To match the weather – from Debussy’s Children’s Corner, IV: ‘The snow is dancing’ played by Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (filmed in 1962).
Just now on R4X – Val Doonican’s Desert Island Discs (1970, hosted by Roy Plomley). Val (1927-2015) nominates Vaughan Williams as his favourite composer and chooses VW’s Tallis Fantasia as one of his eight records.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001g1fw...
Apparently thirty years ago on today’s date the very first text was sent; it read: “Happy Christmas”.
Welcome to December. Arcangelo Corelli’s G-minor Concerto Grosso, Opus 6/8 (Christmas Concerto), directed by Trevor Pinnock. Ensemble (probably The English Concert) and recording date unspecified.
