Music for the Coronation

[pastoralguy]

I was driving Mrs. PG to visit her friends in the town where she was born, picking one up on the way. ‘Nimrod’ came on the car radio whereupon I requested I be allowed to listen to it in silence! Friend of Mrs. PG asked if that was the work that had been commissioned from Andrew Lloyd-Webber!

I almost crashed the car…

[oddoneout]

I assumed it was just digital processing delay. I'm listening to R3 on 'good old' FM and watching the TV feed on BBC1 with the sound muted.

S'progress innit? I have happy memories of evenings spent with the radio providing the sound and the TV the pictures, appreciated when finances meant that as a family we were just not able to attend live concerts. It was a way of introducing the children to an experience of concerts and opera, if not the full fat version.
I was told that the delay that messed that up was due to having to include satellites in the equation - bouncing signals up and back took time. Fortunately, a brief period of less difficult times meant we were able to get a new TV that was known for its sound quality, which meant that the loss of the radio input wasn't that much of an issue. In recent years I have the picture on with the sound muted and listen to the radio and find that after a little while the mismatch between action and sound doesn't intrude too much.

[Bryn]

I was driving Mrs. PG to visit her friends in the town where she was born, picking one up on the way. ‘Nimrod’ came on the car radio whereupon I requested I be allowed to listen to it in silence! Friend of Mrs. PG asked if that was the work that had been commissioned from Andrew Lloyd-Webber!

I almost crashed the car…

Well. given ALW's magpie tendencies, who's to say it wasn't?

[hmvman]

S'progress innit? I have happy memories of evenings spent with the radio providing the sound and the TV the pictures..

Likewise!

[smittims]

My Dad always watched the Test Matches that way, as the radio commentary was, of course, more detailed.

[Nick Armstrong]

I enjoyed the online speculation that Karl Jenkins was Ms. Markle in disguise



(What was his piece like?)

[Lordgeous]

indeed.

Whatever else one might think, the music is superb.

Yes, magnificent. Loved the Walton Te Deum, which I didn't know. And the Fanfare trumpeters were superb, especially when integrated with the magnificent orchestra, plus organ! Parry & Handel moving as always, and the wonderful soprano. A feast for the ears, only spoilt by Huw Edwards. I still havn't forgiven him for talking over the music at Diana's funeral. I know, I know...! Of the new pieces I was impressed by the Tarik O’Regan.

[hmvman]

Yes, magnificent. Loved the Walton Te Deum, which I didn't know. And the Fanfare trumpeters were superb, especially when integrated with the magnificent orchestra, plus organ! Parry & Handel moving as always, and the wonderful soprano. A feast for the ears, only spoilt by Huw Edwards. I still havn't forgiven him for talking over the music at Diana's funeral. I know, I know...! Of the new pieces I was impressed by the Tarik O’Regan.

The Walton Te Deum is a work I've loved for some years - introduced to it by the splendid recording by the CBSO under Louis Frémaux on HMV. I liked that O'Regan piece too.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Well. given ALW's magpie tendencies, who's to say it wasn't?

[Braunschlag]

Walton Te Deum the highlight for me but it’s a pity the instrumentation was scaled back (Rutter was the arranger). Made up for by the singing.
ALW - that should be decommissioned, bland, a rather amateur attempt at what he might have thought was a modulation, unimpressive.
Nethsingha did wonders, by also doing very little (which can’t be said for Pappano gurning and flailing away to no apparent gain).
Roderick Williams outclassed Terfel by a mile (note to BT - is it good form to sing with your arms folded?).
Nevertheless, enjoyed the spectacle and especially the fanfare trumpeters - they always steal the show).

[Nick Armstrong]

A feast for the ears, only spoilt by Huw Edwards.

Just catching up with the ceremony itself - as previously commented, I can’t stand the ‘modern BBC’ way with these things, with oleaginous wittering by the likes of Edwards and Witchell: the ITN presentation was fine, with James Mates delivering discreet short explanations in an ideal tone of voice and without intrusion.

I liked the Orthodox chant during the archaic part with the sword; and the choice of Richard Strauss for the post-crowning high point (with off-stage bells!) was a fascinating and envigorating one!

[Pulcinella]

The Walton Te Deum is a work I've loved for some years - introduced to it by the splendid recording by the CBSO under Louis Frémaux on HMV. I liked that O'Regan piece too.

I rather liked the O'Regan too, apart from some unnatural (to my mind) dealing with the phrasing/flow of the words.

[Nick Armstrong]

Pappano gurning and flailing away to no apparent gain

Doesn’t he just…

The Walton was indeed a winner, long a favourite.

(And the ALW was pants)

[Master Jacques]

Doesn’t he just…

The Walton was indeed a winner, long a favourite.

(And the ALW was pants)

There was worse than pants coming off earlier on. Did anyone hear Patrick Doyle's hopeful stab at a Coronation March? In the light of Elgar, Bax and Walton this seemed to me a highly embarrassing dud. Walton, Parry and Handel showed the newcomers how to do it. I'd forgotten how good that Boyce piece is, too!

[Lordgeous]

How about a BBC prog (picture or sound only) of the best of the music?