NormanH

No I missed the whole competition [:'(]

Thanks a lot....Fascinating [:D] In any case i was able to copy and paste the link

As a welcome change from election fever.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHJ_JFi5vbk Le doux silence de nos bois n'est pas troublé que de la voix des oiseaux que l'amour assemble: Bergére, qui fais mes désirs Voici le mois charmant des fleurs et des zéphirs. Et la saison que te resemble. Ne perdons pas un moment des beaux jours, ne perdons pas un moment des beaux jours. C'est le temps des plaisirs, et des tendres amours. (The pronunciation is deliberate..)

1) Would you send that link to Patf in pm , mint...as you know I can't initiate pms ? Something very unlike my usual stuff, but which is very apt, and which links music with poetry so I hope you will enjoy: http://www.paris-a-nu.fr/etranges-etrangers-de-jacques-prevert/

You shouldn'r need a google account just to listen (stream) that recording. You might if you plan to download it..

I sent you a pm in reply to one of your 'sosh' messages as I can't initiate pms... It is a link that you may have to open then leave a bit so it doesn't keep buffering... I love that Harnancourt recording and I listen to it often ar Christmas

I worked with Andresw Parrot at University a bit, (I played continuo in a performance of the Messiah, and sang in a Dido in which Emma Kirkby sang the tiny role of one of the witches) and later on he was a supporter of the one-voice-to- a-part   school. I am sending a link (if I can get pms to work) to a sensational version of the SE Matthew sung by the boys of the Thomaskirche...hope it works for you)

I try to listen every year on Good Friday after the Victoria Tenebrae responsories during Holy week...

There is a singer on that link in fact...

I can reply but not initiate.

I think Rameau tends to be neglected in favour of Lully, and neither getsmuch attention in the UK: https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2017/apr/04/rameau-les-fetes-dhebe-royal-college-of-music-opera-ballet

It's the programme about string quartets at the BBC. For once some of the extracts are whole movements, played by some of the best-known names ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08jq8ll/classic-quartets-at-the-bbc

I went to the square in front and looked at the famous statue...

Last time I was there was in 2003...

By contrast these two are quite at home in Mozart. [:D] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2io3yhHHmM&html5=1

Alas No...the lady drummers might have enabled me to stand unaided[6]

I bet that everywhere is more impressive than out local version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6aWKRq3_Uc [:-))]

He certainly makes the most of a snippet of tune:)

My father used to sing that in the pub as well as 'Rose Marie I love you' :) I have to say that he needs a barber both the shave him and to quaff him, and a dresser to tell him NOT to wear a cravate...

I enjoyed this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b086kfbb/west-side-stories-the-making-of-a-classic

I will have a look for it on Arte+7

Thanks mint. I love her early recordings of the Arie Antiche https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSmtuHa55Qw&html5=1

I enjoyed that enormously as I did the Victor Borge...[:)]

http://seenandheard-international.com/2016/10/r-i-p-sir-neville-marriner-ch-cbe-1924-2016/ This one goes back to my Univerity days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Or0OMgR0k&html5=1