A la recherche du Third Programme perdu

[Dave2002]

Only of the relay variety, and I've attended three of those, including the Almeida one already referred to (which I also recorded to a series of cassettes, though unfortunately only a few stretches remain).

Ah - so you like stretching tapes do you? Not the same with CD, DVDs or downloads is it? Do you have a preferred process for the stretching?

[Alf-Prufrock]

Firstly because there were some 20 pianists involved (some played two stints) and their different approaches to the piece were of interest to me (from John TIlbury's highly consistent performance without pedalling, so relying totally upon finger legato technique, via John White's exquisitely 'salon' approach, to Michael Nyman's attempt at playing each repetition differently) and secondly as raw material for a project I was working on at the time which involved multi-tracking the 840 cycles as one (with, effectively, 840 simultaneous performances of a single cycle.

I have just seen your reply and thank you for your courteousness after what seems to me now to be a brusque and ill-considered comment of mine. What you did with Vexations seems to be fascinating, and I apologise for my flippancy.

[Bryn]

The result was made available in data compressed format on the BBC Radio 3 site for a couple of years, from late 2000 or early 2001. I forget exactly when it went 'live' but I recently chanced upon the payment advice for my contribution to the experimental website project which included it. The payment dated 14 September 2000. Some here may even have heard (if not listened to) the item. I was amused to recieve an email from an Australian gentleman who rather liked it.