Someone here, I don’t recall whom, suggested members of such a celebrated body as the BBC concert orchestra were nothing more than factory workers going about their daily, mundane duties. No soul, no interest. Just journeymen. That’s rubbish. You don’t get to participate in that orchestra unless you are excellent, top quality - and you have both a comprehensive understanding of the music and a deep appreciation of how it needs to be played. They understood, and did it with fabulous gusto!
We will never again see the likes of that performance.
One thing that bugs me is that only one or two comments here refer to the original artists - and those who arranged, performed, sung, were involved - in the songs when they were released with such hope back in the day.
Rather than respect or celebrate the public acknowledgement of their work, some are entirely selfish: I don’t want their songs to be widely known - I want to keep them to myself. Celebrating their success (often after they’ve died) is a sell-out… for me. I want to keep the songs and the artists/writers/arrangers in the dark so that only I know them.
Every singer/writer/arranger/ - anyone who gets involved in the music business - sought fame, success and wealth. Sadly, there are people who would prefer it if that didn’t happen - just for their own self-interested sense of keeping great but not widely appreciated or slightly known music unavailable to a broader public, which was the entire aim of the tunes we like being recorded in the first instance.
Hey, I might even play your long forgotten record - but I’ll not acknowledge you and instead give you a made-up name - just so I can be seen as having secret ownership of what you created.
I want to keep your great song buried; I don’t want anybody else to know you made this; I want to keep you underground - just so I can show you off and play you as a trophy for me.