Your six Favourite Overtures......all by different composers please.

[antongould]

Many thanks Roslynmuse your late entry had a considerable impact on the final result which is shown on the Breakfast Recommendations thread......

OMG Alison back to the glory days when I was the boy statistician to the Great Lady. I had totally forgotten this and cannot remember Pitfield or the Overture at all ..... doesn’t seem to be on YouTube .... although my searching skills are appalling .... he has been played twice by The Gasper this year ....


Were I to pick a list now it would be completely different and sadly much more mainstream .........

[Nick Armstrong]

OMG Alison back to the glory days when I was the boy statistician to the Great Lady.

The Gasper

I must have fallen behind on epithets... who’s the heavy breather?

Lady Gould's breakfast tray was 13 minutes late this morning - unlucky for me!

Some things never change!

[LMcD]

I must have fallen behind on epithets... who’s the heavy breather?





Some things never change!

I think 'The Gasper' may be Petroc Trelawney, whose breath control - or alleged lack of it - has been the subject of debate.

[antongould]

I must have fallen behind on epithets... who’s the heavy breather?





Some things never change!

The Gasper is indeed Petroc .... he of, seemingly, appalling breath control ....

..... and as you say Rumpole some things never change assembling the tray as we speak ....

[LMcD]

The Gasper is indeed Petroc .... he of, seemingly, appalling breath control ....

..... and as you say Rumpole some things never change assembling the tray as we speak ....

Had my previous message been spoken, there would have been a heavy emphasis on 'alleged'

[Prommer]

Was there ever a final list??

[Prommer]

Wot no Zigeunerbaron??? Kleiber...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIv2Ltf2cD4

[antongould]

Was there ever a final list??

Alwyn:Derby Day
Berlioz :Roman Carnival
Borodin :Prince Igor
Bush:The Rehearsal
Elgar:Cockaigne
Ireland:Satyricon
Lilburn:Aotearoa
Mendelssohn :A Midsummer Night's Dream
Rossini :Semiramide
Wagner :Die Meistersinger

Arrived at by some convoluted means known only to the Great Lady and cloughers .....

[Boilk]

So not much demand for Electric Light Orchestra's 10538 Overture then?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... the Great Lady ...

Which one? (So many possible "candidates".)

[antongould]

Which one? (So many possible "candidates".)

Sorry salymap .......

[cloughie]

So not much demand for Electric Light Orchestra's 10538 Overture then?

Though very good, maybe not top 6 material!

[cloughie]

Alwyn:Derby Day
Berlioz :Roman Carnival
Borodin :Prince Igor
Bush:The Rehearsal
Elgar:Cockaigne
Ireland:Satyricon
Lilburn:Aotearoa
Mendelssohn :A Midsummer Night's Dream
Rossini :Semiramide
Wagner :Die Meistersinger

Arrived at by some convoluted means known only to the Great Lady and cloughers .....

Several years ago.

[antongould]

Several years ago.

7 in fact .... beyond scary ....

[DracoM]

Warning - off topic - a bit:
<< whose breath control - or alleged lack of it - has been the subject of debate.>>
I'm always surprised at Jeremy Corbyn's breathing - gasps in the middle of phrases, before each word sometimes....serious: is he an asthmatic?

Overtures? OK, so.............
Beethoven: Egmont
Mozart: Magic Flute
Rossini: Thieving Magpie
Wagner : Die Meistersinger

....might come back later.