This music is second rate

[mikerotheatrenestr0y]

Suffolkcoastal
It's almost as if there is a completely different repertory for orchestras when they are not in the recording studio.

That's very true - so is it necessarily a good thing to insist on live performances on R3? Justified complaints about restricted repertoire may not be met by live performances if these follow the "main audience taste" - unless some element of BBC subsidy enables a widening of repertoire...

This is, of course, quite the wrong place, but if you want to try someone new, ferret, then how about Grazynna Bacewicz? Theblues-thatjazz.com has several chances for you to listen to her work - i was captivated by a newly released CD on CD review, and then googled.

[Segilla]

I'd like to get the cognoscenti of performance together for a 'blind
tasting' of works whose recordings they are unfamiliar with and see where a
comparative chart gets us.

To my mind, it's not the performance that precludes appreciation of rarely heard
music.

I have found great pleasure in Sinding, Raff, and many others, but not yet in
Paderewski's Polonoia symphony, for example, and other rare works. I remember how years
ago I was very unimpressed with Parry's 5th but now regard it as a fine
work.

Time, giving the music a chance to mature in the mind is what I need. Those
performers who realise it for me are admired but never unduly lauded or witheringly panned.

Always, it's the music!

[burning dog]

Without being Grewish, .

"Grewish"...Almost an anagram of Gershwin though not in the Sidney spelling.