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calyptorhynchus

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November 17, 2025, 06:43:33 PM
Was just listening to another favourite disk:



The string quartets are as good as any C20 SQs and the Violin Sonata also very good.
'Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth.' Robert Burton

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vandermolen

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November 17, 2025, 11:57:40 PM
Quote from: calyptorhynchus on November 17, 2025, 06:43:33 PMWas just listening to another favourite disk:



The string quartets are as good as any C20 SQs and the Violin Sonata also very good.
Yes, that's a very enjoyable CD as is the Chandos disc of her orchestral music.
"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).

vandermolen

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November 19, 2025, 03:13:16 AM
From WAYLTN thread
Patrick Hadley: 'The Trees so High'
One of my favourite works which I discovered at the High street Kensington Record Library in my youth:
"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).

Irons

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November 19, 2025, 06:27:16 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on November 19, 2025, 03:13:16 AMFrom WAYLTN thread
Patrick Hadley: 'The Trees so High'
One of my favourite works which I discovered at the High street Kensington Record Library in my youth:


I have you to thank for this one, Jeffrey. I treasure both recordings, Lyrita and Chandos. 
You must have a very good opinion of yourself to write a symphony - John Ireland.

I opened the door people rushed through and I was left holding the knob - Bo Diddley.

vandermolen

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Today at 01:07:24 AM
Quote from: Irons on November 19, 2025, 06:27:16 AMI have you to thank for this one, Jeffrey. I treasure both recordings, Lyrita and Chandos. 
Me too Lol  ;)
"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).

Symphonic Addict

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Today at 05:58:23 PM
Volume 3 of Overtures from the British Isles. Looks pretty enticing. To be released on 26 January:



Havergal Brian: The Tinker's Wedding
Geoffrey Bush: Yorick
Alan Rawsthorne: Street Corner
Daniel Jones: Comedy Overture
Frank Bridge: Rebus
Robin Orr: The Prospect of Whitby
Richard Arnell: The New Age, Op. 2
Benjamin Britten: Paul Bunyan, Op. 17: Overture
Alan Bush: Resolution, Op. 25
Clifton Parker: The Glass Slipper: Overture
Eric Fenby: Rossini on Ilkla Moor
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