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oliver sudden
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« Reply #30 on: 09:18:43, 20-05-2008 »
Quote from: Ian Pace on 09:15:20, 20-05-2008
I remember when the Barbican had their Messiaen weekend, around 8-9 years ago, I think. Between Friday and Sunday, one heard La Nativité, Vingt Regards, Turangalila, Quartet for the End of Time, a large selection from the Catalogue, La Transfiguration, Des Canyons, Éclairs, and quite a bit else.
Actually that sounds like a pretty normal weekend chez Sudden...
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« Reply #31 on: 22:35:59, 20-05-2008 »
The RNCM had a Messiaen weekend arlier this month. It concentrated on the keyboard works with all of the Catalogue being played over three afternoon concerts. Each piece was introduced by Peter Hill and played by a conservatoire student. The quality of pianism was variable but I enjoyed the experience. However like Ian, I have now gone off birdsong...
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« Reply #32 on: 23:09:30, 20-05-2008 »
Quote from: Ian Pace on 09:15:20, 20-05-2008
I remember when the Barbican had their Messiaen weekend, around 8-9 years ago, I think. Between Friday and Sunday, one heard La Nativité, Vingt Regards, Turangalila, Quartet for the End of Time, a large selection from the Catalogue, La Transfiguration, Des Canyons, Éclairs, and quite a bit else. All wonderful works on their own, but this quantity produced massive overkill - I never wanted to hear another added-sixth chord again by the end, and I was ready to take a shotgun to any bird that came into the vicinity.

Now there's funny thing, Ian. That would be the 1999 event, and I recorded all the Radio 3 broadcasts from that weekend, yet there seems very little sign of the more blatant bird-song pieces. Perhaps they weren't broadcast. No sign of the Catalogue, for a start. There was that Westminster Cathedral performance of Éclairs sur l'au-delà (replete with multiple echoes of the big drum thuds), but I must have missed out of much of the other bird-song stuff.
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« Reply #33 on: 00:41:52, 21-05-2008 »
Quote from: Bryn on 23:09:30, 20-05-2008
Quote from: Ian Pace on 09:15:20, 20-05-2008
I remember when the Barbican had their Messiaen weekend, around 8-9 years ago, I think. Between Friday and Sunday, one heard La Nativité, Vingt Regards, Turangalila, Quartet for the End of Time, a large selection from the Catalogue, La Transfiguration, Des Canyons, Éclairs, and quite a bit else. All wonderful works on their own, but this quantity produced massive overkill - I never wanted to hear another added-sixth chord again by the end, and I was ready to take a shotgun to any bird that came into the vicinity.

Now there's funny thing, Ian. That would be the 1999 event, and I recorded all the Radio 3 broadcasts from that weekend, yet there seems very little sign of the more blatant bird-song pieces. Perhaps they weren't broadcast. No sign of the Catalogue, for a start. There was that Westminster Cathedral performance of Éclairs sur l'au-delà (replete with multiple echoes of the big drum thuds), but I must have missed out of much of the other bird-song stuff.
Loriod gave a concert in St Giles Cripplegate with various movements from the Catalogue (also the Petites Esquisses d'Oiseaux), though that maybe wasn't broadcast. Plenty of birdies in those later pieces, not least Des Canyons.
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« Reply #34 on: 00:30:33, 23-05-2008 »
The BBC Phil has put its 2008/9 season online (http://www.bbc.co.uk/orchestras/philharmonic/concert_diary/index.shtml?2008_09)

Nothing too radical of course. There's a Macmillian 50th birthday concert, a Haydn celebration, a bit of Birtwistle etc. The most remarkable aspect about the whole season is that all the Phil's concerts at the Bridgewater will now start at 7.00 pm and many of them will be live on R3. Unless this is a misprint I can't see how this will encourage more younger people to attend concerts as there's no time to go home and change after work. I'll have just one hour to eat, change and get back to the city centre. Pah!
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« Reply #35 on: 01:02:38, 23-05-2008 »
The BBCSSO has been forced to do exactly the same: so on the one hand there's capitulation to the clamour for live concerts, but on the other there's a rigid sticking to this new dictat that evenings on R3 should begin at 7.00 (except during the Proms season.) The inconveniently earlier hour is likely to do little to increase audiences for the live concerts or their broadcasts: it's almost as if they're determined not to understand the difficulties they're causing, and actively want numbers to drop.

Crazy.

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« Reply #36 on: 18:30:18, 27-10-2008 »
A little bump for this concert at t' Wigmore Hall at 1930 this coming Saturday, 1 November

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Schubert Ensemble

Faure: Piano Quartet No 1

Martin Butler: Sequenza Notturna for Piano Quartet

Brahms: Piano Quartet No 2       
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« Reply #37 on: 18:34:06, 27-10-2008 »
One is 99% sure the composer (Butler that is, not Faure or Brahms) will be in attendance should any board members wish to have their programmes signed imbibe convivially before, during or after the concert. Or all three.  Cool
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« Reply #38 on: 23:50:16, 27-10-2008 »
You didn't come to ours in Liverpool!

We are deeply offended.
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« Reply #39 on: 09:07:45, 28-10-2008 »
You mean Mr Butler, Jean? He tells me he is very sorry about that and begs your forgiveness. He will attempt to make amends at the earliest opportunity.  Cry
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« Reply #40 on: 16:35:34, 02-11-2008 »
And a very fine concert at the Wigmore Hall last night it was too. It was a real treat to hear Mr Butler's Sequenza Notturna in a live performance at last, particularly a performance as affectionate and committed as this one. A heartfelt piece which I like more and more.

As Martle had predicted, the composer was indeed present although I am sorry to report looking a slightly less healthy shade of green around the gills than is his wont. It is cheering therefore to see signs from the 'What's that burning' thread of a recovering appetite Smiley. 
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« Reply #41 on: 16:55:36, 02-11-2008 »
I think the relatively early night helped to nip whatever it was in the bud, George.  Smiley Lovely to see you there amongst the Wiggy greyhairs (not that you, I mean, oh you know) - although the audience last night was of pretty mixed age for a change.
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