Old lady dies (see other post)

[ahinton]

you might find yourself listening to Miaskovsky very soon.

Miaowskovsky, surely? We can't keep having all this doggerel around here, now, can we?!...

[EdgeleyRob]

Hear hear!!!

(To be controversial I was going to add that RVW will be rolling in his grave for anyone disliking Sibelius, but I've decided not to .)

I am completely mystified by my Sibelius blind spot.

[EdgeleyRob]

Miaowskovsky, surely? We can't keep having all this doggerel around here, now, can we?!...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

That's very kind of you to say so Petrushka but I wouldn't class myself as any sort of expert on British music,just obsessively potty about the stuff.

Then more power to your pot! I add my thanks to those of Pet and S_A, Edgy; there are corners of the repertoire that I didn't know before and that I've listened to with great pleasure purely in response to your obvious enthusiasm.

[MrGongGong]

I don't know what Pol Pot thought of Elgar but I did have the impression that you don't much care for anything of his (Elgar's, that is - not Pol Pot's); maybe I'm wrong about that...

You are
The first symphony is a work of sublime genius
but there are other things

[Bryn]

I am completely mystified by my Sibelius blind spot.

Perhaps you could ease you way in with some ersatz Sibelius?

[Nick Armstrong]

I've admitted many times on here that I just don't like Sibelius,how brave is that!

The only time I've ever had A Complaint and A Warning was for saying I didn't like most of Liszt's music

[Nick Armstrong]

there are corners of the repertoire that I didn't know before and that I've listened to with great pleasure purely in response to your obvious enthusiasm.

One of the huge pleasures of this place!

[Nick Armstrong]

Miaowskovsky

Love it! MUCH funnier than your light-bulb gag, ah!

[AmpH]

I am completely mystified by my Sibelius blind spot.

Don't be mystified ER, we all have our blind spots - mine include Bruckner symphonies, about 70% of Mozart, Bernard Haitink and Radiohead !

[scottycelt]

I don't know the difference between a rising 5th and a rissole either and would urge anyone who feels afraid to post (all those 'guests'?) to just go ahead and do it anyway. If you want to know which Beethoven 5 to get but are afraid to ask, just ask anyway, you could be amazed at what you will learn.

Oh, I would never ask a question like that, Petrushka!. Opinion is quite different from fact and knowledge. "Experts" themselves differ on what's "best". So I choose my "experts" very carefully, especially when money is involved.

However, like you and Beefy, I also don't know the difference between a rising 5th and rissole so I tend to keep well out of a discussion on either ...

I know my place!

[Serial_Apologist]

Don't be mystified ER, we all have our blind spots - mine include Bruckner symphonies, about 70% of Mozart, Bernard Haitink and Radiohead !

Except haitink I wouldn't go so far as to include Bernard...

[Serial_Apologist]

Oh, I would never ask a question like that, Petrushka!. Opinion is quite different from fact and knowledge. "Experts" themselves differ on what's "best". So I choose my "experts" very carefully, especially when money is involved.

However, like you and Beefy, I also don't know the difference between a rising 5th and rissole so I tend to keep well out of a discussion on either ...

I know my place!

The first two notes of Also Spracht Zarathustra make up a rising fifth, scotty.

Horsemeat and lots of other questionable things make up a rissole.

[Flosshilde]

Ah.

(rushes off to put on Also Sprach ...)

[Serial_Apologist]

Ah.

(rushes off to put on Also Sprach ...)

... and the following three notes a rising perfect fourth, a rising major third, and a falling minor second, Floss...