I think it's the woodwind finalists battling it out tomorrow (Monday). Tuesday is strings, Wednesday brass, Thursday percussion and Friday, pianists.

Did anyone see the Young Musician 30th anniversary programme this evening on BBC2?

I giggled when Nicholas Daniel said he's always been a follower of fashion, they then cued 'shower scene music' from Psycho and flashed up images of Nicholas in some truly hideous outfits.

ooh, thanks for the reminder! i only managed to catch the last 10 minutes of the anniversary programme (to be honest, i didn't even know that it was on until i saw that it was on!) so i didnt see that Nicholas Daniel bit unfortunately.

looking forward for the following week!

Here's the BBC site about it.

Yes, I saw it.... very interesting. It made me look this colour with envy It'll be great to watch the whole thing this year since I know when it's starting. Thanks for the info.

Whee! I love young musician although it drives me to want to cry that i want to be them But defo makes me go practise.
I saw the 30th anniversary programme too, and i also laughed at the 'follower of fashion' bit

Awww no - I missed it! I really meant to watch it too... OH never tells me these programmes are on because he hates them! (He's the only one who reads the Radio Times ) I was too busy reading the newspaper to notice the television!

And we're so backward here we only have four channels so we don't get BBC4 Is the final not on BBC2 next week sometime? I really don't want to miss that.

I ought to pay more attention to the TV (no I don't think so)

Can you watch it online at all?

Ie. does anyone know whether it would be on BBC iplayer?

Oooh, you can watch that 30th anniversary thingy here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00...shtml?src=ip_ra

It will be on iPlayer after it's finished, unless it's actually displayed live on the website. So going to watch it; good hopes for either of the clarinetist!

I was going to watch it online, but I am making cookies/doing revision tonight with a friend

I shall be making a rare excursion downstairs to watch it

I know nothing about woodwind playing but that was not the result I was expecting I thought the second girl would have won (Mel was it?) but was kind of hoping she wouldn't as from the clips they were showing I didn't really like her <me judgemental? of course not >

Gutted I'm going to miss the strings tomorrow

I agreed with the judges! Which instrument was Mel playing? (You can tell I just pay attention to the music!)

She was the oboist (I think) I had it on in the background while I was doing the exciting job of ironing

I thought it was close between the oboist and the flautist, but I think it was the very modern piece that got it - it was daring and he pulled it off very well!

The problem I have with his second piece is that I don't know if he pulled it off or not as it just sounded incredibly strange to me!

Ah well, I'm just jealous as I'll never be that good at anything

I can see why they chose the flautist... he was brilliant - I think I held my breath for most of that modern piece! But for me the most amazing thing was hearing blues played on the oboe! just incredibly compelling!

Awwww

I listened to them online and thought Joseph Shiner was an outstanding clarinettist - was his performance not very good on the night?

I haven't listened to the flautist yet.

Many thanks too for the links - much appreciated


Edited to say: just listened to the flutey-chap and wow, he's just great LOL!

On the short extracts played I thought the oboist was going to win, but probably you need to listen to the whole performances to come to an informed choice.

I hated the way the programme was done though. About 3/4 of the programme was introducing the viewers to the players and showing us their "journeys", and only about 1/4 was given over to edited highlights of the performances. Given that the results were already known in February, the whole build-up just seemed fake, and dragged-out.

Why couldn't the BBC show the earlier rounds when they happened? - that would have built-up tension naturally, and allowed viewers to follow the players journeys and get interested in them.

As it is, it's like keeping the results of FA cup rounds secret until just before the final, and then just showing a few extracts of the matches.

Chris

It's not online yet is it?

What pieces did the flautist play? I didn't like him that much when I heard him online.

Yes, the performances for the category finals are all already on line. I'm just too lazy to listen to them all!

Chris

Is this it?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/youngmusician/sites/c...avid_wind.shtml

I mean, is this what happened tonight?

that's it.

Chris

It's just this was up last week :/

the performances were recorded in February!

Ah that would explain it then !

I've never heard the Bozza Aria on Euphonium before...