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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26524

    Originally posted by cloughie View Post
    Keep yer 'air on Cali - Quite surprised to wake up and find I'm right. As you kindly took on the N when my setting cells were banjanxed. Give us 'arf a mo!
    Hair unruffled!

    Morning, Cloughie
    "...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..."

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    • Flay
      Full Member
      • Mar 2007
      • 5795

      If anyone is interested, the Oliver I abandoned was his biographer Arthur *: http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Benj...ctCurrency=GBP

      Edit:- *As ferney points out, I should have witten Michael Oliver <doh>
      Last edited by Flay; 24-11-12, 12:50. Reason: Doh doh doh!
      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26524

        Originally posted by Flay View Post
        If anyone is interested, the Oliver I abandoned was his biographer Arthur: http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Benj...ctCurrency=GBP
        AH... Wherefore did you so, as a matter of interest? It was rather more coherent to have 3 Britten-related 'Olivers', no?
        "...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..."

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        • Flay
          Full Member
          • Mar 2007
          • 5795

          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          AH... Wherefore did you so, as a matter of interest? It was rather more coherent to have 3 Britten-related 'Olivers', no?
          I cannot explain my incoherent actions m'lud, except that it was set at half past midnight when my brain cells were befuddled.
          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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          • cloughie
            Full Member
            • Dec 2011
            • 22116

            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
            AH... Wherefore did you so, as a matter of interest? It was rather more coherent to have 3 Britten-related 'Olivers', no?
            Not if you like Britten as much as I do - surprise I bothered!

            A P which could be spinning and shaking in West Cornwall.

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            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
              Gone fishin'
              • Sep 2011
              • 30163

              Originally posted by Flay View Post
              I cannot explain my incoherent actions m'lud, except that it was set at half past midnight when my brain cells were befuddled.
              I think I'm getting my knickers alliver twist, but what has Dickens' protagonist got to do with Britten? (And who is "Arthur" in 28007??)
              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26524

                Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                Not if you like Britten as much as I do - surprise I bothered!
                Don't get the connection between that and the previous comment! No matter, just... puzzled!

                Meanwhile, back in Cornwall...
                "...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..."

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26524

                  Originally posted by Flay View Post
                  If anyone is interested, the Oliver I abandoned was his biographer Arthur: http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Benj...ctCurrency=GBP
                  Or even Michael....

                  Time to regroup!
                  "...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..."

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26524

                    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                    I think I'm getting my knickers alliver twist, but what has Dickens' protagonist got to do with Britten? (And who is "Arthur" in 28007??)
                    The Britten connection was between two of the Os... not young Master Twist, I think.
                    "...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..."

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                    • cloughie
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2011
                      • 22116

                      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                      Don't get the connection between that and the previous comment! No matter, just... puzzled!

                      Meanwhile, back in Cornwall...
                      Cali - just that apart from some of his excellent orchestral works and bits like Sea Interludes I am not a big fan of Britten - going back to the Shotakovich 4 thread I could say I've never really 'got' War Requiem or his operas and when it comes to Spring Symphony and Midsummer Night's Dream give me Schumann and Mendelssohn every time. There is also the Marmite factor over Peter Pears voice which many Britten works are built around - I find his tone with excessive vibrato not to my liking.

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                      • Flay
                        Full Member
                        • Mar 2007
                        • 5795

                        Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                        I think I'm getting my knickers alliver twist, but what has Dickens' protagonist got to do with Britten? (And who is "Arthur" in 28007??)
                        It was I who had the knickers twisted. Posting #28007 duly corrected.

                        As you were, chaps...
                        Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26524

                          Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                          A P which could be spinning and shaking in West Cornwall.
                          A pasty in a washing machine...
                          "...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..."

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                          • Flay
                            Full Member
                            • Mar 2007
                            • 5795

                            Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                            Cali - just that apart from some of his excellent orchestral works and bits like Sea Interludes I am not a big fan of Britten - going back to the Shotakovich 4 thread I could say I've never really 'got' War Requiem or his operas and when it comes to Spring Symphony and Midsummer Night's Dream give me Schumann and Mendelssohn every time. There is also the Marmite factor over Peter Pears voice which many Britten works are built around - I find his tone with excessive vibrato not to my liking.
                            I was curious to find that the Sea Interludes were paired on disc with Shosty 4 by Previn with the Chicago SO. They seem strange bedfellows.

                            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                            • cloughie
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2011
                              • 22116

                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                              A pasty in a washing machine...
                              I would certainly not suggest that with the excellent ones we have here -vat free thanks to our battle.
                              So no its not the oggie.

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                              • cloughie
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2011
                                • 22116

                                Originally posted by Flay View Post
                                I was curious to find that the Sea Interludes were paired on disc with Shosty 4 by Previn with the Chicago SO. They seem strange bedfellows.

                                http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shostakovich.../dp/B001IKQ7LM
                                Well I suppose it's all good Previn - great value for money - bu I think I'd have placed the Britten first on the disc.

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