Early Music in the New Season Schedule.

[doversoul1]

The Early Music Show has survived the schedule change but Saturday Lunchtime Concert has as good as been scrapped. It will be one of those late night programmes for which few people remember to turn the radio back on. Not only that, it is on Sunday. Are we supposed to think this as a treat: two early music programmes on one day? Moreover, the new programme will be presented by two presenters, unless they are to present alternatively (it doesn’t look that way).

I did not seriously expect to see Saturday Early Music Show restored but not this either. The worst thing about all this is that they (whoever they may be) are not aware that this is by no means a new addition: we already have the very programme of this description.

In addition to The Early Music Show on Sunday afternoons, the schedule changes see the introduction of a new programme, Early Music Late, which will follow Drama on 3. From 20 September Simon Heighes and Elin Manahan Thomas will showcase some of the best early music performances from around Europe, beginning with highlights of a concert given by Les Muffatti at the Liege Festival in Belgium

Unless Saturday’s Lunchtime Concert is to be left as it is (some hope).

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?13923-New-season

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2015/radio-3-autumn-schedule

[Pegleg]

Groan, groan. All too predictable. The announcement says typically nothing about the "Saturday Lunchtime Concert" - but it's a safe bet that it has been chopped because of this:

"Other updates include an opportunity for audiences to listen again to Music Matters on Monday nights from 2200 and Saturday Classics, Sound of Cinema, Jazz Record Requests and Jazz Line Up will move an hour earlier in the Saturday schedule"

Controller, BBC Radio 3, Alan Davey says: “Nowhere else in the world brings audiences such an exhilarating mix of music, drama and debate ... ". Maybe he should get out more.