Bavarian Radio SO Afternoon on 3

[Petrushka]

Some interesting programmes on Afternoon on 3 this week featuring the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and including, on Wednesday, Mariss Jansons conducting the Britten War Requiem.

Why can't Radio 3 broadcast the concerts 'as live' instead of chopping them up into bits?

[Serial_Apologist]

Some interesting programmes on Afternoon on 3 this week featuring the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and including, on Wednesday, Mariss Jansons conducting the Britten War Requiem.

Why can't Radio 3 broadcast the concerts 'as live' instead of chopping them up into bits?

Because they figure that listener's attention spans have been so thoroughly recalibrated to excerpts and bc's by the morning schedulings that the latter would prove too much?

OT, I notice that COTW seems to have been focused towards the more populist end of Copland - not much of the radical end of his output from the looks of things, though I am prepared to be proved in-part wrong.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Why can't Radio 3 broadcast the concerts 'as live' instead of chopping them up into bits?

I have no idea, Pet - but I so wish they wouldn't! If performers go to the trouble of carefully putting together a balanced programme, it's nothing but a crass disrespect to their artistry to mangle the items with others. Is it just to make them fit into the schedules more conveniently? Or just because they can??!!

[aeolium]

It is maddening, though it has been a noticeable trend for a year or two now. It happens frequently with the lunchtime concerts (apart from the live Wigmore one). It is sometimes done I think to enable the music to fit into a particular slot, but also because of a sort of jukebox mentality infecting R3 these days, that pieces can be taken out of concert performances and slotted in any old how. It means not only, as ferney says, that the carefully constructed programme of the original concert is lost but also that it is harder for the listener to follow how an orchestra responds to the character of a particular conductor, as one can over a whole concert.

[amateur51]

It is maddening, though it has been a noticeable trend for a year or two now. It happens frequently with the lunchtime concerts (apart from the live Wigmore one). It is sometimes done I think to enable the music to fit into a particular slot, but also because of a sort of jukebox mentality infecting R3 these days, that pieces can be taken out of concert performances and slotted in any old how. It means not only, as ferney says, that the carefully constructed programme of the original concert is lost but also that it is harder for the listener to follow how an orchestra responds to the character of a particular conductor, as one can over a whole concert.

I think the word to describe R3's rejigging of concert content is unmusical

[Stanfordian]

Some interesting programmes on Afternoon on 3 this week featuring the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and including, on Wednesday, Mariss Jansons conducting the Britten War Requiem.

Why can't Radio 3 broadcast the concerts 'as live' instead of chopping them up into bits?

Hiya Petrushka, I was forunate to have been at that very performance in Munich. It was excellently performed and most moving with the marvellous Christian Gerhaher the pick of a fine trio of soloists.

[marvin]

Oh, dear not a good day for the usually excellent Yefim Bronfman was it? The Brahms 2nd Piano Concerto has just been played and not always very comfortable on the ears with so many mistakes. I know that to err is only human and all that but honestly.........................

[Petrushka]

Hiya Petrushka, I was forunate to have been at that very performance in Munich. It was excellently performed and most moving with the marvellous Christian Gerhaher the pick of a fine trio of soloists.

I will be setting the recorder for this. As I intend saving to DVD have you the exact date to hand please?

[Stanfordian]

I will be setting the recorder for this. As I intend saving to DVD have you the exact date to hand please?

It was at the Philharmonie, Gasteig, Munich on 14th March 2013.

[Petrushka]

It was at the Philharmonie, Gasteig, Munich on 14th March 2013.

Thanks.