Originally posted by ardcarp
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Makes two of us
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Not quite on topic:
Some time ago, the Grauniad's listings mag offered us Farinelli II Castrato. I always wondered what happened to Farinelli I - straight to DVD??
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Very sad....and all the other cuts and changes....and worst of all ; what cut programmes are replaced by....it's a bit like a forest being cut down, and watching the weeds and rhododendrons, laurel, fireweed taking over....bong chingComment
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...my mental picture is more of a rainforest cleared by fire. All we see is a desolation of smoking stumps. And for some reason Byrd's Ne Irascaris comes to mind too.Comment
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Except in this instance opportunistic species are coming in & occupying every vacated niche.Originally posted by ardcarp View PostComment
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Thanks to vinteuil and doversoul for the interesting links.
I caught the first 20 minutes of this typically interesting and thoughtfully-produced show, and intend to listen again via iplayer or a podcast later. One shudders to think what tripe will appear in this spot a week hence.Comment
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It'll be the lunchtime concert which will be first broadcast this Monday, 23rd. So, another cheapo repeat. Which is ok (assuming you haven't heard it before) but it's not the same as a new edition of EMS is it?Originally posted by Ruhevoll View PostComment
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Don't we already have the repeat of the Monday lunchtime concert at 2, after TEMS? So still an hour for Them to fill with Something Awful?Comment
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Hello Rue Dubac!! Haven't crossed your path till now (though I see you've been around since spring!). WelcomeOriginally posted by Rue Dubac View Post
The repeat's been brought forward an hour to allow for a new - guess what?! - film music 'show' later in the afternoon on Saturday: see post #2 here: http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...ys-and-Sundays
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Yes, the 'Something Awful' (depends on your tastes, though) is the new film music programme at 4pm. Saturday Classics is shifted forward an hour to follow the repeat of the recital, and thus make a space for the new programme just before Jazz Record Requests (and also just before Howard Goodall's film music programme on Classic FM).Originally posted by Rue Dubac View PostIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Just how much listenable film music is there (very little IMO) surely it is going to be very repetitive....bong chingComment
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It's already very repetitive - at 7.15am this morning we had the Warsaw Concerto again, for what seemed the 20th time since this ill-judged and misconceived idea started ....Originally posted by eighthobstruction View PostComment
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Dear Catherine
This is a very sad day indeed. It seems even sadder that the subject of the last programme was such a phoney thing as a ‘biopic’. However, not at all surprisingly, you and the team made a lovely silk purse out of a pig’s ear* with your many subtle comments. All this makes it even sadder to think that there will be no more Early Music Show to look forward to at Saturday lunchtime.
*As I didn’t see the film, I have no opinions about the film itself but I don’t see it as a worthwhile subject for a programme about early music beyond being a curios reference.
I see it more like bulldozers digging up beautiful green fields and hills, and cutting down woods full of bluebells in order to build yet more of those ‘executive houses’. No room for rhododendrons or laurel, let alone fireweed. It will all be patioed gardens with barbecue stands and highbred begonias in fancy tubs. I’d rather see a desolation, as there can be some hope of rebuilding what was once there but once a place is built over, that’s it.Originally Posted by ardcarp
...my mental picture is more of a rainforest cleared by fire. All we see is a desolation of smoking stumps. And for some reason Byrd's Ne Irascaris comes to mind too.
Radio 3 is dead and Music dies…Comment
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it is not ill judged - actually very clever, choose the party conf season so media coverage elsewhere, choose a subject dear to heart of non-classical music listeners, they couldn't choose the most obvious advert tunes but choose the next best (+ one for which there are a few classical composers but mostly the Jenkins of this world) + run it for long enough to completely p*ss of the old brigade but long enough that some message may get thru to the desired R2 listeners - R3 is indeed dead and RW can take his pension and the gong he so evidently wants as a loyal mediocrat.Originally posted by Anna View PostComment
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