So it is! I couldn't give it my full attention last night so I'll enjoy watching it properly tonight, it looked really good and they seemed to show quite a lot of him playing as well as talking

Last nights programme was more of a biography- speaking to Brendel and his family about how he came into music etc. A very good programme, but I struggled with his accent sometimes!

Tonights programme focuses on his playing, which includes Mozart among others. Well worth watching probably.

Ah I see it was both nights ! Having just read his essays (see earlier thread), it will be particularly interesting to me. Missed last nights though. Anyway I'll be tucked up in the Weetwood Hotel tonight !

Renee Fleming is on for about an hour tonight, talking about her musical career. Channel 4, 12.05 midnight to 1.10am.

A couple I have picked out for next week :-

Tuesday 3rd March 21.25 SkyArts 2 'Homage to Ravel'

Friday 6th March 7.30 BBC4 'Debussy and Monet - partners in art'

Did anyone else hear Music to Drive to on Radio 4 yesterday? (It's available for the next six days in the UK).

I enjoyed the story about the Metro that did a somersault on the motorway and landed the right way up with Beethoven's 5th accompanying the whole event.

The whole series was excellent, wasn't it? Well worth taking the time to listen again if you can.



I heard it and loved the programme - that story was incredible wasn't it?

Sorry I missed posting info re the programme on Andre Previn last night, he is 80 today. There may be a repeat of it soon, but it was worth watching

Next Friday there is a performance of Haydns 'Creation' on BBC4.

Have checked since I left the post in the cafe, it is indeed on BBC iPlayer for the next week.

The South Bank show is on now. Highlighting Handels' Messiah.

Good, ain't it!

Yep!

I missed about the first 15 minutes of this - what was discussed then?

It sadly isn't on ITV's version of iPlayer

It was mainly introducing the three Choirs being used in the programme. They spoke to the conductors and members of the choirs to get their views about singing Messiah, and what it meant to them.


Hopefully it will be repeated again...

Aaah OK, thanks DC.

I'm sure it will be shown again sometime, maybe next Easter, or something like that (though that's quite a long time to wait...)

I couldn't manage to watch it .

Who were the choirs? I'll guess at Huddersfield, Halifax and Harrogate Choral Socs (I was in the latter in the 70's).

Huddersfield is correct, the other two choirs were the Keighley Vocal Union and The Sacred Wing, from Leeds.

Keighley Vocal Union, my home town choir !! I was never in it though I know plenty of people who were at one time.

As an ex member of the Hudds Choral, the programme annoyed me a bit.... notleast due to references to 'THE Messiah'! It didn't go in depth around the history of the piece, but was more a selection of 'vox pops' about what it's like to sing it...

For those not interested in the Eurovision Song contest, there's a programme on BBC2 at 8.20.."The Birth Of British Music". It's presented by Charles Hazlewood ( ). The subject this week is Handel. It's on for the next two weeks, I believe.

See the other thread on Bill Bailey about my experiments with downloading on iPlayer, as I downloaded the Purcell programme in this series last week. It was excellent, musically and as a documentary so I'm looking forward to catching up on the Handel one. INterestingly, last week's on Purcell is the only one on a British composer. Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn are the other three progs.

DaisyChain - Charles Hazlewood - AGREE!!! FAWORRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Snorrrrrrrrrrrt.

Ahem.

Last week was on Purcell - fab, fab, FAB. Thoroughly enjoyed Handel yesterday too.

Charles Hazlewood...mmm....

Ahem.

Work. Get.on.with.it.Bag.

B x

Are you in need of some sort of therapy?

I think he's great...to look at and at presenting programmes like this. He did a very good series a couple of years ago (possibly a bit longer) about Beethoven. Paul Rhys played the role of Beethoven very well too.

Here you go, Bag..




I don't think so! Unless Charles Hazlewood does that too!

Well, one woman's meat (as it were) ..but - Charles Hazlewood?? [i] Is the man ever pleased with himself?

A little more Handel (Purcell etc) and a little less CH would have been extremely welcome. Can't stand his Proms presentations either. But at least they didn't use Alan Titchmarsh.

Quite honestly I'm getting fed up of seening CH, he pops up everywhere and is far too full of his own importance.
I enjoyed the Handel program much more than the Purcell.
We've got Haydn next week and Mendelssohn the following week, but I may not be able to catch them.

An unexpected treat! Today's countryfile program is a Suffolk special and contains a short segment about Britten's home at Aldeburgh. It starts five to ten minutes into:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ld...ile_28_06_2009/

Here's a new 2 part documentary coming up i've just heard about on Radio 3:

BBC Four Saturday 21.30 & Sunday 21.00

'How to be a composer'

Journalist, critic and self-confessed music addict Paul Morley embarks on a year-long pursuit to the heart of his obsession.

Morley begins a year of intense lessons and tutoring from one the most prestigious music schools in the world, the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he joins the composition department as an undergraduate student.

This is the first time Morley has been back in education since the age of 16, and it is by no means an easy year as he feels his way through his first lessons on rhythm and notation before finally composing his own music for an ensemble of young virtuoso musicians.


Might be worth a look!

TI

Did anyone listen to 'The Choir' last night? It was all about Kodály . I haven't heard it yet but will do so on 'Listen Again' asap!

Yes, indeed I did, I was half expecting to hear you on there! but it was a Cynthia not Cyrilla. The programme was excellent and the music, as usual, was sublime.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jul/1...ming-a-composer

*lol*

Yes - it was Cynthia Jolly, who is the auntie of Chris Jolly, the publisher of Jolly Phonics and Jolly Music! She lived in Hungary in the 40s and 50s and was one of Kodály's inner circle...

Ah - I THINK they might have had clips of the wonderful Aurin girls singing??

I MUST find time to listen to it tomorrow!

Thanks for that link, very interesting.

Any Lang Lang fans here? He's performing Chopin's Piano Concerto No 2 on BBC 4 tonight in the Proms series. The programme starts at 7.30 and ends at 10pm.

How a choir works - BBC4 tonight at 9pm then repeated later at half past midnight


http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00mq..._a_Choir_Works/

It's New Year's Day, so at 11:15am on BBC2, it's the always excellent New Year's Day concert with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra!

I'm looking foreward to that... a special treat for the New Year while all about me are "feeling the effects...of last night".

Happy New Year Everybody

Something similar on bbc 4 tonight (not sure if it's a repeat) then after a programme on rock bands then an early queen concert . . . Evening sorted :-)

Edit: Ah yes it's the highlights on BBC4 tonight.

Does anyone know how to get tickets for a future year, please?

Apparently you need to register this month and you get entered in a draw

http://www.wienerphilharmoniker.at/2010_drawing.html

Thanks, Juniper. It would be lovely to go, just once.....!

Although when my husband said yesterday he'd love to start clapping out of time during Radetsky I may have to rethink

Now that could be interesting!!

I didi enjoy the Vienna Phil concert. Apart from not understanding the titles of the pieces and what the conductor said.

Also I did not understand a lot of the conductors hand gestures, certainly not what i am used to in any orchestra I have played in.

He certainly had his own inimitable style! I found it quite amusing to watch him.

Yes, he was great. I enjoyed it enormously. Such tiny gestures and sort of emotions rather than anything. I suppose the Vienna Philharmonic dont get lost or forget what those little pps mean.

Yeah, in orchestras I play in the conductor will always have to work fairly hard to get what he desires than that of a conductor confucting a world famous pro orchestra.

7.30 tonight BBC4 Programme about choral music of Part and Goretzki (Sacred Music Series)

Did anyone else see Shanties and Sea Songs with Gareth Malone on BBC4 this week? It was fascinating.