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« on: 09:27:48, 04-11-2007 » |
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We've had individual heads-ups for future broadcasts virtually ever since this board started, but up to now there's never been an obvious place to put them, so that they still can be easy to miss. Perhaps if we had an ongoing thread, there'd be that much less chance of missing the interesting items tucked away in the dark corners of the schedule, while discussions concerning them should be started as separate threads.
I'm sure Stanley won't mind if I move his announcement regarding the Proms Walkure repeat here, as it seems an excellent place to start.
(Just as soon as I work out how to do it, that it is: I seem to be able to split and move topics, but seem to be having difficulties merging two existing ones.)
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Reiner Torheit
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« Reply #1 on: 10:03:22, 04-11-2007 » |
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Excellent idea! I don't have time to scan the schedules for the outstanding don't-miss items, so a place on the boards for advance notice of exceptional upcoming broadcasts would be very welcome!
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #2 on: 10:08:35, 04-11-2007 » |
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I've made the topic sticky, too, so it will always be easy to find.
Perhaps we should call some folks' notice to the Po3 on Wednesday night, too: a repeat of a concert from Yokohama in 1975: BBCSO/Boulez with Jan De Gaetani: Webern Passacagalia, Birtwistle Nenia on the Death of Orpheus, Ravel Daphnis et Chloé.
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #3 on: 19:36:18, 11-11-2007 » |
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TTN tonight includes an Oslo/Segerstam Mahler 7 and a Concertgebouw/Karajan Strauss Don Juan: the latter an opportunity to hear the conductor out of the studio and with an orchestra without a hundred individual transducers for micro-managing the sound.
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Stanley Stewart
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« Reply #4 on: 23:27:17, 13-11-2007 » |
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Eye-catching broadcasts for next week on R3:
Wed, 21 Nov at 14.15 hrs. Strauss Arabella
Arabella Adrianne Pieczonka
Zdenka Genia Kuhmeier
Mandryka Thomas Hampson
Matteo Michael Schade
Vienna State Opera Chorus & Orchestra
conductor Franz Welser-Most
Thurs, 22 Nov Afternoon on 3 schedule:
Liszt Eine-Faust Symphonie
Juhan Tralla (tenor), Estonian National Male Chorus,
Estonian National S.O. conductor Neeme Jarvi
Fri, 23 Nov Afternoon on 3 at 14.00hrs
Schoenberg Gurrelieder
Christine Brewer (sop), Doris Soffel (mezzo), Stephen Gould (tenor),
Stephan Rugamer (tenor), Eike Wilm Schulte (bar),
Donald McIntyre (bass-bar); Montreal Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Kent Nagano.
Friday, 23 Nov Through the Night (starting 01.00hrs on Sat 24 Nov)
Cavalli Xerse (complete opera - concluding at 04.45 (approx) followed by Rachmaninov Morceaux de Salon, Op 10
Cast includes Jill Feldman, Guy de May, Agnes Mellon, Judith Nelson, Jeffrey Gall, John Elwes, Richard Wistreich and and Jean Nirouet.
Concert Vocale, director Rene Jacobs. Two collector's items?
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Martin
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« Reply #5 on: 20:52:23, 16-11-2007 » |
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Looking forward to:
Saturday 17 November 2007
CD Review
9.30am Building a Library: Mahler: Symphony No 3
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Stanley Stewart
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« Reply #6 on: 22:34:31, 16-11-2007 » |
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And a complete performance of the recommended recording at 10.20 hrs on Classical Collection, Monday, 19 Nov.
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« Reply #7 on: 10:59:23, 18-11-2007 » |
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Yes and surprise surprise. ES chose Riccardo Chailly!!
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #8 on: 12:23:37, 19-11-2007 » |
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Further in the future (dates to be confirmed): the ROH Fille du régiment, and the Gergiev LSO concerts from earlier in the year are slated for BBC4 in December. Opera from the Met on R3 includes Prokofiev's War and Peace (or rather three hours of it) and Hansel and Gretel. Proms repeats include the Dankworth Concert, the Venezuelans, the Bach Collegium Japan, the two Jansons concerts, the Tallis/Lassus/Striggio evening, and, just to raise the game, the Michael Ball extravaganza. CotW in December features Mozart, Webern, Tchaikovsky and Eric Coates.
