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Tony Watson
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« on: 21:44:10, 26-08-2007 »
The pianist (Ivo Kahanek) put the Martinu concerto across very well tonight, I thought. He's quite a find and really seems to understand this music.

And the BBCSO were on good form in the Prokofiev. I would have liked to hear a wider range of dynamics but I suspect that's the sound system used for the television.

But why are they so keen to get away on TV? There was barely time to savour the applause tonight.
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Milly Jones
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« Reply #1 on: 22:00:02, 26-08-2007 »
What did you think of the interval discussions Tony?  Should we have more electric guitars?  Wink
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Tony Watson
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« Reply #2 on: 22:52:57, 26-08-2007 »
During most of the interval I was trying to look at the Prommers, wondering if any of them were regulars on this MB. Were they?

But the young man who wanted electronic music. Does anyone here know him? He's a seasoned visitor to the Proms, they said. I personally don't want electric guitars but I wouldn't object to some experimental electronic music in a late-night Prom. I'm happy with the Proms the way but in so many things these days things change because it is felt that change in itself is a good thing.

And Steve Martland wants to see more black people in the audience. How would he achieve that? Why is a sea of white faces always "hideous" (as in the BBC) or "horrible" (as tonight)?

But it was interesting to see Gabriel Prokofiev there tonight. I've got him on a CD of Peter and the Wolf, and his voice has dropped a bit since then!
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« Reply #3 on: 23:10:41, 26-08-2007 »
I was there, Tony.  If you happened to be looking in my direction, I was third from the end of the front row, violin end.  I didn't see who was interviewed in the Arena in the interval, and whether there was a balance of interviewees between regulars and occasionals (I do hope so).

I agree the Prokofiev was high-quality, and the Martinu was well-played too.  I'm afraid the BBCSO made a bit of a hash of the Sea Interludes though - ensemble all over the place.  It didn't help, of course, that some prat up in one of the boxes was talking through the whole thing  Roll Eyes  Angry
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eruanto
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« Reply #4 on: 23:12:29, 26-08-2007 »
Me too, Tony.



Korean trouble in the arena tonight, together with small child (certainly under 5) who took no notice of the Martinu (they had wangled their way to see the hands) at all.

Couldn't help noticing leader's bow going different way to everyone else at one point in the Prokofiev. They always said it looks shoddy, and it really does!! Gripping stuff.
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Tony Watson
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« Reply #5 on: 23:19:49, 26-08-2007 »
You weren't wearing a blue t-shirt tonight, were you, eru? There was a young man there tonight  whom I thought I spotted last night, wearing a white or cream-coloured t-shirt the night before.

The Prokofiev had energy and the strings sounded fine. The percussion could have been more penetrating and I would have like some of the loud bits to be louder and the quiet bits to be quieter but that could well have been how the sound had been engineered for television.
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eruanto
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« Reply #6 on: 23:39:05, 26-08-2007 »
I was! In the middle-ish of the second row.

Apparently there were two separate instances of people talking loudly during the Britten. I was deceived somewhat by the acoustics, and they were in fact much higher up than I had imagined (another "clinker" on the slack, I thought). Balaclava's prolonged glare nearly got the record, only he looked just as confused as to where it came from as well.
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