Ivor Gurney

[antongould]

Is anyone listening to this?

Is it a repeat?

Any views?

[Roslynmuse]

Is anyone listening to this?

Is it a repeat?

Any views?

Don't think it's a repeat - Kate Kennedy's book isn't out yet (good plug though!) and I can't recall it being on recently.

[EdgeleyRob]

I've been listening during lunch breaks at work.
Marvelous stuff,such lovely songs of course,English Schubert maybe ?
What about that nocturne and violin sonata,gorgeous.

Pretty sure it's not a repeat.

[DracoM]

I see no-one apart from me heard the Ian Burneside music / drama 'A Solider and a Maker' about Gurney on Sunday evening. Terrific. Still on iPlayer.

[Roslynmuse]

I see no-one apart from me heard the Ian Burneside music / drama 'A Solider and a Maker' about Gurney on Sunday evening. Terrific. Still on iPlayer.

I did - a very moving and well-constructed drama. There is something unique about Gurney's songs - quite apart from the poignancy of his life - a strange hovering quality in the vocal writing and almost rootlessness in the piano writing that could in lesser hands have simply resulted in English pastoral meandering, but with him seems (and I know this sounds contradictory) to produce a sort of uneasy tranquillity. Songs like All Night Under The Moon or Snow are amongst the finest of all in the English repertoire, they really haunt the imagination. Has anyone read the Pamela Blevins' account of the friendship between Gurney and Marion Scott? Interesting to read that next to Stephen Banfield's biography of Finzi which has a rather different take on Marion Scott.

[BBMmk2]

I am greatly enjoying this series about Ivor Guerney and I might just fork out for the book as well. Especially with the recordings made for the programme. Will this get the commercial companies going?

[antongould]

I am greatly enjoying this series about Ivor Guerney and I might just fork out for the book as well. Especially with the recordings made for the programme. Will this get the commercial companies going?

Totally agree bbm - will the BBC issue the special recordings I wonder? I certainly hope so.

[BBMmk2]

I may well tweet BBC Radio 3!!

[aeolium]

I see no-one apart from me heard the Ian Burneside music / drama 'A Solider and a Maker' about Gurney on Sunday evening. Terrific. Still on iPlayer.

I saw this at the Cheltenham Festival two years ago, Draco, and thought it very well done, the narrative and the music well combined. If anything I thought it could have given a bit more prominence to Howells, who was (with F W Harvey and Marion Scott) perhaps Gurney's closest friend, but it was a good introduction to Gurney's life and work.

[antongould]

I may well tweet BBC Radio 3!!

That is sure to sort it bbm one tweet from you and...........

[Tevot]

Hello there,

I caught some of the Violin Sonata yesterday lunchtime. Beautiful music. Will certainly try to listen to more of Gurney's music on listen again.

Best Wishes,

Tevot

[BBMmk2]

Hello there,

I caught some of the Violin Sonata yesterday lunchtime. Beautiful music. Will certainly try to listen to more of Gurney's music on listen again.

Best Wishes,

Tevot

Yes, Tevot. the VS, is certainly quite wonderful music!

[EdgeleyRob]

Yes, Tevot. the VS, is certainly quite wonderful music!

A quite wonderful series of programmes this week.
Radio 3 has still got it at times.

[BBMmk2]

A quite wonderful series of programmes this week.
Radio 3 has still got it at times.

Very much so Rob!!