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #9 on: 16:30:41, 23-11-2007 » |
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Caught this just in time: Po3 tonight;
Giles Swayne: Symphony No 1 (A small world) (World premiere)
Not a composer much mentioned on these pages, but nonetheless a creator of fascinating and involving music, such as the extraordinary Cry for 28 amplified solo voices, written for the BBC singers and available through NMC - something of a labour of love, considering that the original digital masters had disappeared, possibly destroyed: the recording was reassembled partially from an incomplete analogue copy-master and a pristine pressing of the original LP release. The 28 solo voices include Sarah Leonard, Judith Bingham and one Harry Christophers, incidentally. I'll have to trust my hard-drive timer-recorder on this one: tonight, it's off to the Caird Hall in Dundee for the RSNO concert including the Sinfonia da Requiem and Belshazzar's Feast.
The odd new symphony still crops up: we've had David Matthews's sixth at the Proms already this year. I'm sure anyone who has ever beem dragged round any Disney theme park will join me fervently in hoping that the subtitle in no way refers to the reduplicated chorus of quite possibly the most saccharine of all Disney ditties: once heard, unfortunately, never forgotten....
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Reiner Torheit
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« Reply #10 on: 18:15:49, 23-11-2007 » |
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Opera from the Met on R3 includes Prokofiev's War and Peace (or rather three hours of it)
Is this the Gergiev/Mariinsky version that was toured to the Met about 2 years ago? It got a quick airing in Moscow ("for one night only") before they went, which I saw. The main attraction is the 250 (yes really!) costumed extras in replicas of the uniforms of the regiments of Kutuzov's army - but this is a detail which radio is ill-equipped to present well. The entire schmozzle was concocted as a Netrebko-fest, although she was far from ideal casting as Natasha in my rating (perhaps I know the Vishnevskaya performance too well?). With all reservations about the casting put aside (and the Mariinsky orchestra sounding as knackered as humanly imaginable) my main gripe was the version... they just took all the "Natasha" scenes from "PEACE" and slung them together... leaving out all the others! No Anatole... no Balaga... even Pierre's big soliloquy got spiked. As a result the story-line has entirely disappeared  Oh, and in WAR they've omitted the Council At Fili and Kutuzov's "Kogda, kogda" aria as well. What a travesty |
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
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Martin
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« Reply #11 on: 13:20:23, 26-11-2007 » |
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There's a Scottish season on Afternoon Performance all this week. Included is Mackenzie's Piano Concerto, in a recording which forms part of Hyperion's romantic piano concerto series. Mackenzie was a former principal of the Royal Academy of Music, and a highly respected musician in his day. I look forward to listening.
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #12 on: 19:24:52, 27-11-2007 » |
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Also included in this week's Scottish season is the Violin Concerto by Stuart MacRae (later part of Friday Afternoon). Same performance as the NMC recording, Stuart, or just the same artists?
Early Next week:
Scriabin's 5th Piano Sonata is Disc of the Week, 11:45 Saturday
L'Elisir d'Amore from the ROH, 18:30 Saturday
St John's Advent Carol Service, 16:00 Sunday
Drama on 3 20:00 Sunday Soldiers in the Sun by Michael Symmonds Roberts (librettist of James MacMillan's new opera)
Mozart is CotW
World premiere Stephen McNeff Weathers, Po3, 19:00 Monday
Handel Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Scholl, Joshua, Talens Lyriques/Rousset) AP, 14:00 Tuesday
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #13 on: 17:05:50, 07-12-2007 » |
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This weekend R3
BaL: R Strauss: Metamorphosen
DotW: Brahms: Piano Quintet in F mi
Met Opera: Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride: ( Susan Graham/Domingo)
Pre-Hear: Vasks and E-S Tuur
H and N: Gardiner, Carpenter, Skempton, Hesketh, Meredith, Henry
Discovering Music: Ligeti: Violin Concerto
Drama on 3: Pinter: The Homecoming (Rpt)
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Il Grande Inquisitor
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« Reply #14 on: 17:15:12, 07-12-2007 » |
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I'm out tomorrow evening, but will have to record the Iphigénie en Tauride as I'm intrigued to hear Domingo enter his 'baritone phase' (Simon Boccanegra to come eventually!)
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