The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[Nick Armstrong]

...followed by a handover in which he described RC as having a rose between his teeth.

I'd gone by then!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

After all, RC is no lady.

Now you tell me!

[Nick Armstrong]

Keeping Skellers on permanently, alternating with the lovely Penny Gore would be radiophonic joy. The others? Phfffttt...

Agreed but I wouldn't wish the hours on my direst enemy.

As it is, Mrs Skelly is doomed to spend the early hours of Valentine's Day in a cold empty bed...

[Nick Armstrong]

Hope Skellers keeps you whistling all the way to the Ravel Museum......

Cheers ts. Indeed, in a strange turnaround, their cancellation of the visit (referred to here) has now been reversed and as things stand, Friday afternoon should find Caliban chez Maurice... Watch this space though.... If the gendarmes marched Argerich and Dutoit out a couple of weeks back, I may be in the Montfort nick come the weekend....

[Quarky]

Probably not to everyone's taste, and certainly a great change from Martin Handley's softly-softly approach, but I found Liz Alker's varied choices very refreshing for facing the rest of the day. Highlight Vivaldi's concerto for two mandolins.

It worked for me!

[DracoM]

Maybe, but given what the BAL of he day was just about to be, to have a plethora of plucked stuff guitars / mandolins etc was exactly the right way to jade the appetite IMO.
If I'd been AMcG and heard what she was to play, I'd be feeling a bit peeved.

[BBMmk2]

Leonard Cohen!!!

[DaisyDog]

Even worse than Leonard Cohen, EA's choice of folksy MoR music is hardly what I expect to wake up to on Sunday morning. Whatever happened to classical music?

[french frank]

I played the clip of the Ruth Hall/Emily Wall (or vice versa) 'Mantra' and the David Lang 'Just' and was struck by how similar they were ('Just' was rhythmically slightly 'jumpier'). This does seem to be playing things to 'make a point', though I doubt very much that EA produced that playlist, either aided or unaided. (Schubert's Untitled, schmaltzified by Rachmaninov, well, ok: I just don't like it, personally). Otherwise (from the playlist) it seemed mostly MoR classical.

(As for Leonard Cohen, my view of him is that you really had to Be There (I was Before There and thought Suzanne the dreariest song ever written. By anyone. Ever).

Even worse than Leonard Cohen, EA's choice of folksy MoR music is hardly what I expect to wake up to on Sunday morning. Whatever happened to classical music?

[oddoneout]

This could just as well go in pedants' paradise I suppose.
"...and here to play it are the Brodsky Quartet." Thank you CB-H for that this morning. She also commented that the piece in question - Puccini's 'Chrysanthemums' - isn't often heard in quartet format, which came as a surprise since it seemed familiar enough to me which suggests that it must get aired fairly often, as I don't go out of my way to listen to Puccini's offerings. But hey, what do I know?

[vinteuil]

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I think she lifted her 'thoughts' on Crisantemi from the last two paragraphs of this :

http://www.ksorchestra.ca/media/Puccini,%20Crisantemi.pdf

I've heard it on the radio fairly often - nearly always in its "original string quartet guise".

Speaking as a pedant, I have no objection to the Brodskys being treated as singular or plural. With group nouns like this either or both works or work in English...

[french frank]

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I think she lifted her 'thoughts' on Crisantemi from the last two paragraphs of this :

http://www.ksorchestra.ca/media/Puccini,%20Crisantemi.pdf

I've heard it on the radio fairly often - nearly always in its "original string quartet guise".

Not close enough, I think, to have breached copyright - assuming the original was not her own work anyway? Would have been good to hear Crisantemi stressed on the 3rd syllable instead of, as in English, the 2nd.

I also haven't heard it as often in the orchestral version, but that might be because I have the recording in the string quartet version - the Alberni Qt. Interesting CD - it also has the Verdi quartet.

[vinteuil]

... I have the recording in the string quartet version - the Alberni Qt. Interesting CD - it also has the Verdi quartet.

... http://amzn.eu/3By7qke

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[french frank]

... http://amzn.eu/3By7qke

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That is it - though the cover is slightly different (same Samuel Palmer painting, though).

[underthecountertenor]

This could just as well go in pedants' paradise I suppose.
"...and here to play it are the Brodsky Quartet." Thank you CB-H for that this morning. She also commented that the piece in question - Puccini's 'Chrysanthemums' - isn't often heard in quartet format, which came as a surprise since it seemed familiar enough to me which suggests that it must get aired fairly often, as I don't go out of my way to listen to Puccini's offerings. But hey, what do I know?

I'm surprised that no one has yet commented on her description of Crisantemi as 'a beautiful anthem'. I've just gone back to check that I wasn't hearing things (given that 'anthem' appears in the middle of the English title), but no: she did call it an anthem. Which is surely stretching the term somewhat.