Through the Night

[oddoneout]

Single movement from a Beethoven quartet this morning, is nothing immune from the SJ virus?

[kernelbogey]

Those "The Young Maverick" CDs are currently ~£7 (inc. postage) secondhand on Amazon and far too tempting.

I bought a copy of the Young Maverick from a German retailer. Magnificent record.

[LMcD]

Single movement from a Beethoven quartet this morning, is nothing immune from the SJ virus?

This week's CotW features extracts from single movements of Mahler symphonies.

[Ein Heldenleben]

This week's CotW features extracts from single movements of Mahler symphonies.

I think given the format that’s unavoidable.Otherwise Wagner Bruckner and Mahler would never make it into the series. Even playing a whole Beethoven symphony would take up too much of the programme.

[french frank]

This week's CotW features extracts from single movements of Mahler symphonies.

CoTW is classified as a music documentary programme. I don’t think extracts were ever verboten.

[smittims]

A I recall, though,they didn't use to talk over the music, as they do now. That's one reason why I usually switch it off , another being the 'Blue Peter ' style patronising tone to the listener : 'Let's join Maller (sic) in his little garden shed . Won't that be fun, children?'.

[Nick Armstrong]

Superlative concert performance of Schumann’s Second Symphony in the early hours of this morning, from the Berlin RSO under Antonello Manacorda.

A brilliantly fleet-of-foot scherzo, and I’ve never heard such an effective accelerando through the two bars of repeated notes (on timps, basses etc.) which start the coda. It’s not marked in the score I looked at, but it came over as completely natural and brought the movement to an even faster, exhilarating close.

[smittims]

It may seem churlish to complain about the broadcast of anything by Handel, but I'm wondering if 'lascia la spina' or its alternative version 'lascio ch'io pianga ' is turning into the 21st century equvalent of 'Handel's Largo' . It was on TTN this morning and on 'Sunday Morning' two days ago, and I'm sure they've broadcast it three or four times in the last few months. And am I the only person who feels it's getting played more and more slowly each time?

[LMcD]

A I recall, though,they didn't use to talk over the music, as they do now. That's one reason why I usually switch it off , another being the 'Blue Peter ' style patronising tone to the listener : 'Let's join Maller (sic) in his little garden shed . Won't that be fun, children?'.

Talking of little garden sheds, I watched 'Room' last night - I imagine Mahler's lakeside retreat was better equipped than poor Jack's.

[kernelbogey]

Mozart Violin Concertos 3,4 &1
Super performances from David Grimal and Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra
Lovely tone from soloist and inspiring cadenzas
20.4.2025 0030

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0029x86

[Quarky]

Happened by chance on Fairy Queen last night and I must say it's the first time I really appreciated it. A welcome change from all that Italianate stuff.

Can't help feeling that the recent performance at the Proms which included Break Dance routines was a step in the wrong direction.

[smittims]

I agree; I hate anachronism. I suppose it's all part of the problem of what to do with these 'semi-operas' or 'ambigues' as they used to be called. Most people just play the music, and that's all I want . But others want to try to find some visual or spoken dimension acceptable to a modern audience.

[kernelbogey]

A fine Fidelio from ROH in 2020 last night 13 May: Davidsen, Kaufmann, Pappano.

[AuntDaisy]

A fine Fidelio from ROH in 2020 last night 13 May: Davidsen, Kaufmann, Pappano.

Interestingly, it breaks the 2 hour block limit
(Our Austrian friends at Ö1 had to shuffle things around and pop the news in between acts.)

Perhaps TTN will start broadcasting longer operas again (e.g. 3+ hours of Glinka's "Ivan Susanin")...

[smittims]

I enjoyed the Sigurd Lie Symphony this morning: a cheerful, well-written piece of light music.No masterpiece of course, but a good example of the thousands of works written by forgotten or neglected male composers just as good if not better than the few overrated and over-broadcast women composers Radio 3 seems to love so much. If they played more of them it would put Florence Price , Mel Bonis and Elisabeth Jaquet de la Guerre in a more meaningful context at present.