Pedants' Paradise

[oliver sudden]

My favourite was

Mozart: Piano concerto no. 20 in D minor
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
The English Chamber Orchestra
conducted by the composer.

This was from the Radio Times many years ago. The 'composer' was of course Benjamin Britten , before we all rushed to find a blank tape!

I would rush to find a blank tape (or today’s equivalent technology) anyway! I know of a 22 and a 27 from that combination but not a 20…

[LMcD]

Large sign in the window of our local Iceland store: 'We're Open Longer On Sundays'. Which is, I suppose, one way of announcing that on Sundays you can now browse from 9.30 a.m. onwards before shopping between 10.00 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. as usual.

[french frank]

as the entry didn't list the performers I did a search.

I was amused that on this occasion the lyricist (the Bible) was credited but not the performers.

[oddoneout]

So Lyricist: Judith?

It it saying Thomas Tallis is the performer??

No, fortunately the playlist format generally gets that right(unlike the CE playlist which often seems to be put together by a person completely ignorant of the broadcast's subject), but as the entry didn't list the performers I did a search. I can see why it just gave the recording details, it took a while to find the singers' names; until I searched through the reviews I wondered if "Magnificat" was a mistake, but no, it was the name of the ensemble, but that was augmented by others.

https://www.discogs.com/release/11565414-Thomas-Tallis-Magnificat-Spem-In-Alium-Lamentation-Mass-Motets

Magnificat's cast list is about as good as it gets, with Andrew Carwood, James Gilchrist, Carolyn Sampson, Sally Dunkley, Daniel Norman, James Bowman and Matthew Brook among the ranks.

from the BBC Music Magazine: Building a Library

[smittims]

My favourite was

Mozart: Piano concerto no. 20 in D minor
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
The English Chamber Orchestra
conducted by the composer.

This was from the Radio Times many years ago. The 'composer' was of course Benjamin Britten , before we all rushed to find a blank tape!

[Pulcinella]

So Lyricist: Judith?

It it saying Thomas Tallis is the performer??

Or, even better:

Judith (arr Osmund)?

In 1078, William of Normandy appointed Osmund, a Norman nobleman, as bishop of Salisbury (the period name of the site whose ruins are now known as Old Sarum). As bishop, Osmund initiated some revisions to the extant Celtic-Anglo-Saxon rite and the local adaptations of the Roman rite, drawing on both Norman and Anglo-Saxon traditions.

[french frank]

Hmm: Sarum rite (based on Judith, not part of many bibles!)

So Lyricist: Judith?

It it saying Thomas Tallis is the performer??

[Pulcinella]

The bible takes on a life of its own...

Thomas Tallis
Spem in alium
Lyricist: The Bible.

From today's Breakfast playlist.

Hmm: Sarum rite (based on Judith, not part of many bibles!)

The original Latin text of the motet is from a responsory (at Matins, for the 3rd Lesson, during the V week of September), in the Sarum Rite, adapted from the Book of Judith (Judith 9).
Today the response appears in the Divine Office of the Latin rite in the Office of Readings (formerly called Matins) following the first lesson on Tuesday of the 29th Week of the Year.

(Wiki)

[oddoneout]

The bible takes on a life of its own...

Thomas Tallis
Spem in alium
Lyricist: The Bible.

From today's Breakfast playlist.

[LMcD]

I think this may be down to Millenials who say and write things like 'Back in the Sixties' as though it's Ancient Rome.

I'm not a Millennial, but I must confess that to me there sometimes doesn't seem to be much difference, so great have been the changes in my world since I enjoyed (but failed to appreciate at the time) a free university education followed by a non-contributory index-linked company pension which I was allowed to claim aged just 50. With no student debt and a reasonable guaranteed income I was able to take the risk of becoming self-employed and worked happily (and quite profitably) from home for the next 18 years. I don't think such a fortunate set of circumstances would be at all easy to find these days.

[Pulcinella]

Yes I have Pulcers: they supplied and fitted a battery, which Apple of course wouldn't. The non-Apple store man said I'd probably get another year out of it. But Apple managed to install some new software overnight, to my surprise. Probably the electronic equivalent of Sanatogen.

[kernelbogey]

You might find a repair shop such as this one we have in York who will assess and potentially repair it.

https://gamer-tech.co.uk

Yes I have Pulcers: they supplied and fitted a battery, which Apple of course wouldn't. The non-Apple store man said I'd probably get another year out of it. But Apple managed to install some new software overnight, to my surprise. Probably the electronic equivalent of Sanatogen.

[Pulcinella]

I think this may be down to Millenials who say and write things like 'Back in the Sixties' as though it's Ancient Rome. I have just been told by my local Apple Store [sic] that my six year old iPhone is regarded by Apple as 'vintage', and they won't repair it....!

You might find a repair shop such as this one we have in York who will assess and potentially repair it.

https://gamer-tech.co.uk

[Old Grumpy]

I think this may be down to Millenials who say and write things like 'Back in the Sixties' as though it's Ancient Rome. I have just been told by my local Apple Store [sic] that my six year old iPhone is regarded by Apple as 'vintage', and they won't repair it....!

Sad, but true

[kernelbogey]

...Mind you, given the Beeb's seeming fear of anything pre mid 19thC, let alone what we might understand as early, I suppose Ancient fits their (mis)perception...

I think this may be down to Millenials who say and write things like 'Back in the Sixties' as though it's Ancient Rome. I have just been told by my local Apple Store [sic] that my six year old iPhone is regarded by Apple as 'vintage', and they won't repair it....!