BaL 19.05.12 Gesualdo

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

0930 Building a Library: Tess Knighton discusses her personal recommendations of Gesualdo on record.

[LeMartinPecheur]

I'm still hoping for a commercial release of 'Gesualdo: The original CCTV footage'

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I'm still hoping for a commercial release of 'Gesualdo: The original CCTV footage'

[Richard Tarleton]

0930 Building a Library: Tess Knighton discusses her personal recommendations of Gesualdo on record.

Professor Knighton's BALs are always most informative. We were told at one stage she even contemplated becoming a nun so as to gain access to rare Spanish manuscripts kept in monasteries and otherwise inaccessible to female academics...

[verismissimo]

Hardly a rush to participate on these boards. And, speaking personally, he's a composer I've neglected. Aside from a few brief things, all I seem to have in my "library" is a 1970s LP of the Deller Consort singing G's Benedictus and Miserere. It's lovely!

Maybe I'll be persuaded to invest.

[vinteuil]

Hardly a rush to participate on these boards. And, speaking personally, he's a composer I've neglected. / ... /

Maybe I'll be persuaded to invest.

... yes, I have so far never really taken to him - and find (somewhat to my surprise)I have not a single CD devoted to his work (tho' there are bits on various anthology-type CDs).

Well, perhaps I'll be persuaded

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I have the NAXOS CD and a cover disc from a BBC Music Mag - plus the Stravinsky and some of the Sciarrino arrangements. I'm looking forward to the BaL to see what else I should explore ... and probably invest in!

[gurnemanz]

I have only one disc which I bought a few years ago after rave reviews - the Fifth Book of Madrigals with La Venexiana. It is superb and will surely figure in the review.

[Ariosto]

Professor Knighton's BALs are always most informative. We were told at one stage she even contemplated becoming a nun so as to gain access to rare Spanish manuscripts kept in monasteries and otherwise inaccessible to female academics...

Had I known that I would have sent Prof Knighton my old habit, so she could get on with it. Mind you, it's a pretty dirty old habit.

I switched off the CD review this morning as shortly after 9am my FM tuner started making strange noises, and I wasn't sure if it was the equipment or the programme.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

damn the playllist i was far more taken by the Hilliard than the recommended artists and by the instrumental arrangements and there are no details ...any info appreciated greatly


an eye opener as far as music despite the irritation of Prof K's pausing chat and not always finding that i agreed with her call on the music [and the Consort of Musicke were stunning I thought] a very valuable BAL