Alphabet associations - I

[cloughie]

Dean Martin sang a song called 'Houston'
John Barbirolli was Chief Conductor of the Houston Symphony in the '60s
The US première of Shostakovich's 11th was by the Houston Symphony under Stokowski...

So: Houston?


EDIT: if that's right, I'm in trouble as I'm out in 15 mns till the end of the evening... So: free-for-all to anyone who has an "I" in that event...

Cali - all correct - perfect coleslaw. We await your I unless someone eager to sub!

[LeMartinPecheur]

I've seen a viola da gamba organ stop

or is it called viol da gamba ?

Apologies for absence w/o leave, and failure to confirm the full G answer.

It was simply 3x Gamba, which my dictionary says is an organ stop as well as being an acceptable synonym for the 'viola da'. Pierino G was famous for his Rossini overtures, Decca SXL 2266, as well as for a lot of Katchen concerto accompaniments including all 5 Beethovens - I still have their 1st, c/w the Choral Fantasia. Any link to the Nursery Song was entirely sub- or un-conscious!

[cloughie]

Apologies for absence w/o leave, and failure to confirm the full G answer.

It was simply 3x Gamba, which my dictionary says is an organ stop as well as being an acceptable synonym for the 'viola da'. Pierino G was famous for his Rossini overtures, Decca SXL 2266, as well as for a lot of Katchen concerto accompaniments including all 5 Beethovens - I still have their 1st, c/w the Choral Fantasia. Any link to the Nursery Song was entirely sub- or un-conscious!

Also an earlier mono set on ACL198 then ECS531.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Also an earlier mono set on ACL198 then ECS531.

Indeed, though the old reviews suggest that it was the real stereo one that got the big plaudits. Sadly, I only have it on a battered s/h cassette.

EDIT cloughie: returning to your point re Katchen as unsurpassed in the Nursery Var's, my LP shelves do still contain a battered s/h copy of his ACL version with Boult. As a student I had the same recording in its Eclipse reissue. Sadly, I got rid of it when I acquired a 'proper stereo' version of the coupling, the Rachmaninov Paganini Rhapsody - it would now be in much better condition than my current one.

But in those days I hadn't learnt the 1st Law of Record Collecting (so beloved of our partners): NEVER THROW ANYTHING AWAY!!!

The other recording of the NVs in my collection is Dohnanyi's own with LSO/ Collingwood, reissued on an EMI Composers in Person CD c/w a lot of Bartok's 78 recordings. Which is the reason I bought it of course

[cloughie]

Indeed, though the old reviews suggest that it was the real stereo one that got the big plaudits. Sadly, I only have it on a battered s/h cassette.

EDIT cloughie: returning to your point re Katchen as unsurpassed in the Nursery Var's, my LP shelves do still contain a battered s/h copy of his ACL version with Boult. As a student I had the same recording in its Eclipse reissue. Sadly, I got rid of it when I acquired a 'proper stereo' version of the coupling, the Rachmaninov Paganini Rhapsody - it would now be in much better condition than my current one.

But in those days I hadn't learnt the 1st Law of Record Collecting (so beloved of our partners): NEVER THROW ANYTHING AWAY!!!

The other recording of the NVs in my collection is Dohnanyi's own with LSO/ Collingwood, reissued on an EMI Composers in Person CD c/w a lot of Bartok's 78 recordings. Which is the reason I bought it of course

I have a copy of:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rachmaninov-Piano-Concerto-No-2-Katchen/dp/B000025X9S/ref=sr_1_16?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1356820539&sr=1-16

purchased at a much more favourable price than that commanded now.

[Nick Armstrong]

Three "I"s please - a Pole and a Bohemian who could have performed virtuosic feats on the instruments produced by the third (an Austrian-born Frenchman) and his family.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Three "I"s please - a Pole and a Bohemian who could have performed virtuosic feats on the instruments produced by the third (an Austrian-born Frenchman) and his family.

Is this I a forename?

[Nick Armstrong]

Is this I a forename?

Indeed....

[cloughie]

Indeed....

should we stop Pleyel-ing around?

Iganace or variants on the name.

[Nick Armstrong]

should we stop Pleyel-ing around?

Iganace or variants on the name.

Please set out your working

Shall I speed the New Year plough?

Ignaz Moscheles and Ignaz Friedman, piano virtuosi both who could have performed feats on the instruments produced by Ignaz Pleyel and his descendants (Pleyel & Cie. - cf the Salle Pleyel in Paris)

Next please!

[cloughie]

Please set out your working

no idea about the bohemian one

Ignace Pleyel was the Austro-Franc Piano builder.
Ignace Paderewski was he Polish pianist

[Nick Armstrong]

no idea about the bohemian one

Ignace Pleyel was the Austro-Franc Piano builder.
Ignace Paderewski was he Polish pianist

I wasn't thinking of Paderewski - see abovei! But by hook or by crook: the J is yours!

[cloughie]

I wasn't thinking of Paderewsk - see abovei! But by hook or by crook: the J is yours!

Another Jam you've got me in

a J which from modest rags rings through.

[Nick Armstrong]

a J which from modest rags rings through.

Obviously with 'rags' one thinks of J-J-J-Joplin... None of his compositions begins with a J so is it his name, linking in ways I can't see at the moment with Joplin, Missouri... and Janis Joplin?

[cloughie]

Obviously with 'rags' one thinks of J-J-J-Joplin... None of his compositions begins with a J so is it his name, linking in ways I can't see at the moment with Joplin, Missouri... and Janis Joplin?

Not Joplin