Alphabet associations - I

[amateur51]

I know - it's the weather
erm, well, Peteris Vasks's 4th & 5th String Quartets were written for Kronos, he is/has been composer-in-residence for the Presteigne and Vale of Glamorgan Festivals. John Metcalf is the Artistic Director of the V of G Festival but I can't seem to find any other particular links between Kronos & Vale of Glamorgan. Is the answer Vale or Vasks?

Spot on the money with Vasks, mercia

The WubbleEwe is yours!

[mercia]

too, too, toooo kind

W

Hanne sings of a spinning wheel / Hans Werner for Julian / opus 13 / Bernard & Smith "pop standard"

[amateur51]

too, too, toooo kind

W

Hanne sings of a spinning wheel / Hans Werner for Julian / opus 13 / Bernard & Smith "pop standard"

Felix Bernard and lyricist Richard B. Smith wrote Winter Wonderland

Hans Werner Henze wrote Royal Winter Music for Julian Bream

In the Winter section of Haydn's The Seasons, Hanne and the chorus sing a song about a spinning wheel.

How am I doing?

Later: Tchaikovsky symphony no 1 Winter Daydreams, op13

W = Winter

[mercia]

How am I doing?

need you ask? absolutely brilliantly, sir.
now what be that op13 for the full gold star?

EDIT oops-a-daisy, he's found that too

[amateur51]

Eeeek ol' clever clogs has lumbered himself with the X innit

Gimme a mo

[amateur51]

An X that links

A bandleader and cartoonist

Music in Wales

An Australian Singer, song-writer & multi-instrumentalist

All clues are musical


Mercia will murder this one

[antongould]

Xavier perhaps?

[antongould]

Thinking, probably flawed being

X Cugat
Francois X Roth and
X Rudd

[amateur51]

Thinking, probably flawed being

X Cugat
Francois X Roth and
X Rudd

You got it, anton! Congratulations!

To explain the Wales connection, Francois-Xavier Roth is Associate Guest Conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Onwards with the Y ...

[antongould]

The hopefully Y link

Shostakovich in 2
Defoe in 1 and
Elvis in the garden

2 musical

[Nick Armstrong]

To explain the Wales connection, Francois-Xavier Roth is Associate Guest Conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

I had no idea he'd been waving his stick in the Principality. Good musician

No idea about anton's Y despite the DSCH connection

Bruckner now, then recorded England v Scotland having avoided spoilers I hope...

[amateur51]

I had no idea he'd been waving his stick in the Principality. Good musician

No idea about anton's Y despite the DSCH connection

Bruckner now, then recorded England v Scotland having avoided spoilers I hope...

I've been thrilled with the stuff F-X Roth has recorded with Les Siecles (many thanks to MickyD for the pointer ) - gripping performance of Stravinsky's Firebird and a wonderfully 'clarified' Saint-Saens Organ symphony but still packing lots of 'oomph'

Speaking of 'oomph' - c'mon Scotland!

[mercia]

Shostakovich in 2
Defoe in 1 and
Elvis in the garden

well two of Shosty's symphonies have Year in their subtitles
and Defoe wrote A Journal of the Plague Year
so perhaps Y = Year, but as to Elvis ......................

[antongould]

just about there young scholar but like listings magazines there are other Elvises available.....................?

[mercia]

other Elvises available

so I should forget Madison Square Garden
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model recorded at Eden Studios?