Radio 3,that Bach bloke

In the name of freedom of thought / speech, I'll ignore this grossly exagerated, blatantly false comment

 

I have to admit I share your tastes.
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I have to admit I do not know who Blow and the Gabrielis are

 

If it's Radio 3 it'll be more likely that it's Radiohead

 

I agree it was exaggerated and blatantly false and I unreservedly apologise - I'd have difficulty filling a picosecond.

 

John Blow was an English composer of the 16th century, one of the greats of Tudor choral music along with William Byrd and Thomas Tallis.

The Gabrielis, uncle (Andrea) and nephew (Giovanni), were composers in Venice. They composed for San Marco and made use of all the sonorous possibilities of that venue - wind bands in the galleries, that sort of thing. The music is rich and sonorous (the Venetians liked their music impressive and the Gabrielis gave it to them in spades). It was the death of Giovanni that opened the door to Monteverdi and the famous prova at which something (unknown) was played that impressed the city fathers so much that they hired the boy. Some say that this was the first performance of the 1610 Vespers (my very favourite piece of music), but there's no proof. It could equally well have been the mass published on the same manuscript.

 

Any recording in particular I could get for initiation purposes ?

 

Zep are the most bootlegged band in history,and they have outsold everyone,except The Beatles,they have even pasted the Stones.They could easily fill a month with every bootleg,over 2500 I think.

Just for Tones;

http://www.led-zeppelin.com/sam/ElectricMAGIC28.ram

 

You should have posted a warning, my tweeters are on the carpet (I know you said it was for Tones only, I shouldn't have ...)

 

I think Plant at full pelt is almost cantataesque,but that might be a bit controversial.

 

Tones?

 

I think he may have fainted.

 

I guess it' my turn to write a Mass, problem I was raised Calvinist and know sh*t about de profundis and all that sort of things.

 

The word is "catatonic", please learn to spell.

 

The Gabrieli Symphonae Sacrae for brass are good. Here are a couple of recordings:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...1101/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_10_3/202-0352513-2151820

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...uc_gp_rv_1/202-0352513-2151820?_encoding=UTF8

They are very rich, so that too many at once can be like a meal made up entirely of your favourite ice cream.

I actually don't have a CD of Blow, justr bits of Blow on various albums of Tudor choral music, which I adore. Here's an interesting-looking one:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...388/sr=1-13/ref=sr_1_0_13/202-0352513-2151820

Another great English composer of the period is Orlando Gibbons

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...1458/sr=1-8/ref=sr_1_10_8/202-0352513-2151820

 

Being ironic and making words up go hand in hand Tones.

 

In the case of LedZed, it's foot in mouth (or perhaps even foot and mouth).

 

Glad to see you survived Led Zep's scream sample, Tones, and thanks for the suggestions, sounds like my kind of music, will get the Gibbons too.

 

Why? What's the point?

By the time they had finished playing every note of Beethoven's output I was heartily sick of it. So what if most of what he wrote was wonderful? Some wasn't, and I don't want to hear all of even the good stuff at one go, thanks very much.

This is grotesque commodification of music. Radio 3 should be above that

 

Many fans would disagree.They can use an MP thingy and do a download whatsit and gave a bizarre baroque 3 minute piece they never heard of before.

 

Yeah, but you can do that on almost any day from Radio 3