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Mr Butler informs me that he's most gratified that his work gave pleasure in the North. And he is especially pleased that money exchanged hands for that CD, having as he does one eye on the financial marketplaces at the moment.   Mr Butler will, then, be even more pleased to hear that American Rounds seemed to be outselling all the other cds on the table combined, martle. I suppose that's hardly surprising as the audience was, shall we say, composed mostly of people older than me i.e. people who would already have several recordings of the Trout etc, possibly including the Schubert Ensemble's. Mr Butler will also be gratified to hear that the band speaks very highly of him even when he's not listening! It was a good concert - and I enjoyed Martle's piece, though (unlike HtoHe) I thought it was in the first movement of that that the piano really dominated far too much.
Perhaps so, Jean. I just noticed it more in the Schubert because it's a piece I know well. I have never seen so many empty seats at a sold out concert. At least a dozen. Very odd.
To be fair, there were even more at the Padmore/Nash Ensemble chamber Prom at the Cadogan Hall; and that had been sold out since the day the tickets went on general sale. It's still a shame, though; and it echoes Mary's comments about the Berlin Phil concert - how many people weren't there because they couldn't get tickets while those with tickets stayed away? |
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I put it down to giving tickets to people for the wrong reasons - local bigwigs, Capital of Culture people. Very, very annoying.
I was so sorry I couldn't get to this concert. My spies will report eventually - I instructed them to listen with great attention to the Martle piece.
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I've just had a report on Martle's piece from two of my spies. They genuinely enjoyed it, and thought it "well-crafted, and affectionately witty." My third spy, very much there for the Schubert, I will probably see on Monday. She's terrified of new music (i.e. anything after Vaughan Williams), so we shall see......
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I put it down to giving tickets to people for the wrong reasons - local bigwigs, Capital of Culture people. Very, very annoying. They don't do that for the Rodewald, though - and the empty seats were dotted all over the place, not in the front rows where the bigwigs sit. |
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My third spy, very much there for the Schubert, I will probably see on Monday.
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My third spy, very much there for the Schubert, I will probably see on Monday.
Did you, Mary? Do tell. Yes, I did. She didn't have much to say except that she had enjoyed the Schubert and Fauré, but she didn't think she was the best person to comment on this modern stuff  . No need to be offended, Martle (I'm sure you won't be) - she finds Britten impossibly difficult! My other two spies, on the other hand, really know what they are talking about usually. |
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« Reply #36 on: 12:20:36, 22-10-2008 » |
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No need to be offended, Martle (I'm sure you won't be) Wouldn't dream of it, Mary!  Thanks for the reports. |
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« Reply #37 on: 22:59:41, 22-10-2008 » |
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I think I'll go and support local composer Stephen Pratt's latest new work at the Phil tomorrow - I doubt if it will be sold out!
I Fagiolini are doing Berio's 'Sinfonia for Eight Solo voices and Orchestra' as well.
Anyone else going?
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I think I'll go and support local composer Stephen Pratt's latest new work at the Phil tomorrow - I doubt if it will be sold out!
I Fagiolini are doing Berio's 'Sinfonia for Eight Solo voices and Orchestra' as well.
Anyone else going?
Can't make it, I'm afraid. My next Liverpool concert looks likely to be 10:10/Nouvel Ensemble Moderne on 19 Nov. Two local composers represented there, too. I Fagiolini are good. We had them at our concert society two years ago with a programme ranging from Thomas Tomkins and Hildegard of Bingen to Poulenc & Britten. |
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I Fagiolini are good. I know - I've seen most of their recent programmes including the (inspired) 'Full Monteverdi' twice, but have yet to see them in anything as modern as Poulenc or Britten, let alone Berio. |
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« Reply #41 on: 17:44:30, 23-10-2008 » |
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I will!
Not best pleased since I bought a ticket this morning only to discover just now that Stephen was giving them away to all & sundry when I wasn't looking...
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I think I may have been in the first part of Uneasy Vespers. I vaguely remember it, anyway. I'm not going to the concert |
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« Reply #43 on: 22:39:59, 25-10-2008 » |
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If you were in the Phil Choir or the Finzi Singers in 1991 you may well have been, Mary. It was a good concert, and the Berio especially was enthusiastically received by a small (but not embarrassingly so) audience. I didn't know the Berio and so have nothing to compare what I heard with, but it was a very assured performance and I enjoyed it. Glyn Mon Hughes here concentrates on the Pratt, where Nicholas Mulroy (ex-Met Cathedral chorister) and Clare Wilkinson from I Fagiolini had more prominent solo parts, as NM did too in the the Berio - he's very good, and I thought CW sang extremely subtly as well. In the third movement there were references to the singers by name, and to SP's work, and to the conductor (Clark Rundell) - is space for that built into the score? |
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In the third movement there were references to the singers by name, and to SP's work, and to the conductor (Clark Rundell) - is space for that built into the score?
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