Diapason wrote:I've been sniffing around Beethoven sets again today, actually. I heard a piece that I know well on the radio the other day and I realised I didn't actually know who or what it was. Alegretto from Beethoven 7 apparently, and I'm so appalled by not knowing this I'm going to have to buy a box. Cluytens is front-runner so far.
Ah, the Alegeretto is simply wonderful. It was used to great dramatic effect in the Kings Speech where Colin Firth's, (lovely performance as the) Anglo-Saxon British King addressing the British people and Britain's colonies in an effort to rally popular support for the Government's decision after it declared war on Germany, all to the background sound of Germany's Beethoven, a touch of irony perhaps?
Re: Recent Purchases
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 1:50 pm
by Diapason
Yes indeed, I remember that scene, and the music is perfect. Great flic that.
Re: Recent Purchases
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 10:35 pm
by Jared
Seán wrote: Anglo-Saxon British King
Anglo-Saxon of the Germanic variety, furthermore...
Re: Recent Purchases
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 12:17 am
by jaybee
being a Saxe-Coburg and all that....
Re: Recent Purchases
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 2:12 am
by Seán
Jared wrote:
Seán wrote: Anglo-Saxon British King
Anglo-Saxon of the Germanic variety, furthermore...
I was reluctant to actually say that lest I offend the sensibilities of our (very good) friends on the mainland.
Re: Recent Purchases
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 10:24 am
by jaybee
Seán wrote:
Jared wrote:
Seán wrote: Anglo-Saxon British King
Anglo-Saxon of the Germanic variety, furthermore...
I was reluctant to actually say that lest I offend the sensibilities of our (very good) friends on the mainland.
The Germans....?????
Re: Recent Purchases
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 10:43 am
by Jared
Seán wrote:
Jared wrote:
Seán wrote: Anglo-Saxon British King
Anglo-Saxon of the Germanic variety, furthermore...
I was reluctant to actually say that lest I offend the sensibilities of our (very good) friends on the mainland.
thank you, Sean... they did at least have the courtesy, not to offend our sensibilities by changing their family name from Saxe-Coberg Gotha, to a very well known type of brown soup... ;-)
Re: Recent Purchases
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 2:01 pm
by Jared
being a fan of both Elijah & Paulus, I am intrigued to hear the surviving fragments of his unfinished oratorio, Christus, perormed by Piau with Accentus. Is anyone here familiar with this work?
Re: Recent Purchases
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 4:44 pm
by Jared
thought I'd get the set....
Re: Recent Purchases
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 8:51 pm
by fergus
Jared wrote:
thought I'd get the set....
The Via Crucis is an interesting work so I will be interested to see what you think of it Jared.
