Forbidding titles

[vinteuil]

How about the macabre 'Tableau de l'Opération de la Taille' by Marais? A blow by blow account for viola da gamba of the operation for the removal of a gall-stone..

... a great piece!

Froberger has some lovely 'forbidding' titles -

Plainte faite à Londres pour passer la melancholie

Allemande, faite en passant le Rhin dans une barque en grand péril

Méditation sur ma mort future

- and my favourite :

Lamentation sur ce que j'ay été volé et se joüe à la discretion et encore mieux que les soldats m'ont traité

[Serial_Apologist]

How about the macabre 'Tableau de l'Opération de la Taille' by Marais? A blow by blow account for viola da gamba of the operation for the removal of a gall-stone.

Listening to this, having just undergone surgery myself a couple of days ago, I feel distinctly thankful that I live in the 21st century.

Or "La Passion selon Sade", complete with whips and chains, courtesy composer Sylvano Bussotti?

[Serial_Apologist]

If you fancy a digitization, it's in the Henze Complete DG recordings box, where the title on the box itself simply reads "Natacha Ungeheuer". Not an easy set to find, these days, however. Maybe a PM might help. After all, you have already paid for the recording on vinyl.

Thanks Bryn - to be honest I don't listen to it often enough these days to warrant a replacement. I have so much stuff... so, so much...

[Mandryka]

Meditation faist sur ma Mort future

[Serial_Apologist]

Meditation faist sur ma Mort future

Something to look forward to!

[Mandryka]

Here’s another

[gurnemanz]

Probably against thread rules but just to throw in a pop song from my youth - Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction

[LMcD]

Probably against thread rules but just to throw in a pop song from my youth - Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction

I didn't have 'classical' music specifically in mind when I started this thread. There's a rather sombre little number by Flanders and Swann entitled '20 Tons of TNT'.

[cloughie]

I didn't have 'classical' music specifically in mind when I started this thread. There's a rather sombre little number by Flanders and Swann entitled '20 Tons of TNT'.

Blaster Bates had a wonderful album title ‘TNT for 2’.

And another lovely album title

https://www.discogs.com/Laurence-Perkins-Michael-Hancock-LAprès-Midi-DUn-Dinosaur-Music-For-Bassoon-And-Piano/release/7257740

[Richard Barrett]

Méditation sur ma mort future

A few weeks ago one of my students completed the composition she'd been working on and announced that next she would start work on a piece for harpsichord. I asked her how much she knew about the characteristics of this instrument, and she said quite a lot because she used to have an aunt who played the harpsichord, maybe I'd heard of her, her name was Blandine Verlet.

Which put me in mind of the first of her recordings I ever had, which was the LP containing that very piece, actually also the first Froberger I ever heard too.

Purcell has some fairly forbidding titles in his occasional pieces, none more so than "Awful Matron, take thy seat" from his Ode for the centenary Of Trinity College Dublin.

[EnemyoftheStoat]

A few years back I took part in the premiere (Prom) of Hugh Wood's Epithalamion (or Marriage Song on the Lady Elizabeth and Count Palantine being Married on St Valentine's Day). Terrific stuff, but then it's by Hugh Wood, so no surprise.

You can blame John Donne for the title.

[MickyD]

In my opinion, Rachmaninov's fabulous 'Isle of the Dead' is about as forbidding as it gets. I'm always amazed at how he was able to make such a subject so doom-laden yet beautiful at the same time.

[Serial_Apologist]

Purcell has some fairly forbidding titles in his occasional pieces, none more so than "Awful Matron, take thy seat" from his Ode for the centenary Of Trinity College Dublin.

So, that's where Kenneth Williams got it from!

[LMcD]

So, that's where Kenneth Williams got it from!

I believe he had a huge selection of recordings by Herbert von Karryon.

[Serial_Apologist]

I believe he had a huge selection of recordings by Herbert von Karryon.