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[Don Petter]

I think I'll give up for tonight. It will all seem better in the morning, won't it?

[johnb]

No time for cups of tea with the Accent Police around! Lucky for you your homme wasn't armed.

:D:D:D

[My message was too short - just the smilies - so I am typing this to lengthen it so please ignore the gibberish I am typing here. (It's just a different gibberish from normal.)]

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

Delighted to find I still had my old registration details from a few years ago for the FoR3 forum. Good to have it back in operation, ff.

After yesterday's WNO performance of Ariadne auf Naxos, I bought the new Chandos recording in English - Christine Brewer as Ariadne, Gillian Keith as Zerbinetta and... Stephen Fry as the Major-Domo!

[johnb]

Stephen Fry as the Major-Domo!

:eek:

Help! Is there no escaping Stephen Fry?

[Don Petter]

Well, it's a bright, frosty morning and I'm relatively bushy tailed, so let's have another go at posting my offering to this thread (perhaps the software gremlins are still asleep):

My most recent CD is (Hyperion) [I]The Romantic Piano Concerto


[Added edit]

Well - that was too much to hope, wasn't it? Everythings looks fine in preview, as ever, but the text balked at a hyphen that time.

So, I have now been blocked by an acute accented E, a single quotation character, a full stop (!), and a hyphen. Yet sometimes these characters give no trouble (assuming you can read this). And when I try italics for the first time, that doesn't work (see The Romantic ... above).

All very strange. I've never had anything like this before , as they always say. (Mumbles " The BBC boards were never like this").

I hate threads that start off "Does no-one else ..." but in this case I feel I mst do so. Teething troubles, I am sure. I'll sit back and wait for developments.

[Keraulophone]

Thomas Tallis - The Complete Works Chapelle du Roi / Alistair Dixon 10 CDs + CD-ROM of notes & texts on Brilliant Classics. (c.

[Keraulophone]

Third time lucky, perhaps? - Thomas Tallis - The Complete Works Chapelle du Roi / Alistair Dixon 10 CDs + CD-ROM of notes & texts on Brilliant Classics. (c.

[Keraulophone]

Perhaps it doesn't like the pound sign... last try...
Thomas Tallis - The Complete Works Chapelle du Roi / Alistair Dixon 10 CDs + CD-ROM of notes & texts on Brilliant Classics. (c. L.18 )
Found this while browsing for another Brilliant boxed set. Fine performances of the surviving works of this fascinating composer, for < L.2 per disc - an amazing bargain. My only 'problem' with it, as I'd experienced with the complete Bach set I acquired last year, is the slightly uneasy feeling of having within my grasp the life's work of a towering genius, in exchange for such a miniscule measure of my labour.

[Mahlerei]

Hmm, I have a few things on order from HMV. A week ago I received an email saying 'it's on its way'. By carrier pigeon? Cleft stick?

[Mr Pee]

I received the Thomas Zehetmair/Mark Elder Elgar Violin concerto yesterday. I've only managed to listen to the slow movement so far, but that certainly whetted my appetite for the rest of it.

[Tevot]

Hello there. Nice to be here :-)

Bought some CDs recently via Amazon. First time ever.
(I prefer shops..but like the "official" R3 notice board they seem to be going 'west')

Any way:

Thomas Ades : Tevot (thanks Andrew Macregor / CD review for introducing this one)

Wagner: Gotterdammerung (Halle / Elder)

Karl Amadeus Hartmann : 'Funebre' (ECM)

Pascal Dusapin : Concertos ( Naive) - again introduced to the piano concerto - a quia- by the CD Review Team...

Isn't Radio 3 great?

[Cellini]

I suppose it was the Britten String Quartets (or some of 'em) played by the Elias Quartet, although my other half bought a Saint Saens CD recently with the Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso on it by chance, which I listened too. (pretty good too, and nearly as good as me!)

[Bryn]

First Class mail seems to have slowed right down already. The Philharmonia/Mackerras Mahler 4 dropped through the letter box this morning. It was supposedly dispatched by hmv.com, First Class, last Thursday (18th). Guess it will be some time next week that the Zinman Mahler '10' (dispatched on Tuesday 23rd) gets here.

[johnb]

I suppose it was the Britten String Quartets (or some of 'em) played by the Elias Quartet, although my other half bought a Saens Saints CD recently with the Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso on it by chance, which I listened too. (pretty good too, and nearly as good as me!)

Cellini,

What are your thoughts about the Elias performances? I seem to remember they were highly praised and they piqued my fancy at the time. (Never got round to doing anything about it though.)

[MickyD]

I've just bought the Gardiner Brahms 2 (including the Alto Rhapsody with Nathalie Stutzmann); Rameau's "Les Paladins" in a new live recording by Konrad Junghanel and an international cast; the complete Mendelsson organ works with Olivier Vernet.