Pride and Prejudice 2005 - luteless, but the ball scenes and costumes
were well-researched. I once played with a gambist whose instrument had
been made for one of the Errol Flynn movies.
On 09/06/2017 07:16 PM, Edward C. Yong wrote:
Good dramas with proper period music that come to mind:
1) The 1994 film Nostradamus. It had a scene of a country theatre, and
the music accompanying was Susato, with an onstage band of instruments
(unfortunately including a metal flute). Soundtrack also included
Josquin, etc.
2) The TV series The Borgias had plenty of Renaissance music, even if
most of it was about 100 years too late, but that's better than most
productions anyway. I was asked to do a bit of musical detective work
and the findings are here:
[1]http://www.3pp.website/2013/02/the-borgias-musical-background.html
3) The 1995 film Restoration. Lots of Purcell, even if much was
arranged for modern orchestra.
4) The 1994 film The Madness of King George. Lots of Haendel, mostly
arranged for modern orchestra.
On 6 September 2017 at 23:41, Rainer <[2]rads.bera_g...@t-online.de>
wrote:
A bit late (after 2.5 years) :) - I seem to have missed it in 2015.
I wonder if the serial really was such a success.
I have watched (in German) all 6 episodes on the German/French
[sic!] TV channel Arte recently.
Apparently at least 50% of the population suffered from depression
in those days.
How Cromwell survived 6 episodes without committing suicide is an
enigma.
Rainer
PS
This reminds me of "Shakespeare in Love" which I recently watched a
second time on German TV - with very mixed feelings :)
Of course there are many weird ideas. The queen would never enter a
public theatre.
Question to the English members: Do most (Many?) people understand
those "hidden" jokes?
I really liked the scene with Webster.
On 22.01.2015 00:39, WALSH STUART wrote:
(first episode of much-hyped TV series in UK)
I was expecting an immediate response...
So anyway, here goes: music begins with Ah Robin (not sung - and
probably played on a lute?)...melds into Glassy instrumental stuff.
A tremolando mandoline churns out all the plucked expressive work,
although lutes figure in the mise-en-scene from time to time.
Mark Rylance is a very curious being.
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