What music are you consoling yourself with post referendum?

[Hornspieler]

I feel much the same. We're considering a move to Scotland.

I would suggest that that might be cutting off your nose to spite your face!

Try a little touch of Elgar (Nimrod)

or Walton (Spitfire Fugue)

(or cheer yourself up with "Portsmouth Point" or "Cockaigne")

or


HS

[DracoM]

Is Gove whistling 'The White cliffs of Dover' as he chortles his way to power?

Victoria Lamentations for me.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The day is bad enough as it is without letting those rancid tur nips Gove, Johnson, Farage etc get between me and Music. So
Beethoven: Symphony #5 in c minor, op67; Chamber Orchestra of Europe - Harnoncourt
... a huge V sign to the lot of 'em!

That's not the best performance, is it? (The same artists have a much better version on a youTube video.)

So, after that;

Alistair HINTON: String Quintet; Sarah LEONARD (Sop), Mistry S4tet, Corrado Canonici (DBass)

A Scottish theme to my day - porridge to resuscitate me this morning, and I suspect an awful lot of Whisky to get me through the next few decades.

[Bryn]

... A Scottish theme to my day - porridge to resuscitate me this morning, and I suspect an awful lot of Whisky to get me through the next few decades.

Porridge with lots of freshly grated ginger rhizome here.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I would suggest that that might be cutting off your nose to spite your face!

Try a little touch of Elgar (Nimrod)

or Walton (Spitfire Fugue)

(or cheer yourself up with "Portsmouth Point" or "Cockaigne")...

Not really. It's something we've been considering for some time. Only family commitments have kept us here, and these are surmountable.

[Stanfordian]

I would suggest that that might be cutting off your nose to spite your face!

Try a little touch of Elgar (Nimrod)

or Walton (Spitfire Fugue)

(or cheer yourself up with "Portsmouth Point" or "Cockaigne")

or


HS

Or the 'Hallelujah Chorus' by that good old Englishman Handel.

[Lento]

A minor key arrangement of Ode to Joy (presumably with janissary section)?

[Serial_Apologist]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3fb1mVR2qA

[jayne lee wilson]

To be honest, I now don't feel like listening to any music.

I actually don't feel British anymore.

AB-so-lutely....... terrible day...
Perhaps some Enescu or Norgard Symphonies later....imagination's flight, far far away from...

[Stanfordian]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3fb1mVR2qA

Hiya Serial_Apologist,

You'll have people throwing themselves off high buildings after listening to that.

[Stanley Stewart]

Started the day with Richard Tauber's recording of An English Rose from 'Merrie England' - always a treat. Continued with off-air video transfers to DVD; The Moral Dimension, from the hugely popular Yes, Minister/Yes, Prime Minister series of the 80s/90s; with Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne savouring every twist in the delicious scripts. This was followed on the video by Eddington's 1996 'Face to Face' interview after he'd been stricken with a terminal skin cancer and disturbing facial blemishes, post-chemotherapy. I'd forgotten about this heart-rending encounter but also recall the harrowing, yet unsentimental last interview of Dennis Potter around the same time.. Both deeply touching, indeed, radiant.

[P. G. Tipps]

I don't think I'm quite in the mood for the terrifying scaremongering of Bruckner 9 so I've picked out some apt Laurel & Hardy titles instead ...

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftYjyEi7dpQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7vagtO-8eg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7Aylx0eE_k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izdZTmWUy54

[Mary Chambers]

There's a nice Britten Sinfonia concert on Radio 3 tonight, from Cambridge, Bach, Corelli, Tippett, Huw Watkins, Britten. Directed by Ian Bostridge, who is also singing the Watkins Welsh Songs and the Britten Serenade.

I know this includes British music, but I'm certain that Tippett and Britten would not have supported Brexit, and I know for a fact that Bostridge doesn't. Don't know where Huw Watkins stands on this, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Alistair HINTON: String Quintet; Sarah LEONARD (Sop), Mistry S4tet, Corrado Canonici (DBass)

As so frequently with this work, I had intended only to listen to the first three (purely instrumental) Movements - something I regularly do with the Brian Gothic. And, just as frequently, I was drawn into the work and its power to compel me to continue listening was greater than any wish I might have had to stop. A refreshing contrast to much of the rest of the day.

[Pulcinella]

There's a nice Britten Sinfonia concert on Radio 3 tonight, from Cambridge, Bach, Corelli, Tippett, Huw Watkins, Britten. Directed by Ian Bostridge, who is also singing the Watkins Welsh Songs and the Britten Serenade.

I know this includes British music, but I'm certain that Tippett and Britten would not have supported Brexit, and I know for a fact that Bostridge doesn't. Don't know where Huw Watkins stands on this, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.

Thanks for the reminder, Mary.
Have just tuned in.
On my only visit (so far) to Amsterdam, I heard Bostridge sing the Serenade with the RCO in the Concert Gebouw; a memorable evening!

(Tissues not in fact needed earlier today, though I did find my choice of Copland uplifting!)