Why can't Radio 3 broadcast the Afternoon on 3 concerts 'as live' instead of chopping them up into bits?
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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?Originally posted by Petrushka View PostLast edited by Nick Armstrong; 06-05-13, 15:51. -
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??!!Originally posted by Petrushka View Post[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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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.
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I think the word to describe R3's rejigging of concert content is unmusicalOriginally posted by aeolium View PostIt 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.
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Bizarre R3 concert programming
I thought some posts about a specific concert were worth copying to a thread about programming, as some of us seem to have been thinking about this on and off for a while...
One of the weirdest mash-ups I can recall was on Good Friday - Ratty and Mole and Pergolesi's Stabat Mater...
BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra Episode 4 of 4
Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes
First broadcast: Friday 29 March 2013
Louise Fryer presents a new version of the classic tale of Rat, Mole, Badger and Toad - combining the talents of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and a special cast. Plus a selection of Good Friday music by Wagner, Harrer, Hauptmann and Pergolesi.
Neil Brand: The Wind in the Willows
Toad ..... Stephen Mangan
Mole .....Claire Skinner
Badger .....Philip Jackson
Rat .....Carl Prekopp
Otter .....Patrick Brennan
Bargee .....Liza Sadovy
Judge .....Paul Stonehouse
Girl .....Stephanie Racine
Singers: Genevieve Hamilton, Amanda Morrison, Julia Batchelor-Walsh, Jonathan English, Daniel Auchincloss and William Gaunt,
BBC SO,
Conductor Timothy Brock.
3.10pm
Wagner: Good Friday Music (from Parsifal)
BBC SO,
Martyn Brabbins (conductor).
3.20pm
J Gottlieb Harrer: Mein Herz ist bereit
Moritz Hauptmann: Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus Dei from Mass in F minor, Op. 18
BBC Singers,
Conductor David Hill.
3.40pm
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
Sophie Karthäuser (soprano),
Christophe Dumaux (countertenor),
Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin,
Director René Jacobs."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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You're not wrong, amsterOriginally posted by amateur51 View PostI think the word to describe R3's rejigging of concert content is unmusical
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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It's difficult to imagine how their tiny minds work these days.
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On Classic FM, they punctuate the music with adverts. Perhaps they are preparing us for this.
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It looks like a mire!!Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
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A phrase that sets my teeth on edge: you couldn't make it upOriginally posted by Caliban View Post
One of the weirdest mash-ups I can recall was on Good Friday - Ratty and Mole and Pergolesi's Stabat Mater...
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It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Virtually stopped listening to daytime R3 because of the dreaded "sequence"... and anyway, it never works well in concert really does it? Lots of short items, even if in a single concert, produce (in me at least) a kind of febrility, then a fragmentation, of attention. Exhausting. LastNightofthe, Cinema Specials, the dreaded Galas... even New Year's Day in Vienna (but then, it does start well within hangover territory even if you haven't been on the razz...)Comment
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I assumed the mashup was so KD could continue to be employed - like several of the earlier posters apart from very few slots(Wigmore, EMS + sometimes COTW if I know I'm going to miss the evening repeat) I too have given up on the afternoon swill that follows the dogs breakfast of the morning - maybe they could just pull the plug nowComment
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I really HATE this! I tend not to listen to these, in consequence.Originally posted by Petrushka View PostComment
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