer; 02-10-25, 14:18.Comment
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Seldom heard a new piece so rapturously applauded as that by Simpson; a worthy addition to the viola repertoire.Originally posted by jonfan View Post
Dare I say that the Wood’Pictures matches the inherent madness of the original more than the Ravel? Superb tonight.Last edited by jonfan; 02-10-25, 20:19.Comment
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I agree with you about the Simpson and the Henry Wood, and thought the whole concert was absolutely splendid - lucky Liverpudlian concertgoers!Originally posted by jonfan View PostComment
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Ulster Orchestra and Laura van der Heijden giving a superb performance of Saint-Saën’s Cello Concerto No 1 tonight.Last edited by jonfan; 07-10-25, 06:17.Comment
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Anna Thorvaldsdottir: ARCHORA
György Ligeti: Atmosphères
John Luther Adams: Become Ocean
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Dalia Stasevska (conductor)
I was in the hall for last night's performance. A well-put together programme of musical landscapes even if I didn't respond to the pieces with equal enthusiasm. ARCHORA was rather wonderful and Atmosphères is a classic. This was followed, after the subtlest of pauses, by Become Ocean. This had the headline billing but was less to my taste. I'm not averse to music that doesn't 'go' anywhere but it's good to be engaged even if you are not on a journey. Post-minimalist gloop I thought, my companion was much more positive.
As an aside, conductor and some percussionist wore an earpiece or headphones for the Adams. Is this for a click-track?
Judging by the composer's website ARCHORA is doing pretty well, having had performances by some big hitters in just over three years in the wild.Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostComment
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I was a bit dubious about this programming but I thought that it all worked together rather well. I very much like 'Archora' (which I have on CD) and to follow it with 'Atmosphères' was clever programming. Fine performance, too. The Adams is admiitedly not to everyone's taste but I listen to the Seattle SO CD from time to time so was pleased to hear it in a live concert. Dalia Stasevska clearly has a good relationship with the orchestra (the Anna Meredith 'Nautilus' which they recorded for R3 is a terrific listen). So, full marks to Radio 3 for broadcasting a concert which I would much like to have attended. I'm envious of Duncan!Originally posted by duncan View PostAnna Thorvaldsdottir: ARCHORA
György Ligeti: Atmosphères
John Luther Adams: Become Ocean
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Dalia Stasevska (conductor)
I was in the hall for last night's performance. A well-put together programme of musical landscapes even if I didn't respond to the pieces with equal enthusiasm. ARCHORA was rather wonderful and Atmosphères is a classic. This was followed, after the subtlest of pauses, by Become Ocean. This had the headline billing but was less to my taste. I'm not averse to music that doesn't 'go' anywhere but it's good to be engaged even if you are not on a journey. Post-minimalist gloop I thought, my companion was much more positive.
As an aside, conductor and some percussionist wore an earpiece or headphones for the Adams. Is this for a click-track?
Judging by the composer's website ARCHORA is doing pretty well, having had performances by some big hitters in just over three years in the wild.Comment
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This Mahler 9 from Oramo and the BBCSO is very good indeed . As fine as some of the recent Mahlers at this year’s Proms. Some really excellent string playing.Comment
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Those positive qualities were sustained until the end. The end of the slow movement was beautiful.Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View PostComment
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