BBC 4 announces classical music season

[LMcD]

The greatest performances of the last 100 years are to feature in a major classical music season that will air on BBC 4, ending with the First Night of the 2019 Proms. The series will be called Our Classical Century and will be 'supported' by Essential Classics. The most recent BBC Young Musician Of The Year will feature. No further details at present.

[french frank]

Details from BBC Media Centre here.

Haven't absorbed all the detail yet.

[DracoM]

Well, a brief scan shows that actually, it's a loud noise signifying a lot that BBC TV and R3 does and has already done for years.
Not sure why it's being trumpeted like this. Or is it just a new way to wrap tried and tested shoes?

[teamsaint]

Well, a brief scan shows that actually, it's a loud noise signifying a lot that BBC TV and R3 does and has already done for years.
Not sure why it's being trumpeted like this. Or is it just a new way to wrap tried and tested shoes?

Careers.

[oddoneout]

CBSO 'led by Mark Wigglesworth' - I thought he was a conductor? Or is this another example of the revised terminology that sees concerts becoming gigs and violinists fiddlers?
I've only skimmed the beginning but it looks as if there's another Essential Classics gimmick in the offing.

[DracoM]

[Serial_Apologist]

CBSO 'led by Mark Wigglesworth' - I thought he was a conductor? Or is this another example of the revised terminology that sees concerts becoming gigs and violinists fiddlers?
I've only skimmed the beginning but it looks as if there's another Essential Classics gimmick in the offing.

It could be the first indication that curating is already a thing of the past!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Read the OP, I was feeling rather pleased, until I got to the bit about Essential Classics. Not a very good starting point.

And are we really going to hear performances from 1918 onwards. Or do we start with "Hey Jude"?

[subcontrabass]

CBSO 'led by Mark Wigglesworth' - I thought he was a conductor? Or is this another example of the revised terminology that sees concerts becoming gigs and violinists fiddlers?
I've only skimmed the beginning but it looks as if there's another Essential Classics gimmick in the offing.

Have they changed it since you read it? It now says in two places "conducted by Mark Wigglesworth" .

[LMcD]

Details from BBC Media Centre here.

Haven't absorbed all the detail yet.

There's a reference to complimentary (sic) programming on Radio 3. And what's wrong with a bit of mutual interdepartmental admiration, I hear you cry?

[french frank]

Something to be watched, I think. [Ed: The situation, I meant, not the programmes ]

The trouble is that when people are starving, they are usually pretty angry when offered a crumb.

[LeMartinPecheur]

It could be the first indication that curating is already a thing of the past!

, is that a or a ?

[DracoM]

....or a

[Lat-Literal]

The greatest performances of the last 100 years are to feature in a major classical music season that will air on BBC 4, ending with the First Night of the 2019 Proms. The series will be called Our Classical Century and will be 'supported' by Essential Classics. The most recent BBC Young Musician Of The Year will feature. No further details at present.

This was what stood out to me in the speech by Alan Davey plus notes.

I trust that RVW 2 will not be dismissed as being from 1914 and that the second March 1918/1919-1920 version is the piece of music that kicks it off!

The Forgotten Female Composers project is also of interest, especially in view of some of the ones they have chosen to feature.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I trust that RVW 2 will not be dismissed as being from 1914 and that the second March 1918/1919-1920 version is the piece of music that kicks it off!

I understood "[t]he greatest performances" to refer to historical recordings of works from across the repertory - so Josef Pasternack's recording of the "Hallelujah Chorus" from 1918, but not (necessarily) Kark's 1910 recording of Beethoven #5.