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Prom 74 - 8.09.17: Vienna Philharmonic – Brahms, Mozart and Beethoven
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostThey may not play much British music, but when they do, they do it well. Two years ago, they played Elgar's Dream of Gerontius as though they'd been performing it all their lives.
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Originally posted by cloughie View Post...and being a liitle older than Blair maybe was exposed to more Classical music in his formative years![FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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Originally posted by cloughie View Post...and for all we know Simon Bates' broad taste in music encompasses Classical - you are making assumptions ferney!
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Originally posted by cloughie View Post...and for all we know Simon Bates' broad taste in music encompasses Classical - you are making assumptions ferney!
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostNot necessarily whilst at school - he went to Adams' Grammar School at the same time as ... Simon Bates.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post- took me a couple of seconds!"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostIt's taken me a couple of hours and I still haven't got there....
(Of the necessity for haircuts ... not R Choon.)[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post"R Choon" - "Our Tune" (a regular feature on Mr Bates' R1 programme)."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostAh, you comfort me. Never heard / heard of it!
The schmalzy theme from Zeffirreli's Romeo & Juliet (linked in #66) simpered away in the background of thousands of stories of love, loss, and (sometimes) triumph over the years.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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Originally posted by vinteuil View Post.
... we went to this Prom. Mme v claims not to have a musical bone in her body (not true); I really hoped that a live experience of the Viennese Phil wd be something magical. We had excellent stall seats (tho' the noisy presence of a pompous disgraced former tory politician nearby was not conducive to anything... )
Very disappointed. The Brahms bland and never took off; the Mozart all a bit fumbly and uninspired (tho' the Schubert encore was charming). I really disliked the Beethoven 7. The second and third movements were nice enuff after a rather lacklustre first; but the fourth I found really awful - it just came over as a repetitive onslaught, and the insistent aggressive blare of the trumpet crassly over-riding the rest of the orchestra was physically unpleasant. The Delius encore was nice enough, if you like Delius.
A great shame. Mme v kindly said that she had found the whole experience "enjoyable" - but I so wish her first experience of such great music with notionally such a great orchestra had been truly sublime. The tickets (we were guests) must have cost hundreds of pounds. The best parts of the evening were the walk across Kensington Gardens to get there, and Ax's little Schubert encore.
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I missed the Delius, having been posted to hold a bucket at Door 9 (where one of my donors was a woman I first met when we both undergraduates - ouch!).
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