Our Sibelius LPs are a nice tidy batch comprising six discs containing the symphonies and a few other well-known pieces. This batch included the ones conducted by Karajan. I’m now beginning to finish certain categories and the last of Mozart’s chamber music was a boxed set of his piano trios played by the Beaux Arts Trio. Our other Berlioz disc was Harold in Italy with Colin Davis, the LSO and Nobuko Imai. I have quite a lot of Lieder to do and included Die Schöne Müllerin<\/i> and Schumann’s Liederkreis Op. 39 with Ian and Jennifer Partridge. This threw up an unusual problem. I hadn’t realised that the Schumann included two<\/i> songs entitled In der Fremde<\/i> until one overwrote the other on my computer and I found I was a track short. I wonder how much confusion this has caused over the years.<\/p>\n
While entering song titles and other foreign names, I’ve usually done umlauts adscript as ae oe ue and left out accents. This time I tried leaving an umlaut in the title of a song when it became a file title to see what would happen. It passed out of Polderbits on to my file system, reappeared in RealPlayer, was burnt on to the CD and re-emerged triumphantly grinning from ear to ear on the display on our home CD player. It turns out that umlauts and circumflex\/grave\/acute accents can be handled this way, although the car CD player display doesn’t like them. The Æ ligature and cedillas can be burnt to CD but don’t display (so the Aeolian Quartet will have to remain typeset thus) – and, curiously, full stops don’t come out either. Anything that isn’t in the ASCII 256 character set, such as Hungarian double accents, falls at the first hurdle and can’t be included in a file name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Our Sibelius LPs are a nice tidy batch comprising six discs containing the symphonies and a few other well-known pieces. This batch included the ones conducted by Karajan. I’m now beginning to finish certain categories and the last of Mozart’s … Continue reading