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« Reply #15 on: 23:24:31, 07-11-2007 » |
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'Ante', John, as in Latin 'before'.
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« Reply #16 on: 23:39:24, 07-11-2007 » |
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Right thanks for that.
Just remembered, in a recent pub quiz we couldn't remember who wrote The Rhyme (Rime?) of the Ancient Mariner, and when the answer was given my mind momentarily stirred but was then diverted before I got confused with the composer.
Anyway, while working on some ppt's, I've listened to most of the 3hrs of Coleridge-Taylor, Clarinet Quintet on now, and thoroughly enjoyed it all (only knew his violin concerto and some of Hiawatha beforehand).
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« Reply #17 on: 23:41:20, 07-11-2007 » |
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Everyone gets the Coleridges mixed up. Just think Porlock when it comes to literary!.
In his own words: "This fragment with a good deal more, not recoverable, composed, in a sort of Revery brought on by two grains of Opium taken to check a dysentry, at a Farm House between Porlock and Linton, a quarter of a mile from Culbone Church, in the fall of the year, 1797."
And another quote:
"An anodyne had been prescribed, from the effects of which he fell asleep in his chair at the moment he was reading the following sentence, or words of the same substance, in Purchas's Pilgrimage (a contemporary travel book much read by Coleridge). 'Here the Khan Kubla commanded a palace to be built, and a stately garden thereunto. And thus ten miles of fertile ground were inclosed with a wall.'"
For three hours or so, his imagination fired not only by the words of Purchas, but by many other literary and travel book sources, Coleridge dreamed of two to three hundred lines of poetic images that "rose up before him as things" and when he awoke, he started to write them down. Incredibly, he was called out "by a person on business from Porlock" and on his return to his room Coleridge found he could remember little else of the dream vision.
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #18 on: 23:48:25, 07-11-2007 » |
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Coleridge-Taylor, Clarinet Quintet on now and Nick went straight into the Petite Suite de Concert without a commercial break, the station improves! |
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« Reply #19 on: 23:49:07, 07-11-2007 » |
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John,
Try Richard Holmes, 'Coleridge Early Visions, Penguin book, really amazing. You should be able to pick it up cheaply second hand.
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« Reply #20 on: 23:55:49, 07-11-2007 » |
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Try Richard Holmes, 'Coleridge Early Visions, Penguin book, really amazing. You should be able to pick it up cheaply second hand.
You naughty girl, trying to confuse me. The first volume of his biography of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Coleridge: Early Visions, was published in 1989 and won the Whitbread Book of the ...I'm not interested in the poet  |
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« Reply #21 on: 00:05:15, 08-11-2007 » |
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Sorry John,
But I am interested in Coleridge the poet, brilliant book, and, of course Frankie went to Hollywood were inspired by him, you must know that?
The gentleman from Porlock has a lot to answer for.
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« Reply #22 on: 13:13:26, 08-11-2007 » |
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Thursday 8 November 2007
Music 9.00pm-12.00 on Classic FM is by the English 20th century composer Edmund Rubbra, some of whose choral works have just been released on a CD featuring Richard Hickox and the St Margaret’s Westminster Singers. The recordings were made in 1975 in the presence of the composer himself.
Also tonight, music by a Rubbra contemporary, William Walton, his Symphony No 1.
Rubbra: Festival Overture Opus 62
Vernon Handley conducts the New Philharmonia Orchestra
Rubbra: Missa cantuariensis Opus 59
Richard Hickox conducts the St Margaret’s Westminster Singers
Walton: Symphony No.1 in Bb minor
Sir Colin Davis conducts the London Symphony Orchestra
Rubbra: Violin Concerto Opus 103
Tasmin Little – violin
Vernon Handley conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Rubbra: Missa in honorem Sanci Dominici Opus 66
Richard Hickox conducts the St Margaret’s Westminster Singers
Rubbra: Piano Concerto in G Opus 85
Malcolm Binns – piano
Vernon Handley conducts the London Symphony Orchestra
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« Reply #23 on: 12:59:54, 09-11-2007 » |
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Didn't hear the Coleridge-Taylor concert. A friend of mine who is a top-of-the range pianist sometimes plays Demande et Reponse from Petite Suite de Concert as a solo but I haven't heard the remainder of the suite played like this. The splendid orchestral account of early sixties vintage by the Philharmonia under George Weldon is a desert island near miss for me. Hear it as an additional item on CFP's currently available CD of Sargent's Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, which also includes an account of the rhapsodic dance Bamboula, with the Bournemouth Symph Orch under Kenneth Alwyn.
