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Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate
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Originally posted by Roger Webb View Post
Boult performed the 'Gothic' on the occasion of Brian's 90th birthday (1966), I wonder if the photo is of the rehearsal for this. Bootlegs of this perf. were circulating after....and most unlikely, it had a cult following in California where Phil Lesh, the bass player in The Grateful Dead was taken with it. Later anonymously under the auspices of the Rex Foundation he channelled funds to Marco Polo to record the 'Gothic', and, having sponsored recordings of Brian on EMI and Hyperion as well, turned his attention to Robert Simpson and sponsored recordings of the symphonies on Hyperion.
By the way, Tom McKinney mentions (quite often) and plays Brian's works (infrequently)....Stoke connection no doubt. My own interest was aroused by the music master at my school who knew Brian and pointed out his house in Lewes, Sussex, which I passed every day on my way to and from school - he had moved to Brighton by then unfortunately.
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Originally posted by oliver sudden View PostAs you probably know, the Rex Foundation also supported some perhaps surprising things in the fairly hard-line modernist direction for a while there!
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Am I right recalling that some at least of the finance from the Rex Foundation came from ex-Beatle George Harrison? And does anyone rememberthe ful-page advert in the Gramophone circa 1969/70 announcing the start of 'Apple' records,where they invited composers to submit music , the first result being John Tavener's The Whale? . Or is this rose-tinted nostalgia?
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Monday 27th May on Breakfast, they played Florence Price Symphony No 4 in D minor (2nd mvmt, Andante cantabile): Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin. Later that morning, Essential Classics played the exact same item, same Movement, same Orchestra, same recording. I accept that Radio 3 is a little bit in love with all things Florence Price at the moment, but isn't this a bit too much of a good thing?
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Originally posted by Dance Band Spiv View PostMonday 27th May on Breakfast, they played Florence Price Symphony No 4 in D minor (2nd mvmt, Andante cantabile): Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin. Later that morning, Essential Classics played the exact same item, same Movement, same Orchestra, same recording. I accept that Radio 3 is a little bit in love with all things Florence Price at the moment, but isn't this a bit too much of a good thing?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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Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
If it's 'light' you want - over to Radio 2, the Light Programme.
It is precisely bicoz we don't wish to see Radio 3, a supposedly serious channel, diminish into the 'background muzak & bits' of the Light Programme, that this Forum exists
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Originally posted by antongould View PostI am sure you follow ITV’s Vera avidly and so you will be excited to learn that the upcoming final series has scenes set in Cambois …
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Originally posted by Roger Webb View Post
She's probably at Glastonbury!
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Originally posted by gradus View Post
Indeed she is and was interviewed on Woman's Hour yesterday about her appearance there, telling us some of the music she intends to programme. Sensibly it includes Gardens in the Rain and I think she intends to conclude with the finale of The Firebird.
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I listened to the Woman's Hour interview live (it's on BBC Sounds if you're interested) , and noted that very little of the 'classical' music she will be playing is what I would call 'classsical'. It includes Max Richter and music by a friend of hers who writes music with a 'beat'.
More than that though, I was suspicious about this event. I'd be interested to know who's paying for it, whose idea it was, and what the purpose is. I think it most unlikely that any regular Glastonbury festival attendees will go away deternined to listen to Schumann, let alone a Handel opera, and I'm sure GM must realise this. So just why is it happening? We weren't told. Naturally much of the interview was taken up by laughter about how wet or muddy she might be, and for the rest she was so careful to sit on the fence, saying for instance that she wanted people to realise that classical music doesn't mean having to sit quietly in a concert hall , and then hastily correcting herself , so that much of what she said cancelled itself out.
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