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[Roger Webb]

I'm currently in hospital (under investigation for gastritis), so if I were in a position to listen (I suppose I could try on Sounds) it would certainly be as I'd never heard it before, this being the first time in my 73 years I've been in a hospital overnight.

Sorry to hear that....get well soon! One stay only for me, double hernia op. Horrendous, didn't sleep a wink......almost wish there been R3 Unwind to send me off!!

[Roger Webb]

Never mind the billing - good concert this of underplayed music very persuasively performed.

Particularly the Arnold.....tremendous engineering tonight too! Oh, bit of a gaff from Ian Skelly proclaiming Arnold to be the sole composer of all the St Trinian's films' music!

[Ein Heldenleben]

Particularly the Arnold.....tremendous engineering tonight too! Oh, bit of a gaff from Ian Skelly proclaiming Arnold to be the sole composer of all the St Trinian's films' music!

Yes particularly rich silky string sounds in the last movement which I suspect would come across well on Quads. I think that lush last movement theme came in for some criticism - it is however my not -so -guilty- pleasure.

[Roger Webb]

Yes particularly rich silky string sounds in the last movement which I suspect would come across well on Quads. I think that lush last movement theme came in for some criticism - it is however my not -so -guilty- pleasure.

Yes, there are many such moments in Arnold! There are often such imaginative touches in his orchestration, for example that gentle theme that sounds like sunshine on wet pebbles - sounds fanciful, but it fills me with self-indulgent nostalgia - one can almost see the young Hayley Mills standing there!!!

The 'sound' of the music was enjoyable as a thing in its self - this is a regular guilty pleasure....bearing in mind FF's comment that there's more to music than the noise it makes, I reserve the right to have a good wallow occasionally.

[smittims]

Well said, Heldeleben , message 480 above. In these lean days we can do with more programmes like this one.

[Pulcinella]

Didn't have my Sounds password to hand (something else for my partner to bring in: ultrasound bank holiday backlog so test now not scheduled until tomorrow but being kept in for observation!) so I listened instead to the Andrew Penny Naxos recording on my iPod so I could be there in spirit.