I’ve been reviewing my CD collection and have decided that I have too much Mahler (© First World Problems).
If any of you crazy pop kids would like a nice box set of the Bernstein 1980s cycle on DG, PM me – first come first served…
I don’t want any money – perhaps a donation to your local Hospice – if nobody fancies it, it’ll probably end up in my local Hospice shop anyway.
Sláinte, everyone.
(PS: Mods – if anything about this is uncomfortable, please delete – thanks)
Yes please!
Sorry, Tiggs – you were beaten to the punch…
Curses! 😉
Thought this was going to be a thread about “Death In Venice”, oh well…
You could always start one…
You may be interested to hear that Bernstein is in the news this week thanks to what sounds like an excellent new biopic.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/sep/02/maestro-review-bradley-coopers-head-flingingly-heartfelt-leonard-bernstein-biopic
“Now Bradley Cooper, in spectacular hair and makeup, has directed and starred in this heartfelt, garrulous and faintly exhausting film, conceived with sincerity and taste, all about Bernstein and his troubled relationship with his wife, Costa Rican actress and activist Felicia Montealegre Cohn, played with rather brittle English poise and self-deprecating common sense by Carey Mulligan.
Poor Felicia has to come to terms with her megastar husband sucking all the oxygen out of the atmosphere and with the humiliation of his many indiscretions with young men and this is a compulsively fluent film, with Cooper and Mulligan grinning and scatting and chirruping their way through many extended and overlapping dialogue scenes.”
Did anybody see Simon Rattle and the LSO doing Mahler’s Ninth at the Proms? Rattle’s final engagement as the LSO’s conductor – and it produced a glowing, powerful performance.
On the iPlayer for another month, I think.
Yep. Not the for first time I’ve thought “come on then, show us why you’re famous” and he’s delivered the goods.