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I always find the 'keep going' extremely moving, since it comes at exactly the point that the Mahler/Berio/(whoever!) music is starting to do the opposite - run audibly and beautifully out of puff.
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« Reply #76 on: 13:52:52, 26-07-2007 » |
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Wasn't it "Beethoven's 4th piano concerto" or something at the premiere (perhaps it even found its way into the score)? Funny that it nowadays ends up being a modernish piece more often than not; personally I would find the line a bit more biting applied to a classic since after all one seldom reads such things in the paper about new pieces... (although maybe that's not such a bad thing)
I was at school when I first heard it (on the radio); some time in the same period (might well have been later that evening) they broadcast Maxwell Davies' The Lighthouse, and the combination had me down in the dumps for Quite Some Time.
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« Reply #77 on: 13:54:01, 26-07-2007 » |
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I always find the 'keep going' extremely moving, since it comes at exactly the point that the Mahler/Berio/(whoever!) music is starting to do the opposite - run audibly and beautifully out of puff.
There are many such puns of course: such as the 12-note chord from Boulez's Don just as the narration has 'I have a present for you'... |
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« Reply #78 on: 14:07:26, 26-07-2007 » |
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Wasn't it "Beethoven's 4th piano concerto" or something at the premiere?
And as I think it was on the old Bernstein/New York Phil LP that was a treasured possession for many years but has long gone presumably to the same place that Darmstadt Christmas CDs go. |
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« Reply #79 on: 18:40:42, 26-07-2007 » |
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(Ahem)
Saturday 4 August 1984
Royal Albert Hall: 7.00pm
Verdi
Missa da requiem (85 mins)
Rosalind Plowright soprano
Linda Finnie contralto
Dennis O'Neill tenor
John Tomlinson bass
BBC Symphony Chorus
Leeds Festival Chorus
London Philharmonic Choir
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Mark Elder
Royal Albert Hall: 9.30pm
Songs of Love and War
Virtuoso madrigals by Monteverdi and his contemporaries in Italy and England
Consort of Musicke
Director Anthony Rooley
July 28 2007
Brass Day
Royal Albert Hall: 2.00pm
Judith Bingham
Fanfare 'Ziggurat' (BBC commission: world premiere) (2 mins)
Monteverdi
Orfeo – Toccata (2 mins)
G. Gabrieli
Sonata pian’e forte (5 mins)
Grillo
Canzon Terza, from Sacri concentus ac symphoniae; Venice 1618 (5 mins)
Traditional Uzbek Music (15 mins)
Interval
Vaughan Williams
Overture – Henry V (9 mins)
Hans Werner Henze
Ragtime and Habaneras (14 mins)
Heaton
Toccata (Oh, the Blessed Lord) (7 mins)
Philip Wilby
...Dove Descending (18 mins)
Elgar
Severn Suite (22 mins)
Interval
Musorgsky, arr. Elgar Howarth
Pictures at an Exhibition (35 mins)
His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Mark Lee organ
Allan Withington conductor
Black Dyke Band
Nicholas Childs conductor
Musicians from Uzbekistan
Musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music
Members of the BBC Philharmonic
Håkan Hardenberger conductor
Royal Albert Hall: 7.30pm
Judith Bingham
Fanfare 'Ziggurat' (BBC commission: second performance) (2 mins)
Schumann
Konzertstück (18 mins)
HK Gruber
Aerial *(24 mins)
Interval
Peter Wiegold
He is armoured without ** (BBC commission: world premiere) (16 mins)
Janá?ek
Sinfonietta (24 mins)
David Pyatt horn
Michael Thompson horn
Martin Owen horn
Cormac Ó hAodáin horn
Håkan Hardenberger trumpet *
Torbjörn Hultmark trumpet **
Fanfare Trumpets of the Band of the Coldstream Guards
Massed brass players from RNCM, Salford University, London and South East England
Musicians from Uzbekistan
BBC Philharmonic
Peter Wiegold conductor
André de Ridder conductor
Sir Charles Mackerras conductor
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« Reply #80 on: 18:52:14, 26-07-2007 » |
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Allow me to recommend Peter Wiegold's new piece, though sadly I won't be able to be there: he's using solo trumpet, orchestral string and percussion sections plus 200 brass players who will be disposed throughout the space in various groups. I don't think anything quite like it will have been heard before.
