Hubert Parry - Lady Radnor's Suite

A late nineteenth century piece, composed by Hubert Parry. Performed here by the English String Orchestra, and conducted by William Boughton.
Photograph by Adam Steenwyk: www.flickr.com/...

[@aattura1541]

BEAUTIFUL. Made me feel like I was riding, not a magic carpet but a beautiful quilted poufy bedspread festooned with golden fleurs-de-lis in sunny skies filled with evening clouds - over Parliament, past Big Ben and then over the quiet hedgerows and sleepy green valleys of the English Countryside in the quietness of the early early morn

[@sandyanarayanswami5708]

A lovely piece, very "English", which would be hard for me to delineate in words, but I think part of it is tunes from old folk songs. An "Over the Hills and Far Away" feeling. I grew up in England and tho I am Indian by heritage, this is the music of my heart..

[@Dashingdiva73]

I love the second movement the most. It just gets me! 😢

[@Kaikena]

The picture is a photograph of the Tatoosh Range in Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington State. A gorgeous place.

[@mickyfinn1948]

A lovely evocative piece from a long lost era. Got to agree with most of J.Marshall Bevel's comments. I think it was a wonderful era for those with wealth and position to enjoy it but not so for those without! Isn't this always the case although these days we are more equal in the social sense.

[@Mr1973ian]

We are?!

[@k.devries7956]

Thanks !

[@Allanfearn]

I don't know about the historical arguments. But they don'y undermine the music here - or Parry himself. The story of the first performance of "Jerusalem" is worth thinking about.

[@robertfrankgill5962]

In the slow minuet do I hear echoes of the Grieg of the Holberg Suite?

[@ryanhaight3793]

Right around the time the Maxum gun would've been invented and 30 years before the advent of ww1

[@Mr1973ian]

I think personally that any timescale or era will have it's have's and have not's. I think classical music is associated, perhaps unfairly, with wealth, rather than say, The Beatles. The unfairness of the class system perhaps shouldn't be linked to classical music. But I understand why it is. Pax to all from soulboy73.Xxx.

[@km10is]

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[@jimmywilliams8042]

Hindimeth paul

[@Mr1973ian]

Beautiful and so English. Pax to all from soulboy73.Xxx.

[@km10is]

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[@Allanfearn]

Lady Radnor herself is more than worth a look. She knew Neruda, and had lessons with Pauline Viardot. Not the usual part-time activity for the wife of a hunting Tory whip.

[@Leftyotism]

Maxims Lieblingskomponist!

[@k.devries7956]

Is this particular cd still available?I have tried other recordings, but was somewhat disappointed.

[@heyguysinternet]

+K. de Vries www.amazon.com/Butterworth-Parry-Bridge-Frank/dp/B000024NRO

[@shockwave4742]

It's possible I may have found a new favorite composer. I'm glad to have run across some of his music. This is exactly how music is supposed to sound. For the past couple of days I have listened to some of Parry's music as I got dressed for work, and it makes getting dressed more fun. Today I was really jamming to the beat. That's why I signed in just to make this comment. I would listen to it again right now, but I'll be leaving for work soon so I'll listen to it again later. Oh, yeah, also, gorgeous picture!

[@anthonyobrien6641]

God bless HRH, soon to be our king, for his wonderful recent TV programme introducing my to the works of Hubert Parry. What a wonderful discovery. This music places me, in my imagination, walking in open countryside, Really beautiful.

[@russ117044]

If anyone sees this: This world we live in now STINKS. Sir Hubert came from a world that was so much better then this one. What I would't give to go back there....

[@heyguysinternet]

I don't agree, but I think the power of Parry's music is that it makes us (some of us, anyway) want to exist in a world that the music suggests. At the very least, it offers us solace in its own sound. We have a tendency to focus on the things in a historical period that appeal to us and then construct an idealized state (or to do the opposite, and assume that one period was through and through grim) that, frankly, never existed.

[@km10is]

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