Ian.
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« Reply #24 on: 21:25:28, 23-11-2007 » |
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Started 20mins ago.....
....The Story of The Magic Flute, celebrating the release of Kenneth Branagh’s latest film, the British director and actor narrates the story of 'The Magic Flute'.
Accompanied by music from Branagh's take on Mozart’s opera, this exclusive show is on from 9pm - 10.30pm.
'The Magic Flute' is performed by The Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conducted by James Conlon, and sung in English, with the libretto by Stephen Fry.
The cast includes the German bass Rene Pape as Sarastro, and Lyubov Petrova as The Queen of the Night. Joseph Kaiser and Benjamin Jay Davis, who both starred in Baz Luhrmann’s broadway production of 'La Boheme', sing Tamino and Papageno respectively and Amy Carson, a recent Cambridge graduate, sings Pamina.
In English of course, trying to decide if I'm enjoying it. The singing IS good.
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« Reply #25 on: 20:20:19, 29-11-2007 » |
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Bantock (from new box set of his music, performed by Vernon Handley and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) is featured tonight on CFM's Evening Concert and Nick Bailey will be playing his pick of the Bantock recordings over the next two Evening Concerts.
Tonight (Thursday evening) also features music by Bantock’s contemporary, Ralph Vaughan Williams, who was one of the founder-members of the Bantock Society, set up on the composer’s death in 1946.
Friday evening is ALL Bantock.
Thursday 29 Nov:
Bantock: Processional
Vernon Handley conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vaughan Williams: 5 Tudor Portraits
Jean Rigby – soprano
John Shirley-Quirk - baritone
Richard Hickox conducts the London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Bantock: Fifine at the Fair
Roy Jowitt – clarinet
Vernon Handley conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vaughan Williams: In the Fen Country
James Judd conducts the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Bantock: Thalaba the Destroyer
Vernon Handley conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Bantock: The Witch of Atlas
Vernon Handley conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Friday 30 Nov:
Bantock: Overture to a Greek Tragedy
Vernon Handley conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Bantock: Caristoina
Vernon Handley conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Bantock: A Celtic Symphony
Vernon Handley conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Bantock: The Sea Reivers
Vernon Handley conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Bantock: Sapphic Poem
Julian Lloyd Webber – cello
Vernon Handley conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Bantock: A Hebridean Symphony
Vernon Handley conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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Very rare music to be heard tonight:
Wednesday 5th December
Voormolen: Concerto for 2 Oboes & Orchestra
Pauline Oostenrijk, Hans Roerade – oboe
Matthias Bamert conducts the Hague Residentie Orchestra
Franck: Symphonic Variations for Piano & Orchestra
Jean-Yves Thibaudet – piano
Charles Dutoit conducts the Orchestra of the Suisse Romande
Britten: St.Nicolas Opus 42
Anthony Rolfe Johnson – tenor
Matthew Best conducts the English Chamber Orchestra and Corydon Singers
Ysa˙e: Violin Sonata No.2 in A minor Opus 27
Philippe Graffin – violin
Pascal Devoyon – piano
Wilms: Symphony No.7 in C minor
Werner Ehrhardt conducts Concerto Cologne
Gretry: Flute Concerto in C major
Marc Grauwels – flute
Dmitri Demetriades conducts the European Union Chamber Orchestra
Gossec: Symphonie Militaire
John Wallace conducts The Wallace Collection
Today is the eve of the Feast of St Nicholas, the Patron Saint of Children, and today – not Christmas Day – the giving and receiving of gifts takes place in the Netherlands and Belgium (there is also a strong St Nicholas tradition in other European countries).
St Nicholas was a 4th-century figure in Turkey who gained a reputation for being a generous giver of gifts and it’s from him that the figure of Father Christmas derives.
Tonight, Nick Bailey celebrates with Benjamin Britten’s popular cantata about the Saint, plus music from the Netherlands and Belgium.
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« Reply #27 on: 09:51:25, 07-12-2007 » |
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Very rare music to be heard tonight:
Ysa˙e: Violin Sonata No.2 in A minor Opus 27
Philippe Graffin – violin
Pascal Devoyon – piano
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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