Tag: Béla Bartók

Emmanuel Pahud, Christian Rivet, Wigmore Hall, 22 December 2013

Something a little different just before Christmas that year. A real mixture of musical styles, played on flute and guitar.

Click here for a link to the Wigmore Hall page for this concert.

It wasn’t quite the programme we had subscribed for – the programme was changed between booking and the night – but I cannot for the life of me remember what they were originally proposing to do – some slightly different mixture of wonders I suspect.

Below is the only video footage I could find of the two of them playing together – a delightful little Bach piece – it wasn’t on the programme our night:

Below is Pahud playing a favourite Telemann concerto of mine – so why not embed it here?

Below is a sound YouTube of the two of them playing one of the charming  Bartok Romanian Folk Dances which was on the programme we heard:

https://youtu.be/wF8cHuchBd8

I’m not usually wild about Bartok, but this flute and guitar combo makes the Romanian dances sound lovely.

Young Australians Playing Instruments Not Cricket, Royal Albert Hall, 23 July 1994

It wasn’t even an Ashes summer, in truth.

Here is a link to the BBC stub for this Prom.

This will have been the very first time that Janie and I pandered to her mum’s (Pauline “The Duchess of Castlebar”) taste for seeing youth orchestras.

Yakov Kreizberg conducting the Australian Youth Orchestra.

We heard:

  • Brenton Broadstock – Festive Overture
  • Jean Sibelius – Violin Concerto
  • Béla Bartók – The Miraculous Mandarin – suite
  • Maurice Ravel – Pavane pour une infante défunte (Orchestral version)
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Capriccio espagnol, Op 34

Cho-liang Lin was a superb soloist on the violin for the Sibelius, which was worth the price of admission alone.

Here’s the kid playing the first movement with The Philharmonia under Esa-Pekka Salonen:

Stephen Johnson in the Independent was full of praise:

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