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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26609
    #1

    CD Review 14.1.12

    I am looking forward to this very much indeed http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0195pg1

    Lots of Elgar, inc. conducted by Elgar; piano music with Geoffrey Norris; Shostakovich inc. the new No 15...

    And above all, not a singer in earshot, caterwauling... (*ducks for cover*)

    That's what I call a good programme!
    "...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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  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
    Gone fishin'
    • Sep 2011
    • 30163
    #2
    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    I am looking forward to this very much indeed
    Me, too!

    Lots of Elgar, inc. conducted by Elgar; piano music with Geoffrey Norris; Shostakovich inc. the new No 15...
    And above all, not a singer in earshot, caterwauling...
    Wanna bet? - several on the Elgar discs (including excerpts from Gerontius!)
    (*ducks for cover*)
    Oh, for goodness' sake, man! Leave Anna ALONE!!!
    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26609
      #3
      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
      Me, too!


      Wanna bet? - several on the Elgar discs (including excerpts from Gerontius!)


      Oh, for goodness' sake, man! Leave Anna ALONE!!!


      Good point about the potential voices in Elgar I can live with Gerontius though
      "...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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      • BBMmk2
        Late Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 20908
        #4
        This looks like a really good programme indeed. Of late, I think that the programme content has been rather weak?
        Don’t cry for me
        I go where music was born
        J S Bach 1685-1750

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        • aka Calum Da Jazbo
          Late member
          • Nov 2010
          • 9173
          #5
          ... it was bliss ... an all morning lie in with the radio doing exactly what it is best at .... many thanks to the CD Review team ....

          According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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          • vinteuil
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 13107
            #6
            ... such a joy to have a free morning - as I have no interest in Elgar, romantic violins, Shostakovitch, Dohnyani etc - a good bracing Thames-side walk - most refreshing...

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26609
              #7
              Originally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo View Post
              ... it was bliss ... an all morning lie in with the radio doing exactly what it is best at .... many thanks to the CD Review team ....



              Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
              ... such a joy to have a free morning - as I have no interest in Elgar, romantic violins, Shostakovitch, Dohnyani etc - a good bracing Thames-side walk - most refreshing...
              "...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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              • BBMmk2
                Late Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 20908
                #8
                This just has to be one of the best CD Reviews of all time what I heard this morning. The BaL was rather good to. I havnt the recordsings that were reccomended, so I may think about the Zehetmair and Little ones.

                #The first two movemments of DS's 15th Symphony, were quite simply words cannot describe how I felt at the end of the performance!
                Don’t cry for me
                I go where music was born
                J S Bach 1685-1750

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26609
                  #9
                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post


                  Good point about the potential voices in Elgar
                  Poor old Charles Mott... that 1917 (?) recording of Fringes of the Fleet was awful, wasn't it... interesting but awful... His singing sounded like the aural equivalent of gurning. Tragic though that he was called up and killed so soon after. Amazing to be listening to stuff recorded during World War 1.

                  Ms McGann in the Sea Pictures was a little better... but..
                  "...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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                  • doversoul1
                    Ex Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 7132
                    #10
                    Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                    ... such a joy to have a free morning - as I have no interest in Elgar, romantic violins, Shostakovitch, Dohnyani etc - a good bracing Thames-side walk - most refreshing...

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                    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                      Gone fishin'
                      • Sep 2011
                      • 30163
                      #11
                      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                      Poor old Charles Mott... that 1917 (?) recording of Fringes of the Fleet was awful, wasn't it... interesting but awful... His singing sounded like the aural equivalent of gurning. ... but..
                      Yes: difficult not to laugh, wasn't it?

                      As for Vinty and dovers' attempts to spoil the party - well, I rather feel the same about all the totally unnecessary orchestrations of Moussorgsky's Pictures so I shall have my morning walk then!
                      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26609
                        #12
                        Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                        Yes: difficult not to laugh, wasn't it?

                        As for Vinty and dovers' attempts to spoil the party - well, I rather feel the same about all the totally unnecessary orchestrations of Moussorgsky's Pictures so I shall have my morning walk then!


                        "...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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                        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                          Gone fishin'
                          • Sep 2011
                          • 30163
                          #13
                          Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                          The first two movemments of DS's 15th Symphony, were quite simply words cannot describe how I felt at the end of the performance!


                          An utterly absorbing performance of this tremendous work: so much so, I'd forgotten it was CD Review and felt quite rudely "awoken" when AMcG "interrupted"! I can see why there's been so many enthusiastic comments about the disc. Ho hum: more expense!
                          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                          • vinteuil
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 13107
                            #14
                            Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                            As for Vinty and dovers' attempts to spoil the party :
                            Good Lord - I have no wish to spoil the party of any of you who enjoy Elgar, Shostakovitch, and others...

                            I was just delighted that - for once - I did not feel in any way tied to my radio of a Saturday morning. And - of course - it also meant that - for once - it was a surprisingly cheap morning for me!

                            (... and if we've got Mussorgsky coming up - hooray: another free morning, a healthy walk, and more substantial savings... )

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                            • JoeG
                              #15
                              I heard most of programme but Nigel Slater on TV made me miss the Shost 15 - must listen on iplayer if it was that good!

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