Film music concert with Katie Derham 16.9.13

[Barbirollians]

I am sorry but this should be on Radio 2 on a Friday night . Richard Baker should be presenting - not Radio 3 . No doubt this has been discussed elsewhere but I cannot find it on here.

[mercia]

I fancied some classical music so I've switched over to CFM. RVW Three Impressions. Mozart clarinet quintet. Schubert Symphony 3.

[Nick Armstrong]

I fancied some classical music so I've switched over to CFM. RVW Three Impressions.

I glanced at their schedule and thought that it was far preferable to R3

[johnb]

I know I'm a boring old fart but I looked at the Radio 3 schedules for this week and my heart sank. I felt a mixture of despair and utter frustration.

With all the other avenues to enjoy and explore interesting classical music (e.g. the Digital Concert Hall, Spotify, Qobuz not to mention CDs and CFM) what on earth is the point of Radio 3 if it pursues a populist agenda?

[edashtav]

How dismal, and how cynical to include small pieces by Ligeti, Messaien & Bruckner. I , for one, am not going to listen to minute after minute of the banal & soporific just to catch the sops; Lux Aeterna, O Sacrum Convivium and one of Bruckner's Ave Marias.

[Bryn]

When do we get the Elvira Madigan concerto written for the film by some Austrian chap?

[EdgeleyRob]

I glanced at their schedule and thought that it was far preferable to R3

It quite often is on weekday evenings.

[Pabmusic]

When do we get the Elvira Madigan concerto written for the film by some Austrian chap?

Oh please! I haven't heard that since I owned an LP with a soft-focus, long-haired lovely - in a meadow - on the front. I don't think the Austrian scored many films. Shame.

[Barbirollians]

Oh please! I haven't heard that since I owned an LP with a soft-focus, long-haired lovely - in a meadow - on the front. I don't think the Austrian scored many films. Shame.

I think some of his music was used in that Amadeus film - can't remember what it was about though .

[Pabmusic]

I think some of his music was used in that Amadeus film - can't remember what it was about though .

Bit of a plagiarist, I believe. He used a Waldo de los Rios hit in one score (how did it go - dada-dum, dada-dum, dada-dee-dah?). I guess there was a copyright action.

[richardfinegold]

Oh please! I haven't heard that since I owned an LP with a soft-focus, long-haired lovely - in a meadow - on the front. I don't think the Austrian scored many films. Shame.

Supposedly he actually wrote the music for Amadeus, but Salieri tricked the studio into sending him the royalty check

[underthecountertenor]

When do we get the Elvira Madigan concerto written for the film by some Austrian chap?

Sara Mohr-Pietsch must have read your mind, or this board. This morning on Breakfast, E was for Elivra Madigan, and we were told afterwards that there was a time that the slow movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 was called the slow movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21, rather than as Elvira Madigan, as it is now called. Earlier: E is for The Elephant Man, so here is another outing for Barbar The Elephant's Adagio for Strings, which will be played again when we get to P for Platoon.

[pastoralguy]

I know I'm a boring old fart but I looked at the Radio 3 schedules for this week and my heart sank. I felt a mixture of despair and utter frustration.

With all the other avenues to enjoy and explore interesting classical music (e.g. the Digital Concert Hall, Spotify, Qobuz not to mention CDs and CFM) what on earth is the point of Radio 3 if it pursues a populist agenda?

I can only agree. I drove home to the theme from a western his afternoon! Now I DO like light music ( being a player in the Edinburgh Light Orchetra) but all this film music on radio 3 is ridiculous. This is radio 2 stuff.

[Richard Tarleton]

When do we get the Elvira Madigan concerto written for the film by some Austrian chap?

Currently playing on In Tune (I wasn't listening specially, had the Julian Bream interview on and was doing something in the kitchen )

[Frances_iom]

... This is radio 2 stuff.

agreed - what you are now hearing is the music for the closing titles of R3 - sacrificed on the alter of RW's vanity.