Saturday Classics

[Bax-of-Delights]

Thanks for the link Roehre (and EdgeleyRob). Just placed an order at £11.00 post inclusive for 10 CDs.
Can't be bad eh?

[Anna]

I quite fancy that, plenty of pieces I don't know, where did you order from Bax-o-D? I see MDT have it for £7.50 + p&p

[Bax-of-Delights]

I quite fancy that, plenty of pieces I don't know, where did you order from Bax-o-D? I see MDT have it for £7.50 + p&p

Anna: Amazon.co.uk. Listed as £9.98 plus £1.26 postage - but it was the last one left at that price from that seller (from Germany).

[antongould]

Saturday Classics today is a bit better. Music by women composers: Hildegard of Bingen, Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn, Nadia Boulanger, Germaine Tailleferre, Elizabeth Maconchy, Amy Beach, Louise Farre etc.

At least it's a theme and not your twenty best tunes and nice to hear some Ethel Smyth and Grace Williams for a change.

I would suggest more than a bit better, in my view a really interesting programme that brought a lot of new names to me. Well presented with a lot of nice extra information - I am sure salymap will have posted the Dame Ethyl toothbrush story before but it is wonderful........

[cloughie]

Just discovered Ruth Gipps - a name I had never encountered before - on Youtube. British composer of the 20th century who was seriously overlooked because of her sex (according to the biographies I have read). I see there is a 2nd Symphony on CD and wondered if anyone had come across it. At present its not cheap enough to take a punt but any positive feedback here might push me to fork out the £19...

Apropos of nothing but the Twenty Best Tunes thread.
Switched on this morning. Martin Handley introducing BOLEROOOOOOOOO. Oooooh Noooooo. Switched Off.
Switched on again; James Jolley introducing VW's Thomas Tallis.....Switched Off.
Give it one more go, switched on: Arnold's Four Scottish Dances. Off it goes.

back to Youtube.

Would you have switched off had it been the Cornish Dances?

[cloughie]

I would suggest more than a bit better, in my view a really interesting programme that brought a lot of new names to me. Well presented with a lot of nice extra information - I am sure salymap will have posted the Dame Ethyl toothbrush story before but it is wonderful........

...and an awful lot of bleeding chunks!

[antongould]

...and an awful lot of bleeding chunks!

True!