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@MrAddyginsh We're on the same page. I'd have loved to have seen Arkle and Flyingbolt compete. I'd like also to be slightly older too, b.1963.(Only ever reason I wish that!) Mill House was a champion too, of course, and what I always say to myself is what if Mill House had preceded Arkle, by say ...

@JimmyRayhere That's some shapely female up there, true, but Rachel lying on her side has a very similar, maybe more goddess-like, effect. Off to check Stacey and Rebecca now, must go.

@anythingnew Interesting that you see my comment as that of an atheist.Can I ask you why? Do the facts I describe in my comment preclude the idea of a God for you?Is God so small, so limited that our increasing human knowledge is a threat to the idea of its existence. I'd say that God is bigger t...

Harmonious film set, how often could that be said? not a turgid ego in sight. Douglas Gresham, the man, was equal to the story in being such a charismatic, honest gentleman, and if I had a choice of famous dinner guests which disallowed hot women then I'd settle for the director of Gandhi, Richar...

Wow!

The opening sequence up to the switch to major tonality is the most macabre I've ever heard it done. It's like a skeletal dance this way. The usual almost orgasmic sense at the big crescendo is sacrificed to punctuated rhythm almost to the degree of hiatus , and thin, austere playing. He's defin...

I've heard Carlos Kleiber's famous salvaged recording of the sixth and this reminds me of it.Is this even faster? I'm surprised by how the movement suits the faster treatment but I still prefer my classic Cluytens recording. As for Klemperer's comment to his producer about his tempo I'd say he's ...

I saw that interview that night and did a bit of a double take. Manuela is really attractive and she was so pleasant and smiling. I'm sure she didn't mean the comment about "too long" in Dublin the way Tubridy took it up.

@nadaniente115a You're mentioning some of my favourite old conductors there. Fricsay's recording of the Mozart Cminor with that great St.Hedwig's choir is one I hope you've heard.Maria Stader does the Laudamus incredibly vibrantly.Cluyten's classic 6th Beethoven was the first I ever bought for my...

Was it just coincidence that she never won as easily for Jonjo?Tony Mullins never seemed to have to beat her up as much. I'm one who thinks she could have won the Gold cup with more ease than she did. I know Jonjo was a legendary jockey and should be mentioned in the same breath as AP, Francome a...

@dubcindub15 Great comment.I noted that big 2010 duo being upstaged as well.Could you conceive of another horse winning that Arkle /Mill House 1964 duel? It would be like convening JS Bach and WA Mozart for a keyboard question and answer and throwing in Paul McCartney and Elton John and just abou...

In full polyphonic flight Guerrero blows every other Spanish composer except Morales out of the water but the man for this restrained mode of composition in Spanish Renaissance terms, especially in his own Requiem, is Victoria. It's opinion -so anyone agree or disagree?

I can't make up my mind which I prefer, Susan Boyle's singing or Amanda Holden's armpits.

This could have been so corny, but it's marvellous, just simply marvellous!

Morales, Guerrero and Victoria, in that order, for me, and there is only one composer of sacred polyphony I'd hesitatingly rate above Morales and that is Nicolas Gombert. I have this recording. It's bliss.

Exquisite.His supremacy over the rest of Renaissance composers isn't as obvious or accepted as that of J.S.Bach over his own Baroque contemporaries but I am one who is becoming convinced of it. I'm beginning to have the same urge with the Renaissance to go back to Gombert as I have to go 'back to...

...and praise Bach by comparing him to Gombert, and Mozart by comparing him to Josquin?

As they say in my country "Fine strappin' girls".All but one can't dance for nuts but strange to say it doesn't worry me.

Faryl is much more secure in pitch.That's not opinion but a fact to anyone with a keen ear.Whether the difference is a matter of vocal control or innate sense of pitch is harder to decide but for me Faryl is the more naturally musical girl.

Beethoven wrote in the score of one of most profound works "From the heart, may it go to the heart". I think Susan's song definitely springs from the heart too, and it goes to many -mine included.

This was the first recording I heard of this piece, back in 1982, when I was just starting to collect.A great friend of mine had bought it and I've just listened to it again for the first time in over 20 years.It has so often happened me and I think in this case it happened him: that the first re...

@TsunderEcchi It's called a beautiful young woman, but not many of them are in equal temperament and they make horrible noises when you play them. LOL.

Pro Arkle camp! That phrase to me is so mystifying.The supremacy of Arkle over rivals in his sport surpasses the supremacy, as far as I know, of any sporting legend of four legs or two.Not even in flat racing do they have such a singular hero.I suspect the real problem on these pages is that eith...

I was born in 1963.When I was nine years of age I used to walk home from school with a chap called Liam who loved racing.He was a Pendil fan and I knew Captain Christy was better.Then I mentioned Arkle and he declared that Pendil was better than Himself too.Even at that age I knew that I couldn't...

@Granitoons Thanks for the tip. She could have been, although I don't know of her singing capabilities. Are any examples on YT? I'm always looking for snippets of her -wee bit addicted.

@sosadman1 I was just thinking that, and the chaps who sang it were only seven! At least they didn't add the worse one that I heard in later years "My legs are always **** **** !".

One of the great feminist lyrics this, isn't it ?! Only joking, I love to hear Dusty singing.

Was there a photo finish facility at Aintree this year?Was this actually the first year they installed a photo finish?I have a feeling it coincided with a Red Rum National win. It was installed in the 70s because I remember watching racing there those years and hearing the usual refrain in a clos...

Two Irish horses, Florida Pearl and Beef Or Salmon humbled Best Mate over three miles. I've always thought Best Mate grossly over-rated.I've nothing against the horse but the hype surrounding him was ridiculous. It takes some horse to win three Gold Cups, but the last three Gold Cup winners were ...

@Laytonia1977 Thanks! I was trying to remember whether he was 7/2 or 11/2 but my memory wouldn't serve me and I just thought 11/2 was too good to be true.11/2!!! I'll take your word for it and I'd say I backed him at that price and I wish I hadn't been an impecunious student at the time. I think...