The solo spotlight for the programme falls on 19-year old Spanish violinist María Dueñas, who lives up to her "rising superstar" billing in a great rendering of Shostakovich's 1st Violin Concerto. After the interval, the double-orchestra gives its full energy to John Adams' wondrous Harmoniehlehre. Taking fresh inspiration from imagery in his dreams, Romantic music and harmonic exploration, Adam's three-section work from 1985 barrels along in unforgettable style.
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Marvellous-thank you so much.
ReplyDeleteThere's a lot that's good about SGTG, Alan, but I think your actings as relayer for these radio programs is just fabulous! Even if I am not interested in the music, it is fascinating just to see the programming (I'm not in the UK) but, of course, the music is also often great. So a very sincere and deeply appreciative thanks for this, and all you do.
ReplyDeleteThanks - ideal comment for the BBC's centenary day!
Deleteget_iplayer has to be the handiest bit of freeware I've ever come across: Just grabs audio/video from the BBC iPlayer site and downloads it, usually a bit of volume limiting visible in the waveform but I can live with that.
Hoping they keep on broadcasting interesting music for years to come - as a license fee payer, I certainly feel I'm entitled to it (and to pass some of it on) ;)