Margaret Mountford on PP

[Guest]

A most agreeable PP with Margaret Mountford. A woman of many accomplishments (currently completing her Ph.D in ancient Greek), it's nice to hear a guest with such impeccable musical taste (i.e. whose tastes coincide so exactly with one's own )

[Norfolk Born]

I thought her comment to the effect that Thomas Hampson was so good he could even persuade her to listen to American songs was uncalled for - or was it simply a misguided attempt at a witticism?

[french frank]

A most agreeable PP with Margaret Mountford. A woman of many accomplishments (currently completing her Ph.D in ancient Greek), it's nice to hear a guest with such impeccable musical taste (i.e. whose tastes coincide so exactly with one's own )

Amazingly 19th-c. choice, RT - rather too much, I'd have thought, for you!

Ofca, maybe it was just a statement of fact/opinion: for others to take offence if they wish. If she particularly meant Copland and the 'Old' variety, I'm afraid not even TH does it for me.

[Richard Tarleton]

Amazingly 19th-c. choice, RT - rather too much, I'd have thought, for you!

Ofca, maybe it was just a statement of fact/opinion: for others to take offence if they wish. If she particularly meant Copland and the 'Old' variety, I'm afraid not even TH does it for me.

I'm with her on Wagner, Verdi, Schubert, Liszt, inc. Schubert transcriptions - I have lots of Bolet recordings - true, early music may be her blind spot

I think I know what she means about American song too - Thomas Hampson making farmyard noises is a bit much for me - another artist I greatly admire, Marilyn Horne, is also a fan of this repertoire. I was lucky enough to hear Hampson singing Eschenbach in a concert perf. by the Zurich Opera, and I can go one better than her in having heard Pav and Suth together.

[Lateralthinking1]

Very keen on Copland. In fact, the only time I was ever on vinyl, it was Old American Songs. Anyhow, I started listening to this programme. Then I read her biography on Wikipedia and stopped.