Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate

[french frank]

I misunderstood - from the tone I thought Clive Swift was in the role

That's Saturday Classics: this week John Sessions.

[Then someone says, actually, I think John Sessions is very good ... battle lost ...]

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

His previous marriage was to Margaret Drabble, of course

[Extended Play]

Did RC's 11am choice today -- Wellington's Victory -- really qualify as an Essential Classic?

[mercia]

Did RC's 11am choice today -- Wellington's Victory -- really qualify as an Essential Classic?

it was a classic recording apparently

should have been Kossuth which we will get today instead

[Nick Armstrong]

should have been Kossuth which we will get today instead

I'm glad it worked out that way I couldn't listen yesterday, whereas today I started travelling at 11, just as Kossuth started. Great piece! Never heard it before, it was the perfect accompaniment to a windy, autumnal ride through the parks.

Followed by a v good Mozart piano concerto performance from Ch. Zacharias.

No complaints from me.

[mercia]

No complaints from me.

no complaints ?

are you sure you belong on this forum ?

[Nick Armstrong]

no complaints ?

are you sure you belong on this forum ?

Just full of the joys of autumn!

[Pianorak]

. . .Followed by a v good Mozart piano concerto performance from Ch. Zacharias.

Yes, indeed; loved it as well.

Were cycling instead of singing in the rain - or maybe both?

[Nick Armstrong]

But a complaint today: if they must have a puzzle on the 'show' why is is delivered in the slow distinct tones of a nurse in a secure institution talking to inmates with a mental age of 3???

(Not to mention the imbecilic simplicity of the question today )


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[Frances_iom]

But a complaint today: if they must have a puzzle on the 'show' why is is delivered in the slow distinct tones of a nurse in a secure institution talking to inmates with a mental age of 3???..

don't worry about it - just keep listening and soon any such remaining intellectual qualms will go away and you will be another happy aural soma user.

[Nick Armstrong]

don't worry about it - just keep listening and soon any such remaining intellectual qualms will go away and you will be another happy aural soma user.

But then if one did press on, there was a stimulating Strauss 'Bourgeois Gentilhomme' and a very very good Sibelius 7 from Berglund/Helsinki If they'd just lose the dumbed-down tat...

[teamsaint]

i have spent a good deal of this week in bed with a really rotten cold. I have found EC very soothing.

[Roehre]

i have spent a good deal of this week in bed with a really rotten cold. I have found EC very soothing.

All the best and a speedy recovery, teamsaint

[Paul Sherratt]

Yes, all the best teamsaint, have a dose of this essential classic which tends to the sick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3VaqcnAMEY

[teamsaint]

Thanks both, much appreciated. On the road to recovery now....don't get this one is my advice!

mr Isaacs is certainly a ray of sunshine on a gloomy December day, although my head hasn't really been up to heavy reggae beats these last few days.....