MartH Posted 23 June , 2014 Share Posted 23 June , 2014 Starting 45 minutes ago Radio 3 is devoting itself to the Great War for 2 weeks, Enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Banning Posted 23 June , 2014 Share Posted 23 June , 2014 They are doing an outside broadcast from Dunham Massey (Stamford Military Hospital) in Cheshire later this week: http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/dunham-massey/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 23 June , 2014 Share Posted 23 June , 2014 Worth looking at the Radio 3 schedules as the GW is a theme all this week; e.g. 12 noon Tuesday Elgar (composer of the week) features the Zeppelin raids on London. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David_Underdown Posted 24 June , 2014 Share Posted 24 June , 2014 Tonight's concert features composers William Denis Browne and F S Kelly, along with poet Rupert Brooke, officers and friends together in the RND. There was also a brief interview with Denis Browne's great-nephew this morning, which should be obtainable via iPlayer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartH Posted 24 June , 2014 Author Share Posted 24 June , 2014 Dr Kate Kennedy on at the moment, very interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartH Posted 24 June , 2014 Author Share Posted 24 June , 2014 This page is really good http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02146t5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David_Underdown Posted 24 June , 2014 Share Posted 24 June , 2014 That page includes a direct to the interview with Nick Peacy, nephew of Denis Browne, that I mentioned above, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p021j1n0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanA Posted 24 June , 2014 Share Posted 24 June , 2014 And, on Sunday, we get a performance of Browne's 'Mag & Nunc' performed from my transcription. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b047wshv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 24 June , 2014 Share Posted 24 June , 2014 How pleasing for you Ian! I will be sure to listen. I shall be listening when the music stops tonight, as I see there are also programmes on "The 39 Steps and the Great War" and on Rose Macaulay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 24 June , 2014 Share Posted 24 June , 2014 And, on Sunday, we get a performance of Browne's 'Mag & Nunc' performed from my transcription. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b047wshv That's terrific Ian I will definitely be listening. I don't know whether you caught the slow movement of Gurney's String Quartet this morning on 3 Breakfast. Apparently it's from a new recording soon to be released. Just as with the music on the free disc with the BBC Magazine I am amazed at how good it sounded to my (very) untutored ear. Petroc Trelawney said it was written three years into his stay in the asylum. Is there much more of this music to be revealed do you think (know)? David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 24 June , 2014 Share Posted 24 June , 2014 Currently on Radio 3 'Free Thinking: The Thirty Nine Steps and WW1' Very interesting if you like Buchan and his works. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanA Posted 25 June , 2014 Share Posted 25 June , 2014 The 'Mag & Nunc' is enjoyable - rather in the style of Stanford - but I've only heard it in a computer-generated version of the score so I am very much looking forward to a real performance. I don't know about Gurney - there will be a lot of music and poetry, but editing it will be time-consuming and problematical given the state of his mind. Much decent stuff has been transcribed and performed and it must be tempting for an editor to push things which ought not to see the light of day. The string quartet CD is being produced by EM Records and, having just got a recording of violin concerti by Stanford and Milford, I can vouch for the sound quality. Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartH Posted 25 June , 2014 Author Share Posted 25 June , 2014 I'm really enjoying it, Kate Kennedy explaining the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras approach to playing French and Russian composers during the war years was most interesting, basically they had to be dead before 1914, and this lasted into the 1920's. I was lucky enough to discuss their playing with my grandfather who saw them in 1917 with Arthur Nikisch, something special he said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David_Underdown Posted 25 June , 2014 Share Posted 25 June , 2014 I've a twitter acquaintance with Andrew Grifiths who will be conducting on Sunday, so I'm planning to ask what he makes of the Mag and Nunc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanA Posted 25 June , 2014 Share Posted 25 June , 2014 I've a twitter acquaintance with Andrew Grifiths who will be conducting on Sunday, so I'm planning to ask what he makes of the Mag and Nunc I'd be interested to hear that. I've just replayed them over again and I'm very fond of them. There are what I would regard as a couple of minor 'gaucheries' (for example, what you might call accented passing notes in bar 42 of the Mag) but others might see them as adventurous and characterful. I love his 'Amen' - a good Gloria and Amen count for a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanA Posted 29 June , 2014 Share Posted 29 June , 2014 I am well pleased with the broadcast tonight. I thought the organist did very well with what were rather sparse directions. If anyone is interested, it will be on i-Player for a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz in Eastbourne Posted 30 June , 2014 Share Posted 30 June , 2014 Thanks for alerting us, Ian. I very much enjoyed it and well done you for transcribing Browne's Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis so that they were available for use. Liz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 30 June , 2014 Share Posted 30 June , 2014 Very much enjoyed that - thanks Ian and all involved. Caught the first of Donald McLeod's Composer of the week on Ivor Gurney today. Being taught by the organist of Gloucester Cathedral alongside Herbert Howells and Ivor Novello. What a trio! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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