Geoffrey Burgon has died

Started by Luke, September 22, 2010, 02:17:08 PM

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September 22, 2010, 02:17:08 PM Last Edit: September 22, 2010, 02:19:04 PM by Luke
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/sep/22/geoffrey-burgon-obituary - Obituary by (Python) Terry Jones 

I really like the couple of discs of Burgon I have - concert works, not the film scores - they get a lot of play, especially this one:



which I will listen to again tomorrow. There is a great deal of wonderful, original, very English but totally non-parochial music here... the Canciones del Alma are really stunning IMO

karlhenning

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September 23, 2010, 03:53:36 AM
May he nest tuplets with the angels . . . .

Luke

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September 23, 2010, 03:57:42 AM
I'm sure he'd never do something as ill-advised as tuplet-nesting....

Scarpia

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September 23, 2010, 12:20:59 PM
I feel left out because I had no idea that he had been born.   :(

vandermolen

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September 25, 2010, 11:50:37 PM
His Requiem (which I have on LP) is excellent and Burgon wrote some first rate TV/Film Music (Brideshead Revisited - original TV series,Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Bleak House etc). Unfortunately the CDs below are absurdly expensive on Amazon UK. I didn't know that he had died. RIP
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Guido

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September 27, 2010, 11:53:34 AM
Bought the first CD mentioned by Luke - agree that Canciones del Alma are the finest piece on it - quite lovely.
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