Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

Gabriel Oak greets Sophie and Octavian hiking through Harlow Carr and Wisley

I'm vaguely veering towards Percy G-G-Grainger with this, except I can't seem to shoe-horn Rosenkavalier into the equation

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm vaguely veering towards Percy G-G-Grainger with this, except I can't seem to shoe-horn Rosenkavalier into the equation

I'm sure you can make the final push mercia... Would you like to explain your thinking thus far ?

[mercia]

your thinking

well Wisley and Harlow Carr are gardens, specifically RHS (are you a member?), or even "Country Gardens"
Gabriel Oak, the shepherd, if he was greeting someone would do a "Shepherd's Hey"
but I really don't know my Rosenkavalier . I'll have another look through Percy's catalogue.

[Nick Armstrong]

well Wisley and Harlow Carr are gardens, specifically RHS (are you a member?), or even "Country Gardens"
Gabriel Oak, the shepherd, if he was greeting someone would do a "Shepherd's Hey"
but I really don't know my Rosenkavalier . I'll have another look through Percy's catalogue.

Spot on so far - typically precise, no rambling...!

No, not an RHS member. Not really into gardens, to be honest. I like parks though

[mercia]

I like parks though

dunno if that's a clue, otherwise I don't think I shall be getting any further with your question
someone will get it I'm sure

[Nick Armstrong]

dunno if that's a clue, otherwise I don't think I shall be getting any further with your question
someone will get it I'm sure

The clue was earlier in my answer

[vinteuil]

I think Caliban was rambling on the Rosenkavalier love duet...

which all goes to strengthen Mercia's Grainger answer...

[mercia]

no rambling...!

"Walking Tune" ????

do Sofie & Octavian do a lot of walking?

or rambling rose, Rosenkavalier, Grainger's mother was Rose

I'm confused

[vinteuil]

Percy Grainger wrote an elaborate and complex piano transcription of a theme from this opera. The Ramble on the Last Love Duet in Der Rosenkavalier is one of Grainger's more complex piano transcriptions, with many sumptuous ornamentations and harmonic twists and turns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzYaDSfO6dk

[mercia]

oh thanks, V, I was totally unaware of that work (no mention of it in wiki - on which I depend)

ah, I now see that reference at the bottom of the Rosenkavalier page

[Nick Armstrong]

Percy Grainger wrote an elaborate and complex piano transcription of a theme from this opera. The Ramble on the Last Love Duet in Der Rosenkavalier is one of Grainger's more complex piano transcriptions, with many sumptuous ornamentations and harmonic twists and turns.


www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzYaDSfO6dk

Bang on, grand vin.

But mercia must be awarded the aitch.

[mercia]

the aitch.

too too kind ................ not feeling very inspired, so

which maestro H chronologically links (inter alia) Dresden, Detroit, Toronto and Taiwan?

[vinteuil]

Bang on, grand vin.

But mercia must be awarded the aitch.

o may bean sewer - I was just addin' a detail...

[amateur51]

Percy Grainger wrote an elaborate and complex piano transcription of a theme from this opera. The Ramble on the Last Love Duet in Der Rosenkavalier is one of Grainger's more complex piano transcriptions, with many sumptuous ornamentations and harmonic twists and turns.


www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzYaDSfO6dk

Cor! What a piece! Many thanks, vints - I've just played it twice & can feel myself slipping into a diabetic coma

Bravo mercia for getting it and to Caliban for setting it - and to MAH for playing it

[Nick Armstrong]

The piece would be wonderful except for the fact that PG inserts an extra leading note at the end of the second phrase of the melody, impossibly naff, for me... makes it sound like the "Christ... mas" of "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas" Such a shame - if he'd just kept the tune as is, I would adore this transcription.