Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

But I have an easy G ready if you like...

please go ahead. Have we mentioned the Hans and Antonio works? for the sake of tidiness

[Tapiola]

Tapiola, I've looked at the cds and the booklet and no date is mentioned but it is in the dark green box that you need a degree in astro-physics to open!!

I have heard of the famed sturdiness of this box, though do not know the transfers therein. I have just googled this and the date 1999 comes up. By contrast, the Melodiya box from 2006 is so flimsy that one is almost scared to set anything on top of it. And it stands proud of all of my other box sets on the shelf.

[vinteuil]

please go ahead. Have we mentioned the Hans and Antonio works? for the sake of tidiness

thanks, mercia, most generous.

Antonio Soler and Hans Werner Henze both wrote Fandangos - and Scaramouche (by Milhaud) crops up with 'Fandango' in Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody...

Now for an easy peasy G -

"Rinaldo. Armide. Tancred."

[Anna]

I have heard of the famed sturdiness of this box, though do not know the transfers therein.

I think I just sat and held it in my hands for about a day wondering whether to push or pull! The transfers are just incredible. The answer is concealed magnets!

I have just googled this and the date 1999 comes up. By contrast, the Melodiya box from 2006 is so flimsy that one is almost scared to set anything on top of it. And it stands proud of all of my other box sets on the shelf.

Well, don't know about that date, certainly I purchased it about 2006 and looking on musicweb just now it said it had been nigh unobtainable but there was a new 2007 release but that contained 11 cds (bonus stuff) As to my Melodiya it is in a very sturdy thick box and says Mockba 2006, and has 12 cds, but having said it's Melodiya it's all in Russian (booklet included) but it's the same Kondrashin with the Moscow Phil, Gromadsky, etc., but it also contains Concerto 1 (Leonid Kogan) and No. 2 (David Oistrakh) and another Babi Yar with A. Eisen (bass) So, I obviously have something very different to your flimsy box!

Edit: Does anyone here read Russian?

[Norfolk Born]

Re 'G': operas based on Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata?

[vinteuil]

Re 'G': operas based on Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata?

back of the net, Ofca!

Give us an H, there's a good chap...

[Tapiola]

As to my Melodiya it is in a very sturdy thick box and says Mockba 2006, and has 12 cds, but having said it's Melodiya it's all in Russian (booklet included) but it's the same Kondrashin with the Moscow Phil, Gromadsky, etc., but it also contains Concerto 1 (Leonid Kogan) and No. 2 (David Oistrakh) and another Babi Yar with A. Eisen (bass) So, I obviously have something very different to your flimsy box!

Edit: Does anyone here read Russian?

Nyet.

Your Melodiya set is evidently different to mine, which has only 11 discs.

And yours has the VC1 PLUS another 13th! Is it the legendary live premiere of Babi Yar? Recordings of this are like gold dust! I am truly amazed!

[Norfolk Born]

A nice easy H
What 'H' links an early suite for piano, a double-decker bus and a cowboy?

[Anna]

Your Melodiya set is evidently different to mine, which has only 11 discs.

And yours has the VC1 PLUS another 13th! Is it the legendary live premiere of Babi Yar? Recordings of this are like gold dust! I am truly amazed!

Well Tapiola, is this gold dust, the recording? Really? Well if so I amaze myself as well! Cripes, just put the cd on now! It's awfully spine-tingley stuff.

[Nick Armstrong]

Well Tapiola, is this gold dust, the recording? Really? Well if so I amaze myself as well! Cripes, just put the cd on now! It's awfully spine-tingley stuff.

Anna, it is no surprise to us that you are amazing!

Sounds like your bravura in purchasing things direct from Russia has paid off big style

[Anna]

Anna, it is no surprise to us that you are amazing!

Well, we all knew that Ducky, did we not?

Sounds like your bravura in purchasing things direct from Russia has paid off big style

You may say that, I couldn't possibly comment Actually, bass profundos reduce me to jelly.

Edit: sorry, very off topic, let us see the new quiz

[Norfolk Born]

Edit: sorry, very off topic, let us see the new quiz

Please do - it's very easy (no, really.....:cool2

[Norfolk Born]

While you're getting your teeth into my very straightforward 'H' question, I thought I would share an interesting discovery with you. When I played Elgar's 'Mazurka' this morning, just to remind myself of what it sounded like, it turned out to be the basis for the theme to the truly wonderful Radio 4/BBC7 series 'Bleak Expectations'.
A small clue to 'H': contrary to popular rumour, the bus definitely wasn't a Routemaster. (These things are important to some people - bus experts, film buffs - you know).

[Norfolk Born]

The double-decker bus mentioned in #3695.
I'm off to watch last night's episodes of Corrie now. I'll come back in a while to see how you're getting on. If you get stuck, think of another word for 'cowboy'.

[vinteuil]

percy whitlock holiday suite
cliff richds all goin onna summer holiday
doc holliday...