Originally posted by cloughie
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Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostI agree with Rule 1. Rule 2 - guests should not be a feature of EC.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.
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Singers are odd creatures aren't they? Mark Padmore's contributions to the Bach recordings on COTW last week were so exemplary in their expressiveness and accuracy; but here he is at the moment doing Finzi's 'Dies Natalis' and the vibrato is all over the place, I wouldn't know which notes were being sung if I didn't know the piece (perhaps that makes it worse), really unpleasant. Bad day at the studio? His voice getting old?"...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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Originally posted by Caliban View PostSingers are odd creatures aren't they? Mark Padmore's contributions to the Bach recordings on COTW last week were so exemplary in their expressiveness and accuracy; but here he is at the moment doing Finzi's 'Dies Natalis' and the vibrato is all over the place, I wouldn't know which notes were being sung if I didn't know the piece (perhaps that makes it worse), really unpleasant. Bad day at the studio? His voice getting old?
I had just listened to Richter doing the Wanderer Fant and thinking great use of the guest spot with a substantial full work and enjoying some beautiful orchestral music when suddenly this awful tenor voice interrupted it. Almost like Pears on speed! Dreadful.
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Richard Tarleton
Originally posted by cloughie View PostI had just listened to Richter doing the Wanderer Fant
Seven pairs of hands, varying in size and shape from slender filigree, pudgy baby-fingered, tentacular, rectangular, multidigitate, to simply a pair of mallets wearing cuffs, evoke the exact sound we would expect each player to produce.
(from the official Hoffnung website. Can't find the actual image....)
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post(from the official Hoffnung website. Can't find the actual image....)
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostCloughie I came in part way through that, on a poor quality (courtesy) car radio, and thought "who on earth is that banging their way through the Wanderer?" - not my favourite bit of Schubert at the best of times. Thinking of the Hoffnung pianists' hands in "Hoffnung's Acoustics", Richter's are definitely the pair of mallets wearing cuffs -
Seven pairs of hands, varying in size and shape from slender filigree, pudgy baby-fingered, tentacular, rectangular, multidigitate, to simply a pair of mallets wearing cuffs, evoke the exact sound we would expect each player to produce.
(from the official Hoffnung website. Can't find the actual image....)
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Postnot a Mark Padmore fan. As Cali says he's fine in Bach...."...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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He was excellent in that Handel disc with Lucy Crowe.
Meanwhile I heard five minutes of this terrible programme on Friday by chance and was greeted by an appalling quiz item in which we were asked to guess what a piece of music was played backwards- only someone as deaf as a post would not have been able to identify the Dies Irae from the Verdi Requiem
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Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
Meanwhile I heard five minutes of this terrible programme on Friday by chance and was greeted by an appalling quiz item in which we were asked to guess what a piece of music was played backwards- only someone as deaf as a post would not have been able to identify the Dies Irae from the Verdi Requiem
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Originally posted by Barbirollians View PostHe was excellent in that Handel disc with Lucy Crowe.
Meanwhile I heard five minutes of this terrible programme on Friday by chance and was greeted by an appalling quiz item in which we were asked to guess what a piece of music was played backwards- only someone as deaf as a post would not have been able to identify the Dies Irae from the Verdi Requiem
Toe curlingly awful. So easy. It felt like one of thoese quizes on the tv or radio where a question is read out with a really obvious answer with the intention of getting people to ring in using premium rate calls.
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