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fergus wrote:

bombasticDarren wrote: I have actually got some extra contracted hours at work, so things are looking a fraction more buoyant financially (economies will still be made though...)

Good for you Darren....don't forget that small matter of a Masters!

Ah yes! I nearly forgot ;-)

I still have to see if I have been accepted though...

ravel30 wrote:

Seán wrote: Veronica, HATES Stravinsky, it really irritates her, she and doesn't get instrumental Bach either she finds it tiring after a short spell, however she really likes his sacred music. She LOVES Mahler's Symphones particularly his Third and Mozart's Piano Sonatas. Why am I telling you all this? Try it on the wife and your beautiful child too.

Haha,

My wife and I laughed this morning when I read that. It is the same for her. In the first few months of our relationship we saw Petrushka in concert and she said that she did not like it. She thought that it was only Bing! Bang! Bing! I laugh at that story now but I remember that it got me thinking at the time :) .

My wife said that Veronica has great taste.

Matt.

Thanks Matt. I brought my wife to a performance of Tchaikovsky's Fifth and Petrushka by the brilliant LSO led by Gergiev in Dublin a few years ago and what a concert! Veronica was ambivalent towards the Stravinsky but really liked the Tchaikovsky. I was in seventh heaven with Gergiev and the LSO performing Petrushka, when they had finished I would have loved to have sat through the periormance again and to forget the Fifth.
I wouldn't dare bring her to a performance of Le Sacre, she'd kill me, Petrushka and Pulcinella in very small doses -- or preferably not at all -- is enough for her.

bombasticDarren wrote:

fergus wrote:

bombasticDarren wrote: I have actually got some extra contracted hours at work, so things are looking a fraction more buoyant financially (economies will still be made though...)

Good for you Darren....don't forget that small matter of a Masters!

Ah yes! I nearly forgot ;-)

I still have to see if I have been accepted though...

Fingers crossed for you lad.

Ordered today



This box set contains the following pieces:

Symphonies 2,3,5,6

Piano Concerto 1 to 5

Violin Concerto 1 and 2

Lieutenant Kijie Suite

Romeo and Julliet Suites

All conducted by Erich Leinsdorf with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The piano concerto features John Browning. The Violin Concerto 1 features Erick Friedman and the violin Concerto 2 features Itzhak Perlman.

Of Prokofiev, I only have Romeo and Julliet, Cinderella, Symphony no. 1, Symphony no. 5, Violin Concerto 1 and 2, piano sonatas 1,3,4, Lieutenant Kijie Suite. I love all these works a lot and I always wanted to discover more from that composer. This set seems the perfect thing for me to get. At only 17.50 cdn dollars, it looks like a bargain !!!

Cheers,

Matt.

Seán wrote:

ravel30 wrote:

Seán wrote: Veronica, HATES Stravinsky, it really irritates her, she and doesn't get instrumental Bach either she finds it tiring after a short spell, however she really likes his sacred music. She LOVES Mahler's Symphones particularly his Third and Mozart's Piano Sonatas. Why am I telling you all this? Try it on the wife and your beautiful child too.

Haha,

My wife and I laughed this morning when I read that. It is the same for her. In the first few months of our relationship we saw Petrushka in concert and she said that she did not like it. She thought that it was only Bing! Bang! Bing! I laugh at that story now but I remember that it got me thinking at the time :) .

My wife said that Veronica has great taste.

Matt.

Thanks Matt. I brought my wife to a performance of Tchaikovsky's Fifth and Petrushka by the brilliant LSO led by Gergiev in Dublin a few years ago and what a concert! Veronica was ambivalent towards the Stravinsky but really liked the Tchaikovsky. I was in seventh heaven with Gergiev and the LSO performing Petrushka, when they had finished I would have loved to have sat through the periormance again and to forget the Fifth.
I wouldn't dare bring her to a performance of Le Sacre, she'd kill me, Petrushka and Pulcinella in very small doses -- or preferably not at all -- is enough for her.

I never tried Pulcinella but that is a very good idea. She likes catchy tunes and the first half of Pulcinella is full of them :)

Matt.

You guys could start a Wife Brainwashing thread!!!

fergus wrote:You guys could start a Wife Brainwashing thread!!!

Geez, you try brainwashing your wife, I wouldn't dare.

Seán wrote:Geez, you try brainwashing your wife, I wouldn't dare.

Eh....no thanks!!!

Self preservation is a strong instinct with me!!!

ravel30 wrote:Of Prokofiev, I only have Romeo and Julliet, Cinderella, Symphony no. 1, Symphony no. 5, Violin Concerto 1 and 2, piano sonatas 1,3,4, Lieutenant Kijie Suite. I love all these works a lot and I always wanted to discover more from that composer. This set seems the perfect thing for me to get. At only 17.50 cdn dollars, it looks like a bargain !!!

Cheers,

Matt.

Matt, if you are in the market for more Prokofiev you might want to consider some of the following:

This is a fantastic set, Ashkenazy's playing is wonderful and Previn is a very good conductor:






Gorgeous playing by Rudin and the NSOU:


and last but by no means least, a Prokofiev cycle by Kitajenko and the Gürzenich-Orchestra Cologne:

ravel30 wrote:Ordered today

I have my eye on that set myself actually Matt.

Do let us know how you get on with it...