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« Reply #136 on: 10:26:31, 10-08-2007 » |
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I well remember the NYO Debussy/ Mahler Prom; I went to the Liverpool performance of the same programme on (I think) the Weds evening and taped the Prom. The Debussy was a so-so interpretation but the Mahler was fantastic - I remember being particularly moved by seeing the hammerblows in the last mt being wielded by a boy who looked about 10 years old...
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« Reply #137 on: 10:27:57, 10-08-2007 » |
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Atherton ... conducted the recording of Birtwistle's Punch and Judy which somehow refuses to disappear entirely from circulation despite the best efforts of various labels...  Ahem!  Agree with Martle on tonight's Prom, definitely... |
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« Reply #138 on: 10:28:43, 10-08-2007 » |
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Putting aside for one moment my long held belief that Anoushka Shankar would make perfect daughter-in-law material, 1984 wins hands down for me. I didn't go but I remember hearing it and powerful stuff it was too, the NYO, as ever giving it every ounce of commitment. It was also well before the time when we all had to disapprove of Simon Rattle  |
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« Reply #139 on: 10:44:50, 10-08-2007 » |
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Atherton ... conducted the recording of Birtwistle's Punch and Judy which somehow refuses to disappear entirely from circulation despite the best efforts of various labels... Ahem! Yes, excuse me, credit where it's due: many thanks to NMC for keeping it out there after Decca and Etcetera variously dropped the ball. |
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« Reply #140 on: 22:36:12, 10-08-2007 » |
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Saturday 18 August 1984
Royal Albert Hall: 7.00pm
Mozart
Le Nozze di Figaro
Acts I, II (95 mins)
Interval
Acts III, IV (100 mins)
Cast in order of singing:
Claudio Desderi baritone Figaro
Gianna Rolandi soprano Susanna
Artur Korn bass Bartolo
Mimi Lerner mezzo-soprano Marcellina
Faith Esham mezzo-soprano Cherubino
Richard Stilwell baritone Count
Ugo Benelli tenor Basilio
Gabriele Fontana soprano Countess
Federico Davia bass Antonio
Hugues Cuenod tenor Curzio
Anne Dawson soprano Barbarina
Glyndebourne Chorus
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Bernard Haitink
Saturday 11 August
Royal Albert Hall: 6.30pm
(Also broadcast on BBC2 at 7.10)
Sir Colin Davis is not only one of the greatest Sibelius interpreters of our time, but also a tireless trainer of young musicians. His Prom with the EUYO links the nature mysticism of Sibelius's Fifth to that of Brahms's Third, of which Clara Schumann noted: 'From start to finish one is wrapped about with the mysterious charm of the woods and forests … I hear the babbling brook and the buzzing of insects.' Brahms's Tragic Overture, the dramatic cousin to the Academic Festival Overture composed the same summer, opens the concert.
Brahms
Tragic Overture (14 mins)
Brahms
Symphony No. 3 in F major (38 mins)
Interval
Sibelius
Symphony No. 5 in E flat major (32 mins)
European Union Youth Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis conductor
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« Reply #142 on: 00:20:45, 11-08-2007 » |
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I think I'd be inclined to stay in the present for this one... that's a programme of serious quality. Not that Figaro isn't of course... but, well, opera on stage has something to be said for it I think.
I've never seen the Tragic Overture as belonging to the same planet as the Academic Festival, let alone the same family, but there you are.
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« Reply #143 on: 09:21:21, 11-08-2007 » |
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The Beeb's comments, not mine, Oz: but I'd make it the present one too. A few years ago Davis and the LSO did a Prom with Tippett's Rose Lake and Beethoven's Pastoral, which I didn't see live, though I did see what was in effect the dress rehearsal a couple of days previously at the Anvil in Basingstoke: my main reason for going was the Tippett, but the Beethoven was an unexpected joy, as if it were being discovered for the first time; the televised Prom was just as strong, though different. He's one heck of a Sibelius conductor, too, and his performances with youth orchestras seem to regularly to deliver exciting results.
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« Reply #145 on: 17:56:57, 11-08-2007 » |
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If it's a time machine, GG, then there's really no problem on that score, is there? Which order would you prefer?
