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30 August
under Sir Simon Rattle on 30 August 2020
After Venetian brass*, which might well have resounded in San Marco as it did to-day, such a glorious moment when the string-sound of the Elgar broke through :
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All credit to @londonsymphony players and @BBCRadio3 crew for such clarity !
* #UCFF guesses - the Tweets don't say.
Gorgeously inventive programming to suit times of trial and trouble, with Beethoven's Op. 27 and György Kurtág's Op. 27 response :
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The setting of #mitsukouchida's performance, in time and space, and the lay-out of the players around her, vividly described by @Ianskellyradio3 !
I will be rattling my keys in the Kurtág tonight @bbcproms @londonsymphony pic.twitter.com/DVFxHhlYaV
— Thomas Adès (@Thomas_ades) August 30, 2020
Known via Sir Adrian Boult's recordings (and before energetic recentish champions such as @ClareCollege alumnus @andrewmanze), even he didn't achieve the third-movement pianississimo in this symphony for which Ralph Vaughan Williams is heard thanking Boult at the end of No. 6 (?)
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The Passacaglia's structure brings us out of the preceding movements' blessed, healing enchantments, seeming to rise in joyous, untriumphal harmony, but to a held-off close*.
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* RVW feigns several, and then, via sinuous knotting and unknotting, brings it all back to serene rest.
Such a treat to hear Vaughan Williams’ beautiful Symphony No 5 performed LIVE @bbcproms and on @BBCRadio3 by the wonderful @londonsymphony. First proper orchestra I saw live as a kid and I’ve never forgotten it. Things are looking up!— Emma Bloxham (@emmablox1) August 30, 2020
Vaughan Williams’s Symphony No 5 is a shaft of sunshine in a gloom-filled year. Thank you @bbcproms @SirSimonRattle @londonsymphony
— George Poles (@GeorgePoles) August 30, 2020
Loved "Dawn" - thank you so much @londonsymphony @bbcproms @RoyalAlbertHall @SirSimonRattle @Thomas_ades - in fact, loved the whole concert !
— Paul Davies (@pd1946) August 31, 2020
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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
