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Classical Music on TV or Radio

  • 21-06-2012 04:12PM
    #1
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,186 ✭✭✭✭


    On the Films forum there's a thread for recommending films on TV, and I thought there might be an equivalent thread here. There doesn't appear to be, so I thought I could start one, particularly with the Proms starting soon. If you can recommend an upcoming concert or recital, you can post the details here.

    On BBC4, 9PM tonight, the groundbreaking Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra from Venezuela will be shown live from Stiriing, playing Beethoven & Purcell.
    Also on BBC4, 7:30PM on Friday, they're showing the Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A Major, recorded at the Proms in 2006. This is part 2 of their Concerto series; the first part was the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E Minor from 2008, with Janine Jansen on the 1727 "Barrere" Stradivarius, which you missed on TV but can get on BBC iPlayer for one more day.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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  • #2
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    I'll come blundering in straight away with an off-topic, but related post (partly through the fact that I don't watch TV or listen to the radio) - there is a free hour-long video documentary on Beethoven by Daniel Barenboim being offered for free on iTunes today. Link.


  • #3
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,186 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    The 2012 Proms are starting this Friday, with the opening night broadcast on BBC2 from 8:30PM. The BBC has put up a single web page that lists the Proms that will be broadcast on TV, here. (All will be on Radio 3 too, available for listening online.)

    The main televised attraction in July will be the complete Beethoven Symphony cycle, (Barenboim conducting), from Friday 20th for the next week. Intense. :cool:

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #4
    Eliot Rosewater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭Eliot Rosewater


    The Proms have now started (!) and from what I understand they will be televised, mostly after the date, on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays on BBC 4 usually, but sometimes BBC 1 or 2. If you have a Sky box with a viewing card (you don't need a Sky subscription) you can tune in all of the BBCs by following the instructions here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055038749 - but use the most recent frequency details; some of the details on that thread are out of date. I think these might be correct: http://www.lyngsat.com/packages/skyuk.html


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