Despite not liking what #UCFF heard, at least we know what Fauré Quartett's recording of Pictures at an Exhibition is

Fauré Quartett's recording of Pictures at an Exhibition

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28 November

Despite not liking what #UCFF heard, at least we know what Fauré Quartett's recording
of Pictures at an Exhibition is : it may all become clear here...

Sadly, whosesoever arrangement that was, on @BBCInTune, of Mussorgsky's pf original¹, one's immediate response - having mentally placed what was being heard - was not to wish to hear it ever again !https://t.co/XouIEwcotB

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 28, 2019

*Not* meaning @BBCInTune's Sean Rafferty himself (who, one now hears, was billed at the top of the show - and not unfairly - as 'The host with the absolute most' !), but now eludes us [at 1 : 53 : 40], too...

Fauré Quartett with pf [Dick ??**]https://t.co/OSGD5dQDvB

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 28, 2019

** So we go in search of the new CD, and find the desired explanation on Amazon :

'More than 80 years later, Dirk Mommertz, a member of and pianist with the Faure Quartett, has arranged both of these works anew - this time for piano quartet'

Endlich ! pic.twitter.com/LsYNg9tMQ1

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 28, 2019

It may all become clear here...

To quote @eziolunedei's 'Angel Song' [Black Boots on Latin Feet], 'An empty head, when I go to bed, is all I'll ever need'...

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 29, 2019

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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)