Claude Debussy: Friday 16 August

[doversoul1]

Enjoyed doesn’t sound quite right but I did enjoy this very much,

Cello Sonata
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello; Benjamin Britten, piano

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09w2lqz

[LeMartinPecheur]

Enjoyed doesn’t sound quite right but I did enjoy this very much,

Cello Sonata
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello; Benjamin Britten, piano
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09w2lqz

Watch out, these boys will probably go far!

[cloughie]

Watch out, these boys will probably go far!

So they did!

[Bryn]

Enjoyed doesn’t sound quite right but I did enjoy this very much,

Cello Sonata
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello; Benjamin Britten, piano
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09w2lqz

I first got that recording on a 10 inch LP (purchased for the Britten). It was my introduction to the Debussy work, which now takes precedence in my affections, over the Britten.

[gurnemanz]

The DG Originals CD is a classic - also with Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata in A minor and Schumann's Stücke im Volkston. Joan Chissell in Gramophone on the first CD issue: "the range of colour drawn by Britten from the keyboard, in response to Rostropovich's own, has to be heard to be believed. Their spontaneously attuned rubato throughout, as well as their rhythmic vitality in the finale, are further sources of delight ... . As all three works come up as good as new, perhaps even better, on CD, this disc can confidently be hailed as a collector's piece, likely to survive in the gramophone archives for all time."

[Pulcinella]

A piece I seem not to have been aware of () despite it appearing on a fairly recent BBC MM CD (David Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano), coupled with works by JSB, Mendelssohn, and Britten.
Now remedied, and I'll certainly listen to it again.

[Serial_Apologist]

Debussy's return to the fold, this time with the emphasis maybe as much on the "he's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy" as one of the godfathers of modern music. The changed time probably means most will be off doing something else.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ygtl

The "achille's heel"

[smittims]

Oddly enough, I listen more now to 'Composer of the Week ', or the first ten minutes anyway, now, as it's on when I'm having my dinner , whereas I was always doing something else at 12 noon, and I don't like the'biog-chat-and snippets' style of the programme . I've noticed he's started talking over the music now, or has he always done that? I wondered if it was one of Sam Jackson's dumbing-down prescriptions (which, of course, he denies). .

[Serial_Apologist]

Oddly enough, I listen more now to 'Composer of the Week ', or the first ten minutes anyway, now, as it's on when I'm having my dinner , whereas I was always doing something else at 12 noon, and I don't like the'biog-chat-and snippets' style of the programme . I've noticed he's started talking over the music now, or has he always done that? I wondered if it was one of Sam Jackson's dumbing-down prescriptions (which, of course, he denies). .

I had thought Donald was stepping down as COTW presenter. I wonder, has he been recalled?

[LMcD]

I had thought Donald was stepping down as COTW presenter. I wonder, has he been recalled?

It was my understanding that he would share presenting duties with Kate Molleson.