Get well soon!

[Petrushka]

To remind her of the great artists she has seen or knew:

Smetana: Ma Vlast
RPO/Sir Malcolm Sargent

Haydn: Symphony No 100
RPO/Sir Thomas Beecham

Mozart: Symphony No 40
LSO/Sir Colin Davis

Brahms: Symphony No 4
VPO/Furtwangler

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 5
LPO/Boult

EDIT: Sorry seem to have missed out on the instruction for short pieces.

[ardcarp]

I'd like to send The Complete Choral Works of Rebecca Clarke (1886 - 1979). They are all shortish pieces and have been recorded by the choir of Gonville and Caius. There are 19 tracks on their CD (DCA136). If it's got to be eight, choose the even numbered ones! Hope you enjoy them, saly!!!

[Barbirollians]

I shall send over the slow movement of the Elgar Violin Concerto with Alfredo Campoli conducted by Sir Adrian Boult . Saly's enthusiasm for this recording led me to buy it and it has been a great joy ever since . Get well soon salymap

If that isn't working then Sir Malcolm's thrilling VPO Finlandia should get anyone going !

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

For salymap:
Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus (Vaughan Williams)
Dream Children (Elgar)
Pavane pour une enfante defunte (Ravel)
Land of the Mountain of the Flood (McCunn)
Three Romances for oboe (Schumann)
Symphony no 29 in A (Mozart)
The Birds Suite (Respighi)
Piano Trio in A minor (Tchaikovsky)

[Nick Armstrong]

An eclectic and somewhat random mix which happens to be the end of a playlist called "Accumulated Favourites" which I keep on my iPod/iTunes and where I stick individual pieces/performances which catch my ear and I want to return to time and time again:

Sibelius: Salymap's ... er..... Lemminkainen's Return - Lahti SO / Osmo Vanska

Faure: Dolly Suite Op. 56: I. Berceuse - Jean-Philippe Collard/Bruno Rigutto

When Day Is Done: Paul Whiteman & His Concert Orchestra & Henry Busse

Bach/Friedman: Siciliano - Yevgeny Sudbin

Barber: Overture to "The School for Scandal" - David Zinman

Grainger: Colonial Song - Richard Hickox / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Ireland: London Overture - BBC Phil / John Wilson

Händel: Radamisto - Sinfonia-Passacaille - Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

Poulenc: Hôtel - Régine Crespin / John Wustman

Chopin: Scherzo No. 3 in C sharp minor, Op. 39 - Martha Argerich

Ravel: Ma Mère L'Oye - Le Jardin Féerique - Danish NRSO / Temirkanov

Get well and come back soon sals!!

[amateur51]

Lovely idea, dovers. How about:

Mozart: Un aura amorosa - Heddle Nash

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzgsGoVL-fQ

Schubert: Du Bist die ruh - Ferrier

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_IS6sg_0Nw

Sargent: An Impression on a Windy Day - the Composer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0h79mIoHaE

Bach: Violin Concerto in a minor - Oistrach/Davis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEx-1a3V03Q

Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas Overture - Beecham

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

Elgar: Serenade for Strings - the Composer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH5xmqO-P1w

Enescu: Roumanian Rhapsody #1 - Bournemouth SO/Silvestri (with, I sincerely hope, a fellow Forumista amongst the Horns)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcFsC-vHpmY&list=PLB0gLN-hUZXQTrRBShFP5eYknj_VXY25h

Haydn: Lark Quartet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTH74JxaKCQ

RVW: Serenade to Music - Hickox

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPmlXU8GDc

Ferneyhough: In Nomine a 3 (to remind her of the days when the young composer visited her offices)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjzAgJ02jOk

Schubert: An die Musik - Ferrier

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLUyY8m3dPA

A wonderfully 'personal' collection for our friend, ferney... may I ally myself to your selection with just two additions please?

Here's saly's beloved Sir Malcolm Sargent talking 'in the flesh' before a performance of Britten's YPGTO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYNjY9p4c1E&list=PLFC657B787FEED515

and here he is conducting the BBC Orchestra with Sena Jurinac in Richard Strauss' Vier letze Lieder in 1961

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

Get well at your own pace salymap :wink:

[Stillhomewardbound]

Note to Salymap:

Salymap - this is where I get found out! I'm a social chatterer on here more than a die-hard classicist. That is to say, I'll play to my strenghts and send you across of ten of my favourite recordings out of the great American Songbook. Like small, sweet bon bons these are little gems you can turn in between the grander moments already recommended.

They are songs of love and whimsy and have been my companions for the best part of forty years.

