Classical Music for Aficionados

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Feltsman's "Tribute to Tchaikovsky" is superb.

@schubert        Len  I hope Currentzis doesn't disappoint as being a canny Scot I hate wasting money ( grew up with none so do not want to waste what has taken me a lifetime to accrue).
You are so right about the state of the army here. We no longer have any Scottish regiments as everything was made into a national force with all officers now coming from Sandhurst. The ones I remember,
Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders
Cameron Highlanders
Cameronians
Royal Scots Fusiliers 
Black Watch
Royal Scots Greys
The Seaforth Highlanders
Highland Light Infantry
Gordon Highlanders
Kings Own Scottish Borderers
Royal Scots
Ayrshire Yeomanry
Atholl Highlanders

There are more which don't come to mind at the moment.
I will always remember those early films about World War One with those glorious charges on the German lines and nothing but a mass of kilts getting mown down by the German Maxim guns, it was absolute bloody slaughter. All the English Generals were 20 miles away in a French Chateau getting pissed on wine from the cellar.
Keep a light in your heart for Scotia.

It has burned bright since I was a wee’un on granny’s lap,jim, and always
will.

I’m a penny tight, pound foolish semi-Scot myself .
Had one granny from the Groble’s and one from Florida area .
Both were in "The Daughters of Scotia " in Syracuse N.Y. and were very different but friends .

Can’t forget the Black Watch, my Great-grandfather died in it in 1915
which is why I am American .

Living in Germany I heard this and confirmed it my self.
The Germans had to get new machine gunners every few weeks
as most broke down in a few weeks .
By 1916 both sides seldom fired on wounded trying to drag , limp back to the own lines .
Exception were the Canadians which gave no quarter and were the ones
the Germans feared most .


Reason: Canada had 8 million population at the time and a million men
went through the grinder of WW 1.Most were immigrants trying to become real Canadians in the eyes of the English Canadians .

Canada had the best battle record in both WW1 and W ll but made sure
that never happened again in WW 11 in which they took the most
POW’s .


P.S . An analogy might be the London Scotts who had a great record .

You are right schubert about SS fearing most the canadians...

The most extraordinary canadian in the war liberated one city from SS by himself... His story made Rambo a chicken....His story is too incredible in world war II and korean war to be believed  in a movie ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFf1UfVa8Lc

True, but circumstances had a lot to do with it.

IMO General Currie in World War 1 had that crown .
A reserve officer and math teacher who using math
turned the Canadian Army into the greatest force
on either side . Without him and he alone the war
would have been longer and a million more dead.

All done by a teacher from Winnipeg who went from a Lt. Col reserve to
A General Who was going to be Commander of ALL British and Colonial
troops just as the the Canadians broke the last great repost of the Germans and they surrendered two days later.

You never hear about him because the Brits still think they have an Empire .(NOT a joke )