Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate
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I distinctly remember hearing a presenter announce yesterday ahead of JEG's performance of the Mass in B Minor that this officially marked the end of Baroque Spring. Imagine my unsurprise to see Sarah Walker breaking free of the R3 baroque mandate by choosing Telemann's Wind Concertos as her Essential CD of the Week!It loved to happen. -- Marcus Aurelius
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ah but .... actually it took me back to when i sailed the oceans noggins with a little cassette player and the collected performances of a certain Frans Bruggen on cassettes ... shame that the producer did not go looking for Bruggen .... his recorder work is sometimes very patchily supplied ....According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.
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Originally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo View Postah but .... actually it took me back to when i sailed the oceans noggins with a little cassette player and the collected performances of a certain Frans Bruggen on cassettes ... shame that the producer did not go looking for Bruggen .... his recorder work is sometimes very patchily supplied ....It loved to happen. -- Marcus Aurelius
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The juxtaposition this morning of
Ballet Suite from Aida
Performers: Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler (conductor)
with
Tannhauser: Prelude & Venusberg Music
Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati (conductor)
brought home to me that Wagner was ten times the composer Verdi was....
Or perhaps the LSO/Dorati were ten times the performers the BPO/Fiedler were...?
Just sayin'....
"...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 Suffolkcoastal View PostI see Rob's totally unessential CD of the week is yet another excuse to bring out the same old warhorses.
Has there?
"...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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Ah, and looking through today's essential playlist, I'm fairly sure that the Grieg slipped in on Saturday Breakfast (and which I couldn't remember when I mentioned it on the Breakfast thread) was ... Solveig's SongIt 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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Surprised no one has commented on the excellent Sir John Tusa, who has had much sense to speak all week concerning music and the arts.
Listen from the 1hr 54 mins 30s point: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rr8tmLast edited by Thropplenoggin; 12-04-13, 10:24.It loved to happen. -- Marcus Aurelius
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostA great, great Verdi extract just now....Verdi at his best goes to the heart of the human condition"...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 Thropplenoggin View PostSurprised no one has commented on the excellent Sir John Tusa, who has had much sense to speak all week concerning music and the arts.
The trouble is, for every Tusa, there's week after week of guests who don't have much of interest to say about anything.
But you're absolutely right of course to give Tusa the credit he's due here.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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