Classic F.M

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Max Bruch's Violin Concerto is one of the big hitters of classical music. I've got it on a Decca LP from the early 70s, a time when you could choose from a mono or a stereo version. Stereo had a blue label and mono red, with a little hole in the sleeve allowing you to see the blue or red.

Lots of versions on YouTube, I have chosen Yehudi Menuhin....

 

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Getting my groove to Medieval tunes these days...

One of the tunes in that recital is, Sumer is Icumen in, which is traditionally sung in the round...

Thought to originate from the mid 1200's and written in the Wessex dialect of Middle English, and the author may possibly be W. de Wycombe, a composer and copyist. I've always seen this song as a coincidental companion piece to "Miri it is while sumer ilast," another song from the same era that laments the end of summer, whilst this one rejoices in the arrival of either spring or summer, some having theorised that the song is actually about the arrival of spring, and that the term sumer at the time was a larger, all encompassing term for the warmer periods of the year.

Medieval folk thought of the seasons differently to modern times: lumping Spring and Summer in together and then again Autumn/Winter.

 

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One of the tunes in that recital is, Sumer is Icumen in, which is traditionally sung in the round...

OMG!! Try comparing the short snatch of your tune above, starting at 5 seconds, with the last bit of this starting at 10 seconds:

 

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OMG!! Try comparing the short snatch of your tune above, starting at 5 seconds, with the last bit of this starting at 10 seconds:

Bagpuss rocks!

 

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Party on like it's 1399...

 

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Party on like it's 1399...

That's good, but you have already posted it today!

 

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A group called Rondellus did some of the songs of Black Sabbath in medieval style, in Latin...