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[amateur51]

Reminds one of certain people on The Forum. Apart from the "-ly beautiful" bit, that is...

Sorry... feeling a little devilish atm. Hostly bonhomie will return soon, I'm sure!

[amateur51]

Well it's harder to give the exact answers - innit?

Vassily Brandt 34 Orchestral Etudes for Trumpet (I know them well of course).

Vasily Petrenko prom 54 RAH 2012 - Peter Maxwell Davies symphony no. 9. Here I'm a little unsure - do these modern composers bother with mere key signatures?

The difficult one is two Russian Images deep down. This may be referring to " in 1989, Russian scientists in Siberia had drilled a borehole some 14.5 kilometers deep into the Earth's crust. The drill broke through into a cavity, and the scientists lowered some equipment to see what was down there. The temperature was about 1,100°C (about 2,000°F), but the real shocker was the sound that was recorded. They only got about 17 seconds of audio before the microphone melted, but it was 17 horrifying seconds of the screams of the damned!"

Whether one of those scientists was called Vasily?

Pretty good Odders.

Vassily it is - and Mr Brandt's études

I can see why you're offering Petrenko but on the card it's Sinaisky who performed Moeran's G mi symphony at the Proms a few seasons back

And the bass-baritone Vassily Savenko gave us not one but two albums entitled Russian Images

http://www.vassilysavenko.co.uk/discography.html

So Odders - well done ;star::magic - and over to you for a Wubble-Ewe

[Quarky]

Oh well not too bad.

I was all prepared for an X. Didn't realise W came first!

So you can have an X straight away - but for a W you may have to wait until tomorrow!

[amateur51]

Oh well not too bad.

I was all prepared for an X. Didn't realise W came first!

So you can have an X straight away - but for a W you may have to wait until tomorrow!

Let's have your X - X for dinner anyone?

[Quarky]

Ok Thanks amateur51

With apologies for being out of alphabetical order.

An X to link: A flop in Paris. A flop in London. And a choral lament.

I'm sure that will entertain you for 10 minutes or so after dinner.

[Nick Armstrong]

So you can have an X straight away - but for a W you may have to wait until tomorrow!

Isn't this an example of a "mercia excuse-me"? Perfectly acceptable!

[amateur51]

Isn't this an example of a "mercia excuse-me"? Perfectly acceptable!

Of course, well remembered Cali!

[Nick Armstrong]

An X to link: A flop in Paris. A flop in London. And a choral lament.

I'm sure that will entertain you for 10 minutes or so after dinner.

Knotty one!

Great having new brains on this thread - I thought we were all out of X's!

However I just checked a hunch: Handel's Xerxes was a flop in London...

Aeschylus's The Persians ends with Xerxes and the chorus in a lament for the Persians' defeat

Not sure what the Paris connection could be though.... This fragment of a cup from the Babylonian era is in the Louvre and has Xerxes's name on the rim, apparently:

[Quarky]

Excellent Caliban, right first time with Handel.


But in regard to Paris, I am looking for a musical connection.

Great answer for Choral lament, but not theright one!

[hedgehog]

Cavalli wrote a Xerxes and it was a flop in Paris, except for the ballet interludes put in by Lully (though knowing a bit about Lully I'm wondering if this was a set-up ).

I knew that Handel's Xerxes was a flop when first performed in London, but the choral lament has got me stumped. Has someone set just this part of the play? An English composer?

[Flay]

There's a lamentable chorus in The Gondoliers

We will dance a cachucha, fandango, bolero,
Old Xeres we'll drink Manzanilla, Montero;
For wine, when it runs in abundance, enhances
The reckless delight of that wildest of dances!
To the pretty pitter-pitter-patter,
And the clitter-clitter-clitter-clatter
Glitter clitter clatter,
Fitter pitter patter
We will dance a cachucha, fandango, bolero ;
Old Xeres we'll drink Manzanilla, Montero;
For wine, when it runs in abundance, enhances
The reckless delight of that wildest of dances!

[hedgehog]

Goodness, is it a choral setting of the Largo? This?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vmO-AF4NbA

[Quarky]

Cavalli wrote a Xerxes and it was a flop in Paris, except for the ballet interludes put in by Lully (though knowing a bit about Lully I'm wondering if this was a set-up ).

I knew that Handel's Xerxes was a flop when first performed in London, but the choral lament has got me stumped. Has someone set just this part of the play? An English composer?

Homing in very nicely hedgehog! I gather the Cavalli version was about 8 hours long, so that may have been another reason for the flop.

You are correct on both counts on the choral lament. Not G&S and not more Handel.

[Flay]

Gosh, I was too dozy this morning. Xerxes, not Xeres! <doh>

[Flay]

Aeschylus' Persians ends with Xerxes lamenting the enormity of Persia’s defeat.

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=v_0a0ngsu_UC&pg=PA91&lpg=PA91&dq=xerxes+chorus+sad&source=bl&ots=bdF2ogXMsY&sig=m5Ngk1M8RAJLL1oblzqNfkJGFIU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MR4WUefYHrSV0QX_tIHQAQ&sqi=2&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=xerxes%20chorus%20sad&f=false