Originally posted by edashtav
View Post
-
An obvious programme title: The Best of Gluck.
-
& R3 is heavily trailing the Strauss operas at the moment, starting with Cappriccio on Saturday. No mention of Gluck or Rameau so farOriginally posted by edashtav View Post
. Perhaps they feel that with Verdi, Wagner & Britten in 2013 anther trio of opera composers in 2014 would be too much?
Comment
-
I learnt that it was Rameau's and CPE Bach's anniversaries from Andrew McGregor when he played music from both of them on Saturday's CD Review...Originally posted by Flosshilde View PostNo mention of Gluck or Rameau so far
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
Comment
-
Apart from the obvious the name that stood out for me - of interest to violinists - was Heinrich William Ernst, but it turns out the database in ferney's post has got his birthdate wrong - it was 1812 . He wrote some of the most challenging stuff in the violin repertoire including the Variations on the Last Rose of Summer, one of his Polyphonic Studies, that Gidon Kremer played when he won the 1970 Tchakovsky Comp. (I have 2 versions on disc - Vengerov, and a signed Naxos CD by Josef Špaček), but I must have seen every You Tube performance.
But it's not his year.Comment
-
I do hope that we have a lot of Rameau! One of my favourites. I missed last Saturday's CD Review, Cali! I must get a hold of it, very soon!! :)Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
-
One more anniversary, my 50th in October, I wonder if I'll get any of my works played on R3? Somehow I think there's more chance of becoming Prime Minister tomorrow!Comment
-
My 60th in June. Also Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell Davies are both 80 in 2014.Originally posted by Suffolkcoastal View Post"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
Never forgotten that amazing 
Comment