If information was knowledge...

‘We need to be ready to produce and create genuinely digital content for the first time. And we need to understand better what it will mean to assemble, edit and present such content in a digital setting where social recommendation and other forms of curation will play a much more influential role’ - new BBC director general George Entwistle in his first speech to staff.

‘If information was knowledge, dictionaries would be saints’ – Sufi saying
EMI’s new five CD Vernon Handley retrospective contains around 3500 megabytes of digital information. But, far more importantly, it also contains a generous helping of that increasingly unfashionable commodity - knowledge. As well as the obvious choices of Vaughan Williams’ London Symphony and Elgar’s Violin Concerto with Nigel Kennedy there are surprise delights including Sibelius' Violin Concerto with Tasmin Little and Fauré's Pavane. The ill-wind of EMI’s demise is blowing some good in the form of cleverly compiled bargain priced bundles of left-field repertoire from knowledgeable musicians such as Vernon Handley and Sir Adrian Boult. This new Tod Handley box is selling for less than £15. Will a recommendation suffice? Or does it have to be a “social recommendation and other forms of curation”?

Also on Facebook and Twitter. No review samples were used for writing this post. Any copyrighted material on these pages is included as "fair use", for the purpose of study, review or critical analysis only, and will be removed at the request of copyright owner(s). Report broken links, missing images etc to - overgrownpath at hotmail dot co dot uk

Comments

Recent popular posts

Crouching composer, hidden dragon

The Berlin Philharmonic's darkest hour

Who am I?

Why cats hate Mahler symphonies

Philippa Schuyler - genius or genetic experiment?

Nada Brahma - Sound is God

There is no right reaction to great music

Classical music's biggest problem is that no one cares

Music and Alzheimer's

David Munrow - Early Music's Pied Piper