Purcell's influence on Britten

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  • doversoul1
    Ex Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 7132
    #1

    Purcell's influence on Britten

    Saturday and Sunday

    Originally posted by Catherine Bott (Byrd Weekend #16)
    Thanks all, glad you enjoyed them. Always a pleasure to talk to Andrew. I'm feeling quite proprietorial about next weekend's pair of programmes: the brief, to go with this British music season, was to discuss Purcell's influence on Britten, and I was allowed to devise the whole thing. Stand by for quite a lot of big beast harpsichord playing and Britten's own realisations.

    BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Britten and Purcell, Episode 1
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02x91m3
    Catherine Bott explores the musical relationship between Britten and Purcell.

    BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Britten and Purcell, Episode 2
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02x9351
    Catherine Bott explores the musical relationship between Britten and Purcell.
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  • Thropplenoggin
    Full Member
    • Mar 2013
    • 1587
    #2
    Really, really, really looking forward to this. Probably the pick of the Britten celebrations programmes so far, and a double-bill to boot.
    It loved to happen. -- Marcus Aurelius

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    • amateur51
      #3
      I enjoyed this enormously & I'm planning to re-listen sometime soon

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      • vinteuil
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 12822
        #4
        ... I liked this. but I think it mainly served to remind me that the Britten I most enjoy is actually the Purcell he uses - in the same way that the Vaughan Williams I can enjoy is actually Tallis...

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        • Thropplenoggin
          Full Member
          • Mar 2013
          • 1587
          #5
          Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
          ... I liked this. but I think it mainly served to remind me that the Britten I most enjoy is actually the Purcell he uses - in the same way that the Vaughan Williams I can enjoy is actually Tallis...
          You have expressed my sentiments, vinteuil, with concision and precision.
          It loved to happen. -- Marcus Aurelius

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          • Old Grumpy
            Full Member
            • Jan 2011
            • 3612
            #6
            Agreed all, thouroughly enjoyable and informative programme. Looking forward to tomorrow's.

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            • ardcarp
              Late member
              • Nov 2010
              • 11102
              #7
              This excellent programme was all to do with Purcell and Britten. When I hear Purcell being performed by large-ish orchestras in the 50s and 60s (and maybe beyond) I always remember the pioneering work of Anthony Lewis and Nigel Fortune in editing (and in Lewis's case, conducting) Purcell's stage works. Lewis was also something of a pioneer in staging Baroque opera (Handel, Rameeau, etc). All totally irrelevant to today's EMS, but just a passing thought on my part.
              Last edited by ardcarp; 16-06-13, 14:12.

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              • Thropplenoggin
                Full Member
                • Mar 2013
                • 1587
                #8
                I thought yesterday's show was exemplary music programming. I must confess to not having heard EMS before. A thoroughly engaging presenter interacting with her audience in a wonderfully intellectual way (pre-empting the response of the HIPP brigade, etc.) and not in any way patronising or simplifying her exegesis (on the contrary, often clarifying it). The highlight for me was seguing Purcell's Fantasia on One Note into the opening of Britten's Second String Quartet, allowing the listener to hear everything the presenter had said previously. Marvellously done. I can't be the only one to experience a frisson of delight at how well that was done, surely. Oh, for more of the same on R3!!!
                Last edited by Thropplenoggin; 16-06-13, 14:54.
                It loved to happen. -- Marcus Aurelius

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                • ardcarp
                  Late member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 11102
                  #9
                  Welcome to EMS, Throps. You've come late to the consistently best programme on R3.

                  I was much taken (on Saturday's prog) with the 'Passacalia' from Peter Grimes cf Purcell's frequent use of the ground bass. Now to i-player and today's edition.

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                  • Mary Chambers
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 1963
                    #10
                    I very much enjoyed both yesterday's and today's programme. Loved the juxtaposition of Sweeter Than Roses and I Know a Bank. And who could listen to Pears and Alfreda Hodgson making hay and not smile?

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                    • ahinton
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 16122
                      #11
                      Apologies in advance for digressing, albeit very momentarily, but the thread topic itself prompted me to try to recall who it was (Graham Johnson?) who years ago authored a most amusing though not entirely impertinent (in at least one sense) skit about the influence of Tippett on Beethoven, my copy of which I can sadly no longer find; I'm sure that BB would have been highly amused by it had he read it (which he almost certainly couldn't have done as I'm pretty sure that it postdated him)...

                      As you were...

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                      • Serial_Apologist
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 37682
                        #12
                        Originally posted by ahinton View Post
                        Apologies in advance for digressing, albeit very momentarily, but the thread topic itself prompted me to try to recall who it was (Graham Johnson?) who years ago authored a most amusing though not entirely impertinent (in at least one sense) skit about the influence of Tippett on Beethoven
                        Gosh - that's carrying postmodernism a bit far!!!

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                        • ahinton
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 16122
                          #13
                          Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                          Gosh - that's carrying postmodernism a bit far!!!
                          I wouldn't carry it anywhere, frankly, even if paid so to do!...

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                          • amateur51
                            #14
                            Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                            Gosh - that's carrying postmodernism a bit far!!!

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