Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

Should we ever go across the sea for this answer, mercs? Or bowl a Mai Dunn overlander?

I shouldn't be surprised

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

John Ireland;
Mai-Dun (iron age, brithonic "castle"/hill fort) and Symphonic Poem;
Sarnia (Suite for Piano)
The Overlanders; film score (directed by Mr Watt - who also did Night Mail with Music famously by Ireland's one-time student, Benjamin Brietten).

[mercia]

I hope to get a good view of Caliban's comet

I'm sure we'd all like to do that

[mercia]

John Ireland;
Mai-Dun (iron age, brithonic "castle"/hill fort) and Symphonic Poem;
Sarnia (Suite for Piano)
The Overlanders; film score (directed by Mr Watt - who also did Night Mail with Music famously by Ireland's one-time student, Benjamin Brietten).

every law obeyed

wiki reckons that Mai-Dun means 'great hill'

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

wiki reckons that Mai-Dun means 'great hill'

I didn't know that.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

One we might have had before?

The first cavortings of some naughty nuns in Hamburg (after Huxley, but before Russell); a ring on the first digit; and Jeanette Scovotti keeps mum in Dresden. All leading to which J?

[mercia]

The first cavortings of some naughty nuns in Hamburg (after Huxley, but before Russell); a ring on the first digit; and Jeanette Scovotti keeps mum in Dresden. All leading to which J?

just started work on this

Ms Scovotti has recorded Strauss's The Silent Woman with Dresden State Opera playing Aminta or Isotta I guess, anyway conducted by Marek Janowski

so there's a possible J for starters

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

just started work on this

Ms Scovotti has recorded Strauss's The Silent Woman with Dresden State Opera playing Aminta or Isotta I guess, anyway conducted by Marek Janowski

so there's a possible J for starters

I'd follow that possibility, mercs. (And for the Strauss, too.)

[mercia]

...........and with Hamburg Opera Mr J has recorded Pendereki's The Devils of Loudon, which is based on a dramatisation of Aldous Huxley's novel of the same name, as is Ken Russell's The Devils


slowly getting there, my thoughts interrupted by lumps of ice crashing down onto my window sill from above

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

...........and with Hamburg Opera Mr J has recorded Pendereki's The Devils of Loudon, which is based on a dramatisation of Aldous Huxley's novel of the same name, as is Ken Russell's The Devils

[mercia]

Janowski recorded The Ring Cycle in 1982, but why 'first digit' I am asking myself

it won a Grammy apparently

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Janowski recorded The Ring Cycle in 1982, but why 'first digit' I am asking myself

- the first Digital recording of the cycle.

it won a Grammy apparently

And well-deserved to, too: not an immediate "top choice", it's a reading in which I always find fresh virtues whenever I play it.

So, The coleslaw:

Marek Janowski;
Penderecki's The Devils of Loudon (based, like Ken Russell's film of a few years later) on Aldous Huxley's semi-novel) the first recording of which was conducted byJanowski;
Strauss' Die Schweigsame Frau, the first studio recording of which was conducted by Janowski (with Jeanette Scovotti in the title role);
Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung - as detailed above.

OK-doKey, mercs; over to you.

[mercia]

phew, deary-me [meaning sorry for the delay I can't think of a K]


K please to connect

the dead capital of West Flanders, Mrs Slatkin's cello playing and (for the time being) 13th March

[Nick Armstrong]

Marek Janowski;
Strauss' Die Schweigsame Frau, the first studio recording of which was conducted by Janowski (with Jeanette Scovotti in the title role);

Dammit ! It's on my shelves, I'd forgotten about her!! (Fetching photo on the cover of the box iirc)

Only had a few minutes spare to think about it though

[Resurrection Man]

phew, deary-me


K please to connect

the dead capital of West Flanders, Mrs Slatkin's cello playing and (for the time being) 13th March

Crikey...go offline for less than two days and already we've romped through what seems like half the alphabet!

Anyway, I'm sure Erich won't mind....if he can spare the time from writing all that film music