The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[smittims]

Well, at least they didn't try to portray Haydn as a paedophile, or a 'domineering patriarch' as Sarah Walker maligned Ralph Richardson's character in 'the Holly and the Ivy'. I complained to the BBC , but of course they won't do anything to stop this sort of thing.

[muzzer]

We’ve just had a segue from a comment about Netflix’s most popular Christmas thing being vid of a log fire ‘warm and comforting’ to ‘Haydn, a composer who is always warm and comforting’, or the like. This is why I’d rather mainline TTN or just stream WQXR. I have the same feeling when Emma Barnett is presenting Today. Jiminy flipping cricket who writes this bilge?

[LMcD]

Is the new Wallace and Gromit a BBC production? It was plugged with talk and music yesterday in the brief bit of Breakfast I heard, and the same thing has just happened on today's programme.
I am fan, and am looking forward to the new film but, seriously - is this really what Sam Jackson's vision for R3 involves?
Should we write in and suggest forthcoming film releases to be shamelessly promoted this way?
I have now abandoned Breakfast, even Petroc's weekday ones, the proportion of repetitive and pointless babble too high and the music interruptions being far too often of no interest or quality. Trouble is, habits take a while to change and the radio gets switched on when I come downstairs to start the day and it sometimes takes a while to register that there is no point in doing so; I probably subconsciously keep expecting that a miracle will have happened and we are back in the pre-SJ era, which wasn't brilliant, but in comparison...

I thought I was dreaming that I was in a large department store, desperately trying to escape the dreadful seasonal 'background' music, only to wake up to find that I was actually listening to the Hampton (?) String Quartet's version of 'Let It Snow (x3)'.

[smittims]

I agree entirely. The first movement of this, followed, inexplicably , by the last movement of that, then we have to sit through another excruciating trailer before hearing the next snippet. If this is meant to introduce a new audience to classical music it must be giving them a very distorted idea of it.

[oddoneout]

Is the new Wallace and Gromit a BBC production? It was plugged with talk and music yesterday in the brief bit of Breakfast I heard, and the same thing has just happened on today's programme.
I am fan, and am looking forward to the new film but, seriously - is this really what Sam Jackson's vision for R3 involves?
Should we write in and suggest forthcoming film releases to be shamelessly promoted this way?
I have now abandoned Breakfast, even Petroc's weekday ones, the proportion of repetitive and pointless babble too high and the music interruptions being far too often of no interest or quality. Trouble is, habits take a while to change and the radio gets switched on when I come downstairs to start the day and it sometimes takes a while to register that there is no point in doing so; I probably subconsciously keep expecting that a miracle will have happened and we are back in the pre-SJ era, which wasn't brilliant, but in comparison...

[Ein Heldenleben]

How do/did they get away with that?

Dunno . It was also usually abbreviated to seg in speech. Think I might have mentioned it once that it’s segue : from the Italian for to follow . My Radio One career died at that moment..

[oddoneout]

Radio Segues hardly ever really work . They always jar because of mood, key and tuning issues . Unless they are part of a composition e,g, the thrilling mediant change from E minor to C between movements 2 And 3 of Beethoven’s 4 th PC.
They are used to make the tedious job of slapping on another disc in a radio studio a tad more interesting . They started with pop DJ’s and have now invaded the classical arena sadly

Incidentally in Radio One they always spelt it Segway ….

How do/did they get away with that?

[Ein Heldenleben]

... with an honourable mention for Nat King Cole?

Granted . No one in that genre has ever sung as in tune as Nat. His ear was incredible.

[LMcD]

It’s harmonically and rhythmically duffed up by generations of jazzers as well.

Its Judy Garland’s song and should be left alone .

Apparently at Hollywood Xmas parties she’d sing it as a party piece. Now that would be worth hearing,..,

... with an honourable mention for Nat King Cole?

[LMcD]

Looking at the schedules for the next few days I'm now doing exactly the same. The upside is that I'm rediscovering treasures in my own library that I haven't heard for a while - and no trailers for 'Unwind' or 'Ultimate Calm'!

That,s been my policy for some time now.

[Ein Heldenleben]

My unfavourite moment this morning was that funereal rendering of 'Have yourself a Merry little Christmas'. The original song was in polka tempo, a brisk two-four, which after all does match the words, but for some odd reason it's acquired the same treatment meted out to 'Nimrod' . Barber's Adagio, etc.

It’s harmonically and rhythmically duffed up by generations of jazzers as well.

Its Judy Garland’s song and should be left alone .

Apparently at Hollywood Xmas parties she’d sing it as a party piece. Now that would be worth hearing,..,

[smittims]

My unfavourite moment this morning was that funereal rendering of 'Have yourself a Merry little Christmas'. The original song was in polka tempo, a brisk two-four, which after all does match the words, but for some odd reason it's acquired the same treatment meted out to 'Nimrod' . Barber's Adagio, etc.

[hmvman]

.. - and no trailers for 'Unwind' or 'Ultimate Calm'!

The only 'unwinding' being done in this house is the springs of my gramophone...

[willietell]

... I was seriously considering as a New Year resolution abandoning Radio 3 entirely, and using my CDs.

And I am now thinking of starting that Resolution now ....

Looking at the schedules for the next few days I'm now doing exactly the same. The upside is that I'm rediscovering treasures in my own library that I haven't heard for a while - and no trailers for 'Unwind' or 'Ultimate Calm'!

[Ein Heldenleben]

…with a crashing segue into John Rutter’s ‘What Sweeter Music’ (and I DO like a dash of Rutter at Christmas, and indeed at other times) in a recording of what to my innocent ear sounded like a slightly above average church choir and turned out to be King’s College Cambridge.

Radio Segues hardly ever really work . They always jar because of mood, key and tuning issues . Unless they are part of a composition e,g, the thrilling mediant change from E minor to C between movements 2 And 3 of Beethoven’s 4 th PC.
They are used to make the tedious job of slapping on another disc in a radio studio a tad more interesting . They started with pop DJ’s and have now invaded the classical arena sadly

Incidentally in Radio One they always spelt it Segway ….