Where is everyone?

[Richard Barrett]

People who discuss Herbert Howells and the like are discussing music and composers.

I'll have to take your word for that!

[EdgeleyRob]

I've tried to get a Weinberg discussion going a few times,but there seems to be only me on here who listens to this most neglected of great composers.

[french frank]

You started a thread with the same title last year, visnick … did it ever pick up, or are we in terminal decline?

[Beef Oven!]

I've tried to get a Weinberg discussion going a few times,but there seems to be only me on here who listens to this most neglected of great composers.

You are an exemplar

I've been a bit obsessed with Sibelius lately. And listening to rock. That Laibach gig also took me away from thinking about composers like Weinberg.

[visualnickmos]

You started a thread with the same title last year, visnick … did it ever pick up, or are we in terminal decline?

Clearly not!

[visualnickmos]

please! Not mahler for a few months at least!

Wasn't a serious suggestion - hence the

Now; who's for Beethoven symphony cycles?

[Beef Oven!]

I'll have to take your word for that!

Meow!

[Bryn]

!!!

...and which of us would want to contribute posts to threads on this forum whil in mid-repast anyway? Worse than checking texts / messages or using the laptop while eating, I'd say...

I'd be all for a greater proportion of discussions of live concerts, though...

The days are all out of synch. I watched three apparently highly intelligent and well informed women eating a kipper for a very late breakfast last night.

[Beef Oven!]

In the BBC ? Dream on

I think some people in here believe in Santa Claus too.

[EdgeleyRob]

Another thread goes pear shaped

[Nick Armstrong]

Another thread goes pear shaped

Please! Not Satie for a few months at least!

[Dave2002]

I'd be all for a greater proportion of discussions of live concerts, though...

The last live concert I went to was not one which was broadcast by the BBC, though I suspect a very similar one may have been broadcast recently or be about to be rebroadcast shortly. The performer was Kristian Bezuidenhout playing on a fortepiano at Hatchlands. He played the K332 Mozart sonata in F which I have murdered in the past - though I enjoyed doing so. I do have to say that even in a very small and contained environment, that the fortepiano does sound very quiet, and the sharp changes in dynamics barely work at all on an instrument like that. He played that work at the Wigmore Hall last Monday - 13th April - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05qdw80 I haven't listened to that yet, and I don't know what instrument he used there. He may have used one of the Cobbe collection instruments at Hatchlands - though perhaps he travels with his own. I don't know.

At the Hatchlands concert he also played K333 in B flat. Not much point in worrying about pedalling in those works - the instrument used did not have any pedals as far as I could see, and I don't think there was any way of modifying the sound other than by adjusting how hard and rapidly the keys were depressed. He is a very accomplished (forte)pianist.

[Honoured Guest]

Where is everyone? At Hatchlands? Not everyone, surely?

[ahinton]

Nah, Nigel was ace.

More acceptable than being king, methinks (though some probably consider him to be a joker and wish that he'd jack it in).

[Honoured Guest]

Repeat what? Lots of politicians repeat, incessantly, in the often vain hope that if one reiterates something often enough, people will believe it.

You've said that on several previous occasions.