featuring an unlikely named trio of brassers:
Cormac Ó hAodáin
Håkan Hardenberger
Torbjörn Hultmark

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Just as soon as I've finished recording, martle, I'll be back to it, though I want the "Between the Ears" slot, also.  Fabulously inventive, kept me thoroughly engrossed from second to second: that's all I'll say for now. What a marvellous Sinfonietta, as well. Sound like a different set of engineers, too, rather more aware of what's needed than we've heard in many of the Proms up to now.

Sounds like it's been enormous fun in the hall all day.  Sinfonietta is such a vibrant piece and the way it was played really must have sent everyone home humming.  I wonder if there was an encore.  Radio 3 had to wrap up smartish so we don't really know.  Difficult to follow that finale I should think.

It's changed again since that latest live Supraphon, too, hasn't it? A very rich and fluid reading: rather glad he had the BBCPhil, too...And yes, that early Pye LP has indeed a rawness and perhaps the electricity of instrumental desperation too, in places.

  A most refreshing day of joy at both afternoon and evening Proms.   I was rather disappointed that we didn't see the evening Prom on BBC 4.    As Martle says, perhaps we needed to be there;  and a transmission of the evening performance, on BBC 4, would have been a happy compromise, particularly for the enticing Wiegold before the glorious Sinfonietta  conclusion.   Yes, I'm aware that the earlier Prom on British Cinema was shown on BBC 2 but sports coverage is frequently juxtaposed between  BBC 1 and BBC 2 with a repeat Highlights, followed by Sports Extra, later in the day.  I have no objection to this practice but coverage of the arts seems to be under sufferance at the BBC compared to transmissions of, say, snooker. 

Most of all, I continued my sort-out of video cassettes during the afternoon Prom and was thrilled to find the 1997 off air v.c. of Janacek's 'The Cunning Little Vixen', directed by Nicholas Hytner at the Chatelet Theatre, Paris, with Charles Mackerras conducting the Orchestre de Paris.  Sung in Czech with English subtitles. it has Eva Jenis as the Vixen, Hanna Minutillo as the Fox and Thomas Allen as the Forester.     Brian Large, TV director.      Straight to DVD tomorrow.

Altogether, an embarrassment of riches to end the week but TV coverage of the evening Brass Day concert would have made it sheer bliss.

That Felsenstein production was legendary, as was much of his other work in East Berlin. I've still not found the case containing all my favourite opera videos which seems to have been diverted into the stores rather than here when I moved, though there is one box containing the WNO Vixen from the eighties (with the brilliant choreography by Stuart Hopps - the chicken-coop scene still sticks in my memory as absolutely brilliant. even though I can't have seen in for many years). Also in the box is another wondrous bit of opera staging: the premiere 1991 ROH production of Birtwistle's Gawain in the original version before the cuts were made, broadcast on Good Friday 1992.

I suppose O'Helium is out of the question.