Baroque Spring

[DracoM]

To what refuge apart from your own CDs are you fleeing to escape the baroque spring?
This is mine: http://areena.yle.fi/radio/soitin/yle-klassinen

[Nick Armstrong]

To what refuge apart from your own CDs are you fleeing to escape the baroque spring?

King's College Chapel on Monday for some.... errrrrrr .... Bach...!!

'St Matthew Passion' in fact.

http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/events/easter-at-kings/index.html

[amateur51]

OK, I give in. I've had it up to here with 'Baroque Spring'. Feels suspiciously to me like the deification of miles and miles and miles of musical wallpaper, music to eat by, to talk by, to socialise and flirt to, but not music to sit down and take terribly seriously. Lovely,undemanding noise.
This is killing R3 for me.

When the BBC decide to obliterate moderation and carpet the airwaves with pretty well unrelieved ditto music for literally WEEKS..............

Sorry, but NO.

I tend to agree Draco but I rather like the name 'dittomusik' - may I borrow if from time to time, when you're not using it, course

[amateur51]

King's College Chapel on Monday for some.... errrrrrr .... Bach...!!

'St Matthew Passion' in fact.

http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/events/ea...ngs/index.html

Sounds grand, Caliban - may we hope for a full report in due course?

[Serial_Apologist]

I tend to agree Draco but I rather like the name 'dittomusik'

Handel, ams?? Rossini???

[JFLL]

OK, I give in. I've had it up to here with 'Baroque Spring'. Feels suspiciously to me like the deification of miles and miles and miles of musical wallpaper, music to eat by, to talk by, to socialise and flirt to, but not music to sit down and take terribly seriously. Lovely,undemanding noise.
This is killing R3 for me.

When the BBC decide to obliterate moderation and carpet the airwaves with pretty well unrelieved ditto music for literally WEEKS..............

Sorry, but NO.

Does anyone know for how much longer all this Baroque stuff is going to monopolize a good chunk of Radio 3? If it's Baroque Spring it may go on till June ...

[amateur51]

Handel, ams?? Rossini???

It's the sheer relentlessness of it all, S_A. It isn't intelligent broadcasting, it's juke-box broadcasting - probably got unpaid interns loading the multi-player

[doversoul1]

Does anyone know for how much longer all this Baroque stuff is going to monopolize a good chunk of Radio 3? If it's Baroque Spring it may go on till June ...

Only another week, if you could possibly put up with it. Yes, I can see that next week’s evening schedule makes you want to groan but this is by no means the trend. It’s an exception. Once in the blue moon, if that. And besides, it has been/will be either 2 and a half hours in the afternoon or (less than) 3 hours in the evening. Nothing like 24/7 like other –thon and –fest. You can hardly call this monopolising.

As far as I am concerned, thanks to the extensive trailers, I managed to avoid all the irrelevances and enjoyed the rest. It has been good to feel that I am a main customer for once.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I agree. It's being done more discretely. No monopolising with wall-to-wall baroque.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I agree. It's being done more discretely. No monopolising with wall-to-wall baroque.

[doversoul1]

It's the sheer relentlessness of it all, S_A. It isn't intelligent broadcasting, it's juke-box broadcasting - probably got unpaid interns loading the multi-player

Like this?

http://www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk/2013/02/07/bristol-baroque-festival/

and this?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rft8w

or like this?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r9q6m

or…

Anyway, as I have said, only another week and it will be all back to normal. Thank you for putting up with the event that I have enjoyed without too many unkind comments to the music itself.

[JFLL]

You can hardly call this monopolising.

Well, actually I did say 'a good chunk', and I stand by that. (Maybe it just seems to be on all the time, what with all the trails.)

[amateur51]

Like this?

http://www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk/2013/02/07/bristol-baroque-festival/

and this?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rft8w

or like this?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r9q6m

or…

Anyway, as I have said, only another week and it will be all back to normal. Thank you for putting up with the event that I have enjoyed without too many unkind comments to the music itself.

I'm truly glad that you've enjoyed it dovers but I think my capacity to enjoy one composer/one style/one genre fairly non-stop has been reduced to intolerance - I recognise that, sadly.

Enjoy the rest of the week

[Flosshilde]

Only another week, if you could possibly put up with it. Yes, I can see that next week’s evening schedule makes you want to groan but this is by no means the trend. It’s an exception. Once in the blue moon, if that. And besides, it has been/will be either 2 and a half hours in the afternoon or (less than) 3 hours in the evening. Nothing like 24/7 like other –thon and –fest. You can hardly call this monopolising.

As far as I am concerned, thanks to the extensive trailers, I managed to avoid all the irrelevances and enjoyed the rest. It has been good to feel that I am a main customer for once.

It's been a welcome change from the usual 19th century domination of the schedules.

[aeolium]

It's been a welcome change from the usual 19th century domination of the schedules.