Hi John - see also HS's Birthday Greetings thread - might be a case for merging threads? I'm catching up with the programme tomorrow!
Julian Bream - Music Feature
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Richard Tarleton
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostHi John - see also HS's Birthday Greetings thread - might be a case for merging threads? I'm catching up with the programme tomorrow!It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Richard Tarleton
Lovely programme. It could barely scratch the surface in the time allowed, and the Britten/Nocturnal theme a good one to choose. The anecdotes have been honed over the years , most will have been familiar to readers of Tony Palmer's joyous book (A Life on the Road) and the DVD My Life in Music. I enjoyed Tony Palmer's contribution to this programme. Happy Birthday from me! and happy memories of concerts over many years.
Originally posted by Hornspieler View PostA little surprising that there was no mention of the lutanist Desmond Dupré, who held the banner for promoting the lute before JB came along.
Bream aroused some hostility from the purist lute players in the early years on account of his instruments, his inauthentic technique (adapted as he says from his guitar technique) and so on. But the next generation (Rooley, North) acknowledge their debt to Bream, and everyone is older and wiser now. Quite apart from his guitar legacy, the importance of Bream's work in bringing Elizabethan music to a worldwide audience cannot be overstated.
Dupré (d. 1974) was of course a member of the first Julian Bream Consort, and he gets full credit in the Palmer book (there is a funny anecdote about the Consort on tour involving a performance by him of Saint Saens' The Swan on a viola da gamba).Last edited by Guest; 14-07-13, 09:38.
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amateur51
I thought it was an intelligent piece of programme-making, just the sort of thing that Classic FM can't/won't do and and so just the sort of thing Radio 3 should do more of.
That soon-to-be released RCA boxed set looks more and more tempting, I must say.
Happy Birthday Julian Bream!
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