Afternoon Concert - general thread

[JasonPalmer]

Looks like a good concert today, mixing with childcare so no doubt will miss some pieces while helping my little one with his lego..

[JasonPalmer]

Listening now, very interesting.

[JasonPalmer]

Waiting for the biggie

3pm
Brahms: Piano Concerto 2 in B flat, Op 82
Nikolai Lugansky, piano
German Symphony Orchestra
Kent Nagano, conductor

[JasonPalmer]

Good start today, looks like a good concert today

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hxk6

[Pulcinella]

Good start today, looks like a good concert today

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hxk6

The pieces in themselves may be fine, but where's any overall sense of this being a coherent 'concert' rather than a (possibly not very well chosen or 'curated') selection of works?

[JasonPalmer]

But it is free and I can enjoy while lounging on the sofa so good value, one always must consider the cost.

[Pulcinella]

But it is free and I can enjoy while lounging on the sofa so good value, one always must consider the cost.

And if, like me, you are happy sometimes to have music on as 'background', which I know many abhor, it's a good way of coming across some pieces you might otherwise not encounter, and hopefully be pleasantly surprised, or at least start to find out what you like and what you don't like!

[JasonPalmer]

I remember when I was a radio 3 addict I got a cd rom about classical music which had info and clips about different composers, it a huge subject, the radio 3 presenters act as a good buffer for me in selecting things, enjoying this Claude Debussy prelude which is playing now.

[JasonPalmer]

3pm
Brahms: Symphony No 1 in C minor, Op 67
Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome
Semyon Bychkov, conductor

Lovely.....

[Barbirollians]

Very depressing to see that yesterday's concert was largely Essential Classics in the afternoon - Nimrod on its own for example.

[Cockney Sparrow]

Very depressing to see that yesterday's concert was largely Essential Classics in the afternoon - Nimrod on its own for example.

I'm not a listener now (as is the case for morning chat & classical chunks) but I was about to start a car journey, radio tuned to R3 as "Nimrod" was announced, and the very same thought occurred to me.....as I turned it off and found a playlist on the streaming service I use.....

They're right to promote "Sounds" as I largely replay content from there - selecting what I listen to. Now I don't just listen to the programming on Radio 3 FM - and increasingly, the same applies to Radio 4.

[oddoneout]

Very depressing to see that yesterday's concert was largely Essential Classics in the afternoon - Nimrod on its own for example.

I have commented on this previously. There are now various forms of dissection - individual movements, stripping of large works over consecutive days, and disassembly of recorded concerts and recitals. These now seem to be embedded features, together with increasing "talk" content of various kinds.
It is no longer a "Concert". The basic format seems to be settling/has settled down, which suggests that this is intended to be the way forward for the afternoon schedule. I may be wrong about this( I don't listen, but don't seem to have seen any listed recently) but it also looks as if weekday opera broadcasts have gone as a regular feature - once a week on Saturday is evidently enough?
We now have the unappealing offering of EC lite(Breakfast) first thing, the EC itself, a brief interruption for CoW and lunchtime concert, then EC Plus(formerly Afternoon Concert), then end of afternoon/early evening more bits and pieces. Even for me, who listens to the morning schedules, that is unacceptable and I now miss(deliberately or subconsciously) more and more of the afternoon offering. The incomplete/inaccurate listings don't help, but even when they are reasonably in line with the broadcast, I don't want to listen to the juxtapositions(dissected works, bits from recorded concerts) that now seem to be the pattern. I realise this is perception, but too much of the "big work" content is standard repertoire - same limited number of composers/works - whereas the peripheral pieces are more varied, but they are the ones that aren't presented in their full context, being broken bits of concerts/recitals, sometimes split over the afternoon and/or more than one day.
As many of the evening concerts are now of limited interest to me (after 6 decades I've decided to stop trying to like certain composers' output - if it hasn't happened by now it ain't likely to do so!) that would have increased my focus on the afternoon offering which, in the past, seemed to be more varied and have more that was unfamiliar. Alas, that has been taken away. It's no good the Beeb touting its listen again options because if the basic offering is poor, then faffing around to find the one bit that might be of interest isn't an appealing way to spend my time, even if I had the set-up to do so. Unreasonable as it seems I would like to be able to switch on the radio to hear something now, not have to construct my own programmes from what I can scavenge of the day's output to listen to at some other time. If I were to go that effort why stick with the BBC - I gather there is a whole other world out there of music ouptut if I have to make my own programmes?
It used to be the case that I would often put on Afternoon Concert without feeling the need to look to see what was on offer - blind listening often worked fine. In the new version of EC plus I often can't be bothered; if I've listened to the morning schedule, I neither need nor want more of the (nearly) the same.
All part of the seeming modern trend to make any form of service provision a DIY affair while still demanding the rate(directly financial or indirectly via equipment investment etc) for the "proper" version.

[JasonPalmer]

Ian Skelly on twitter happy, one person pulled over their vehicle and sent him a video of how ecstatic they were to hear nimrod on the afternoon concert.

[Bryn]

Ian Skelly on twitter happy, one person pulled over their vehicle and sent him a video of how ecstatic they were to hear nimrod on the afternoon concert.

Must have been a CFM listener who accidentally tuned it to Radio 3.

[JasonPalmer]

Perhaps he in transition to becoming a radio 3 type while started out at classic fm, all good. Point is, someone was very happy with the Elgar.