One Hit Wonders

[mangerton]

Ah no, Vivaldi is different. He did only write one orchestral work – only 1400 times.

He wrote a "Gloria" too. Well, several, but we only ever hear one.

[Northender]

I wish some of my favourie composers were governed by Aubade's law or Cloughie's law.
Oh to have even one hit aired of Alwyn,Lloyd,Rubbra,Stanford or Parry (maybe Jerusalem) etc etc etc..........(am I boring you all?).

Not at all... I would add Ireland, Rawsthorne, Grace Williams, Alun Hoddinott, William Mathias etc etc etc....

[gurnemanz]

Engelbert Humperdinck (the original one - not a reference to Please Release Me).

[Serial_Apologist]

Engelbert Humperdinck (the original one - not a reference to Please Release Me).

Referring, one takes it, to Humperdinck's Handsome and Gristle - which my parents took me to aged 10 to "introduce me to opera".

[Pabmusic]

Referring, one takes it, to Humperdinck's Handsome and Gristle - which my parents took me to aged 10 to "introduce me to opera".

Oh! I thought the reference was to Die Heirat wider Willen.

[mangerton]

Ah no, Vivaldi is different. He did only write one orchestral work – only 1400 times.

A propos this wise remark from Aubade.

I'm just back from singing at a wedding where the bride's mother wanted, amongst other things, four anthems by John Rutter. You can probably work out what they were.

I feel as if I've been bathing in treacle.

[Northender]

'To request one anthem by Mr Rutter might be considered inconsiderate. To request FOUR surely borders on sadism'

[gurnemanz]

A propos this wise remark from Aubade.

I'm just back from singing at a wedding where the bride's mother wanted, amongst other things, four anthems by John Rutter.

What on earth might the "other things" have been and how long was the service? (and was there a free bar afterwards?)

[Serial_Apologist]

'To request one anthem by Mr Rutter might be considered inconsiderate. To request FOUR surely borders on sadism'

I wonder if he was known as "Rutters" while at school...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8in9SGGDHo

[Aubade]

Not at all... I would add Ireland, Rawsthorne, Grace Williams, Alun Hoddinott, William Mathias etc etc etc....

And Finzi. And a big favourite of mine, Quilter.

[mangerton]

What on earth might the "other things" have been and how long was the service? (and was there a free bar afterwards?)

This was the church service, so "marriage" would have been the correct word. Sorry. Anyway. Before the service, Fauré "Cantique de JR" and Tallis "If Ye Love Me". Bride came into Handel's "Arrival of the Q of S". Three hymns, including that most apt for a wedding "Dear Lord and Father of mankind, forgive our foolish ways. Reclothe us in our rightful mind...." After the service Widor - yes it was that piece.

Total duration including pre-service anthems c 50 minutes. Free bar? Don't know, wasn't there.

[Northender]

Litolff that scherzo. But wasn't it from Concerto Symphonique no 4. I think there were 5 of them so what about some of the other movements of the other works.

You have a chance to hear Litolff's 3rd (Peter Donohoe) and 4th (Michael Ponti) Concertos Sinfoniques during Classic FM's Full Works concert at 2000 tonight.

[Angle]

Then there are the two big bugbears of CFM :

Bizet - any old bit of Carmen
Berlioz - the March to the Scaffold

Quick, where's the switch. Off!

[cloughie]

Not at all... I would add Ireland, Rawsthorne, Grace Williams, Alun Hoddinott, William Mathias etc etc etc....

...and the guy who wrote The Birds of Rhiannon whose name I've forgotten - Cyril Rootham.

[Pabmusic]

...and the guy who wrote The Birds of Rhiannon whose name I've forgotten - Cyril Rootham.

There are two pieces called The Birds of Rhiannon, one by Joseph Holbrooke, the other by James MacMillan.