"Vier Letzte Lieder"

[Tetrachord]

I've just watched this excellent film on Strauss this afternoon on Australian TV. This is just a preview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVi691ZjDwE

I guess most of you have seen it already.

[Pulcinella]

Can I put in a pointer to the Drei Hymnen, Opus 71, which compared to the VLL are relatively unknown, and certainly less recorded: I have the Flott recording in its original coupling with Metamorphosen and Tod und Verklärung.

[gurnemanz]

Only a fool would ignore this one.

[Pianorak]

Only a fool would ignore this one.

Blimey - who would have thunk!

[Pulcinella]

Only a fool would ignore this one.

Good grief! It's not April the first, is it?

This would have stumped those of us who play Alphabetic Associations, had it been one of the components, I'm sure.

[Stanfordian]

Good grief! It's not April the first, is it?

This would have stumped those of us who play Alphabetic Associations, had it been one of the components, I'm sure.

I wonder how many people have tried to order the CD. Practical Jokers what would you do with them!!!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Only a fool would ignore this one.

However, it was the "BBC Welsh" in those pre-Symphony Orchestra days. It's important to get all the other facts as accurate as possible when you're perpetrating a deception.

[Keraulophone]

Only a fool would ignore this one.

The thirteen-year-old O.A.Hughes was a talented lad.

[Pulcinella]

I wonder how many people have tried to order the CD. Practical Jokers what would you do with them.

I didn't know that Owen Arwel Hughes had such an early start to his conducting career (or, presumably, Clio Gould to hers as a violin soloist) either.
This forum is such a fount of information.

[Richard Barrett]

Only a fool would ignore this one.

I've passed the link on to my brother who is a major SB fan. He will surely have a copy of this rare jewel of the recorded heritage.

[ahinton]

I didn't know that Owen Arwel Hughes had such an early start to his conducting career (or, presumably, Clio Gould to hers as a violin soloist) either

The latter is especially remarkable since she was only born in the late 1960s, long after Ms Bassey made this recording; playing as she supposedly did at least a dozen years before her mother became pregnant with her is an achievement that wholly overshadows even the apparent precocity of Owain Arwel Hughes. It's also rather a giveaway that Ms Bassey's "vulnerable fragility" and with "her fragrant voice seeming subdued as if in mourning, heightened by the silver toned violin solo of Clio Gould" overlook the fact that the violin solo concerned is actually in Beim Schlafengehen.

Perhaps the "reviewer" might have lent his review some credibility had he decided to contrive some kind of comparison with Marni Nixon singing Schönberg and Boulez (see http://www.marninixon.org/recordings.htm )...

[Pianorak]

Blimey - who would have thunk!

Sunk without a trace!

[gradus]

I hope somebody can find an audio link to Dame Shirley's performances, I'd love to hear them.

[pastoralguy]

Only a fool would ignore this one.

Fantastic!

[Pianorak]

I seem to remember John Culshaw suggested casting Edith Piaf in the role of Carmen for a recording. Fantastic!