Sunday Morning: Praise where praise is due

[cloughie]

Until you heard Black Dyke Band play this piece. Then you would think differently!!

Or this one bbm!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mussorgsky-Saint-Saens-Philip-Ensemble/dp/B00000E41W/ref=sr_1_31?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1367179033&sr=1-31&keywords=philip+jones+brass+ensemble

[amateur51]

Until you heard Black Dyke Band play this piece. Then you would think differently!!

I've not heard that tremendous band play Pictures BBM, but I did recently hear Elgar Howarth conduct the Royal Academy of Music brass ensemble in his own arrangement and it was superb

[cloughie]

Happily I missed both

Like you, I really wouldn't mind if I never hear it again - piano, orchestra or whatever...

What is your problem cali - A great work in original and many other arrangements - I particularly like

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pictures-At-Exhibition-Isao-Tomita/dp/B000026F72/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1367179312&sr=1-1&keywords=tomita+pictures+at+an+exhibition

[Nick Armstrong]

What is your problem cali - A great work in original and many other arrangements - I particularly like
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pictures-At-...+an+exhibition

No doubt - just for me, it's outstayed its welcome. Don't worry about me, beefy - there's many more fish in the sea

[teamsaint]

it a good work. Once stood outside a church on a cold Friday night in Cardiff listening to a brass ensemble from the Welsh college play it. Sounded great from outside !!

[cloughie]

No doubt - just for me, it's outstayed its welcome. Don't worry about me, beefy - there's many more fish in the sea

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pines-Rome-Daphnis-Chole-Suite/dp/B000000K1V/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1367182052&sr=1-2&keywords=doyen+respighi

This is another great brass classical arrangement - glad I bought it when I did - looks pricey now!

[Nick Armstrong]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pines-Rome-D...doyen+respighi

This is another great brass classical arrangement - glad I bought it when I did - looks pricey now!

Now that I'd like to hear... not £766-worth though

[cloughie]

Now that I'd like to hear... not £766-worth though

I was amazed by the price - I got it some time back for a much more reasonable tab. I think Howard Snell's Daphnis 2 was a test piece for last year's top national brass band contest. No doubt bbm will confirm this!

[Bax-of-Delights]

Now that I'd like to hear... not £766-worth though

Ah, here's a bit of inside information for those who boggle at the prices of some items on Amazon. The sellers have a sophisticated computer programme that pinpoints items that have no other copies on sale and pops one on line at a price designed to hurt the eyes as well as the pocket. They may not necessarily actually have a copy in stock (as can be seen from the feedback for this particular seller where customers complain about not receiving an item and are only refunded after enquiries). They just hope they can source a copy somewhere else on the net.
Now, along comes another seller who does have the item in stock, sees the ludicrous price and undercuts. The computer programme of the first seller now reads the undercut price and does the same - undercuts. If the second seller has a similar programme the undercutting automatically goes on until the price reaches a level which some would describe as rational but would have more to do with the parameters of the settings within the computer programme than actual demand.

Welcome to the crazy world of Amazon Marketplace!

[french frank]

Welcome to the crazy world of Amazon Marketplace!

B-o-D: Finally an explanation for these amaz(on)ing prices. Thank you!

There's a great story by AA Milne about someone who borrows a book and when asked to return it finds an awful beer mark on the front cover. He advertises for another copy for which he will pay generously, the advert is seen by the owner who is then more anxious than ever to get his book back so that he can sell it on. Frantic letters are exchanged until wife finds a good copy s/h which is then sent to the original owner who tries to sell it back to the advertiser who no longer wants it. Prices inflate for even nondescript goods once you have hooked your willing buyer.

[Stephen Smith]

Now that I'd like to hear... not £766-worth though

Its the same in Abebooks - always a seller somewhere, usually USA, who will sell for an outrageous price....
For recordings, in this situation, downloads are our friend - available for a mere £8 at the classical shop:-

http://www.theclassicalshop.net/Details.aspx?CatalogueNumber=DO 045

[Bax-of-Delights]

No doubt - just for me, it's outstayed its welcome. Don't worry about me, beefy - there's many more fish in the sea

Well, for anyone who missed the two "Pictures at an Exhibition" broadcasts yesterday - there was a THIRD today on lunchtime concert.

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[MarkG]

Presumably Jonathan Swain's appearance on today's Sunday Morning was as a stand-in, not a permanent fixture?

[mercia]

yes Rob was unwell, didn't even complete his Monday to Friday stint

[MarkG]

Ok. Although James Jolly was listed for today's programme.