A Cure For the Doldrums

[gamba]

I have found a means to relieving much of what troubles me in the world as it is today.

Sitting in front of your computer, Google ' Han-Na Chang.' You will be given the choice of videos of this young cellist playing the Haydn C maj. cello concerto.

Select the last of the three movements, relax & then enjoy something very special.

I hope it works for others as well as it does for me.

[salymap]

Thanks a lot Gamba, I enjoyed that too. We don't hear from you much now, hope you are well, salymap

[Serial_Apologist]

Is it all right if we suggest our own cures for the doldrums? I'm thinking of one or two of my own. One has to be so careful with being on-topic!

[gamba]

Thank you salymap. Not completely well but surviving. Have given up the viol & have returned to the 'cello.
Back to doing dreadful things to the Bach suites 1 & 3. ( they suit me for having few sharps or flats ! ).
Will try to contribute more from now on. Like how I attended three schools throughtout my life & was expelled from
two of them. This was only for playing truant, nothing serious, but it gave me the opportunity to spend my days wandering about Charing X Rd., Foyles, Zwemmers & other fantastic
bookshops, the National & Portrait Galleries as well as a variety of concerts & recitals & perhaps most fondly remembered were the recitals by Myra Hess at the National Gallery.
I also fell madly in love with Ida Haendel. ( " You stupid boy ! ")

More anon, gamba

[salymap]

I look forward to it Gamba, best wishes,saly

Afraid I missed the Myra Hess National Gallery recitals by a few years but heard a lot about them.

[Al R Gando]

My favourite cure for the doldrums is Hummel's "Military" Septet. What a fine musician young Nepomuk was

(And where there's Nepomuk, there's brass)

[Serial_Apologist]

Poulenc's Piano Concerto - an immediate feel-good piece

[Tony Halstead]

Nielsen's 'Helios' Overture.

[Chris Newman]

Oh, Waldhorn. Isn't it lovely? I first heard it with Jascha Horenstein at Maida Vale. Georgeous sunrise music. Mind you, you're biased . Love his Springtime in Funen and Maskarade Overture. Real pick-me up music.

[eighthobstruction]

I'm very fond of My Boy Lollipop : by Millie

....tho' if I may be serious....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHY2A...deo&playnext=4

....and yes gamba very good !!

[salymap]

A work I love is Rossini's little String Sonata no 1, written when he was very young. Stick with it,the last bit is wonderful. Sorry, can't do a link

[eighthobstruction]

Is this it salymap....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AksJ1a64UfI....????

[salymap]

Afraid not. It's for strings,although there is an arrangement for wind and brass I believe.

[eighthobstruction]

Very nice anyway eh ?....I'm off to Ilkey on the bus....{on a charity shop bash}....

[french frank]

Afraid not. It's for strings,although there is an arrangement for wind and brass I believe.

How about this one - just the 3rd movement ... but a well-known bit of tune!