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Royal Wedding - Princess Elizabeth 1947 - edited newsreel story

Movietone in common with every loyal subject of the King offers congratulations to HRH PRINCESS ELIZABETH and her bridegroom. TS Queen Victoria ...

News In A Nutshell (1934)

Title for this item is missing. This is a roundup of short news from around the world. PLANE CRASHES THROUGH HOUSE IN CALIFORNIA California, United ...

Review Of 1934 (1934)

Full title reads: "REVIEW OF 1934". A nice title with cockerel in a big David's star - six angles - shining and illuminated signs reading: "PATHE GAZETTE ...

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Tom Wotton commented on 27 Aug 2015

I love how he's so posh that when talking about ascot and the boat race everything is fine but talking about the football he sounds slightly sneering. Love Tom

Anthony George commented on 28 Nov 2015

Soccer & not football, as it was termed then, given I visited friends near the old Highbury stadium in the 1970's.And the old folk addressed 'the game' still as soccer like The PO tube station in The City, despite it being closed down. Indeed, the 'art form', was still a hobby though players were paid little.And the sport was viewed more for the growing middle to upper working classes, unlike cricket, a more brainy sport for 'real gentlemen!'

Offshoreorganbuilder commented on 10 Aug 2015

So ... a football metch featuring Menchester City. (And not a paedophile in sight!)

Offshoreorganbuilder commented on 04 Sep 2015

+askjiir I simply meant that these were, in some ways, more innocent times.

askjiir commented on 03 Sep 2015

+Offshoreorganbuilder Why would there be?

CRHnews - Royal wedding James Oglivy & Julie Rawlinson

COPYRIGHT CRHnews.co.uk ROYAL WEDDING James Ogilvy with his bride, Julia Rawlinson, in what was billed as the royal wedding of the year, on 30 July ...

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660einzylinder commented on 01 Apr 2013

I was one of the bellringers, we'd been frisked and made to sign in the night before when we got the bells ready. On the day day we strolled up to the west door, said who we were and were let in without any checks whatsoever!!

Royal Wedding Udaipur

In Video : DJ Aqeel LIVE Inside video of the 2012′s Big Fat Wedding of London based businessman Puru Sethia. Celebrities like Katrina Kaif, Priyanka Chopra ...

The Royal Wedding 1947-Philip & Elizabeth

The wedding of Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II), and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh took place on 20 November 1947 at Westminster Abbey in London.

Peter Maxwell Davies: 'Farewell to Stromness' and 'Yesnaby Ground'

As of 11 February 2009, 'Farewell to Stromness' had been recorded several times here...

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Eurisko Lontano commented on 15 Sep 2010

These 2 works by Davies sound very authentic of traditional Scottish music, pipes and all. However, for anyone interested in some more even more authentic Scottish piano music, based deeply in traditional music, I highly recommend Murry McLachlan's comprehensive series of the complete piano music of Eric Chisholm, Scotland's greatest composer. Chisholm's piano works are in a way a bit like Bartok's folk music that he cataloged & x-scribed into original works. Virtuoso music played very well!

Eurisko Lontano commented on 15 Sep 2010

@PSearPianist Yes, I've heard several recordings, one I believe by Davies himself, and the "At a slow walking pace" tempo varies, apparently by how fast the performer walks, and I find the medium of these to be the most satisfying, and you play it at the tempo I like best. My critique has to do with changing the tempo where no indication exists. Personally I feel the best "feeling" comes from varying the dynamics according to the score works best. I share your "piano problems".

trent much commented on 20 Nov 2011

@cheamverdi Although I can't agree with you that atonal music is a bad thing in totality (If that's what you're saying!), I certainly agree that this piece is awful! PSearPianist goes through it very well, so it isn't the playing that is at fault at all. It's the song that's faulty! For children learning the piano? Mm, OK... No, actually I would dissuade them on the grounds that this type of self-righteous, repetitive "muzak" might put them off playing the instrument for good!

cheamverdi commented on 17 Jul 2011

I am a composer who had to endure while studying composition the almost fascist atonal dominance in academia of composers like Davies. His 'serious' complex music ranks as some of the worst- and actually most unmusical music I have heard. I notice not one of his symphonies are on youtube-ask yourself why. He then produces as an opposite extreme really bad pseudo folk music like in this video as a token gesture to tonality. I have heard pupils write better stuff in school.

Eurisko Lontano commented on 27 Jul 2011

@cheamverdi You've exposed yourself as a bit of a dimwit with this highly simplified and ignorant summation of Davies work. Certainly he has written a lot of very difficult to appreciate music, much of which was in his younger days, but he has written plenty of very fine "tonal" music, much of which is based on Celtic and Scottish folk music, and he's written fine symphonies and other forms of music that put your lame conclusion off the cliffs of Orkney where it belongs.

Eurisko Lontano commented on 15 Sep 2010

@PSearPianist One thing I discovered shortly after I discovered Chisholm's music was that the scores are not easy to find. I was interested in his wonderful "Sonata in A" but had to inquire at the Chisholm foundation for the score. It turns out that it exists only in manuscript and even the manuscript is sub-divided into several possible combinations. I did not order it and I don't know where to find other works. What sort of set do you have?

Eurisko Lontano commented on 15 Sep 2010

Thank you for these recordings! I've been playing "Farewell" for about a year but never had much success with "Yesnaby" (I'm an aging amateur attempting to regain some of the skill I had 50-30 years ago!). To be honest I preferred your reading of "Yesnaby" over "Stromness" in which I felt you took some liberties with the score regarding both tempo and phrasing - minor points I suppose, but just an honest critique. Keep up the good work!

