BaL 10.10.15 - Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E flat

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Very many thanks but surely the biggest congratulations go to CRISPIAN!

A team effort always works best.

[Tony Halstead]

Where was the recording venue, Tony?

The Great Hall of University College School, Frognal, London: A large 'Edwardian Baroque' wood-panelled hall with a high ceiling and a very lively, reverberant acoustic that easily lends itself to the older, 'traditional Nimbus style' of recording (although this was not actually 'Nimbus-engineered'). The producer was Mark Brown and the recording engineer Antony Howell.

[Hornspieler]

Raymond "Leopard!"

If your post refers to mine regarding the Haydn Horn Concerto, you are mistaken.

Yes, Ray Leppard did indeed conduct for a West Country tour but it was Lawrence Leonard, former Cellist and conductor of the popular *Morley College Rehearsal Orchestra who conducted when I played that concerto. 1960 - the year of my elder daughter's birth

(Raymond Leppard conducted a similar West Country tour in which I was playing - Wagner's Siegrfried Idyll comes to mind) Probably 1961

* Do you remember the Hoffnung Concert at the RFH in which Dennis Brain played a tune on a hosepipe? A trick we all used at one time - 12 feet of garden hose with a horn mouthpiece at one end and a parafin funnel at the other.
When my brother-in-law was a producer for a BBC TV schools science programme on the properties of acoustics, I made an arrangement for hosepipe trio of "Here's a health unto his Majesty" which we performed on hoses of different lengths, by Stan Payne (trumpet,8 ft) myself (12ft) and a sadly missed friend, the announcer Sheila Tracey, (former trombonist with Ivy Benson's girls' band.)

I wonder if anyone remembers it?

HS

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Leppard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Leppard

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I wondered who'd be the first to spot that one.

[visualnickmos]

If your post refers to mine regarding the Haydn Horn Concerto, you are mistaken.

I was actually referring to Hannah French's pronunciation....

hence Raymond "Leopard!"

[MickyD]

I wondered who'd be the first to spot that one.

[Nick Armstrong]

Good BAL this one I thought - Hannah French impressed me with her presentation, I liked her economical but expressive turns of phrase, and her general approach to the review and comparative illustrations chosen.

(Didn't spot the Leopard ... but I was amused by her mysterious Frenchification of the first name of Maurice Murphy - made him sound like a Dublin hairdresser!)

And what a weekend for 'Tony' - BBC4 TV on Friday in full 70s splendour, a BAL 'win' on Saturday morning! I shall make a point of hearing the full thing - the venue referred to above seemed more reverberant than appeals to me usually, but the playing sounded a delight.

(Tony - what was the wood-panelled venue you mentioned for that Rowicki Dvorak Symphony recording? I could look it up but Sunday laziness makes it easier to ask you !! )