Gresham College Music Lectures.

[teamsaint]

I watched one of these about the Britten SQ #2 last night, which was really interesting.

Something in this list for everybody, surely?

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/category/music

does anybody else listen to or watch these? Any you can especially recommend?

[doversoul1]

ts:
This is great!! All these lectures will keep me entertained (in the best sense) probably well beyond Christmas. But isn’t it a sort of thing (musical related lectures by top expert for interested but not professional listeners) that Radio3 should be doing?

I’ve just listen to this. It wasn’t what I thought but very interesting all the same.
The Science of Singing

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-science-of-singing

…and I’ll be listening to/watching this next.
Rome: Corelli and Geminiani

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/rome-corelli-and-geminiani

… and this
London: Music under the shadow of Handel

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/london-music-under-the-shadow-of-handel

Needless to say that the lectures are not all on the subjects of Baroque/early music.

It will take all evening just to look through the list of lectures. Many thanks for pointing to the link.

[MrGongGong]

Brilliant stuff thanks

This will be wonderful

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-sounds-of-the-universe

[aeolium]

Thanks very much, ts - this is a wonderful source of information and illumination. I think the link should be put in the Reference Library of the forum so that it doesn't get lost when this thread fades from view.

I've been listening to this lecture this evening, by Christopher Hogwood on Fakes, Completions and the Art of Borrowing:

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/fakes-completions-and-the-art-of-borrowing

There's a good 25 minutes or so about the Mozart Requiem, and it's worth listening to the Q&A afterwards also, as he identifies the completions (and also savages the Sussmayr completion). I quite liked the Maunder continuation (what a pity the dreadful Sussmayr is the one usually played).

But isn’t it a sort of thing (musical related lectures by top expert for interested but not professional listeners) that Radio3 should be doing?

I totally agree, doversoul. Why couldn't they simply have one of the Gresham lectures as a weekly feature, a different form of Discovering Music and the more refreshing for having different lecturers?

[EdgeleyRob]

Thanks for this ts

[french frank]

Link will be added to the Ref Lib - I'll see if the RL can be made a bit more visible for those who haven't yet spotted it.

[mercia]

Regency guitar playing sounds a fairly specialist subject

[Richard Tarleton]

Regency guitar playing sounds a fairly specialist subject

Romantic, rather than Regency, mercs? - not at all, this was the era of the fathers of modern classical guitar playing, above all Fernando Sor (and Giuliani, Carcassi, Carulli...) and will doubtless nod to those Romantic composers who played or composed for the guitar - Paganini, Berlioz.....Looking forward to this one! Many thanks to teamsaint, I had no idea these existed.

[Nick Armstrong]

Regency guitar playing sounds a fairly specialist subject

[aeolium]

Link will be added to the Ref Lib - I'll see if the RL can be made a bit more visible for those who haven't yet spotted it.

Thanks, ff. I confess I ought to use the RL more, but I definitely will with these lectures.