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« Reply #146 on: 02:21:28, 13-08-2007 » |
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One of the items I noticed in the s/h shop I visited the other day was a Berglund set of the symphonies on RCA for 12 euros. Would this be a suitable way for me to get to know these works (never having knowingly heard them before)?
Don't know the Berglunds I'm afraid. (Or the Macbesses, at least not personally, although I still reckon the hubby's basically still mostly there despite a couple of unpleasant hallucinations whereas the missus is clearly a goner.) But as a starting point it could be worth a squizz. The Bernstein 3 & 5 is an absolutely must-hear for any Nielsenian. The Ole Schmidt box on Regis has some ropey playing but some red hot music-making especially in 2, 5 and 6. Other rippers are the Horenstein 5 (with a completely unhinged snare drum improvisation although probably not something that would impress the more experienced likes of Richard) and the Rattle and (shock!) Karajan 4s, if memory serves me correctly which, er, often it doesn't. I seem to remember Blomstedt being reliable too. A good budget price set to start with is the one by the Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Theodor Kuchar on Brilliant Classics (2005). Unfortunately, the sound quality is poor. The greatest recording of a Nielsen symphony that I ever heard is the one Jean Martinon made of the Fourth with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (RCA). In fact, it is one of the greatest recordings ever. I can understand that there are people out there who don't like Nielsen's Sixth Symphony, but to me it's a fascinating work. My favourite Nielsen symphony is No. 3. |
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« Reply #147 on: 19:50:55, 13-08-2007 » |
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Sorry, I'm starting to lag here.
There was no Prom on Sunday 19 August 1984.
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Monday 20 August 1984
Royal Albert Hall: 7.00pm
Gerhard
Leo (20 mins)
Hugh Wood
Song Cycle on Poems by Pablo Neruda* (24 mins)
Interval
Gerhard
Cancionero de Pedrell† (20 mins)
Schoenberg
First Chamber Symphony (20 mins)
Eiddwen Harrhy soprano*
Jennifer Smith soprano†
Lontano
Director Odaline de la Martinez
St Luke's Church, Chelsea: 9.45pm
Britten
Hymn to St Cecilia (10 mins)
György Kurtág
Eight Deszö Tandori Choruses (10 mins)
Bartók
String Quartet No.3 (no timing stated)
György Ligeti
Drei Phantasien (15 mins)
Bax
Mater Ora Filium (11 mins)
BBC Singers
Director John Poole
Arditti String Quartet
Monday 13 August 2007
Cadogan Hall: 1.00pm
One of the most highly esteemed British tenors of our time brings a very personal contribution to the centenary celebrations for composer Elizabeth Maconchy: 'It is always such a pleasure to be able to sing English songs to a British audience, and the Shakespeare settings from Elizabeth, which she gave me in manuscript some 30 years ago, are a real delight.' Langridge also includes Britten's moving settings of Hardy, and a Schumann cycle which he describes as 'a kind of offering of the poet's songs to his beloved – the audience!'
Schumann
Liederkreis, Op.24 (23 mins)
Maconchy
Four Shakespeare Songs (8 mins)
Britten
Winter Words (22 mins)
There will be no interval
Philip Langridge tenor
David Owen Norris piano
Royal Albert Hall: 7.30pm
Shakespeare's King of the Fairies, immortalised by Weber, contrasts with the equally fantastical, though darker-streaked German folk tales of Des Knaben Wunderhorn, a rich source of inspiration to Mahler, sung by the rich-toned Matthias Goerne who makes his long-awaited Proms debut. Closing with Schoenberg's orchestration of Brahms's ambitious Piano Quartet, tonight's Prom represents four generations of Austro-German composers, performed by this distinguished German orchestra and its new Chief Conductor, Paavo Järvi.
Weber
Oberon – Overture (9 mins)
Mahler
Des Knaben Wunderhorn – selection (40 mins)
Interval
Brahms, arr Schoenberg
Piano Quartet in G minor (42 mins)
Matthias Goerne baritone
Frankfurt Radio Symphony
Paavo Järvi conductor
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« Reply #149 on: 11:34:44, 14-08-2007 » |
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Oh dear, sorry Ron; it has to be another  If it was a better choir than the Beeb Singers, it might be a tad tougher choice. Rare enough to get a chance to hear the Gerhard pieces live...  |
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