Richard Thompson with Philip Picket

Subject: Richard Thompson with Philip Picket
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 09 Oct 10 - 06:31 AM

Early music iconoclast Philip Pickett joins forces with folk legend Richard Thompson in a programme of spicy ballads, folk songs and dances from Shakespeare's London. With the internationally-renowned Musicians of the Globe they explore an eclectic mix of Elizabethan popular music from London's taverns, streets, coffee houses and private rooms, with a host of unusual instruments including violin, rebec, recorder, cittern, bandora, early guitar, viol and lute.

Cadogan Hall in London on December 6 2010 - should be excellent

Subject: RE: Richard Thompson with Philip Picket
From: GUEST,nickp (cookieless)
Date: 09 Oct 10 - 11:04 AM

Sad to say I won't be there. N

Subject: RE: Richard Thompson with Philip Picket
From: Will Fly
Date: 09 Oct 10 - 11:07 AM

Sounds excellent. I have the CD they did together some years ago called "The Bones Of All Men" - all Tudor and Jacobean music arranged by Pickett - and it's highly recommended.

Subject: RE: Richard Thompson with Philip Picket
From: SteveMansfield
Date: 09 Oct 10 - 01:24 PM

Let's hope it's a rip-roaring standing-room-only success and that encourages them to turn it into a bit of a tour.

+1 for 'The Bones Of All Men' CD, lovely stuff.

Subject: RE: Richard Thompson with Philip Picket
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 09 Oct 10 - 04:44 PM

iconoclast Philip Pickett

??!!

Subject: RE: Richard Thompson with Philip Picket
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 09 Oct 10 - 05:05 PM

"Sad to say I won't be there. N"

Don't worry, Mr Skytronic will be!!

Subject: RE: Richard Thompson with Philip Picket
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 10 Oct 10 - 07:35 AM

I'm still waiting to find out how PP is an early music iconoclast.

Subject: RE: Richard Thompson with Philip Picket
From: giles earle
Date: 10 Oct 10 - 10:17 AM

Well, quite.

Philip Pickett is, I'd guess, about 10 years older than me: an age-gap that means that he has been an established upholder of Early Music practice for as long as I have known anything about it. 'Iconoclast' would hardly be le mot juste, when I recall all the New London Consort concerts I attended in the 1980s....

I assumed the tag was just one more manifestation of the old debate about historically certifiable 'authenticity' versus the more subjective 'historically informed performance', until I tried a quick Google and found umpteen entries pairing his name with that word. I still don't think it's the right word, mind, merely the current vogue among concert blurb-writers* .

[* speaking of whom, the National Theatre's lot describe the New Scorpion Band as a 'folk ethnic combo of five'. Would that tempt you to attend?!]

There are plenty of accurate descriptions of Philip Pickett's performance style that spring to my mind, and doubtless to yours too. Speaking for myself, sticking circus performers on to a concert stage may be many things – and good or bad, depending on whether the experiment works in context – but iconoclastic? Not really.

Subject: RE: Richard Thompson with Philip Picket
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 10 Oct 10 - 04:12 PM

Sounds like a great evening but unfortunately clashes with Belshazzar's Feast at the Herga folk club....

Kitty