Donald Burrows
speaker
179 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 May
Donald Burrows’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it almost certainly seems to me that he must have had these conversations with Handel about Dublin.
And it's a different set-up, because what does Handel say about the venue?
The music sounds great in this charming room.
It isn't a theatre.
You know, it's a completely different sort of ambience of a concert hall.
That's what he finds when he gets there.
How much did he know about it in the first place?
You know, what was he thinking when he was writing, besides?
Very difficult.
Perhaps they weren't kept or whatever.
Better things to do.
But as it happens, what we have is two excellent letters to Jones.
Well, no, I mean, he has to... He's starting in the 50s.
No, he has to, first of all, adapt to this business of having cathedral choir singers.
Of different spaces and different... So that, therefore, Thou Shalt Break Them turns into a recitative, because he doesn't have a good enough singer to do that.
So some of them are practical, some of them are stimulated by a new singer, and...
You can't go too far with this because the overall shape of the work doesn't change.
You know, what he's doing is slotting in different things in different places.
There's one area which does go different.
How beautiful are the feet?
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