Schubert on 3

[Norfolk Born]

I'd like, if I may, to raise at this point a
Schubertvorschaugrundschweinereivereingesellschaft erversammlungstagesordnungspunkt.
By the way, I see that Sunday morning's offerings include, post-Schubertathon, arrangements of pieces by Schubert. Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water....

[kernelbogey]

Schubertvorschaugrundschweinereivereingesellschaft erversammlungstagesordnungspunkt

[Pianorak]

... think of the film - "Groundhog Day"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day_(film)

Thanks everybody. Never saw that film.

[JFLL]

But Grundschwein oder Grundsau are much funnier than Waldmurmeltier.

Oh, I don't know, Waldmurmeltier 'forest murmur animal' is rather amusing (but I see the real etymology of murmel- here is from Latin murem montis 'mountain mouse' – even nicer.)

Didn't Schubert write a fine song, Das Waldmurmeltier (or was it a short story by Kafka) ?

[kernelbogey]

Oh, I don't know, Waldmurmeltier 'forest murmur animal' is rather amusing[...]Didn't Schubert write a fine song, Das Waldmurmeltier (or was it a short story by Kafka) ?

Surely this was Bruennhilde's endearment to Siegrfried as they woke up on the rock?

[Nick Armstrong]

Schubertvorschaugrundschweinereivereingesellschaft erversammlungstagesordnungspunkt.

Bless you!!

*Passes tissue emoticon*

[kernelbogey]

Melvin Tan at Finchcocks on at the moment - interesting.

[JFLL]

Surely this was Bruennhilde's endearment to Siegrfried as they woke up on the rock?

Funnily enough, 'Forest Murmurs' is Waldesrauschen in German (no, I didn't know either until recently)., though what the difference is between rauschen and murmeln I couldn't say offhand. I'll have to ask the German half of this household when she's back from buying simnel cake (at exoooorbitant cost, no doubt) from Fortnums.

[amateur51]

Funnily enough, 'Forest Murmurs' is Waldesrauschen in German (no, I didn't know either until recently)., though what the difference is between rauschen and murmeln I couldn't say offhand. I'll have to ask the German half of this household when she's back from buying simnel cake (at exoooorbitant cost, no doubt) from Fortnums.

You try growing sufficient simnels for a cake at this time of year

[Norfolk Born]

One could translate 'rauschen' as 'rustle' (especially in a forest) and 'murmeln' as 'murmur' (as in 'the murmur of innumerable bees'). However, in medicine 'Geräusch' is the normal word for 'murmur'.

[salymap]

Melvin Tan at Finchcocks on at the moment - interesting.

Does anyone know if Richard Burnett is still at Finchcocks [his home I believe] and entertaining people as he did years ago? A wonderful musician, I'll never forget him playing Mozart's 'Turkish Rondo' on a 'prepared piano.'

[Serial_Apologist]

from Fortnums.

Cor luvverduck! No slummin' rand 'ere eh?

[aeolium]

simnel cake (at exoooorbitant cost, no doubt) from Fortnums

No Fortnums simnel cake or Grundschwein in this household - more like a (cold) Greggs pasty, if we're lucky

I'm rather sorry that simnel cake does not derive from the pretender Lambert Simnel who may have been the son of a baker. Perhaps someone could devise a 'pretender' simnel cake in his honour, looking like the real simnel on the outside but quite different inside.

By the way, Kafka did write a short story about a 'Riesenmaulwurf', giant mole.

Sorry, all hopelessly OT - rather losing interest in the Grundschwein Schubertathon.

[Pianorak]

Melvin Tan at Finchcocks on at the moment - interesting.

Only caught one of the songs, but liked what I heard: Spanish mezzo-soprano and BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Clara Mouriz.

[kernelbogey]

He played two fortepianos - don't remember the name of the first, the second was a Graf - and said that Schubert never had a decent piano (unlike LvB, who was given many), but the Graf was perhaps nearest to a contemporary sound, as I understood him. Having said that it was interesting, I didn't like Tan's performance in the Moments Musicaux.

I was also struck by how used we are to the resonance of the modern grand, which I think emphasises the romantic quality in Schubert's piano works. (Not a very piano-educated opinion, but my own, at least.) The abrupt changes in dynamic are also much more extreme on a modern instrument. I think I've taken it for granted that this is Schubert's sound....