NancyBruning commented on 23 Feb 2010

I just heard Farewell on a classical radio station while on a trip to South Beach, Miami. I had to stop what I was doing immediately to listen 100%. I googled the composer on my iPhone and this video came up. I love the performance and the pieces. Knowling nothing, I got the feeling of movement through space. Not mournful trudging, but somber steps with a bit of tra- lah. I love when I'm swept away by a new composer!

PSearPianist commented on 13 Feb 2009

Thanks for your comment. He has written a handful of other short pieces (published by Boosey & Hawkes), and a 28 minute piano sonata (1981) published by Chester Novello. I have never heard the sonata, and it doesn't seem to have a place in the standard repertoire. He seems to be best-known for occasional pieces written in accessible idioms (eg, the orchestral 'Orkney Sunrise and Wedding')

PSearPianist commented on 15 Sep 2010

@eurisko618 Thank you for your interesting comment. It is a while since I did these recordings, and I might well do them differently now. I certainly listened to a commercial recording before I did the videos. Sometimes I have to depart from the norm just to bring pieces off on my piano, which - though generally good - does not have the quality of action of a top-of-the-range Steinway.

PSearPianist commented on 04 May 2009

Thanks for your comment. I happened to hear Peter Maxwell Davies own piano performance on a British commercial classical radio station (Classic FM - which has apparently plugged the piece quite a lot and is responisble for its popularity, at least in the UK). He is probably a bit more legato than I am, but he certainly points the phrasing with a little staccato here and there.

PSearPianist commented on 12 Feb 2009

Thank you. I'm impressed that you have been to Orkney - I live in the UK but never have! I doubt if the pieces are based on specific Orkney folk music. However, they certainly draw inspiration from Scottish Celtic music in general. I am fortunate in being able to watch BBC Alba, a Gaelic language TV channel, which broadcasts a lot of Celtic music.

graham yeloff commented on 11 May 2013

Maxwell Davies' Stromness is possibly one of the worst pieces I know for piano. I can accept (without liking) his 'contemporary' more complex output-it is what it is. But this Stromness piece is just bad tonal writing and mundane. If it had been written by some little known piano teacher no-one would be interested.

AmericaChinaGreat commented on 23 Mar 2013

Lovely pieces. No other composer could be compared with Sir Peter M. Davies's tunefulness. Your playing seems absolutely effortless. A very talented player here! The concentration pays off resulting with a marvelous performance. No wonder Maxwell Davies is her Majesty the Queen's composer!

PSearPianist commented on 22 Mar 2009

When I was preparing my performance I listened to an arrangement for a wind ensemble, and the players used staccato to bring out the slurring which the composer puts in the score. I liked the effect - its adds a bit of humour - and incorporated it into my playing!

Babejuda commented on 12 Feb 2009

Wonderful playing. Beautiful compositions. Thanks for stirring up old (and good) memories of mine from Orkney's Islands and Stromness. I liked the place and its people. I haven't heard its music, though. Are these 2 pieces based on local folk-music?

PSearPianist commented on 11 May 2013

I can see your point of view. It was very much a 'pièce d'occasion' that has been taken up because it is accessible and by a famous composer, much of whose other music is a bit thorny for the man in the street!

pinkelephant101 commented on 03 May 2009

i love farewell to stromness but i don't like the staccato personally, as i don't think it's a piece that should have humour, for me its more melancholic, but interesting interpretation nontheless.

PSearPianist commented on 17 Jul 2011

@cheamverdi Of course, it may be my playing that is at fault. However, there might be an element of 'if he is famous/a celebrity, he can do no wrong'. That certainly happens in the visual arts!

PSearPianist commented on 23 Mar 2013

Thanks very much! Of course these pieces are not particularly representative of his composing style, as they were written to be very accessible. A lot of his music is quite 'gritty'!

PSearPianist commented on 10 Sep 2009

You may be right on what it depicts. When I recorded this I had heard other recordings and thought my tempo was about right. If I did it again maybe I would do it a little slower.

wolkowy1 commented on 26 Apr 2012

I was not aware of the polemic composer/arranger, however I like very much these 2 pieces you've chosen and your performance as well. There is nothing wrong with it, believe me!

noshoesonmyhorse commented on 21 Mar 2013

I don;t think it is controversial - this is how it was played when I first heard it - in Stromness! It gives itself to a striding approach with emphasis on the walking bass

PSearPianist commented on 21 Mar 2013

That's kind! My tempo for this video has been very controversial, and I guess that if I were to rerecord it I might make one or two changes to keep viewers happy!

operacat1 commented on 07 Jul 2009

I LOVE the piece, my favourite piece of contemporary piano music. I make some feeble attempts at playing it myself, but you show how to do it properly!

lazio20roe commented on 28 Oct 2012

i like this, good playing, what speed is it suposed to be played at? Seems faster than the version i am used to, think i prefer it slower seems darker

PSearPianist commented on 12 May 2009

Thanks for your kind comment - of course I like the pieces, or I would not have played them, but they might be an acquired taste as they are unusual.

foxyfaefife commented on 13 Dec 2009

Currently I know only two things about Maxwell Davies: 1) He's particularly keen on swan terrine. 2) This sounds absolutely excellent as it is.

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