Classical music...
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Cloo
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Heard a superb concert tonight... my oldest discovered Schubert's 'Winterreise' song cycle a few weeks back and got obsessed with it (I have sung a few of them) and found out there was a concert at the Wigmore Halll tonight - Simon Keenlyside, one of the great exponents in the world today. As I said to them after, really a masterclass in How To Sing Lieder, and it was with Malcolm Martineau at the piano, another master of the repertoire and with a massive rapport with Keenlyside. I was a bit amazed there were any tickets left last week, but I nabbed 2 of the last dozen or so, and turned out to get a really great view as one of the few unoccupied seats was in front of us.
CH1
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I guess I got into Winterreise when I was a student. At that time the Britten and Peers LP recording was reckoned very good.
Everyone brings their own insight - although I must admit I found the recent TV version very annoying. The scenery didn't fit the traditional romantic concept at all IMHO.
Still on the iPlayer it seems BBC Four - Winter Journey: Schubert's Winterreise
I'm sure live concerts are the way to go if at all possible.
Cloo
Banana for scale
I'm going to hear another performance in September at my parents' music festival in Slovakia, this time with a tenor and the pianist is a friend whose interpretation I will be very interested to hear. He used to specialise only in contemporary and some very challenging Romantic/post-Romantic like Scriabin and Alkan, but has been exploring more stuff like Brahms in recent years.
In all honestly I struggle with classical Lieder. I'm thinking seeing it performed live may help.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Clearly Handel mastered the Tristan chord" 138 years before Wagner. Then of course you have the agitated cascading strings in the manner of Vivaldi, Wagner's Tannhauser and even Mantovani.
I think Handel was one of the composers who understood "the hook", which you don't get in Bach for example (looking at contemporaries).
If you take it to the ultimate extreme, maybe you get this - which set Decca up to be the great recording company it was in the 1950s-1970s [speaking as an ex-employee!]
Cloo
Banana for scale
Fans of contemporary music, 10pm on Saturday R3 is playing a recording of the world premier of 'The singing tree' by Christian Mason, which my oldest sang in the children's chorus of in Birmingham a few weeks back
www.bbc.co.uk
I'll be in a tent by my mate's house that night but will catch up on iplayer on when we get home!
BBC Radio 3 - New Music Show, The Singing Tree
Kate Molleson with music from Pamela Z, Lawrence Dunn, Helen Grime and Christian Mason.
I'll be in a tent by my mate's house that night but will catch up on iplayer on when we get home!
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I listened to the programme. Can be a bit difficult to follow. One of the pieces before the one you mentioned apparent;y featured a chorus singing in Dutch from Surinam.Fans of contemporary music, 10pm on Saturday R3 is playing a recording of the world premier of 'The singing tree' by Christian Mason, which my oldest sang in the children's chorus of in Birmingham a few weeks back
BBC Radio 3 - New Music Show, The Singing Tree
Kate Molleson with music from Pamela Z, Lawrence Dunn, Helen Grime and Christian Mason.
I'll be in a tent by my mate's house that night but will catch up on iplayer on when we get home!
Put me in mind of an Elliott Carter concert I once attended at the Royal College of \Music by the Albert Hall where some of the instruments were being played live on a digital link in Vienna!
I was thinking of going to see this, currently on at the Peckham Plex for £4.99 and the Brixton Ritzy for £12.30
Cloo
Banana for scale
Anyone going to Proms?
Might consider promming Bruch violin concerto Monday 17th, got actual tickets for Beethoven 9 on 23rd as can't be arsed to try to get prom tickets, probably going to prom the Enigma Variations on 25th as oldest would like to hear them. Fancy going to Mason Bates piano concerto on 29th as I heard a piece by him last year that was lots of fun.
Likely getting tickets with my parents for Prokofiev Piano Concerto #3 and Tchiakovksy Symphony #5 on 1 August, 9th August there's a late prom with things like Radiohead covers that some friends want to go to with me.
Also Shost Piano #2 and Firebird 18 August and Rite of Spring Afternoon of 19th are possibles, then on holiday.
Might consider promming Bruch violin concerto Monday 17th, got actual tickets for Beethoven 9 on 23rd as can't be arsed to try to get prom tickets, probably going to prom the Enigma Variations on 25th as oldest would like to hear them. Fancy going to Mason Bates piano concerto on 29th as I heard a piece by him last year that was lots of fun.
Likely getting tickets with my parents for Prokofiev Piano Concerto #3 and Tchiakovksy Symphony #5 on 1 August, 9th August there's a late prom with things like Radiohead covers that some friends want to go to with me.
Also Shost Piano #2 and Firebird 18 August and Rite of Spring Afternoon of 19th are possibles, then on holiday.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
The Proms is all people waving mobile phone lights this year.
