Mozart Fest

[mozart79]

I think there's one chink of hope: TTN might not follow, as it's also broadcast by several other organisations. I can't imagine that they would be too happy with 12 nights of solid Mozart (or would they?)

that's a good point but i think TTN will go along with the rest of radio 3

[Andrew Slater]

that's a good point but i think TTN will go along with the rest of radio 3

I'm afraid you might be right - I've just checked, and they abandoned TTN during the 'Tchaikovsky Experience' in 2007.

Oh, well, they've lost a listener for 12 days (at least).

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I'm afraid you might be right - I've just checked, and they abandoned TTN during the 'Tchaikovsky Experience' in 2007.

Oh, well, they've lost a listener for 12 days (at least).

It's true. Some of the operas were broadcast during the night, necessitating recording.

But let's not forget they had to broadcast the music of 2 composers during a shorter time-scale.

[Norfolk Born]

Make that 2 listeners....

[Flosshilde]

Make that 2 listeners....

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The Guardian's view -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardia...adio-3-january :)

[Idamante]

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The Guardian's view -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardia...adio-3-january :)

Note the following Q&A:

So why play them all? Because classical music lovers are trainspotters

Well, you might be forgiven for thinking so based on this evidence. A Radio 3 own goal I think

[lordmhoram]

I suppose that I am probably one of the few listeners who detests Mozart's music.

You're certainly not the only one! I find that a lot of his music makes me feel physically ill. I also know why: it's his harmony. For me, 90% of the interest in music is the harmony: Mozart with his endless unbroken stretches of chords IV, V and I only just drives me crazy. The only works which attract me are the ones in which he lets his harmonic hair down a bit - the Ave Verum, the Jupiter symphony, etc. (Predictably, the composers that I enjoy tend to be ones who consistently feature interesting harmony: Ravel, Delius, Bax, Brian, Howells, Ireland, and the like.

For me, the Mozart debauch basically means doing without R3 for 12 days.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Mozart's genius was that he could achieve his effects with the simplest of gestures. His harmonies are often straightforward, in the manner of the late 18th century, but he would produce a single chord or modulation which turned the music into a different world. I'm not putting this into words particularly well, but I think there are others who could do so better.

[Norfolk Born]

The irony - presumably lost on RW - is that, while I believe Mozart to be arguably the greatest musical genius who ever graced this planet, and I love most of his output, I shall, like you, be tuned elsewhere for those 12 days.

[doversoul1]

The Guardian is asking/giving the readers a chance to vote for/agains Radio3’s Mozart fest. Our chandce to say NO?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/poll/2010/dec/15/poll-radio-three-3-mozart

[kuligin]

Exactly the point, OFACHAP, these marathons are most exasperating when you actually deeply care about the music, its the idea of this wonderful music being treated in this way that angers me. I listened to very little of the Bach extravaganza for the same reason

So the only Mozart I shall listen during this period will be from my own collection!

[subcontrabass]

The Guardian is asking/giving the readers a chance to vote for/agains Radio3’s Mozart fest. Our chandce to say NO?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/po...three-3-mozart

Note that the vote closes tomorrow.

[Suffolkcoastal]

... and also note that the 'No's' are comfortably ahead at the time of posting. I have of course voted against this daft experiment.

[Bax-of-Delights]

2 to 1 against the idea - which is a fairly high percentage of nay-sayers. There are some interesting comments from posters on that site which would appear to show that a fair number will be turning OFF R3 during those 12 days. Not quite the idea is it?
I finhd the concept very strange indeed. Bach, Beethoven, Mozart - are R3 saying that other composers in the intervening centuries just don't measure up to them or worthwhile being given their own "fest" or what precisely?
I am beginning to feel that R3 has seriously - and dangerously - lost its way. If it was piling on the listening figures RW could rightly say that the trajectory was working but the truth is that it isn't and increasingly, I fear, it is losing the "old" core audience.

[Peter Katin]

as much as I love Mozart, the idea of 12 days of his music fills me with horror.

Me too, I'm afraid. Already a Mozart work seems mandatory in most programmes and I really don't know why.