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09 Oct 10 - 06:31 AM (#3003098) Subject: Richard Thompson with Philip Picket From: Bonzo3legs 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 |
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09 Oct 10 - 11:04 AM (#3003213) Subject: RE: Richard Thompson with Philip Picket From: GUEST,nickp (cookieless) Sad to say I won't be there. N |
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09 Oct 10 - 11:07 AM (#3003216) Subject: RE: Richard Thompson with Philip Picket From: Will Fly 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. |
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09 Oct 10 - 01:24 PM (#3003284) Subject: RE: Richard Thompson with Philip Picket From: SteveMansfield 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. |
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09 Oct 10 - 04:44 PM (#3003398) Subject: RE: Richard Thompson with Philip Picket From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray iconoclast Philip Pickett ??!! |
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09 Oct 10 - 05:05 PM (#3003411) Subject: RE: Richard Thompson with Philip Picket From: Bonzo3legs "Sad to say I won't be there. N" Don't worry, Mr Skytronic will be!! |
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10 Oct 10 - 07:35 AM (#3003681) Subject: RE: Richard Thompson with Philip Picket From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray I'm still waiting to find out how PP is an early music iconoclast. |
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10 Oct 10 - 10:17 AM (#3003724) Subject: RE: Richard Thompson with Philip Picket From: giles earle 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. |
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10 Oct 10 - 04:12 PM (#3003928) Subject: RE: Richard Thompson with Philip Picket From: Herga Kitty Sounds like a great evening but unfortunately clashes with Belshazzar's Feast at the Herga folk club.... Kitty |