Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate

[Nick Armstrong]

Felicity Kendall is interesting enough without being riveting...

And that ghastly Glass-Shankar "Ragas In Minor Scale" ... I like sitar music usually: but the dead repetitive hand of Glass was presumably what turned this into trite nonsense

[cloughie]

A couple of nice ones for Shakespeare's birthday yesterday - Raff - Macbeth SRO Jarvi and Berlioz King Lear BergenPO A Davis. There is some wheat with the chaff!

[Nick Armstrong]

Berlioz King Lear BergenPO A Davis.

Yes - I caught that too, not one I knew... Enjoyed it.

[Ferretfancy]

A couple of nice ones for Shakespeare's birthday yesterday - Raff - Macbeth SRO Jarvi and Berlioz King Lear BergenPO A Davis. There is some wheat with the chaff!

Raff MacBeth - what a dreadful piece of bombast ! Still, chacun----

[Bryn]

Raff MacBeth - what a dreadful piece of bombast ! Still, chacun----

Your 'gout' playing up, eh?

[amateur51]

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'....

isn't there a house rule about not posting provocative posts

[Ferretfancy]

Your 'gout' playing up, eh?

Luckily no, Bryn !

I did have an attack a couple of years ago, and was prescribed diclofenac for it, which is the stuff that kills vultures in India, appropriate perhaps ?

[salymap]

Ienjoyed the perky Weber Bassoon concerto, heard by me for,Ithink,the first time. Rather nice I thought.

[Suffolkcoastal]

I see Le Tombeau de Couperin was regurgitated once more on today's EC. R3 now clearly think it is essential to play the complete work of BCs from it every 8-9 days on average.

[teamsaint]

Carnival of the Animals on tomorrow at 11 AM.

No need to thank me.

[teamsaint]

RC slipped his lead today and does what he does best for an hour enthusing about great recordings away fro the usual EC playlist. Schelomo was one.

Please somebody in charge, let him free to do his thing properly...

[vinteuil]

RC slipped his lead today and does what he does best for an hour enthusing about great recordings away fro the usual EC playlist. Schelomo was one.

...

... he may have been away from the usual Essential Classics playlist - but sadly he was enthusing about the Rob Cowan playlist

Not all of us share his tastes!

[teamsaint]

... he may have been away from the usual Essential Classics playlist - but sadly he was enthusing about the Rob Cowan playlist

Not all of us share his tastes!

Fair point, but when you are in Aldershot almost ANYTHING sounds good.

Schelomo a good call, surely?

[Thropplenoggin]

Cowan was on fine French-phoneme-shattering form today: Reflets dans l'eau came out as if pronounced by a Glaswegian in the last stages of tuberculosis.

[Bax-of-Delights]

Switched on in the middle of The Skater's Waltz and I thought "nah, surely I'm not hearing the Mantovani orchestra version". Oh, but it was. The ever-gushing Dr Walker let us know she loved it.

Come on in Andre Rieu, your time on R3 has arrived.