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« on: 08:17:22, 01-06-2007 » |
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I would rather go elsewhere, but, if it is a prom elsewhere, like cadogan hall, i may go, but never to the albert hall, well, unless janine jansen is playing, but only under that condition.
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Bryn
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« Reply #1 on: 08:27:53, 01-06-2007 » |
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Well I love the RAH as a venue for the Proms. There again, I almost always manage to get a reasonable spot in the Arena to listen to the perfrmances from. Sure, it's acoustics add a certain nuance to what is heard, but that's half the fun of the place.  |
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Lord Byron
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« Reply #2 on: 12:38:16, 01-06-2007 » |
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I said the same thing on the other board and got silly replies, yours is not, this board rules  |
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« Reply #3 on: 12:44:09, 01-06-2007 » |
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So, Byron, name a better concert hall in which to hear Mahler symphonies and other pieces of that scale? In which to fit all those drums for Berlioz Grande Messe?
In which the stomach gets so much exercise when the organ gets going (or even better the Hammer in Mahler 6)?
In anticipation that this is not a "silly reply"
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Lord Byron
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« Reply #4 on: 13:15:24, 01-06-2007 » |
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I do not know, I know I like ROH and Wigmore/Cadogan Hall
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« Reply #5 on: 22:14:26, 01-06-2007 » |
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Dont think AH sucks as the noble lord says however during the prom season can get very hot and tend to choose something i really must hear and hope have good fan available........  |
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Tam Pollard
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« Reply #6 on: 19:32:12, 02-06-2007 » |
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Edinburgh's Usher Hall is always very fine for Mahler (or, at least, that has been my experience). My problem with the RAH is that if you don't sit in the right place you can come away thinking 'that Beethoven 9 was a little quiet'. Then, of course, there is the newly refurbished Festival Hall, I'm going to hear Mackerras (surprise, surprise) with the Philharmonia and Uchida (Opilec, they're also doing sinfionetta) and I'm more then curious how the hall is going to sound.
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richard barrett
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« Reply #7 on: 19:40:28, 02-06-2007 » |
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There was a heated discussion about this sort of thing last year at TOP. Name a better hall than the RAH? The trouble is London isn't well-served by orchestral venues - there's no equivalent to the Berlin Konzerthaus or Philharmonie, or my personal favourite the Concertgebouw, to name only the ones I've been in myself. The Barbican is pretty awful too, but in a different way. Maybe the updated RFH will be the answer. But IMHO the Albert Hall ought to be demolished, or at least gutted, if the outside has to be preserved, and a concert hall built in its place.
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Tam Pollard
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« Reply #8 on: 20:00:56, 02-06-2007 » |
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Yes - just got your message. I was never that against the acoustic there either. I don't think it records that well, and I'm told by people who go more often than I do, that it was very sensitive to where you sat. But the last time I was there it was for Mackerras (again) doing the Glagolitic Mass (this must have bee 3 years ago now) and I had no complaints about the sound.
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« Reply #9 on: 20:14:47, 02-06-2007 » |
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the Musikverein is a special favourite of mine. That's one I haven't been to. Actually I used to live right behind the Concertgebouw, which was quite handy for getting into the second halves of concerts for nothing...  (I had no money at the time) |
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