tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post8167611644173529825..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Desert island diversionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-72407108068188059042009-03-10T22:29:00.000+00:002009-03-10T22:29:00.000+00:00The Rubbra Soliloquy is gorgeous. I think it was w...The Rubbra Soliloquy is gorgeous. I think it was written for William Pleeth when they were both serving in the forces (but that's probably on overactive imagination on an underactive memory). <BR/><BR/>It's for solo cello with string orchestra and timpani (I think).<BR/><BR/>Finzi's Dies Natalis for tenor and strings is stunning too.<BR/><BR/>I heard The Delme Quartet play some of the Simpson Quartets in the early 80's when they were coaching us on a music course. I think they recorded them too.<BR/><BR/>best<BR/><BR/>philip SAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-15067293445319782132009-03-09T15:50:00.000+00:002009-03-09T15:50:00.000+00:00Philip, the Jascha Horenstein recording of Robert ...Philip, the Jascha Horenstein recording of Robert Simpson's Third Symphony, as selected by Sir Adrian, is available at a very attractive price, both as a CD and as a download -<BR/><BR/>http://nmc.greedbag.com/buy/robert-simpson-symphony-no3-anco-0/Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-63144786567123687602009-03-09T14:23:00.000+00:002009-03-09T14:23:00.000+00:00Thank you so much again. I really wasn't hinting, ...Thank you so much again. I really wasn't hinting, but it did go through my mind that you might know Boult's other choices. I was wondering if Sir Adrian might want to drop me any other hints re my musical lacunae, and there is one -- Robert Simpson. A bit embarrassing, really. I recall a disc of string quartets and that's it, which means another eleven symphonies to add to Rubbra's, just to begin. I was very surprised to find in the NML naught but Simpson's Volcano. Naxos itself will surely get to Simpson in time, but I also thought Hyperion was in the NML, which would be ideal -- Tod Handley. Perhaps it was and is no longer for some reason. It is rare I have a musical salivation without finding nourishing things in there -- my musical pie in the fridge, ahem. I do want to hear Handley in this music, so I shall seek elsewhere.Philip Amoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11739418522974972567noreply@blogger.com