Yes, it was originally Record Review, and always at 9:30. Then it became CD Review and moved to 10:30. Now it’s back to Record Review, but still at 10:30. I preferred the earlier time, as it allowed me to get up, get showered and get breakfast in time to listen to that segment of the programme, but I’m not complaining too much - although I also preferred it when it was a pre-recorded piece, rather than a discussion with Andrew M.
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Anthony Hopkins was a fantastic broadcaster with a wonderfully deep knowledge of music, He could, and did, cover music from Bach to The Beatles in his weekly ‘Talking About Music’ programme on Radio 3 years ago.
I’m sure that some old fuddy-duddies were very confused when he took up acting (or so they thought)!!!
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Hello Graham
I think you had bowel disease (so did I, nearly killed me ) but brain fog and bowel disease are known companions
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That is not something that has even been suggested to me by the staff here. But I suspect that I know as much as they do about medical matters - and I freely admit that I know f**k all!
My suspicion is that you need a colorectal specialist , it was amazing when my intestine burst , the doctor I saw started asking me questions about sleep patterns , then he said the bowel disease was affecting them . Horrific nightmares , night sweats etc
My GP was thinking it was appendicitis
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Just shows how life can move on. I thouight Van Cliburn might get a mention.
I have the Argerich version on an early CD. Stephen Hough was a pretty close second for me.
Let’s talk about music, as Anthony Hopkins used to say, please, chaps. I’m the most squeamish person in the world.
PS Not a reply to your message, Douglas.
Pulled from the archive. Well done.
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I have a new unplayed LP of the winning Argerich version at home. which was one of a batch of LPs that I bought just before I was admitted to hospital at the start of the year. It can be one of the first to christen the new, unplayed Dynavector cartridge, along with the blue vinyl copy of ‘Grace’.
The new 'clusterf*ck" pressing of the ‘Animals’ LP will be at the very back of the queue (if I dare take it out of the sleeve at all, because it’s far too late to send it back if it’s as bad as copies received by other Members).
Poor pressing quality is the enemy of the LP record and always will be.
The better the record player then the less surface noise in my experiance.
Major warps are a n-no for me. Cantilever damage: real or otherwise.
Building A Library at 10:30 (just under an hour away) will review recordings of Mozart’s lovely 21st Piano Concerto (which got its nickname from its use in a Swedish 1960s film ‘Elvira Madigan’, which I don’t think anyone ever saw).
I’d love them to choose the brilliant, but eccentric (to put it mildly) Friedrich Gulda, in his DGG recording with Abbado and the Vienna Philharmonic.
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I did. It was very popular at the time and won several awards. IIRC it was the slow movement of K467 that was used in the film.
Roger
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I too have never seen this film and remain amazed that a (great) piece of Mozart is still being known by the name of an obscure Swedish film that used it more than half a century after its release. Most peculiar.
Personally, I preferred its use in The Spy Who Loved Me, which at least I’ve actually seen!
Mark
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How can you prefer it to something you’ve never seen?
Roger
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Change to ‘Personally, I liked its use in The Spy Who Loved Me.’
Sorry if I was too snarky. Elvira Madigan was pretty popular in its time and appealed especially to the hippie generation. It was shot in a very “beautiful” way but didn’t really appeal to me. However the music was very much part of the feel of the film just as Mahler’s adagietto was for the film version of Death in Venice.
Why has the Madigan moniker persisted? I’d guess it helps with marketing and may thus improve sales. After all, nicknames for classical pieces have been around for centuries. Why is Mozart’s last symphony the Jupiter? It certainly wasn’t so coined by Mozart himself. And Beethoven’s Emperor concerto wasn’t so-called by the composer. Indeed, in all likelihood, given his views on Napoleon, he’d probably have disapproved of the nickname but it’s certainly stuck.
Roger
Elvira Madigan (1967) was an absolute box-office monster back in the day, especially in North America, where foreign-language pictures traditionally don’t do well. It’s still one of the biggest Swedish movies ever and its sensual, rather hippy-ish vibe meant that it was very much in tune with the times. The soundtrack helped of course too.
Although it’s not aged all that well, it’s still a very good looking film, if not an especially good one. To claim it is an obscure picture that nobody has ever seen is a bit daft.
Record companies – DG especially – discovered that by sticking a still from the movie of the covers of their Mozart albums, they’d shift far more copies.
The Building A Library slot at 10:30 this morning is covering Beethoven’s mighty Ninth Symphony, which should be a cracker.
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Goodness, I have just read that there will be a review on this morning’s programme of two new recordings of late Beethoven piano sonatas from Maurizio Pollini. I thought that Signor Pollini had retired from performing.
PS I’ve ordered the CD of Pollini playing those two Beethoven sonatas. I’d like to get them on LP, as I have LPs of just about all Pollini’s recordings, but it doesn’t seem to be available on LP (so far).
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