Concerts are changing: Let’s embrace museum culture
mainThe young British conductor Oliver Zeffman has filmed a concert with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and violinist Viktoria Mullova in the refurbished Raphael Court of the Victoria & Albert Museum.
So much more welcoming than certain nearby concert halls.
Oliver says: ‘There are few locations more stunning than the V&A’s Raphael Court, surrounded by the Raphael Cartoons’.
Fine but you can’t have Mahler 6 in that setting, only chamber music, or cut down other types! !
What does all of that fabric on the walls do to the acoustics? – I am not British, but from visits I remember a large, barnlike space. I’ll take Wigmore Hall any day!
Concert halls were designed for the best acoustics and most practical attendance situation where audiences could sit comfortably for a long time. Museums were designed for walking and visibility of the works…. would music in museums be more accessible, I wonder. In London that may indeed be the case.
The sampler video gave me a serious headache. Camera swooping backwards and forwards all over the place – was the camera a GoPro attached to a fly? In and out of focus in every shot.
Sound is like a massive bathroom.
Music deserves better than this.
beautiful recording, perfect example of how you almost never need a conductor. Certainly not for this.
The acoustics are appalling and seem to have given rise to ensemble difficulties between about 00:25 and 00:34 and again at about 1:40