Alphabet associations - I

[Angle]

.. except that a Google translation of Groschen is Penny

[Norfolk Born]

.. except that a Google translation of Groschen is Penny

indeed - as in Dreigroschenoper = Threepenny Opera.
mercia is right, of course, with Bad Penny Blues. I believe I did once see/hear some VE Day footage on which Humph can be heard, playing close to the railings outside the Palace.
The Beethoven has a very high Opus no. despite having been composed early in his career.
Sorry to hear about Anna's weather-related problems.
Over to mercia for a 'Q' (or 'R' if he prefers).

[mercia]

Over to mercia for a 'Q' (or 'R' if he prefers).

too kind. hopefully this won't keep you

Q

the unfinished twelfth of late 1820

[Anna]

Sorry to hear about Anna's weather-related problems.

Thanks. Repairs have been effected, worse is to come tomorrow it seems Fence was rickety in the first place which means <sigh emoticon> an outlay of money. Have put on Janacek's Glagolitic Mass to drown the howling furies out, it's not my favourite one, which is the Mackerras but the Ancerl. Me Mackerras got corrupted. Anyway, mercia's seems extremely cryptic?

[vinteuil]

too kind. hopefully this won't keep you

Q

the unfinished twelfth of late 1820

would be the Schubert Quartettsatz...

[mercia]

would be the Schubert Quartettsatz...

hoorah

that's Q out-the-way

[Angle]

Thanks for the remion der, Anna. I still have the Supraphon LP which I bought heaven-knows-when and which bears a few scars but is still, for me, the definitive performance despite a great attempt by Rattle and The CBSO. Playing now, while waiting for a Q or an R from Mercia.

[Angle]

Heavens. Q's been and gone while I was writing!

Thanks for the nudge, Anna, re the Glagolitic. I am now playing my Supraphon LP bought heaven-knows-when, which for me is still the definitive recording depspite a gallant attempt by Rattle with the CBSO. I do not know the Mackerras recording.

By the time I get this posted I half expected to witness the back of P.

Listen, the wind is rising but the air is still not filled with leaves. Slates on?

[Angle]

? I did not post the first version of my reply!

Sorry you had to read it all over again, Mercia.

[Angle]

Yes #6412

[vinteuil]

so now to an easy R ...

what underlies a Handel oratorio, branches out into opera, and inspires the young Fauré?

[rubbernecker]

Would it be as easy as R for Racine?

Handel: Esther
Rameau (branch) operas (eg. Hippolyte, Phedre)
Faure Cantique de Jean Racine

[Nick Armstrong]

Would it be as easy as R for Racine?

Handel: Esther
Various Rameau (branch) operas
Faure Cantique de Jean Racine

Curses Rubbers I was preparing to type that!! We've had the 'branch' pun before! And the Cantique is the only early Fauré I can think of (composed in Rennes, I believe).

[vinteuil]

Would it be as easy as R for Racine?

Handel: Esther
Various Rameau (branch) operas
Faure Cantique de Jean Racine

indeed it wd be - tho' actually I was thinking of Handel's Athalia and Rameau's Hippolyte & Aricie ...

Rubber-Necker - over to you for an S ...

[Angle]

Well, correctly or not :

Jean-Philippe Rameau's first opera Hippolyte et Aricie (1733) was based on Racine's Phèdre
Ezio (Aetius, HWV 29) is by George Frideric Handel written for the Royal Academy of Music (1719) to a libretto by Pietro Metastasio. Metastasio's libretto was partly inspired by Jean Racine's play Britannicus.
Cantique de Jean Racine (Op. 11) is a work for mixed chorus and piano or organ by Gabriel Fauré. Written by the nineteen year old composer in 1864-5, the piece won Fauré the first prize when he graduated from the École Niedermeyer