Not a programme I tune into normally, but today's was a cracker...some interesting music presented in a most entertaining way.
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Was it a repeat? He's been on before - isn't he the Widow of Kit and the Widow?
[Add: yes - a repeat from 2013]Last edited by french frank; 07-02-15, 17:01.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. -
I switched him off when he used the word 'iconic' - not once, but twice.Comment
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Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
.... I got a text from a friend this afternoon expressing the hope that I wasn't listening to "this abomination"... 
I wasn't.
Curious now, though!
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Well, I'm quite unrepentant about finding the programme entertainingly uplifting. And the playlist, a few chestnuts apart, was interesting! I've no idea whether it was a repeat or not...'twas new to me.Comment
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I am afraid for this one I disagree with Ardcarp. I caught the first few minutes of someone Yodelling the Skaters Waltz and immediately turned off. For me what I heard, for me, was an abominations. I don't know who he is or why he was picked.Originally posted by Caliban View Post .... I got a text from a friend this afternoon expressing the hope that I wasn't listening to "this abomination"...
I wasn't.
Curious now, though!Comment
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You should have stuck with it, because after:
Émile Waldteufel
Skater's Waltz
Performer: Mary Schneider.
Orchestra: Sydney International Orchestra.
Conductor: Tommy Tycho.
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Ludwig Minkus
Don Quixote - Pas de Deux (extract)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev
Lieutenant Kije - Troika
Conductor: Nicholas Childs.
Henry Purcell
King Arthur - Cold Song
Singer: Klaus Nomi.
Lars-Erik Larsson
En vintersaga op.18 - Epilog
Orchestra: Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
Conductor: Stig Westerberg.
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Symphony No.8 "Antarctica" - 1st mvt. (extract)
Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Conductor: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
Jake Wilson
Black Was The Flag
Performer: Jake Wilson.
Claude Debussy
Des pas sur la neige (Preludes, Bk.1)
Performer: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli.
Claude Debussy
Snowflakes are Dancing
Performer: Isao Tomita.
Richard Sisson
Living By
Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia.
Conductor: Nicholas Daniel.
Robert Frost
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
Author: Robert Frost.
Performer: Robert Frost.
Eric Whitacre
Sleep
Choir: Laudibus.
Choir: The Eric Whitacre Singers.
Sufjan Stevens
Winter Solstice
Performer: Sufjan Stevens.
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Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto no.2 in B flat op.83 - 2nd mvt.
Performer: Emil Gilels.
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic.
Conductor: Eugen Jochum.
Arthur Honegger
Pacific 231
Performer: Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française.
Conductor: Jean Martinon.
Benjamin Britten
Winter Words, op.52 - Midnight on the Great Western
Singer: Daniel Norman.
Performer: Christopher Gould.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Winter Dreams - Scherzo
Orchestra: Maly State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR.
Conductor: Yuri Simonov.
Tommy Wolf
Ballad of the Sad Young Men
Singer: Ian Shaw.
Performer: Sue Richardson.
Composer: Fran Landesman.
John Rutter
Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Choir: The Cambridge Singers.
Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia.
Conductor: John Rutter.
Franz Peter Schubert
Winterreise - Der Leiermann
Singer: Mark Padmore.
Performer: Paul Lewis.
Nino Rota
Theme from Amarcord
Performer: Jaume Tugores.
David Byrne
Winter (Music from the Knee Plays)
Singer: David Byrne.
Marguerite Monnot
Hymne a l'amour
Singer: Édith Piaf.
Orchestra: [unknown].
ECLECTIC OR WHAT?Comment
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Thanks for the update my only regret is missing the Maxwell-Davies. But I am glad you enjoyed it as I am sure others did.Comment
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