Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

Orientalism
Balakirev Tamara

Perhaps, rather: Islamey - subtitled "An Oriental Fantasy"

Ps for Anna's and Ammy's perusal, just back from a fab 5-hour luncheon here: http://www.pied-a-terre.co.uk/home thanks to a grateful client. I had the foie gras; the lamb; aged munster & camembert; the meat and cheese washed down with an unusual chilled Loire red from near Le Mans; and the crème brulée!

[mercia]

I'll give that to you cloughie - actually mine were

Balakirev - Islamey - Oriental Fantasy
Glazunov - Oriental Reverie
Benjamin Godard - Symphonie Orientale

but heck - what's the difference - over to you

[cloughie]

Perhaps, rather: Islamey - subtitled "An Oriental Fantasy"

Ps for Anna's and Ammy's perusal, just back from a fab 5-hour luncheon here: http://www.pied-a-terre.co.uk/home thanks to a grateful client. I had the foie gras; the lamb; aged munster & camembert; the meat and cheese washed down with an unusual chilled Loire red from near Le Mans; and the crème brulée!

quel cepage - Gamay? Pinot Noir? Cabernet Franc?

[Nick Armstrong]

quel cepage - Gamay? Pinot Noir? Cabernet Franc?

No - a new one on me, Pineau d'Aunis - quite spicy like a Rhone. It was this one, called 'Rouge Gorge' (Robin Red-breast'): http://www.belliviere.com/en/rouge-gorge.htm

[cloughie]

No - a new one on me, Pineau d'Aunis - quite spicy like a Rhone. It was this one, called 'Rouge Gorge' (Robin Red-breast'): http://www.belliviere.com/en/rouge-gorge.htm

A new one to me - and I thought I knew my French Varietals!

Away from the Pineau and the PC for an hour or four so can someone take the P.

[cloughie]

A new one to me - and I thought I knew my French Varietals!

Away from the Pineau and the PC for an hour or four so can someone take the P.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineau_d'Aunis

[amateur51]

Perhaps, rather: Islamey - subtitled "An Oriental Fantasy"

Ps for Anna's and Ammy's perusal, just back from a fab 5-hour luncheon here: http://www.pied-a-terre.co.uk/home thanks to a grateful client. I had the foie gras; the lamb; aged munster & camembert; the meat and cheese washed down with an unusual chilled Loire red from near Le Mans; and the crème brulée!

Woo-hoo Caliban!

I was taken there for lunch earlier in the year by kind friends for my 60th birthday and it is down on my list of All-Time Greats to be repeated when I win the Lottery

[Nick Armstrong]

Woo-hoo Caliban!

I was taken there for lunch earlier in the year by kind friends for my 60th birthday and it is down on my list of All-Time Greats to be repeated when I win the Lottery

Such a great room too, even though quite small and tables reasonably close together: perfect acoustics, just a congenial hum, nothing intrusive But mainly: just scrummy (inc all the free bits and pieces that come during and after! )

[Nick Armstrong]

I think we have awaited young Cloughie with a P have we not?

Will he, won't he?

[cloughie]

I think we have awaited young Cloughie with a P have we not?

Will he, won't he?

Noone seems to have accepted my Proposal!

[amateur51]

Such a great room too, even though quite small and tables reasonably close together: perfect acoustics, just a congenial hum, nothing intrusive But mainly: just scrummy (inc all the free bits and pieces that come during and after! )

Chatty wine chappy too - we discussed french organists

[mercia]

I could do a P


chronologically

Quinault writes of a chariot drive, Camille contributes in C major and Joy concludes on the oboe

[amateur51]

I could do a P


chronologically

Quinault writes of a chariot drive, Camille contributes in C major and Joy concludes on the oboe

Camille Saint-Saens wrote Phaéton in C major Op 39 ...?

[mercia]

Camille Saint-Saens wrote Phaéton in C major Op 39

very good, that's the P

the other two composers/works ??

[amateur51]

very good, that's the P

the other two composers/works ??

Working on it mercs