Record Review: non-BaL discs reviewed, etc.

[Barbirollians]

Impressed by the Karabits Prokofiev extracts today .

[Beef Oven!]

Have a listen to Le Double first on iTunes Music. That's what I've been doing...

Why didn't I think to listen on Apple Music!!!

[teamsaint]

good in depth discussion of the new John Williams box set. today, I thought.

Anybody else tempted by it, in spite of the criticism of some of the discs?

the Gowers Chamber Concerto sounds like a work to hear in full

[Beef Oven!]

good in depth discussion of the new John Williams box set. today, I thought.

Anybody else tempted by it, in spite of the criticism of some of the discs?

the Gowers Chamber Concerto sounds like a work to hear in full

I've never enjoyed any of his music, but to be fair, I've never given any of it a serious listen. I hadn't realised he'd written enough for a box set!

[teamsaint]

Four's not much of a box set anyway.

I deleted my post,but glad you enjoyed it.

So are you saying that the Lasalle SVS set, for example, isn't much of a box set?
Quality over quantity , surely?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Four's not much of a box set anyway.

They've managed to get FOUR CDs from this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0048LO7KG

???

[Beef Oven!]

They've managed to get FOUR CDs from this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0048LO7KG

???

Hang on, is he a composer, guitarist, oboist or what??

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Hang on, is he a composer, guitarist, oboist or what??

[Beef Oven!]

And a Demi-Pearly King, to boot!

[Old Grumpy]

Perhaps I've missed the irony somewhere in the posts above, but I got the impression that there were far more than 4 CDs in the boxed set:

10.40am – Tom McKinney on John Williams

Tom McKinney reviews a 58-CD and 1 DVD box set covering four decades of recordings by doyen of guitarists John Williams, released to mark his 75th birthday.

John Williams: The Guitarist
John Williams (guitar)
SONY 88843092942 (58 CDs + DVD Video Budget)


The irony perhaps is that the (rather excellent, I thought) reviewer was none other than the bête noire of the Breakfast board, Tom McKinney!

OG

[Beef Oven!]

OG, I may have got my John Williamses tangled. I'm thinking of the American (I think?) film composer. He has a four CD box set that I probably won't go near.

[teamsaint]

Perhaps I've missed the irony somewhere in the posts above, but I got the impression that there were far more than 4 CDs in the boxed set:

10.40am – Tom McKinney on John Williams

Tom McKinney reviews a 58-CD and 1 DVD box set covering four decades of recordings by doyen of guitarists John Williams, released to mark his 75th birthday.

John Williams: The Guitarist
John Williams (guitar)
SONY 88843092942 (58 CDs + DVD Video Budget)


The irony perhaps is that the (rather excellent, I thought) reviewer was none other than the bête noire of the Breakfast board, Tom McKinney!

OG

You wandered inadvertantly into Banter Central, OG.

anyway, yes, TM was really good I thought,a most enjoyable and informative piece.

[teamsaint]

OG, I may have got my John Williamses tangled. I'm thinking of the American (I think?) film composer. He has a four CD box set that I probably won't go near.

welsh rugby is a bit like that.


only without the box sets.

[Nick Armstrong]

You wandered inadvertantly into Banter Central, OG.

Calling at Confusion Parkway - Rugby Junction - Mornington Crescent !

OG, I may have got my John Williamses tangled. I'm thinking of the American (I think?) film composer. He has a four CD box set that I probably won't go near.

Wise choice, BO!

[Nick Armstrong]

10.40am – Tom McKinney on John Williams

TM was really good I thought,a most enjoyable and informative piece.

Yes and no. Interesting about why the 'Williams sound' is so distinctive, for instance.

But I thought he seemed pretty naive. He said words to the effect that people tend to think Yo-Yo Ma or the Three Tenors or Nigel Kennedy created 'cross-over' - that it was some sort of big revelation that John Williams was doing it "ages ago" ...

He also seemed amazed that Williams and Bream could just use their first names for an album cover, such was their fame, and that "it's certainly not the case nowadays" that guitarists could just use their first names... Milos, anyone?