Afternoon Concert - general thread

[oddoneout]

An email isn't a complaint - there is a process for complaints, so that would be the next step. I'm sure you know, you get an acknowledgement and then a polite email explaining why the BBC doesn't need to agree with whichever complaint you made.

I think the next step is to complain to OFCOM, but I'd need to check the process as I've never gone that far. Even egregious breaches of the BBC's obligations (I understand) aren't taken up by OFGEM because (I also understand) basically they aren't interested..........

The first couple or 3 weren't complaints they were specific queries, and I had autoreplies ( "we get too many emails to be [.....] to reply individually"), but after that I did send complaints and got no response at all.
On the other hand when I contacted Through the Night about having repeated most of an Afternoon Concert broadcast earlier in the day I quickly got a nice email back from the Lead Producer explaining it was a mistake.
I know that the pandemic has caused difficulties but the occasional attempts at contact (not about A. Concert) pre-pandemic didn't fare any better frankly.

[gradus]

Maestoso, Grandioso indeed, the Great Gate of Kiev must have been quite something given this afternoon's rip-snorting performance by the Ulster Orchestra. Not the only time - Tchaik 3rd Orchestral Suite sticks in the memory - I've heard performances by this orchestra that would be greeted with tumultuous applause by any Proms audience. A conductor, Daniele Rustioni, unafraid of being accused of vulgarity and making one hell of a racket at the slowest pace imaginable that brought out the air percussionist in me.

[oddoneout]

Wonders will never cease - all the items played were listed in the pre-broadcast info box, and in the order they appeared there. As usual, too much presenter input (and that's nothing to do with whether I like the person concerned or not) and some very intrusive adverts, but also a pleasing selection of items. There was no connection between them, as is now standard for AC (not a concert so no need for programme planning as if it was?), but they followed on very well as far as this listener was concerned. The Handel aria that is listed but doesn't appear in the "Music Played" list was played, in case anyone wants to know.

[Bryn]

Wonders will never cease - all the items played were listed in the pre-broadcast info box, and in the order they appeared there. As usual, too much presenter input (and that's nothing to do with whether I like the person concerned or not) and some very intrusive adverts, but also a pleasing selection of items. There was no connection between them, as is now standard for AC (not a concert so no need for programme planning as if it was?), but they followed on very well as far as this listener was concerned. The Handel aria that is listed but doesn't appear in the "Music Played" list was played, in case anyone wants to know.

How very Islamophilic of them. After all, only Allah is perfect.

[oddoneout]

How very Islamophilic of them. After all, only Allah is perfect.

As the Amish quiltmakers know.

[oddoneout]

Who writes this stuff?

We'll hear the opera divided in two parts, spread around the afternoon.

my bold.
My first thought was " smeared" followed by "peanut butter sarnie". In fact it seems to be a fairly standard format of first part, interval music, second part.

[Frances_iom]

[QUOTE=oddoneout;873514... In fact it seems to be a fairly standard format of first part, interval music, second part.[/QUOTE]
that's assuming a lot - smearing works is an apt description of what the totally misnamed "Afternoon Concert" does - Thursdays used to be a complete Opera broadcast complete with all parts broadcast in the same sequence as would be heard in an opera house - with AC there is no such 'guarantee' .

[Serial_Apologist]

Who writes this stuff?
my bold.
My first thought was " smeared" followed by "peanut butter sarnie". In fact it seems to be a fairly standard format of first part, interval music, second part.

"Benedicite omnia opera" was always recited before school meals, so I learned early on they had something to do with food.

[Nick Armstrong]

The feast of French music & orchestras promised in all listings for the afternoons this week is going well:

[oddoneout]

The feast of French music & orchestras promised in all listings for the afternoons this week is going well:

The irony being that today we have been presented with a more detailed schedule than is usual these days, with works and approximate timings. However even with that detail it doesn't exclude random other pieces appearing as well, although making two complete substitutions in the first hour is going some even by current AC standards - or lack of. Days when the schedule says "To include" are the ones when things get aired in any order together with other bits and pieces not declared on the menu. I suppose the assumption is that as nobody listens in real time it doesn't matter 'cos folk can just select from whatever catch-up they use... with the benefit presumably of being able to edit out the adverts and increasing quantity of presenter input.

[gurnemanz]

The feast of French music & orchestras promised in all listings for the afternoons this week is going well:

The programme description state "features performances by French orchestras", not mentioning either "feast" or indeed "French music".

[Ein Heldenleben]

Well they have the Saint-Saens Violin Concerto no,3 on now which I’m rather enjoying .It doesn’t get played much and I don’t understand why …

[Nick Armstrong]

Well they have the Saint-Saens Violin Concerto no,3 on now which I’m rather enjoying .It doesn’t get played much and I don’t understand why …

Yes - I actually played in a performance of it late last year. It’s pleasant enough.

The programme description state "features performances by French orchestras", not mentioning either "feast" or indeed "French music".

Fair enough, but the entirely non-French half hour I caught seemed entirely out of keeping with the billing.

[Andrew Slater]

The Williams piece was actually preceded by Saint-Saëns' Bacchanale, as per the billing, but this hasn't appeared in the playlist! (That will play havoc with my database ....)

[Andrew Slater]

The Williams piece was actually preceded by Saint-Saëns' Bacchanale, as per the billing, but this hasn't appeared in the playlist! (That will play havoc with my database ....)

Update: Saint-Saëns' Bacchanale now appears at the end of the playlist for Lunchtime Concert, but it wasn't actually broadcast as part of that programme, and it doesn't play in Sounds for that programme, although it's listed there too. It appears at the beginning of Sounds for Afternoon Concert, but is not listed in its playlist and (possibly as a result) the beginning of the piece is missing in Sounds. (The programme's opening announcement is consequently missing.) My database has faithfully copied the error: I can correct that....