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Seán wrote:Fergus, you are in danger of turning into a real "Holy Joe", enjoy the music.

Agreed Sean, you would have thought that after all this time, some semblance of Christianity would have rubbed off on him, wouldn't you? lol

Jared wrote:

Seán wrote:Fergus, you are in danger of turning into a real "Holy Joe", enjoy the music.

Agreed Sean, you would have thought that after all this time, some semblance of Christianity would have rubbed off on him, wouldn't you? lol

It might yet! ;)

Well, whilst the Chopin-Fest continues apace, my next 'mini'-project will be to expand my knowledge of Tchaikovsky's works, beyond those for large-scale orchestra, which I've long been familiar with. I don't know about you, but I always enjoy a bit of PIT when I hear him, but do tend to go for long periods without giving his work any serious airplay... as a consequence, the shelf space containing his works hasn't expanded a great deal over the past few years, and I aim to put that right!

A very interesting collection there Jared, enjoy.

Seán wrote:Fergus, you are in danger of turning into a real "Holy Joe", enjoy the music.

I sincerely doubt that there is very much chance of that happening Seán which is unfortunate for my chances in the afterlife!!
However, I have always loved Sacred Music; perhaps because the best composers of their time, for one reason or another, wrote it so it is usually music of the highest quality.

Jared wrote:Well, whilst the Chopin-Fest continues apace, my next 'mini'-project will be to expand my knowledge of Tchaikovsky's works, beyond those for large-scale orchestra, which I've long been familiar with. I don't know about you, but I always enjoy a bit of PIT when I hear him, but do tend to go for long periods without giving his work any serious airplay... as a consequence, the shelf space containing his works hasn't expanded a great deal over the past few years, and I aim to put that right!

I have just gone through a Tchaikovsky phase recently Jared and I found it very enjoyable revisiting some of the works that I had not heard in some time. He is not as shallow or as "sugary" as he is sometimes made out to be and he was a wonderful orchestrator.

The beautiful strains of the St. Matthew Passion also filled the house here this afternoon....




This is well sung and well played but then I have always been very pleased with Leppard’s music making.

^^^ I tend to agree Fergus... there is a tendency to be of the persuasion that if something has an easily 'hummable' tune which is relatively straight-forward to grasp, then it has to be 2nd rate, which is by no means the case... Tchaikovsky, like Mozart and Mendelssohn have fallen foul of this kind of snobbery, which I have evidenced over in the other place...

fergus wrote:This is well sung and well played but then I have always been very pleased with Leppard’s music making.

Yes, understandably a more traditional approach, given the era he worked in, but I have certainly enjoyed the Leppard I have heard... I own and enjoy his Monteverdi Madrigals of Love & War, which I know I have mentioned in this forum in the past.

I was just wondering, are there any fans of PDQ Bach on Tir Na?

I have heard that it's by turn delightfully clever and amusing, and Peter Schickele has quite a following, but I've not up until this point, had the (dubious?) pleasure of hearing one of his albums... thoughts?