tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post473896750908953438..comments2024-03-26T07:58:59.761+00:00Comments on I'll think of something later: About some of today's playersDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-45989416249465041822021-05-26T08:01:54.741+01:002021-05-26T08:01:54.741+01:00I wrote the programme note at a time when Jonathan...I wrote the programme note at a time when Jonathan was fully intending to sound the 'special role' himself. He only decided to delegate at the last minute, and the pdf couldn't be corrected at that late stage. So not exactly a gaffe. <br /><br />Not sure I agree about 'The Sea' - I think its ending was perfect after the big climax and, though the piece could have been longer, its portmanteau 'La Mer' quality was so admirable. <br /><br />I can also guarantee that the energy of the string playing came across amazingly in the hall (I was at a rehearsal and one of the four involved sitting upstairs at the performance). I'd noted at the rehearsal that the only slight smothering was in the 'New World' finale but Jonathan then worked really hard on some of those passages - I think there's a very short clip of one in the blog entry below this one. <br />Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-79049632547396922842021-05-26T02:57:10.179+01:002021-05-26T02:57:10.179+01:00Finally got around to watching the Europe Day conc...Finally got around to watching the Europe Day concert, although I confess that I took it in piecemeal rather than one continuous go. (I did the same with the LSO/SSR all-Stravinsky online concert video.) Very, very fine concert indeed, especially given the modest number of strings and thus potentially odd balances, which no doubt the engineers mitigated. I recognized Sini Simonen from the Wigmore Hall online pandemic-era concerts by the Castilian Quartet, of whom I'd not known prior to the pandemic. If there was a modest "disappointment", it's that Ester Magi's "The Sea" seemed to end too soon, just as it seemed about to take off into more music. One tiny program note gaffe was the slight misattribution in the Johann Strauss 'Vergnügungszug' of the "special role in the proceedings" to the conductor, where that "special role" actually fell to Elsa Bradley. But like our new and most excellent President's verbal gaffes, quite forgivable :) .Geo.noreply@blogger.com