Deutsche Bank are sponsoring 4000 free tickets for the BPO Digital Concert Hall live video broadcast of their season's opening concert on Friday 28th August at 7pm (CET).
Sir Simon Rattle conducts an exciting programme with Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra and a première by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho.
Awesome!
I checked out the Digital Concert Hall sometime earlier this year--it is a great idea that seems to be finely executed. I love the option to choose different sized streams and the quality of the high-res stream. Of course, the Berlin Phil isn't too shabby, either.
The concert starts (I believe) at 1 pm EST for those of us in the states.
There was a fall-out of the streaming early in Berlioz, which apparently was not a matter of my computer or my local hook-up.
There only were 6 cameras, which didn’t prevent the cuts being too fast sometimes. Both tubists played in the last movement, but visually there only were 1 1/2 in a static frame during the Dies Irae.
The orchestra is marvellous, but I prefer the trombones being stronger in the overall balance.
Interestingly they used two piston cornets plus 2 German rotary trumpets in Berlioz.
I am very glad that Jonathan provided the link, and I enjoyed the concert.
imperialbari wrote:There was a fall-out of the streaming early in Berlioz, which apparently was not a matter of my computer or my local hook-up.
Yes, I had it go down as well.
It was interesting to see 6 harps. I have not seen so many used for Symphonie Fantastique before. I believe the two tubas were a B&S F (Alexander von Puttkamer) and the Gronitz double tuba (Paul Humpel) I saw played last year at the Proms. I made a screen shot of Puttkamer with the B&S F during the Britten for interest.
The Digital Concert Hall seems a good concept, but I felt not so well presented (as yet) as the televised Proms concerts are on the BBC.
Did you hear the taped conversation in English with Rattle during the intermission? The simple 6-camera concept appears to be part of their main idea.
There also was too little of a difference between the soft and the loud dynamics in the orchestra. However the talking afterwards for the two string players retiring required my to turn up the sound to understand the words ( and I easily understand German). When the public then applauded my eardrums nearly blew out.
The video was good insofar that the screen area was about three times as large as with the HD version on YouTube. For odd reasons I have followed the 2nd clarinet for over 25 years, and he was easily recognized. You screen shot also speaks for the video quality considering there are no extra lights.
