[Norman, are you listening?]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FapaI1bxH2s

[Norman, are you listening?]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIepg9rmK10

[Norman, are you listening?]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NTGQJ1itnA

I find this young Russian (9 at the time) quite astonishing...not only the technique but the musicality in the slower pieces.

I have never heard the Rameau  (the second piece) better played.. the birds SING not just chatter in more mechanical performances

[Norman, are you listening?]

Delightful thank you

[Dental Care, information needed.]

I believe that the lab making the new appareil will need instructions from a dentist:

http://sante-medecine.journaldesfemmes.fr/faq/7757-prothese-dentaire-amovible-dentier

In any case that is likely too be the case if you need to claim for re-imbursement:

http://sante-medecine.journaldesfemmes.fr/contents/1147-protheses-dentaires-remboursement-par-la-securite-sociale

[Norman, are you listening?]

Quite charming...a wonderful clarinetist.

I couldn't reply to any posts yesterday because of a bug in the Forum

[Internet via 3G or 4G]

Thanks for that , though it's not what I wanted to hear [:(]

[Internet via 3G or 4G]

I also have the zero cost Free one for an old-fashioned mobile phone, but thought of  asking to change to the 15.99 one which I see says has unlimited 4G to use with a tablette that takes sim cards.

Are you saying that the Free one can't access 4G?

(genuine question, as I know nothing about smartphones and tabletes although I like you have had Free for years for my PC Internet)

[Norman, are you listening?]

Thank you

[No 'as you were' in Spain and Europe?]

Exactly. The hypocrite Farage who has one of the worst voting records in the EU parliament started by commenting on Juncker's attendance went on to complain that the EU didn't do the very sort of thing he is always complaining about them doing, then went on to conflate the Catalan situation with Brexit which is quite irrelevant. A masterpiece of emotive bluster which unfortunately seems to have pulled the wool over some peoples' eyes.

[No 'as you were' in Spain and Europe?]

http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2017/10/01/independantistes-ecossais-et-britanniques-europhobes-preoccupes-apres-le-referendum-catalan_5194524_3214.html

As for Police in a civil matter one has only to think of Thatcher's use of them against the Unions..

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/01/margaret-thatcher-trade-union-reform-national-archives

[No 'as you were' in Spain and Europe?]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/02/ripples-from-catalan-referendum-could-extend-beyond-spain

In France there are the Corsicans, the Basques, the Catalans, and the Bretons..

[Norman, are you listening?]

I can't forget her telling the story of coming onto a crowded stage to sing the Strauss four last songs (the orchestra is large) and trying to squeeze through the brass section to do so.

A horn player said "Would it be easier to try to get through sideways?", to which she said she replied "Buster there AIN'T no sideways" [:)]

[Norman, are you listening?]

So does Janet Baker's :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJZeqcdg5iI&html5=1

or with the piano (Gerald Moore quand même [:D] )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYfn3jFtR5I

[Norman, are you listening?]

I heard it and was highly impressed by the energy of the playing  which is very "Beethovian"

I remember a friend of mine saying that she couldn't imagine living with him; he must have been 'a bit of a head-banger" [:D]

[Norman, are you listening?]

http://www.operatoday.com/content/2017/08/dunedin_consort.php

[Norman, are you listening?]

Yes received and replied

[Norman, are you listening?]

I am of course extraordinarily jealous of him, with no reason since I do not possess his talent for communication [:$]

[Internet via 3G or 4G]

The future where you have limited data, and you pay once it you go over the limit.

In my village with sosh I get about 24 mb on VDSL2 but that is unlimited...

[Internet via 3G or 4G]

SFR was probably forced to do something to compensate for all the clients lost in the past year because of their abusive price rises.

Unless they are the last operator standing I would never go back to them.

[Norman, are you listening?]

This might interest you too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT2Hrg1febs&html5=1

[Norman, are you listening?]

This is lovely

ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZyHTCwvZiE&html5=1

On the other hand the clips of her singing Mozart are not so convincing. I think she is really a dramatic/romantic singer, at which she is very good..

[Norman, are you listening?]

Superb voices:))

A bit more to my personal musical taste...(though not for the quality of the voices)

And in one of the places I would have loved to have lived in if I could have afforded it ...Aix en Provence. What a dream [Www]

http://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/073907-001-A/carmen-de-bizet

[Norman, are you listening?]

Will listen. It was my favorite orchestra in the time of Carlos Kleiber..[:D]

[Norman, are you listening?]

I have now seen the Finale, and the Purcell was well-done.

In fact she deserved to win as being one of the few to include any decent music in her programme (Purcell; Ravel; Schoenberg in the song Finale)

Rarely have I experienced such banality as in the choice of music in these two rounds.

Where was the Brahms, the Mozart, the Schubert, the Schumann ?

Apart from Monteverdi (unrepresented) anything composed by someone whose name ends with the letter 'i' is at best third rate...