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  • Northender

    Well, the first element (ho!ho!) appears to be Platinum.......

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    • Tapiola
      Full Member
      • Jan 2011
      • 1688

      Originally posted by Northender View Post
      Well, the first element (ho!ho!) appears to be Platinum.......


      You're showing your mettle, Northender...

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26519



        Annoyed not to have had time to join in, great to see Anton, Taps and Northo jousting again!
        "...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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        • Tapiola
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          • Jan 2011
          • 1688

          Originally posted by Caliban View Post


          Annoyed not to have had time to join in, great to see Anton, Taps and Northo jousting again!


          OT, but did you manage to catch part 2 of the Art of the Low Countries last night, Cabana (I read your enthusiasm about part 1 on another thread...)? Jaw-dropping was your (most apposite) epithet on the earlier episode.

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26519

            Originally posted by Tapiola View Post


            OT, but did you manage to catch part 2 of the Art of the Low Countries last night, Cabana (I read your enthusiasm about part 1 on another thread...)? Jaw-dropping was your (most apposite) epithet on the earlier episode.
            Recorded I have a feeling that nothing will top my enthusiasm for van Eyck (just extraordinary) and Bosch (ditto) but we shall see. I'm just sorry it's not on an HD channel Must go for lunch (see 'Hostelries' )
            "...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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            • Tapiola
              Full Member
              • Jan 2011
              • 1688

              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              Recorded I have a feeling that nothing will top my enthusiasm for van Eyck (just extraordinary) and Bosch (ditto) but we shall see. I'm just sorry it's not on an HD channel Must go for lunch (see 'Hostelries' )
              As a longterm admirer of Bosch and Brueghel the elder, I too wondered about episode 2. I need not have worried - I think you are in for a treat! And enjoy your lunch!

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              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                Gone fishin'
                • Sep 2011
                • 30163

                Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
                I think you are in for a treat!


                And enjoy your lunch!
                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                • vinteuil
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 12772

                  Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
                  I too wondered about episode 2. I need not have worried - I think you are in for a treat!


                  ... loved it. He was good on the protestant iconoclasm behind the marvellous Saenredams, he was excellent on Rembrandt, and his presentation of Vermeer's View of Delft was a joy - made me re-read the death of Bergotte in Proust to remind myself how important that yellow patch of wall was...

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                  • antongould
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8775

                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post


                    Annoyed not to have had time to join in, great to see Anton, Taps and Northo jousting again!
                    Rumpole can't be working surely...........

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                    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                      Gone fishin'
                      • Sep 2011
                      • 30163

                      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                      ... loved it. He was good on the protestant iconoclasm behind the marvellous Saenredams, he was excellent on Rembrandt, and his presentation of Vermeer's View of Delft was a joy - made me re-read the death of Bergotte in Proust to remind myself how important that yellow patch of wall was...

                      YES!! And, if anything, I'm even more grateful for his touching and revealing comments on Frans Hals, a painter whom I have previously not appreciated nearly enough.
                      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                      • Tapiola
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                        • Jan 2011
                        • 1688

                        Yes indeed vinteuil. If only the programme was twice as long. I do like Andrew Graham-Dixon. I feel he gets the right balance between erudition and accessibility in his programmes. He also bears a remarkable resemblance to my late lamented father-in-law.

                        Back to the game...

                        As a clue-ette, I might say that of the three works by this V, one is lost.

                        As another hint, think of mass divided by volume...

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                        • Tapiola
                          Full Member
                          • Jan 2011
                          • 1688

                          Originally posted by antongould View Post
                          Rumpole can't be working surely...........
                          Having an "excellent lunch" presumably, anton

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                          • Tapiola
                            Full Member
                            • Jan 2011
                            • 1688

                            Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                            YES!! And, if anything, I'm even more grateful for his touching and revealing comments on Frans Hals, a painter whom I have previously not appreciated nearly enough.


                            The Rembrandt and the Vermeer sections really struck me. The late Rembrandt self portraits and that quotation from Michel de Montaigne were the icing for me, ferney.

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                            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                              Gone fishin'
                              • Sep 2011
                              • 30163

                              Originally posted by Tapiola View Post


                              The Rembrandt and the Vermeer sections really struck me. The late Rembrandt self portraits and that quotation from Michel de Montaigne were the icing for me, ferney.
                              Yes, yes, yes and yes.


                              Is it Varese?

                              Density 21.5 for solo platinum (atomic no78) Flute;
                              Octandre for Double Bass, and septet of winds and brass;
                              ... brought up by relatives of his mother in the Burgundy region of France (and, IIRC, wrote a now-lost orchestral work with "Burgundy" in the title?).
                              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                              • Tapiola
                                Full Member
                                • Jan 2011
                                • 1688

                                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                                Yes, yes, yes and yes.


                                Is it Varese?

                                Density 21.5 for solo platinum (atomic no78) Flute;
                                Octandre for Double Bass, and septet of winds and brass;
                                ... brought up by relatives of his mother in the Burgundy region of France (and, IIRC, wrote a now-lost orchestral work with "Burgundy" in the title?).
                                Ferney,

                                Oui, oui, oui et oui

                                According to my Michael Kennedy dictionary, the lost work was entitled simply "Bourgogne". I love Varese, me.

                                The W is yours...

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