And he has a feeling for words which the best singers have. His rendering of
the setting of the Lykewake Dirge in the Serenade is positively chilling.
joanna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Day" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: musical dictionary?
I saw Bostridge on TV singing the poems set to music by Britten. He is good.
Roger.
On 11/22/05, Joanna Boulter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks Douglas -- that's very good of you!
>
> Has Bostridge recorded Winterreisse? I've heard him in a broadcast
> performance of Britten's Serenade for Tenor Horn and Strings, and he
> really
> has a very wide range of vocal tone and interpretation at his command.
>
> joanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Douglas Clark" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 7:09 AM
> Subject: Re: musical dictionary?
>
>
> >I have pasted your request into rec.music.classical
> >
> > And I wish I had known about Die schone Mullerin before. In Ian
> > Bostridge's voice I find it much preferable to Wintereise, which is so
> > dark whereas the miller is so lively.
> >
> > Douglas Clark, Bath, Somerset, England ....
> > http://www.dgdclynx.plus.com
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Joanna Boulter" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 10:40 PM
> > Subject: musical dictionary?
> >
> >
> >> I'm being driven mad by a theme which I know perfectly well is by
> >> Schubert, . My inner ear hears it on piano, not too fast, triple time,
> >> legato, but can detect neither vocal part nor other instruments with
> >> it;
> >> and that's as far as I can go. And never have I been more annoyed at
> >> not
> >> having perfect pitch! (Although I suspect flats rather than sharps, and
> >> it's definitely in the major.)
> >>
> >> I once came across a dictionary of musical themes, for which you either
> >> 'translated' the theme you wanted to look up into tonic solfa or else
> >> transposed it into the key of C. This would give either, say,
> >> doh-re-me,
> >> or C-D-E, in which guise you could then look it up. Is there an on-line
> >> version, does anyone know?
> >>
> >> joanna --
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> >
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