The slow death of classical threads.....

[antongould]

I long for the 'golden' days of Antony Hopkins, John Amis, Interpretations on Record, etc. etc. Record Review tries but rarely comes close. Now i AM sounding old!

I don’t think it’s the state of R3 that has imperilled this place …… IMVVHO of course ……

[MickyD]

My own contributions, for what they are worth, have been much curtailed in the last couple of months due to my being in hospital for a blood graft to combat my lymphoma. I very much underestimated how the treatment would knock me for six, even in this phase of convalescence.
But though I don't contribute as often as I'd like at the moment, I too still enjoy reading all the posts and am hoping to do my bit once I'm feeling human again! Keep the posts coming!

[french frank]

Best wishes for a swift return to health, MickyD!

[Padraig]

But though I don't contribute as often as I'd like at the moment, I too still enjoy reading all the posts and am hoping to do my bit once I'm feeling human again! Keep the posts coming!

I join f f in wishing you all the best. I don't post much, but I do read.

[Nick Armstrong]

My own contributions, for what they are worth, have been much curtailed in the last couple of months due to my being in hospital for a blood graft to combat my lymphoma. I very much underestimated how the treatment would knock me for six, even in this phase of convalescence.
But though I don't contribute as often as I'd like at the moment, I too still enjoy reading all the posts and am hoping to do my bit once I'm feeling human again! Keep the posts coming!

Bon courage!

[jayne lee wilson]

My own contributions, for what they are worth, have been much curtailed in the last couple of months due to my being in hospital for a blood graft to combat my lymphoma. I very much underestimated how the treatment would knock me for six, even in this phase of convalescence.
But though I don't contribute as often as I'd like at the moment, I too still enjoy reading all the posts and am hoping to do my bit once I'm feeling human again! Keep the posts coming!

"Cabined, cribbed, confined" by a heart condition myself, I empathise.....but sound has the power to heal... de la musique avant toute chose....

[DracoM]

Bon courage!

[MickyD]

Thanks folks, for all the nice messages.

I agree, Jayne, music has great healing powers. Currently working my way through the discography of the wonderful young French harpsichordist Jean Rondeau. The cat very much approves - he is laid out in a Zen like state in front of the speaker!

[Jonathan]

Hope you're on the mend now MickyD.

I've not posted as much over the last year or so as I've been busy with other projects (those of you on FB know about this already!). However, I still read and, where I feel I can make a contribution, I will do.

[cloughie]

"Cabined, cribbed, confined" by a heart condition myself, I empathise.....but sound has the power to heal... de la musique avant toute chose....

BUT wrongly chosen its remedial properties may well have the reverse effect.

[french frank]

BUT wrongly chosen its remedial properties may well have the reverse effect.

And Verlaine's 'musique avant toute chose' referred to the music of poetry (L'art poétique) - also a legitimate topic of the forum.

[silvestrione]

Thanks folks, for all the nice messages.

I agree, Jayne, music has great healing powers. Currently working my way through the discography of the wonderful young French harpsichordist Jean Rondeau. The cat very much approves - he is laid out in a Zen like state in front of the speaker!

There we go! Posts on this forum are so good at broadening one's experience...I'm going to google Jean Rondeau now...

[MickyD]

There we go! Posts on this forum are so good at broadening one's experience...I'm going to google Jean Rondeau now...

Try his first album of Bach and then the following disc of Rameau and Royer. He plays with such grace.

[jayne lee wilson]

And Verlaine's 'musique avant toute chose' referred to the music of poetry (L'art poétique) - also a legitimate topic of the forum.

I strongly suspect that Verlaine (a poet I feel very close to) would have been quite content for my personal, aesthetically, physically and mentally broadening inference to be drawn...

The Poetry/Music seam, or theme, their fluctuating and uncertain relations, runs through French Poetry from Baudelaire to Apollinaire and Valery explicitly, probably even earlier and later...

But it became a motto for me, long ago...

[jayne lee wilson]

BUT wrongly chosen its remedial properties may well have the reverse effect.

Care to elaborate....?