'Endeavour' ITV 1

[Nick Armstrong]

Dave - it was a DECCA Eclipse LP, you're right (The Planets, LSO/Sargent:



... they started in 1966 with vintage popular repertoire (Charlie Kunz, Ambrose) but the earliest Classical releases on the label weren't around until 1969. The Planets first appeared on the label in 1971 - if Morse has had that recording, it would have been on the former "Ace of Clubs" label:

DELIVERY FOR A MR. LIEBTE!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Just found it by searching on my Mac.

[Nick Armstrong]

Just found it by searching on my Mac.

Just tried that - all I found was a furry fisherman's friend in the left-hand pocket...

[subcontrabass]

Tonight's Endeavour a right dog's breakfast. That rabbit had rigor mortis**, not freshly shot. Brief snatch of Paint It Black by the Stones, during the pub quiz - acc. to Wiki, pub quizzes only began in the 1970s, certainly don't remember them before that.... (Paint It Black OK, that was 1966, this set in autumn 1967).

**PS Cali this is not a spoiler

At the beginning the radio news broadcast referred to the Soviet Foreign Minister as "Mr Gromko" rather than "Mr Gromyko".

Why do so many dramas, not just this one, show churches and college chapels with all candles lit when there is no service going on?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Just tried that - all I found was a furry fisherman's friend in the left-hand pocket...

Oh! I wondered where that'd gone.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Oh! I wondered where that'd gone.

... as did the furry fisherman.

[Dave2002]

I still have that Sargent Planets (The Decca Eclipse) - it's my recording of the work!

I didn't know he'd done several recordings - for different companies - https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Sa...JR4sbmkEVOM%3A

I have one of them - probably on CD, maybe also on LP - not now sure which.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I didn't know he'd done several recordings - for different companies - https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Sa...JR4sbmkEVOM%3A
I have one of them - probably on CD, maybe also on LP - not now sure which.

I think that there are only two studio recordings there, Dave - with the BBCSO for EMI (recored in 1958), and with the LSO for DECCA (recorded in 1953). Different releases on the two companies' various reissue labels.

Edit: The one on the BBC label is from a Live concert, recorded with the BBCSO in 1965.

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm in the middle of the previous one, set in the hospital, which seems to me so far one of the best. I hope it won't have a conclusion that involves ludicrously erudite leaps of deduction from Morse...

The hospital one was good I thought (have yet to watch the dog's breakfast final episode).

Whilst watching, various bells were ringing distantly - the volume of which was turned up by a letter (in Radio Times ). The hospital episode contained several tributes to Carry On Doctor, which appeared the year the story was set.

The ward with the mysterious Bed No 10 was the Fosdick Ward - this really rang a bell - and that's the ward in Carry On Doctor (and Carry On Again Doctor, for that matter).

Sir Lancelot Spratt became Sir Merlyn Chubb...

And the exteriors of the hospital were of the same building as in COD - in reality, Maidenhead Town Hall.

And what was the hospital radio in Endeavour called?

Radio Carillon!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

- shame Morse's copy of The Planets in the next episode wasn't conducted by ... aah! You're ahead of me!

[Once Was 4]

DELIVERY FOR A MR. LIEBTE!

This recording of The Planets, in its Ace of Clubs form, was one of the records that I played almost daily as a teenager and I still have it. Years later I was involved coaching groups of horn players as was the late John Burden who is 1st horn on the recording. He told me that Sargent insisted that he play the horn solo at the opening of 'Venus' 'hand stopped'. When the recording came out the solo was just as it should be: lovely and soft but played 'open'. The engineers were just as mortified as Mr Burden was at Sargent's instruction and had substituted a balance test for an actual take. Quite right too!

[Dave2002]

- shame Morse's copy of The Planets in the next episode wasn't conducted by ... aah! You're ahead of me!

Not quite sure what you're thinking of ...

http://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/latest/worst-classical-album-covers-ever/holst-planets/

I guess Morse couldn't be seen with such a salacious copy.

Maybe André Previn - who presumably hadn't recorded the Planets by the episode in question. Boult had done it several times, though there may have been one or two later ones. I quite like Sargent's version(s). Karajan's version was around 1960-61, so feasible.

Anyway, on Morse's salary could he have afforded anything other than Eclipse or ACL or CFP? Then again, he doesn't seem to spend much money on anything else ....

[Nick Armstrong]

- shame Morse's copy of The Planets in the next episode wasn't conducted by ... aah! You're ahead of me!

... no.... Kenneth Vaughan Williams?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Karajan Conducting.

(Starring Sid James as Wally Thigh, Hattie Jaques as Betty Blackhead, and Kenneth Williams as Norbert Von Tufree.)

[Nick Armstrong]

Karajan Conducting.

DOH!!!