yes, it would be a little like going to alcoholics anonymous, only for the bloke sat next to you to fetch an unlabeled bottle out of a brown paper bag and say 'ere, try some of this'!...fergus wrote:LOL....but I think that I am in the wrong place (here) for that!!!Jared wrote: I think what you have my friend, is called an addiction... help is available, you know...;-)
Indeed it would Jared but linked into a sort of madrigal opera if you see what I mean?Jared wrote:Fergus, would this sound a little like Monteverdi's books of Madrigals?fergus wrote:This is a late sixteenth century comedy that is presented in a series of madrigal scenes. I really like it and I find it unusual; there is some lovely music in it and it is well performed although it would not be to everyone’s taste.
I mean this in the nicest way possible... that wouldn't be everyone's cuppa... I think that in my early enthusiasm for his 1610 Vespers (the very first Renaissance disk I ever heard, over 3 years ago now), I rushed headlong into his books of Madrigals a little too early, and after a few listens through, put them on the back burner... I will return to them in due course, when I have garnered a little more experience with different composers within the Ren/ EM scene...fergus wrote:Indeed it would Jared but linked into a sort of madrigal opera if you see what I mean?Jared wrote:Fergus, would this sound a little like Monteverdi's books of Madrigals?fergus wrote:This is a late sixteenth century comedy that is presented in a series of madrigal scenes. I really like it and I find it unusual; there is some lovely music in it and it is well performed although it would not be to everyone’s taste.
Oh I know that I plough a very lonely furrow with regard to Ren / EM Jared and that these two genres, let alone a madrigal opera are very far from most peoples' priority listening....ah well, on I go to listen to some Obrecht and Isaac.Jared wrote: I mean this in the nicest way possible... that wouldn't be everyone's cuppa... I think that in my early enthusiasm for his 1610 Vespers (the very first Renaissance disk I ever heard, over 3 years ago now), I rushed headlong into his books of Madrigals a little too early, and after a few listens through, put them on the back burner... I will return to them in due course, when I have garnered a little more experience with different composers within the Ren/ EM scene...
I wasn't meaning it as a criticism... I just think that some of it is quite simply so far removed from our own listening experiences in 2011, that it can be quite a lot for the uninitiated to grasp...fergus wrote: Oh I know that I plough a very lonely furrow with regard to Ren / EM Jared and that these two genres, let alone a madrigal opera are very far from most peoples' priority listening....ah well, on I go to listen to some Obrecht and Isaac.
I like a lot of his work Jared and in particular his film The Little Drummer Boy which helped me understand Mahlers work. From watching this and some youtube clips he came across as a likeable character.Jared wrote:^^ you strike me as a bit of a 'Lenny' fan Dave... how are you liking that box set?
