Still working my way through the box. Just heard no. 68 - the Adagio must be one of the loveliest Haydn ever wrote and the Presto finale with all its tricks has me grinning from ear to ear!
Derek Solomons/Haydn
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That sounds ideal, Dougie.
I've finally got to the 'Morzin' symphonies, the ones that were first recorded in the cycle. I have finally found one criticism and that is the use of harpsichord continuo in those early works. I guess I'm so used to the Hogwood recordings in which he eschewed a harpsichord for various reasons and I have to say I do prefer his leaner sound. But this is nitpicking really - the Solomons box is just so extraordinarily good in every respect. I'll be sad when I get to the end, but hey, I'll just start the discs all over again!
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Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
Just started listening to the Solomons Haydn box. I think it'll take a while. Makes a change from other things I might be doing.
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Originally posted by MickyD View PostI wonder if there are any composers homes to visit here in the South of France? That'd be a good bit of research to do.Originally posted by Roger Webb View Post
Do you know, I don't think many/any composers came from that area, well Milhaud, Marseilles...Originally posted by vinteuil View Postwell, there is Ravel
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Originally posted by vinteuil View Post... the lovely little township of Saint-Félix-Lauragais was the birthplace of Déodat de Séverac. There is a plaque, but I'm not sure the house is visitable. But the place is well worth a visit in its own right (excellent restaurant avec chambres too... )
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(Aldo Ciccolini is buried in Saint-Félix-Lauragais , near to the tomb of Déodat de Séverac... )
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[ I can if necessary provide further info on the interesting cimetière des Anglais at Saint-Félix-Lauragais referred to in the above : the dead wounded after the Battle of Toulouse 10 April 1814 (by which time Napoleon had already capitulated) - but I fear we have already drifted too far from the marvellous Derek Solomons box of Haydn symphonies... ]
Après la rude bataille de Toulouse du 10 avril 1814, plusieurs soldats anglais commandés par le Duc de Wellington rendirent leur dernier souffle de vie à Saint-Félix-Lauragais.
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