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Tonight, R3, 6.30 pm! (You wouldn't know unless you looked closely!)

Hope someone can manage a high bitrate recording?

Just wondering if anyone here recorded the recent Cadogan Hall prom of music by RR Bennet and Elizabeth Maconchy? I foolishly missed it, and now the Listen Again period has expired...

Chatting to Albion a while ago about the invaluable British Music Broadcasts series, I mentioned that I wished someone would do the same for Scandinavian music - another enthusiasm.  Bu definition I don't have a lot - only odd BBC broadcasts - and I've still a lot of UK music to digitize and load. But if we have any Scandinavian members, perhaps they'd be in a position to help by starting a small thread with some home-grown examples..?

Interesting to see another Holbrooke piece turning up in a surprising new release:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Music-Three-Brahms/dp/B00447XDB8/ref=sr_1_10?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1288084361&sr=1-10
And again, from a non-UK company: promising!

Not sure whether he's unsung or not? but I'm quite taken with the new Naxos disc of his Shakespeare overtures. Ok, maybe no masterpieces, and some are more immediately striking than others - Julius Caesar strikes me as somewhat generic - but  Anthony & Cleopatra,if not blazingly passionate, has a limpidly sultry atmosphere, and a rumbustious 12th Night is already a favourite. I see coming along in vol II is the Overture to King John, which one can only hope will be more inspired than the woeful play itself!

Only a littl'un - but this is now available from the American symphony Orchestra

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bantock-Prelude-To-The-Bacchanals/dp/B003U2AUPA/ref=sr_shvl_album_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1281710498&sr=301-5

Not perhaps a great piece, but pleasing enough, and a welcome addition to the discography.