Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate

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  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30241

    Originally posted by cloughie View Post
    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 ...]

    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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    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
      Gone fishin'
      • Sep 2011
      • 30163

      Originally posted by french frank View Post
      His previous marriage was to Margaret Drabble, of course
      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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      • Extended Play

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

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        • mercia
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8920

          Originally posted by Extended Play View Post
          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

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26523

            Originally posted by mercia View Post
            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.
            "...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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            • mercia
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8920

              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              No complaints from me.
              no complaints ?

              are you sure you belong on this forum ?

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26523

                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                no complaints ?

                are you sure you belong on this forum ?
                Just full of the joys of autumn!
                "...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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                • Pianorak
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 3127

                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  . . .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?
                  My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26523

                    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 )


                    - reposted from incorrect thread -
                    "...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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                    • Frances_iom
                      Full Member
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 2411

                      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                      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.

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26523

                        Originally posted by Frances_iom View Post
                        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...
                        "...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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                        • teamsaint
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 25193

                          i have spent a good deal of this week in bed with a really rotten cold. I have found EC very soothing.
                          I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                          I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                          • Roehre

                            Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                            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

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                            • Paul Sherratt

                              Yes, all the best teamsaint, have a dose of this essential classic which tends to the sick.
                              Gregory Isaac song Night Nurse One of my fav songs. RIP The Cool Ruler

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                              • teamsaint
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 25193

                                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.....
                                I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                                I am not a number, I am a free man.

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