What music are you consoling yourself with post referendum?

[HighlandDougie]

Having had a wonderful day yesterday walking in the Alpes Maritimes (blue skies; lots of birds including a Bearded Vulture soaring and wheeling in the sunshine), followed by a great dinner with friends and a night spent in a "restaurant with rooms" 5,000 feet above sea level, the looks at breakfast from the neighbouring French couple as if there had been a major death in the family said it all. So, no idea of who was singing, but Wiiliam Byrd's Mass for Five Voces on France Musique was a suitable antidote to the gloom

[Suffolkcoastal]

Mozart Piano Concertos here also. Being half-Scottish, will be preparing my application for Scottish citizenship as the breakup of the UK is now virtually inevitable.

[Mary Chambers]

Correction to my earlier post. The Three Welsh Songs aren't sung, but are a suite for strings. Bostridge sang Purcell's Evening Hymn, not mentioned in Radio Times.

[gradus]

The Hills of Anacapri in as many of the versions on Spotify that I can manage, some of the other preludes too. No surprise that it can sound so different, none awful but wide variations in speeds and response to the sensual middle passage under the various fingers available.
I love the piece and we just got back from Sorrento.

[Mary Chambers]

Good horn playing in the Britten from Martin Owen, but I thought Bostridge was struggling from time to time - some very strange vowels, and not enough control. Perhaps it sounded better in the hall.

[Pulcinella]

Good horn playing in the Britten from Martin Owen, but I thought Bostridge was struggling from time to time - some very strange vowels, and not enough control. Perhaps it sounded better in the hall.

Agreed, but I doubt that it did sound better in the hall.
Good to hear Tippett's first piano sonata in the interval, too.

[ardcarp]

Back to consoling:

Tallis Lamentations Parts 1 and 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkcBLz9K2Sc

[Serial_Apologist]

The Hills of Anacapri in as many of the versions on Spotify that I can manage, some of the other preludes too. No surprise that it can sound so different, none awful but wide variations in speeds and response to the sensual middle passage under the various fingers available.
I love the piece and we just got back from Sorrento.

And so do I! Debussy is one composer whos music permits a particularly wide range of interpretability, but I have to say I am more particular than yourself as to which performers I prefer - Gieseking still being my favourite Debussy performer; tiny missed or misintepreted nuances can really jar with me.

[subcontrabass]

Good horn playing in the Britten from Martin Owen, but I thought Bostridge was struggling from time to time - some very strange vowels, and not enough control. Perhaps it sounded better in the hall.

I felt that there was often a lack of synchronisation between horn and strings.

[Mary Chambers]

I felt that there was often a lack of synchronisation between horn and strings.

Yes, it was all a bit messy. Had its moments, though.

[EdgeleyRob]

I felt that there was often a lack of synchronisation between horn and strings.

Yes, it was all a bit messy. Had its moments, though.

One of those moments being the Hymn,excellently bright IMO

[EdgeleyRob]

Agreed, but I doubt that it did sound better in the hall.
Good to hear Tippett's first piano sonata in the interval, too.

Yes,also the Holst wind quintet and (yet again,but I'm not complaining) RVW's oboe concerto in the afters slot.
Nice end to a not so nice day.

[NatBalance]

Perhaps folk are feeling a bit ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2vLEQno9Ks

That the prospect of ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-rHdSWZLpQ

... is a long way off.

Well, just lie back and think of our green and pleasant land ….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzLI0W6nhrc

….. and perhaps all the madness will just ….. go away.

Rich