Alphabet associations - I

[vinteuil]

...your very kind gift happens to be playing as I write. Not going to say what it is as there are fertile AA pickings on it, for use when you are otherwise engaged. But very good it is ... Really rich, throaty instrument, isn't it ...

Deeply so. Is it a Ruckers, or perhaps a Blanchet? Old Kenyon was banging on about similar things in BAL this morning.

...

... it's an anonymous instrument

I suspect the anonymous instrument played by Elisabeth Joyé is the clavecin du château d' Assas which was the one used by Scott Ross for his superlative recordings of the harpsichord works of François Couperin.

[Norfolk Born]

Which 'F' links: a late piano piece by a Russian composer, a number from a Scott-inspired opera, and a Monteverdi madrigal?

[vinteuil]

<<Marin Marais is credited with being one of the earliest composers of program music.[2] His work The Gallbladder Operation, for viola da gamba and harpsichord, includes composer's annotations such as "The patient is bound with silken cords" and "He screameth">>

Found that while researching

Flay - your reference to the operation for the stone reminded me - I've always thought there was a film to be made on the life of the great claveciniste Dieupart. He emigrated to England and in 1707 was producing Italian operas at Drury Lane; this project failed, and he reverted to being a harpsichord teacher. His 1711 concerts were so successful that he had the funds to contemplate his pet project of leaving London to go to the Indies in the company of a surgeon who intended to use Dieupart's music-making as an anaesthetic to soothe the pains of his patients while he conducted lithotomies. Sadly, this project failed too. In his later life he was to be found, scruffily clothed, in the lowest ale-houses of London, yet delighting the company with his impeccable performances of solo violin pieces by Corelli; he died in abject poverty about 1740...

[Nick Armstrong]

I suspect the anonymous instrument played by Elisabeth Joyé is the clavecin du château d' Assas which was the one used by Scott Ross for his superlative recordings of the harpsichord works of François Couperin.

Your suspicions are entirely justified, Monsieur Poirot

[Nick Armstrong]

Flay - your reference to the operation for the stone reminded me - I've always thought there was a film to be made on the life of the great claveciniste Dieupart. He emigrated to England and in 1707 was producing Italian operas at Drury Lane; this project failed, and he reverted to being a harpsichord teacher. His 1711 concerts were so successful that he had the funds to contemplate his pet project of leaving London to go to the Indies in the company of a surgeon who intended to use Dieupart's music-making as an anaesthetic to soothe the pains of his patients while he conducted lithotomies. Sadly, this project failed too. In his later life he was to be found, scruffily clothed, in the lowest ale-houses of London, yet delighting the company with his impeccable performances of solo violin pieces by Corelli; he died in abject poverty about 1740...

It merely remains for you to write the screenplay! I want to see that film

[Anna]

I am not ignoring Norfy's F but have been trawling backwards through the last three pages of this thread. Goodness! At times it is positively surreal with M. Marais, gallbladders, sundry other lithotomies, women mistaking tree trunks for the love of their life, Norfy's Council pulling the plug on street lighting, Flay's Great Expectations in a Melodic Fashion and banana haircuts and a snippet of The Lords Prayer from one of Caliban's gifts. And, now a possible filmscript from vinteuil! No wonder this thread gets the highest viewing figures.

[Nick Armstrong]

Which 'F' links: a late piano piece by a Russian composer, a number from a Scott-inspired opera, and a Monteverdi madrigal?

I believe this to be Flame / Fiamma / Flamme

In Rossini's 'Donna del Lago' there is an aria called "O fiamma soave"
Scriabin wrote a piece called "Vers la flamme"
There is a Monteverdi madrigal called "O viva fiamma"

Any good to you?

[Anna]

Any good to you?

Looks good Cali, I was going along the Ferdinand Route <doh> How foolish was I? Off air now, goodness, is it not bright at 17:00 of the clock?

[Norfolk Born]

I believe this to be Flame / Fiamma / Flamme

In Rossini's 'Donna del Lago' there is an aria called "O fiamma soave"
Scriabin wrote a piece called "Vers la flamme"
There is a Monteverdi madrigal called "O viva fiamma"

Any good to you?

Flaming brilliant!

[Nick Armstrong]

Flaming brilliant!

G thanks



Back soon...

[Nick Armstrong]

This G worked with Toscanini while still in his teens and subsequently with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and others; and won an entertaining Grammy and a reflective Pulitzer.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

This G worked with Toscanini while still in his teens and subsequently with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and others; and won an entertaining Grammy and a reflective Pulitzer.

Has everyone Gunther the pub?

[Nick Armstrong]

Has everyone Gunther the pub?

Oh you are a wag, fhg...

Schüll yer give us the full run-down?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Gunther Schuller.

Played French Horn with the NYPO, joining when he was 16.
Played Jazz French Horn (?!) with Miles & Dizzy.
Pulitzer prize for his Of Reminiscences and Reflections
And a brace of Grammies: his composition Footlifters and his arrangements of Joplin.

?

[Nick Armstrong]

Gunther Schuller.

Played French Horn with the NYPO, joining when he was 16.
Played Jazz French Horn (?!) with Miles & Dizzy.
Pulitzer prize for his Of Reminiscences and Reflections
And a brace of Grammies: his composition Footlifters and his arrangements of Joplin.

?

Baddabing ... Yes... (the 'entertaining' was meant as an oblique nod to Joplin's 'Entertainer')

Full house, Ferney, nicely done (did you listen to the very good Music Matters special about him?)

H-Hour for you