Watched the movie before listening. which I recommend.
A major point for me is the score by Vaughan Williams. I have an old tattered copy of his collection of English Folk Songs, https://john01.substack.com/p/english-folk-songs. He was one of the champions of preserving English culture in the face of the disclocation of urban life, hence the collection. Although you hear melodies from songs such as The Lovely Joan and My Bonny Boy in his orchestral work, in the score for this movie he seems to have thrown himself into the alien soundscape with no references to familiar tunes that I can hear. Consequently the symphony he wrote subsequently from score stands out from his other work, it has none of the pastoral warmth you'll hear in a piece such as Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus".
This always reminds me of the absolutely brilliant AMC TV MiniSeries 'The Terror' based on the doomed Franklin Expedition to find the North West Passage. Shares same cast as the HBO Chernobyl TV series. Well worth a review
Really good stream. I grew up with tales like this, I remember going on vicious cross-country runs at school and imagining I was some Edwardian explorer running to get help for his injured comrades (etc.), I guess boys from earlier generations would have naturally measured themselves against such heroes.
The "to strive, to seek" line is from Tennyson's 'Ulysses'. It in turn is based on Dante's Ulysses (Inferno Canto 26), who persuades his ageing comrades to leave Ithaca and join him on one last, doomed voyage.
Watched the movie before listening. which I recommend.
A major point for me is the score by Vaughan Williams. I have an old tattered copy of his collection of English Folk Songs, https://john01.substack.com/p/english-folk-songs. He was one of the champions of preserving English culture in the face of the disclocation of urban life, hence the collection. Although you hear melodies from songs such as The Lovely Joan and My Bonny Boy in his orchestral work, in the score for this movie he seems to have thrown himself into the alien soundscape with no references to familiar tunes that I can hear. Consequently the symphony he wrote subsequently from score stands out from his other work, it has none of the pastoral warmth you'll hear in a piece such as Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus".
Listening to this going through Heathrow Airport...if security finds out defo getting body cavity search!
Hahaha
I'm never going abroad again!
Really great stream! With the risk of being cliche, the movie was really faustian.
Nice to hear that your doxxing wasn't quite as bad as the subhumans at Hnh would have hoped.
Keep doing what you do mate. Salutations from Sweden.
This always reminds me of the absolutely brilliant AMC TV MiniSeries 'The Terror' based on the doomed Franklin Expedition to find the North West Passage. Shares same cast as the HBO Chernobyl TV series. Well worth a review
I have it. I found it a little odd but engrossing at the same time.
Really good stream. I grew up with tales like this, I remember going on vicious cross-country runs at school and imagining I was some Edwardian explorer running to get help for his injured comrades (etc.), I guess boys from earlier generations would have naturally measured themselves against such heroes.
The "to strive, to seek" line is from Tennyson's 'Ulysses'. It in turn is based on Dante's Ulysses (Inferno Canto 26), who persuades his ageing comrades to leave Ithaca and join him on one last, doomed voyage.