Handel vs. Elgar death match

[not edward]

Karl Jenkins? Does his output count as classical music?

I think it counts as 'output.'

[knight66]

Karl Jenkins? Does his output count as classical music?

Some of it is on the cusp and he has a mass called The Armed Man. I am going to have the honour of singing in it in the Autumn. It sounds exactly like film music suitable for the Kingdom of Heaven flick.

Mike

[Mark]

I think it counts as 'output.'

Going for the hattrick - that's my third 'Post of Today'

[Mark]

Some of it is on the cusp and he has a mass called The Armed Man. I am going to have the honour of singing in it in the Autumn. It sounds exactly like film music suitable for the Kingdom of Heaven flick.

Mike

The only part of that which I enjoy, Mike, is the rather moving/weepie (ideal cinematic scoring) Benedictus.

[Tancata]

Some of it is on the cusp and he has a mass called The Armed Man. I am going to have the honour of singing in it in the Autumn. It sounds exactly like film music suitable for the Kingdom of Heaven flick.

Mike

Karl Jenkins is alright. In the rankings he comes just between Donovan and Rolf Harris.

[karlhenning]

I think it counts as 'output.'

As opposed to Lloyd Wwebber and Rutter ('throughput')

[springrite]

I think it counts as 'output.'

Well, lots of things can be considered "outputs", I am reminded as I just returned from the smallest room in my house.

[knight66]

Karl Jenkins is alright. In the rankings he comes just between Donovan and Rolf Harris.

Ah, so between Mellow Yellow and Jake the Peg..........diddle iddle iddle um. Not quite a rock and a hard place.

He is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me, Adiamus was catchy.

Mike

[Tancata]

Ah, so between Mellow Yellow and Jake the Peg..........diddle iddle iddle um. Not quite a rock and a hard place.

He is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me, Adiamus was catchy.

Mike

Heh, well I have nothing against any of those three. I am pretty well-disposed towards Jenkins because the various choirs in Dublin which used to have to rely on a week of Messiahs as a money-spinner can now mix it up a little with the Armed Man or the Requiem. The Dies Irae from the Requiem is pretty cool - it seems to be based on "Tainted Love" and elderly choristers always have trouble with keeping time  .

[The Mad Hatter]

*wonders where Orlando Gibbons and William Byrd are...*

*wonders where all these 'vs' threads are coming from...*

*wonders how his brain is still working at all...*

[Que]

I have ab-so-lu-te-ly nothing with English composers - nada - ZIP.
Don't know why, maybe they are from another planet than I am.

BTW,  I don't consider Händel an English composer, and I do like Purcell - a bit - but that's about it.

Q

[PSmith08]

The Dies Irae from the Requiem is pretty cool - it seems to be based on "Tainted Love" and elderly choristers always have trouble with keeping time  .

There's a phrase, the juxtapositions of which being novel, that no-one ever even thought about seeing coming. 

[karlhenning]

Just wait until the Dale Warland Singers recording of Missa Love me do is at last released.

[Choo Choo]

Ah, so between Mellow Yellow and Jake the Peg..........diddle iddle iddle um. Not quite a rock and a hard place.

I take it, you are not dissing the Rolf-meister?  Not after his performance of Led Zep's Stairway To Heaven (complete with wobble board) at Glastonbury?  Incredible (in every sense) 

[Mark]

As opposed to Lloyd Wwebber and Rutter ('throughput')

Applause, please, for Dr. Henning.

[karlhenning]

Not after his performance of Led Zep's Stairway To Heaven (complete with wobble board) at Glastonbury?

Admittedly a tangent:

From the 'Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life' tour, Zappa plays "Stairway to Heaven," Cleveland, 5 March 88

[knight66]

I take it, you are not dissing the Rolf-meister?  Not after his performance of Led Zep's Stairway To Heaven (complete with wobble board) at Glastonbury?  Incredible (in every sense) 

His theme song ought to be 'I will survive' An institution in his quaint way.

Mike

[Bonehelm]

Handel, just because Beethoven said so.

[karlhenning]

Oh, don't go there.

We'll just get a fresh spate of "If Beethoven had known Elgar, he would have licked the Elgarian bootlaces" . . . .

[Scriptavolant]

That topic surprizes me, since I'm the greatest british composer ever and I thought this was undisputed too