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Hope you get a good seatOriginally Posted by MartinT
Looking forward to seeing Nicola Benedetti in the flesh
She is certainly a tidy bit of tackle but I was slightly underwhelmed by her fiddling ability last year in the Brahms Double Concerto at the Festival Hall.
The Bruch might be better suited to her though.
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I'm saying nothing!!She is certainly a tidy bit of tackle but I was slightly underwhelmed by her fiddling ability last year in the Brahms Double Concerto at the Festival Hall.
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Really looking forward to seeing Benjamin Grosvenor playing Saint-Saens on Tuesday night, Prom 43. Delius & Tchaikovsky make up the supporting cast.
Anyone else promming it?
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Not that one, Julian. My next one is Prom 73 on 6th Sep.
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Bruckner 9 - fab! Never heard it "live" ...
Shame to spoil it with some of that Beethoven fluff
I've got Rattle / Berlin Phil coming up on Aug 30 - can't wait!
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Heresy! The Beethoven 4th piano concerto is magnificent!
Yep - Haitink and the VPO too
You'll enjoy Rattle and the BPO, he really seems to have won them completely over now.
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I meant to ask you Martin, how did you enjoy Sibelius 7?
I am a massive fan of Sibelius, especially the tone-poems, but couldn't really get into 7 when I heard it at the Barbican back in 2010 ...
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I'm afraid it rather washed over me, without leaving much of a mark. I far preferred the Strauss programming. Oh, and the obligatory new piece was horrible.
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This concert is coming up soon - do we have anyone other than Martin T and myself up for it ??OK boys and girls I think I have a contender for 2012's AOS classical outing which I mentioned as an idea a couple of weeks ago
It's an absolutely tip-top Russian themed evening that will appeal to the seasoned pros and classical virgins amongst you, with crowd-pleasers from Tchaikovsky / Mussorgsky / Shostakovich at London's Royal Festival Hall on Tuesday October 16.
Full details here -
http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co....rchestra-66314
The idea will be to go to the concert and then have drinks / chat nearby afterwards.
I would be happy to book a block of tickets if people can Paypal me the cost of their ticket upfront. As I go to quite a lot of concerts I'm a bit of a cheapskate and normally get tickets in the circle but happy to go with the majority preference.
Do we have any takers??
Still plenty of tickets left for what is a very attractive programme IMO
And I don't just mean Natasha Paremski ...
http://www.natashaparemski.com/gallery/index.html
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