Scottish Ballet, 17/12/2013

Humperdinck : Hansel and Gretel

Scottish Ballet
Scottish Ballet Orchestra
Richard Honner

RSNO, 14/12/2013

Ravel : Valses nobles et sentimentales
Brahms : Double Concerto (Nicola Benedetti, violin; Leonard Elschenbroich, cello)
Lutoslawski : Concerto for Orchestra

Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Yan Pascal Tortelier

Royal Ballet (HD broadcast), 12/12/2013

Tchaikovsky : The Nutcracker

The Royal Ballet
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Tom Seligman

RSNO, 05/12/2013

Glazunov : The Seasons - Winter
Rachmaninoff : Piano Concerto No. 1 (Lise de la Salle, piano)
Tchaikovsky : The Nutcracker - Act 2

Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Alexander Shelley

RSNO, 23/11/2013

Messiaen : Les offrandes oubliées
Beethoven : Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor" (Nikolai Lugansky, piano)
Rachmaninoff : Symphonic Dances


Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Peter Oundjian

RSNO, 16/11/2013

Britten : War Requiem

Evelina Dobraceva, soprano
Jeffrey Francis, tenor
Russell Braun, baritone
RSNO Junior Chorus
RSNO Chorus
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Peter Oundjian

BBCSSO, 07/11/2013

Tippett : Divertimento on "Sellinger's Round"
Mozart : Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466 (Shai Wosner, piano)
Vaughan Williams : Symphony No. 7, "Sinfonia Antartica" (Katherine Broderick, soprano)

Ladies of the Glasgow Chamber Choir
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Manze

Chiz, chiz, chiz (to quote nigel molesworth) ...

... because the cinema from which I had chosen to view the ROH's Sicilian Vespers broadcast developed a satellite fault.  That wasn't the end of it either.  The management was pretty decent in their apologies; full refund, guest pass to any future show, including ROH broadcasts (and in any branch of the chain, including IMAX), and free entry to any other film showing on the premises tonight if desired.  Since I was out for the evening anyway, I chose another film - and then they forgot to load the movie!

Forty minutes after the announced starting time (and yes, of course 30 minutes would have been taken up by ads and trailers), we were still sitting looking at a blank screen.  Another customer had the good sense to go ask what the problem was; me, I had my nose in a book, as is my habit when waiting for just about anything.  We were subsequently spared the ads and trailers, which is always a good thing.

So I'm going to have to wait for Radio 3 to broadcast Vespers, and I'd really done my homework for this one!  It's the only mature Verdi I haven't seen now.  But the evening turned out passably entertaining nevertheless, even if partially for the wrong reasons.

[Next : 7th November]

BBCSSO, 24/10/2013

Schnelzer : A Freak in Burbank
Rachmaninoff : Piano Concerto No. 2 (Denis Kozhukhin, piano)
Nielsen : Symphony No. 4 "The Inextinguishable"

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard

Bolshoi Ballet (HD broadcast), 20/10/2013

Khachaturian : Spartacus

Artists of the Bolshoi Ballet
Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre
Pavel Sorokin