Or at least it was for Fado music last Friday
Then again for the Anna Lapwood "interstella" organ recital
Then tonight we had a "Bollywood" Lata Mangeshkar memorial Prom (pictures awaited)
Unfortunately Lata Mangeshkar died last yea\r aged 92, but we were assured she was the first Indian performer to do the Royal Albert Hall (in 1974).
One of her numbers had waving mobile phone lights.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Please be assured there are "normal" Proms as well. I wonder what is was like working for the City of Brimingham Symphony Orchestra doing Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms and Carmina Burana on a Thurday followed by a Lala Mangeshka tribute on a Friday?
This is Anna Lapwood giving us 1m 36 seconds of Philip Glass "Mad Rush". She did 5 minutes or so on Tuesday at the Albert Hall
Or at least it was for Fado music last Friday
Then again for the Anna Lapwood "interstella" organ recital
Then tonight we had a "Bollywood" Lata Mangeshkar memorial Prom (pictures awaited)
Unfortunately Lata Mangeshkar died last yea\r aged 92, but we were assured she was the first Indian performer to do the Royal Albert Hall (in 1974).
One of her numbers had waving mobile phone lights.
Lata Mangeshkar: First Indian to perform at London's Royal Albert Hall in 1974 | India News - Times of India
India News: LONDON: Lata Mangeshkar, known as the Nightingale of India, holds the distinction of being the first Indian artist ever to perform live at London's ic.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Please be assured there are "normal" Proms as well. I wonder what is was like working for the City of Brimingham Symphony Orchestra doing Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms and Carmina Burana on a Thurday followed by a Lala Mangeshka tribute on a Friday?
This is Anna Lapwood giving us 1m 36 seconds of Philip Glass "Mad Rush". She did 5 minutes or so on Tuesday at the Albert Hall
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I was awoken from my afternoon nap last week by strains of dramatic orchestral music. On investigation, it turned out to be a youth orchestra who had booked out the chapel to rehearse Mahler's 5th Symphony for four days. A great soundtrack to the week!
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Just to point,out in case anyone's interested
The BBC Gaming Prom from 2022 drops off the plalyist (expires at 8,47 om ronight - Satrurday 5th August)
www.bbc.co.uk
Includes such delights as "Pokemon Red and Blue"
I'm only watching it out for a sense of duty to be fair. The only gaming I even did was Space Invaders in a pub in Bridlington to while away the more boring part of the Young Liberal Conference in 1980(?).
The BBC Gaming Prom from 2022 drops off the plalyist (expires at 8,47 om ronight - Satrurday 5th August)
BBC Proms - 2022: Gaming Music at the Proms
Robert Ames conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in a Prom dedicated to gaming music.
www.bbc.co.uk
Includes such delights as "Pokemon Red and Blue"
I'm only watching it out for a sense of duty to be fair. The only gaming I even did was Space Invaders in a pub in Bridlington to while away the more boring part of the Young Liberal Conference in 1980(?).
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
The woman's no slouch - she does commendable Schönberg too! Schoenberg, Berg, Webern piano works/Uchida - Classics Today
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Carl Nielson's violin concerto.
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Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Cloo
Banana for scale
Heard Isata Kanneh-Mason play Prokofiev's amazing 3rd Piano Concerto last week - interesting performance, much less 'aggressive' than I've previously heard it. It's a very macho piece in many ways, written by a young guy showing off his brilliance. Some reviewers, and my parents, found it too underpowered and although it maybe didn't have the fireworks quality of some performances I thought Kanneh-Mason brought a fluidity to it that allowed you to appreciate how good the writing is, not just how difficult it is. BBC Orchestra of Wales were playing and did a great performance of Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony in second half... it was funny going with my parents as my dad had played in it in his days in the British Youth Orchestra and remembered the rude words they used to sing to it (they used to sing 'WHO'S GOT-THE-KEYS TO-THE SHIT HOUSE!' to the main theme) 
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Better late than never - I was busy having some sort of breakdown/meltdown earlier so missed it live, but just catching up on last night of the proms on iplayer.
This cellist, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, is fucking divine.
I don't always watch the whole way through because I can't stand the patriotic flag waving shite of the late evening bit, but they do often have some brilliant musicians on and this one is worth watching/listening to.
This cellist, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, is fucking divine.
I don't always watch the whole way through because I can't stand the patriotic flag waving shite of the late evening bit, but they do often have some brilliant musicians on and this one is worth watching/listening to.
Apologies if this has been done earlier. Not read the entire thread.
Hauntingly beautiful and genius.
Or Music for Airports 1/1 by Brian Eno