Isn't it Romantic (Rodgers/Hart) - Mel Torme & George Shearing

My Ship (Weill & I Gershwin) - Lena Horne & Phil Woods

Skylark (Carmichael & Mercer) - Ella Fitzgerald

I Didn't Know What Time It Was (Rodgers & Hart) - Dawn Upshaw

Do I Hear A Waltz (Rodgers & Hammerstein) - Sammy Davis Junior

Stella By Starlight (Young & Washington) - Vic Damone

Rhodes Island Is Famous For You - Nancy Lamott

I like London In the Rain - Blossom Dearie

Little Girl Blue (Rodgers & Hart) - Nina Simone

I Had A Brontosaurus (??) - Blossom Dearie.


Get well soon, Salymap!

[Stanley Stewart]

Prior to sal's hospitalisation I mentioned in a PM, that I'd been merging two Proms concerts on one DVD, conducted by Colin Davis some years ago, as an affectionate tribute to his memory.

I thank that sal may give a nod of approval if I append the details. In particular, I wanted to cover the work and dedication which Sir Colin devoted to his work with young musicians

PROM 66, 2005. Sat, 3 Sept. Juilliard Orchestra/ Orchestra of the RAM:

Copland, Fanfare; RVW, Sym 6 and Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique

PROM 2007, Sat, 11 August. Brahms Tragic Overture, Sym 3. Sibelius, Sym 5.


The interval features provide much insight into Sir Colin's contact with his players and there is even a terse retort, "When I stop conducting will you stop playing as I have something to say." Fascinating, too, is the gradual sense of gelling as the American & British musicians learn to coordinate and make music together.

Of course, as soon as I hear about sal's return home, this DVD will be wending her way with my compliments and warmest greetings.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Cheers salymap and best wishes

i do not know if you liked the Mayfair scene in London ... i am quite fascinated by the AMbrose Orchestra ... must have been on the Light Programme when i was young

The Object of My Affection
We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye
Till Tomorrow
Anything Goes
Willow Weep for Me
Chansonette
Scatter Brain

and of course The Sun Has Got His Hat On!

[eighthobstruction]

Hello Salymap....I'm not much good at lists....I don't know the names and specifications of most of the things I listen to, I just listen....I hope the regime you are under isn't too strict or tedious and 1 - 10 on my list would really be - please get well in a speedy fashion....I will venture 3 choices that I put on when I need a lift....god speed....

1) The Big Rock Candy Mountain....

2) You are my sunshine....

3) Beethoven Gigue 5th Cello suite C minor....


....All the very very best....tim

[aeolium]

Bach - Schlummert Ein from cantata Ich Habe Genug, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
Mozart - Abendempfindung, Elisabeth Schumann, Gerald Moore
Tchaikovsky - Andante Cantabile, Halle/Barbirolli
Dvorak - Dumka from Piano Quintet in A op 81, Curzon, Vienna Philharmonic Quartet
Sibelius - Oceanides, RPO/Beecham
Mahler - Wenn dein Mütterlein, from Kindertotenlieder, Ferrier, VPO/Walter
Elgar - Where Corals Lie from Sea Pictures, Baker, LSO/Barbirolli
Vaughan-Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, LPO/Boult

And, for a steam train devotee it has to be:

Flanders and Swann - The Slow Train

Get well soon!

[teamsaint]

Hello Salymap....I'm not much good at lists....I don't know the names and specifications of most of the things I listen to, I just listen....I hope the regime you are under isn't too strict or tedious and 1 - 10 on my list would really be - please get well in a speedy fashion....I will venture 3 choices that I put on when I need a lift....god speed....

1) The Big Rock Candy Mountain....

2) You are my sunshine....

3) Beethoven Gigue 5th Cello suite C minor....


....All the very very best....tim

Ah, wisdom from above.

A favourite here at TS towers.

Are we allowed to do a second list?

[Anna]

Dear saly, I'm no good at lists (as you know) but I would like to include Samuel Coleridge-Taylor for you as I know you like him PLUS I hope you have asked Santa for an i-pod so we can somehow put all these marvellous suggestions on it for you.

[marthe]

I'm not good at lists either but would like to add Resphigi's Ancient Airs and Dances, and anything by Mozart. Dear saly, hope all is getting better. Sending best wishes trans-Atlantic. I hope you have grape-peeling, pillow-fluffing nurses in attendance and have been deluged with flowers and cards.

[Flay]

I hope your convalescence is going well, saly.

If I were in your situation I am not sure I would be wanting to listen only to short pieces, with so much time to fill in between meals and physio sessions. So I propose a mixture of lengths. Also I doubt if I would want anything too challenging right now, and nice tunes could be enjoyed by your co-convalescencees.

Schubert Notturno - short and pretty for any time of day when you feel like having a rest

Mahler 3 - to fill a morning

Beethoven Waldstein Sonata - in my life I have had two (unfounded) health scares, and both times when I had been told I was OK this work had been playing on the radio either to or from the hospital!

Bruckner 8 - to fill an afternoon

4’ 33” - if you need some peace and quiet in a noisy ward

Strauss Eine Alpensinfonie - for the evening, with a most beautiful coda to lull you to sleep.


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