Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

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

[Flay]

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>

[Nick Armstrong]

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?

[Flay]

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.

[cloughie]

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.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

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??)

[Nick Armstrong]

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...

[Nick Armstrong]

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!

[Nick Armstrong]

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.

[cloughie]

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.

[Flay]

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...

[Nick Armstrong]

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

A pasty in a washing machine...

[Flay]

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.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shostakovich-Symphony-No-4-Britten-Interludes/dp/B001IKQ7LM

[cloughie]

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.

[cloughie]

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.