foxdropper
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Do you have to sit with your feet on a poof and wear a cravat for this crap .
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foxdropper
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No spelling mistake on my part 
Freeforester
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Ye may aye tak the man out of the bog…
Finzi's Eclogue, Hahn's charming salon chanson, Vaughan William's Fantasia - all excellent stuff - though I'd go for Tallis rather than Greensleeves. The first performance in Gloucester Cathedral in 1910 must have been remarkable. I like the Edwardian 'period instrument' approach in this recording. The theme is a tune used for Joseph Addison's hymn 'When rising from the bed of death'
More Tallis-related stuff, but on the organ - though only bother if you've got a slow 7mins to spare: it doesn't work so well in bits.
More Tallis-related stuff, but on the organ - though only bother if you've got a slow 7mins to spare: it doesn't work so well in bits.
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Just gotta be careful we don’t stray too far down the rabbit hole of so-called “cow pat” music. Not that I entirely hold with Elisabeth Lutyens’ over-generalisation of British composers output from the period in question.
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I wonder whether Ms Lutyens' comment belongs in the same box as the Joan-Littlewood-style 50's and 60's revisionist view of the Great War? Anyhow, she wasn't always the Twelve-Tone Lizzie we've (or I've, at least) striven to avoid. A fair number of pieces pleasing to the normal ear among her stuff, allegedly: some of it tending towards 'lightness', even.
Aside from the usual view that the VW Tallis Fantasia remains a ground-breaking bit of writing, and the Howells is similarly a masterpiece of Tallisery of the New Elizabethan era, neither of them has anything at all in them of EL's cowpats.
Overall, I would judge neither Elizabeth Lutyens, nor the English Pastoral school, based on that memorable épater les bourgeois quip of hers.
Nor would I mix my metaphors excessively - cowpats are found enriching the lush pastures where fecund cattle graze and are happy.
Down rabbit-holes, making sounds unfit for general enjoyment, we are more likely to find twelve-tone modernists.
Aside from the usual view that the VW Tallis Fantasia remains a ground-breaking bit of writing, and the Howells is similarly a masterpiece of Tallisery of the New Elizabethan era, neither of them has anything at all in them of EL's cowpats.
Overall, I would judge neither Elizabeth Lutyens, nor the English Pastoral school, based on that memorable épater les bourgeois quip of hers.
Nor would I mix my metaphors excessively - cowpats are found enriching the lush pastures where fecund cattle graze and are happy.
Down rabbit-holes, making sounds unfit for general enjoyment, we are more likely to find twelve-tone modernists.
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Excellent.
Blenheim Palace early 2000s. Son et Lumiere evening event. Lots of real cannon. Lots of Napoleonic re-enactors.
Highlight was getting a French student arrested and shot as a spy by a mob from the 95th Rifles.
He took it in good heart and survived to be in the syndicate room the next morning. Clearly the barrel rifling wasn't good enough.
John Gryphon
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The live cannons with the reverberations shaking the schitt out of the air is simply awesome.
John Gryphon
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I am very surprised that we haven't had one of the special lads of the SD load up his favourite Barry Manilow clips haaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
Quiet enough for you Klenchy ?
You'll need the very best HiFi setup to fully appreciate it. Slowly.
More up to date:
Arvo Pärt,
Peter Maxwell Davies.
Steve Reich.
What's wrong with a bit of Gilbert and Sullivan ?
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john_little
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That’s what the horn section was wonderingNot bad on the piano, but I wonder what she's like on the organ?
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enfieldspares
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I've visited Satie's house in Honfleur. I prefer Gymnopeidie.
Other French artist composers some might quite enjoyable are Charles Trenet "La mer" and "Que reste-t-il de nos amours".
Freeforester
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While we‘re about French entries:
A great rendition by one of Australia’s more cultured voices, somewhat unimproved by the métro-politain bourgeoisie’s apparently legendary inability to mark time; well played ms Arena for ignoring the applause monkeys’ preferred tempo tantrum:
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Happy to agree with Les Feuilles Mortes.
I prefer the version by Ute Lemper. One of the
