Talk:Edward Downes

Additional categories

I think that we need to add one of the suicides categories to this article, maybe Category:Suicides in Switzerland, Category:Conductors who committed suicide, or maybe both. Thoughts? – ukexpat (talk) 15:38, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

I would suggest both.--Peter cohen (talk) 17:13, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Wide media coverage

We probably need a good range of media hits from aroudn the world to support the fact that media coveragehas been (unsually) wide ranging - http://news.google.co.uk/news?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ADBS_enGB310GB310&q=Edward+Downes David Underdown (talk) 11:13, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Instrument?

The article currently says cor anglais, The Telegraph obit seems to agree [1], but The Guardian describes him as horn player, which unqualified would normally imply the brass instrument [2] (though Barbara Trapido's eponymous player was a cor anglais player), and The Times specifically says french horn. David Underdown (talk) 13:24, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

• I have just listened to the Desert Island Disc archive programme of Edward Downes (recorded 1969) and it was the horn, not cor anglais. There are also lots of other lovely details in the programme, but I am not sure if a radio broadcast can be used as a reference... Cg2p0B0u8m (talk) 23:05, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
  • Have now corrected and added more from that interesting interview. Cg2p0B0u8m (talk) 18:24, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Name

The obits etc all seem to comment that he was invariably known as Ted, so we should consider moving the page to Ted Downes. David Underdown (talk) 13:34, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

I think he was Ted to his friends, but professionally he was Edward. For example, my recording of Rienzi shows him as Edward.--Peter cohen (talk) 13:57, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

OK, I'll create a redirect from Ted though. David Underdown (talk) 14:05, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Disocgraphy?

And the mention of my recording reminds me of something that could be started. [3] lists 52 items. If someone has a proper catalogue that woudl be better. If the link has most of his available work, then of we go for the complete works rather than where he is accompanying Pavatotti or whoever in some lollipops we may get things down to manageable proportions. --Peter cohen (talk) 14:06, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Excellent idea. Once we open the door it may be hard to keep it to just the major works but there is precedent for a separate discography article if it gets out of hand - see Thomas Beecham selected discography. – ukexpat (talk) 15:02, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

With the Proms coming up, I don't want to even think about working on this myself for two months and then I should be reumign my PhD. "Selected" discographies have been discussed at WP:WPO recently and the view is that "selected" is a dangerous word unless we lay out clear criteria. Hopefully a Downes disco will be more manageable than the Beecham one where the chaos at the bottom suggests that it is a work in progress that actually hasn't progressed that much recently. (Of course, if the BBC decide to issue lots of their archive, a Downes disco could grow like topsy.)--Peter cohen (talk) 23:08, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Well, I'm looking for a Downes discography right now. George Lloyd is composer of the week on BBC Radio 3 this week, and when I looked up his works on Amazon I came across a comment in one of them that someone preferred Edward Downes' version to the composer's own interpretation. George Lloyd conducts George Lloyd, recorded by Albany seems to be the most widely available, so I'd be interested in finding out about recordings of Edward Downes conducts Lloyd in particular. PaulHammond (talk) 09:08, 26 June 2013 (UTC)