Help! Music to accompany dinner - tonight!

[visualnickmos]

Just a quick-fire question; guests coming for dinner tonight who like classical music, but I'm not sure of their exact tastes.

Any suggestions for something suitable. And still engage in conversation.....

Thanks all

[Stanfordian]

Just a quick-fire question; guests coming for dinner tonight who like classical music, but I'm not sure of their exact tastes.

Any suggestions for something suitable. And still engage in conversation.....

Thanks all

Vivaldi I think is perfect both for listening to and for backround.

[Nick Armstrong]

Telemann: Tafelmusik

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003R4MLQW/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=479289247&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B003W16TAE&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=04T7174AW077DC2ZADT3

[ahinton]

Vivaldi I think is perfect both for listening to and for backround.

4'33" on a continuous loop; it's wonderful how little it interferes with conversation!

For those not in favour of that, I suppose that there's Weill's Mack the Knife, anything by Forqueray, Grainger's Spoon River, selected works by Joe Cutler, Varèse's Desserts, Bach's Kaffeekantate...

I won't bother to get me coat becaue no one's likely to invite me to dinner now!

[Flosshilde]

Sounds like the perfect occasion for a Classic FM CD

[teamsaint]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mozart-Divertimenti-For-Wind-Instruments/dp/B0000CBHYV

[Ferretfancy]

When Satie wrote his Musique d'ameublement ( furniture music), he got very upset when his guests at a party stood and listened to it ! "Talk! Talk! ' he shouted to the gathering -now that might be a possibility!

I've frequently noticed that when people say "Oh yes, I like classical music " it usually means that they never listen to it at all.

[visualnickmos]

Sounds like the perfect occasion for a Classic FM CD

OOhhhhh - you are a one!

[visualnickmos]

.....I've frequently noticed that when people say "Oh yes, I like classical music " it usually means that they never listen to it at all.

My observation, too - odd though, isn't it? Why do people say it?

Thank you everyone - this is a bit of fun and useful, too. Doesn't get better than that - short of booking a 'live' string quartet!

I think the Mozart divertimenti might do the job. I have a Decca set with the inimitable Jack Brymer.

But keep 'em coming - for future reference.

[MrGongGong]

http://www.gemueseorchester.org

[Serial_Apologist]

Something you reckon to be really not to their... taste... would of course be recommended should they outstay their welcome. I always find that works. But maybe I shouldn't anticipate.

[visualnickmos]

Something you reckon to be really not to their... taste... would of course be recommended should they outstay their welcome. I always find that works. But maybe I shouldn't anticipate.

All my friends never outstay their welcome. If they were that type, they wouldn't be invited in the first place.

BUT - it only happened once, about 18 years ago, when someone whom I thought was a decent chap, turned out to be a supporter of the BNP. Evening cut short. No further contact from me and, and a big dab of Tippex in my address book ensued.

[ahinton]

Why hasn't Beef Oven! pitched in yet with some suggestions?!

Oh, yes, there's Derek Bourgeois' Wine Symphony (whose composer used widely to be nicknamed Cru Bourgeois), Vinous from The Planets and, of course, some Glass (especially if the guests are less welcome than they might be expected to be).

Anything by John Veale?

Julian Slade's Salad Days?

[ahinton]

All my friends never outstay their welcome. If they were that type, they wouldn't be invited in the first place.

BUT - it only happened once, about 18 years ago, when someone whom I thought was a decent chap, turned out to be a supporter of the BNP. Evening cut short. No further contact from me and, and a big dab of Tippex in my address book ensued.

BNP - mon Dieu, how unfortunate! But isn't Tippex - er - white?...

[MrGongGong]

There's the obvious Britten (with mint sauce)
or
The Desert Music