12 days of Blanket Mozart

[Guest]

Just got my Radio Times for the programmes 1-7th January and I see what a thorough job the BBC has done for it's 'Mozart Fest' including all the "Through the night" concerts!

Over to Classic FM for some relief. Only one Mozart work listed in the week in it's 8-10 pm. concert!

[subcontrabass]

Ten hours per day have no advance playlists, so no indication of when many of the works will be broadcast. So lots of scouring of the programmes afterwards and use of Listen Again in order to pick up the odd rarity which is not pre-scheduled and which one might actually want to hear. A good way to keep the number of listeners down.

[BBMmk2]

O a different slant, i received my copy of the BBC MMM, anmd even that was more or less cover Mozart. Practically the only thing I read was the 'Music That Changed Me', which this month fell to Edward Gregson.

[Suffolkcoastal]

Well at least I'll know in advance for my annual survey which composer will have the most works/extracts broadcast in 2011 as he'll have a 600+ head start of everyone else. I wonder if R3 will then have 12 days without any Mozart? Wishful thinking I guess! Though miracle of all miracles R3 has recently managed to go two weeks without a Slavonic Dance being broadcast, and I suppose one small blessing, at least there won't be a broadcast of an extract from Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet, a Hungarian Dance or the Ravel La Valse for 12 days!

[Sydney Grew]

Just got my Radio Times for the programmes 1-7th January and I see what a thorough job the BBC has done for it's 'Mozart Fest' including all the "Through the night" concerts!

Over to Classic FM for some relief. Only one Mozart work listed in the week in it's 8-10 pm. concert!

We regret to say it's "its" in both cases. We suppose this is still taught in schools - but in what grade, can any one say?

[vinteuil]

We regret to say it's "its" in both cases. We suppose this is still taught in schools - but in what grade, can any one say?

It is certainly the case that the currently accepted form is "its" for the genitive. It was not always so; up to the early nineteenth century "it's" is often found: Coleridge consistently uses "it's" where Mr Grew and I would now-a-days use "its".

[Sydney Grew]

Actually we believe that the real reason why the Corporation closed down its message-board system was not a financial one at all, but simply sheer shame at the illiteracy and general lack of education of its Members. It was certainly "not a good look" for people outside Britain who might have stumbled upon those forums was it.

[Daring Tripod]

I once had a boss, many years ago, who used to spend most of his day sending back our reports to him with grammatical corrections and without comments on their content.

Obviously, he did not do a very good job with me

He was finally ‘banished to the colonies’ (USA) where he must have had a very busy time!

[Petrushka]

I cannot imagine why anyone at R3 consider this to be good idea. They may try to convince us that it is 'innovative programming' or some such nonsense and while it must have taken a lot of work to put together, the entire station need only press the 'play' button after the New Year's Day Concert and then take a 12 day jolly leaving the tape to run on its own.

Ah well, I've loads of CD's to play.

[lordmhoram]

Though miracle of all miracles R3 has recently managed to go two weeks without a Slavonic Dance being broadcast, and I suppose one small blessing, at least there won't be a broadcast of an extract from Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet, a Hungarian Dance or the Ravel La Valse for 12 days!

... or the Mendelssohn violin concerto, "The Hebrides", the New World symphony, the Shostakovitch Festive Overture, or any other of the (non-Mozart) chestnuts which R3 churns out ad nauseam. Yes, I suppose one should be grateful for small mercies.

However, I'm still profoundly depressed at the thought of it, and seriously thinking of switching to CFM or R4, or investigating some of the European radio stations available on freesat/freeview (I've heard that Germany has - as one would imagine - some good classical stations.)

[salymap]

I love Mozart's music a great deal but the words of the defendant in G&S's Trial by Jury keep coming to mind:

You cannot eat breakfast all day, Nor is it the act of a sinner,
When breakfast is taken away, To turn your attention to dinner;
And it's not in the range of belief, That you could hold him as a glutton,
Who, when he is tired of beef, Determines to tackle the mutton.

[Frances_iom]

Saly
I suspect it will be even worse - though the 12 days are dotted with some excellent performances there is as you point out just too much so that the excellence of part will be drowned in the morass. I note that hospital radio phone-ins are now to make their appearance on R3 post 10pm.
I see one saturday night has two Mozart operas (Marriage of Figaro + Clemenza di Tito) back to back - crazy

[Norfolk Born]

It was certainly "not a good look" for people outside Britain who might have stumbled upon those forums was it.

Surely this sentence requires a comma after 'forums' and a question mark, instead of a full stop, after the final 'it' ? (We'll accept 'forums' rather than the formally more correct 'fora').

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

But it isn't all bad. For example, on Sunday, there is much more music than usual. Gone is much of th wishy-washy Scotch mist; instead, we have details of waht is actually going to be played.
I look forward, too, to two (2 2 2 in text-speak ) items of interest:
1. Peter Schaffer's "Amadeus" (5.45.p.m. Sunday - Drama on 3)
2. Oboe Concerto in F, K. 293 (completed Levin)

[salymap]

But somewhere, on leafing through my BBCMM I saw a single movement of a Mozart piano concerto. Unbelieveable, if I am right.