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14 Oct, 2022
The theme is pride and prejudice, the plot is 'First impressions'
Review of 1980 Adaptation of Pride and Prejudice
The object of translation, adaptation and abridgement is to make the work accessible, but always, surely within the constraints and conventions that circumscribed the original and within those constraints to communicate what is universal and transcendent in any literary masterpiece worth the while to recommend to a foreign or new readership of a subsequent age.
The constraints on an adaptation for stage, or screen are the medium itself, but the appeal of 'Pride and Prejudice' is so universal that despite the conventions within which Austen worked they have not proved such a barrier to its enjoyment some 200 years later. Television is an ideal medium for Jane Austen. What was written in the domestic sphere is received domestically, and the author's techniques of narrative, especially the techniques of 'indirect discourse', and 'personal reflection', and dialogue and correspondence do not prevent the love story being as vivid as the day it was published. There seems little need for gratuitous inventions or gimmicks or histrionics to communicate the spirit of Austen, and to render her essential themes. Plot, characterization , description, does not require augmentation and her wit should not been so attenuated that the essence of the work is sacrificed to the the mere narrative.
This is the best adaptation I have struck. It remains faithful in the main, to the original with the best Mrs Bennet, Charlotte Lucas, the Gardiners, and lady Catherine I have seen, but this is the definitive Elizabeth ever, and she seems exactly as Jane Austen created her, witty, resolute but always within the manners and the provenance of her time. Elizabeth Garvie is delightful and the production and camera work together with her lovely eyes and her singing voice, make her entirely credible and we can see how Darcy was bewitched and how she seizes his mind as well as his heart. There ware many splendid moments in this adaptation but Elizabeth's victory over lady Catherine and her rejection of Darcy's first proposal and her singing of 'The Ashgrove' at the Lucas ball and her stay at Netherfield, her accidental encounter with Darcy at Pemberley are superb which make this Elizabeth and the novel so well realised as well memorable and moving.
One could wish that, true to the original text, that David Rintoul could allow Darcy to smile rather more, and perhaps Mr Collins was rather too much of a caricature, whilst delightful as Sabina Franklyn was as Jane, this adaptation, like most of the others, does rather make her rather insipid and sweet , although a careful reading of the text reveal her as something more of a stoic than inane but all in all this is a splendid adaptation and the best and most faithful adaptation in conveying the attraction of the novel and its lovely heroine.
Benedict Cowell.
28 Jun, 2023
Schubert's Art demonstrated
Schubert is not the creator of Lieder but his contribution to the art is colossal setting poets from Attic Greece to his contemporary Goethe and these settings require an accompanist to the singer who does more than provide a standard piano part, but is required to enter into a creative and critical partnership. Irwin Gage is a specialist in the Art and accompanies some of the foremost exponents of Lieder. My previous experience of Gundular Janowitz was in Strauss operetta, that is not her fault but mine, never the less I was surprised by hearing her provide one of the most moving performances of the Mignon Lieder drawn from Goethe's Wilhelm Meister. These are three of the most haunting of Schubert's entire ouevre with cadences which demonstrate his amazing dramatic and poetic insight and instinct. This singer does complete justice to these works and of course to all the other works in her two volume edition. I was delighted with this volume ,to provide diversity to the range of voices which I have acquired overtime
08 Dec, 2021
Haydn has the happy facility to delight the auditor
Haydn's concerti are the least prized aspects pf his colossal achivement; usually he is celebrated as the founder of the symphony snd the string quartet where his development was seminal. Hayydn's concerti however deserve a lot of atention and they are very music, and quite different from those of either Mozart or Beethoven.
This col,lection includes oe of his celebrated concerrto, the Trumpet Concerto, and a much less celebrated Organ Concerto but it is a pleasant work and enjoyable so lon as one is not seeking a deeply moving invention.
Listening to music requires rather mor, or less, than seeking profound performances; and Haydn manages to produce and provide interesting an enjoyable music as recreation and pleasure, but they are not trvial musically. This disc is a pleasant collection of lesser known Haydn works which I recommend to any one who enjoys the flourishing perioc of the First Viennese school.. There is a place for scu music, and Haydn is perhap the most accomplished composer of 'social music' which is not without merit, always enjoyable, and often surprising in its originality of effects.
Benedict Cowell