Mozart Fest

[Eudaimonia]

Doesn't quite explain this, though, does it?

Oh dear. Well, I'm sure if you asked him about it, he'd have a slick, super-smooth explanation ready for you that would make everything seem perfectly reasonable and clear. Doesn't he always? Let's see how that might play:

1) no no--any questions of chocolateboxiness have been fully resolved by their bold and creative editorial approach to programming--if you just give it a chance, you'll see how their original and clever juxtapositions encourage everyone to hear Mozart in an entirely new light!

Or maybe...

2) in difficult times, people reach out to music for comfort and consolation just as people have traditionally reached for the chocolate box around the holidays in times of great stress--perhaps the nation could do with a wonderfully consoling aural sugar rush about now.

3) Or perhaps he'd seize the opportunity to display a little of his trademark affable faux-humility, admit he was wrong, shrug charmingly and and say something along the lines of "we all learn and grow".

Haha! Did I miss anything? Oh I do hope someone asks him about it...it ought to be good.

[french frank]

Oh dear. Well, I'm sure if you asked him about it, he'd have a slick, super-smooth explanation ready for you that would make everything seem perfectly reasonable and clear. Doesn't he always?

Finally, one is d'accord!

Actually, the main reasoning behind these mammoth events is that they're publicity stunts to get some column inches in the press. Easy to do when you also employ some of the journalists who give you a good write-up

[Bryn]

If Radio 3's complere Mozart is as 'complete' as their complete Brandenburgs earlier tonight, there's going to be rather a lot missing.

[Vile Consort]

from that Torygraph piece:



really? no lunnun then ....and JC never mind pa?

Eh?

No part of that makes any sense to me.

[french frank]

Eh?

No part of that makes any sense to me.

May I? 'So he didn't go to London very early in his short life? Wasn't in any way influenced by Johann Christian Bach (leaving Johann Sebastian out of it).'

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

If Radio 3's complere Mozart is as 'complete' as their complete Brandenburgs earlier tonight, there's going to be rather a lot missing.

Go on; tell us what was missing.

[Flosshilde]

Go on; tell us what was missing.

The first movement of one of the Brandenburgs - 3 I think. The presenter did assure us that it had been played in the concert, but there was a fault in the tape.

[Flosshilde]

Anyway, make the most of today - the last time Radio 3 will be on for almost two weeks

[Suffolkcoastal]

Perhaps there will be a fault on the mastertape around midday tomorrow that will prevent any Mozart being played for the next 12 days, here's hoping!

[Bryn]

Not the 3rd, that had a rather long improvised violin cadenza in place of the two chords that separate the two composed movements. It was the 6th which lacked its first movement.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Anyway, make the most of today - the last time Radio 3 will be on for almost two weeks

Not quite. There is the live relay from Vienna in the morning.

[Serial_Apologist]

Would anyone, in the event that they have been given just 12 days to live, like to state what piece of music they would request Radio 3 to play for them?

Only joking, innit...

S-A

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Would anyone, in the event that they have been given just 12 days to live, like to state what piece of music they would request Radio 3 to play for them?

Only joking, innit...

S-A

As an attempt to stave off death, I'd go for "Solo for Double Bass" (1969) by Malcolm Fox. Total playing time 73,000,000,000 years.

[lordmhoram]

Would anyone, in the event that they have been given just 12 days to live, like to state what piece of music they would request Radio 3 to play for them?

No point. They wouldn't play it.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

As fellow message boarders will be aware, I do love Mozart's music, despite having reservations about Radio 3's blanket coverage.
There is, however, one major Mozart work that does nothing for me at all - his Symphony no. 35 in D "Haffner". Yet it is the favourite of many.