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jimfin
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« on: December 01, 2014, 12:06:53 pm » |
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Downloaded it from 'the other place'. I'm a firm lover of the romantic, but also of more recent things, right up to Birtwistle. I like this piece, though not sure the orchestral version was a huge revelation. Holbrooke did like his popular melodies (perhaps a trace of his music hall upbringing), and that might have been one reason he got sneered at, like Mahler. But it's great listening to a set of variations on, for example, Three Blind Mice and Auld Lang Syne, as you know the melody so well that you can see exactly what's being done with it. Whereas I can hardly remember the original form of that Tallis theme or that Bridge theme that VW and Britten respectively worked on.
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