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Hi
I sympathise! But you really did miss out on the streamed concert, brilliant!
Hello Mike
I didn't see the streamed concert. I try to spend as little time as humanly possible staring at screens to be honest. However I will definitely be keeping an eye out for that upcoming Chandos CD for which I am grateful to you for making me aware.
Hi Robert
I hope you managed to see the streamed Nurymov from the BSO. You seem to have doubts about it but I thought it was terrific. Will be interesting to see the coupling on Chandos, rumour has it that it could be the original version of RKs Antar.
Paul Corfield Godfrey's post prompts me, at the risk of being thought obsessed with Florence Price, to share two thoughts. Partly as a result of Laurence Equilbey's new recording of Louise Farrenc's symphonies, I've listened to my older (CPO) versions of them and, as I'd remembered, they seem to me fine works well worthy of regular performance - but where have been the headlines, articles and broadcasts promoting her over the years, other than a belated 'Composer of the Week' last November. I'd love to hear 'Roland furieux' on the strength of what little Holme I know. The same applies to a good many other female composers, Ethel Smyth for one - Tovey recognised the stature of her Mass in D all those years ago and Glyndebourne is to mount 'The Wreckers' which is splendid news, but she and too many others have been too long neglected and still largely lurk in the shadows.
And the other thing is that I re-read the November Gramophone piece on Florence Price and, as first time round, my jaw dropped at Yannick Nézet-Séguin 's remark that in all three surviving symphonies, the first two movements are considerably longer than the third and fourth. ‘This is genius. It makes the symphonies really attractive and kind of perfect in terms of proportions…’
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