Astonishing Performances That Were Totally Unexpected Given The Performer

[Ferretfancy]

Anything "performed" by Joyce Hatto.

Victoria Wood has written a play about the Hatto saga, it's on BBC 1 on Sunday 23rd She's had to be a bit careful, because some of the characters are still very much alive.
Full details in next week's Radio Times.

[cloughie]

Love that smiley.

I'd nominate Sir Adrian Boult conducting Ravel's 'Daphnis & Chloë'

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Schubert-Sym...159248&sr=1-20

Cali - I've had this on my Amazon list for a while - an interesting juxtaposition of works on the CD - Boult and Ravel are not the first combination you'd think of!

[cloughie]

That's my point. A great recording; but a surprise that a supposedly "brash" American could get to the heart of the matter.

I've never thought of Andre as brash - he is one of the most perceptive and versatile musicians still around.

[amateur51]

Cali - I've had this on my Amazon list for a while - an interesting juxtaposition of works on the CD - Boult and Ravel are not the first combination you'd think of!

You get a rather good Sibelius symphony no 7 too, hardly standard Boult fare - it's a cracking CD from a master of his craft

Good price too

[cloughie]

You get a rather good Sibelius symphony no 7 too, hardly standard Boult fare - it's a cracking CD from a master of his craft

Good price too

Thanks for the review Ammy - I'll probably go for it!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I've never thought of Andre as brash - he is one of the most perceptive and versatile musicians still around.

Indeed; and Andreas Ludwig Prewin lived his first nine years in Berlin before becoming American.

But I think Sir Velcro's point is that "a brash American" was the perception of the British critical fraternity before the appearance of his RVW cycle?

[Sir Velo]

But I think Sir Velcro's point

Does he mean me?

is that "a brash American" was the perception of the British critical fraternity before the appearance of his RVW cycle?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Does he mean me?

[cloughie]

Another American that spent some time on British podiums with mixed reactions was also a good RVW conductor - one Leonard Slatkin!

[EdgeleyRob]

Another American that spent some time on British podiums with mixed reactions was also a good RVW conductor - one Leonard Slatkin!

I have his RVW symphony box,top notch IMVHO.

[Petrushka]

Sir Georg Solti isn't the first name one thinks of in connection with Handel's Messiah but his 1987 recording is a real winner. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus are simply astonishing and lift this recording into a class of it's own.