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DavebytheSea wrote:I did have a wind-up gramophone in the house (Mid A) and sharpened fibre needles to play Tchaikowsky and Sibelius - my passion with Bach was still developing. I have ever acquired.
Did you ever hear the (to my mind) perfect recordings of mozarts Vespers and Requiem by the Tolzer Knabenchor
Gustave Leonhardt, Nicoal Harnoncourt And the rest of the huns made the most beautiful recordings during the 1970s and a bit into the 80s
The best is the Mozart - see Laudate dominum
the best recording with boy singer and original instruments Ive ever heard
DavebytheSea wrote:I am not usually accused of reticence, but JR has thrown down the gauntlet. Thus I must respond .............. and confess!
The fact is that I was the Camilla of my day. A perfect sight-reader at 12 and totally uninterested in anything remotely connnected with 'pop' music. (It is still the case despite my four children). I did have a wind-up gramophone in the house (Mid A) and sharpened fibre needles to play Tchaikowsky and Sibelius - my passion with Bach was still developing. An album was, and remains, for me a repository for stamps.
So notorious was my obsession with the choir, that on returning late from choir practice one evening I was punished by having to learn (and sing) a pop song. I can remember every syllable, every note to this day.
"If you lay a silver dollar down upon the ground
It will roll because it's round"
... ugh! .... I will not bore you with the rest - but I suppose if you want a full rendition, I will give it in return for a beer at the Bax next Saturday evening. I should add, that it remains to this day the only popular music I have ever acquired.
Nipper? Who he?
Your dog what you lent to HMV records so they could photograph him looking into the horn of your wind-up gramophone for their record labels. You must have made a mint out of the Royalties !
David Eastbrun,
You say that you were the "Camilla of your day." I would like to assure you that you have never looked like the Duchess of Cornwall, either now or in the early 1950s - or were you hiding something from us?
David
I meant of course the one who plays the violin so beautifully, who sings and plays the piano and who HATES rock music (tho' I admit that I never much looked much like her either).
I doubt it - all I know of GS is that he could poke his tongue out a long way - the music was always rubbish - the soloist in the recordings was a young German called Hans Buchierl
If you like that sort of thing you could see if this cd is still available -
Halleluja - Festliche Musik mit dem Tolzer Knabenchor
Acanta label
42 163 is the number
recorded about 1974 and includes a lovely rendition of Handel's Ombra Mai Fu, and Mozart's Laudate Dominum
Have to agree with HT about the Mozart Requiem - beautiful recording.
But what's all this cr*p about the Eagles???
RR said" Why are The Eagles still so popular?
Why were they ever popular?
Anyone?""
I seem to remember that one of the reasons punk happened in the 70's was because everyone was bored out of their heads listening to Eagles etc.
Was it an Eagles LP that came a cropper with a lighter once and ended up looking like the surface of the moon??? [/quote]
And no -I can't. But now you mention it - it was something strange.
(After your last post I had to quickly check the other JT profile but he wasnt born till ages after.....)
