Comments on: Orchestra Wellington’s “The Prophecy” a remarkable musical journey https://middle-c.org/2018/07/orchestra-wellingtons-the-prophecy-a-remarkable-musical-journey/ Classical Music Reviews, Wellington, New Zealand Sun, 15 Jul 2018 23:27:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: jennifer shennan https://middle-c.org/2018/07/orchestra-wellingtons-the-prophecy-a-remarkable-musical-journey/comment-page-1/#comment-694231 Sun, 15 Jul 2018 23:27:26 +0000 https://middle-c.org/?p=14017#comment-694231 Peter
Thank you for your galvanised review and detailed discussion of the Britten piano concerto, both as composition and in performance.
Like you, I was stunned by all of it — and have since managed to find a cd of Stephen Osborne playing it with BBC Scottish…
but I want a recording of OW with Jian Liu. They are ours and we heard it here…so why in the name of everything was it not recorded?
Everyone I know (not me) owns a smartphone, and there have never been more clever ways to record & play back this & that …so by what reasoning of false economy did this breathtaking concerto go unrecorded? I think myself blessed to have heard it live …

Britten was not a pacifist, composing on the eve of WWII, for nothing.

Jennifer Shennan

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