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« Reply #81 on: 18:58:56, 26-07-2007 » |
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Cripes! Gorgeous though 1984 doubtless was, I could hardly pass up all the glorious racket 2007 has to offer...
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« Reply #82 on: 19:42:58, 26-07-2007 » |
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With a Charlie Mack Sinfonietta as the climax? Absolutely, Oz, no contest!
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« Reply #83 on: 20:12:40, 26-07-2007 » |
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I'll second Richard's recommendation of the Wiegold. I've worked with him quite a bit, and he knows how to handle mega forces like this (hundreds don't) - it'll be quite an experience, although I too will have to miss it, sadly.  |
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« Reply #84 on: 22:14:36, 26-07-2007 » |
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Ron, Sadly, Brass day is 28 July and not 29 July (I can't make it). I wanted to hear the Uzbeks. Tommo  |
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« Reply #85 on: 23:53:52, 26-07-2007 » |
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Tommo, so it is: duly corrected, thanks. If you don't get to hear the Uzbeks, then it's not impossible that something can be done to help!
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« Reply #86 on: 09:12:42, 27-07-2007 » |
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Cheers Ron!
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« Reply #87 on: 11:28:10, 28-07-2007 » |
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There was no Prom on Sunday August 5th, 1984.
Monday 6 August 1984
Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor (48 mins)
Interval
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.6 in B minor (Pathétique) (46 mins)
Wolfgang Manz piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Günther Herbig
Monday 30 July 2007
Cadogan Hall: 1.00pm
Award-winning conductor Stephen Layton and his finely honed choir explore the creative interplay of words and music in a programme which focuses on settings of Shakespeare, Auden and Blake. Their poetry continues to fascinate composers of widely differing backgrounds and styles, and to inspire music which in turn sheds new light on much-loved texts.
Vaughan Williams
Willow Song (2 mins)
O Mistress Mine (2 mins)
Come Away, Death (2 mins)
Britten
Chorale after an Old French Carol (4 mins)
Shepherd’s Carol (4 mins)
Sir John Tavener
The Tyger (5 mins)
The Lamb (4 mins)
There will be no interval
Polyphony
Stephen Layton conductor
Royal Albert Hall: 7.30pm
The brilliant Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic returns to conduct the BBC SO in orchestral excerpts from Berlioz's great Shakespearean work Romeo and Juliet. Ravel's homage to early French dance forms is reflected in the opening 'Imaginary slow French court dance' of Salonen's new Piano Concerto, after whose recent world premiere the New York Times critic wrote of the 'giddy pleasure of hearing Mr Salonen evoking, appropriating and downright stealing the music he loves … to produce something excitingly original.'
Ravel
Le tombeau de Couperin (18 mins)
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Piano Concerto (BBC co-commission: European premiere) (33 mins)
Interval
Berlioz
Romeo and Juliet – excerpts (45 mins)
Yefim Bronfman piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
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« Reply #88 on: 11:31:48, 28-07-2007 » |
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2007 for me in general although I might have to feign a gastric attack after the Ravel which would however have cleared up for the Berlioz.
Actually I'm not even sure there would be feigning going on.
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« Reply #89 on: 11:47:57, 28-07-2007 » |
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Hmmm. Oz, not sure I'd be quite as ready to leave the hall as you, though I've not really connected with any of his work as a composer heretofore. The 1984 looks rather underwhelming on paper too, does it not? I'd be very happy to attend the Polyphony Prom though: IMHO they seem to have taken up pole position in the British Choir stakes.
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