Originally posted by muzzer
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The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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the Bill Evans was most welcome ...According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.
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Originally posted by antongould View PostI have listened to iplayer and the second piece played was Michael Haydn's Bassoon Concertino in B Flat Major....[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostI heard Netrebko's September from Four Last Songs on breakfast this morning - IT WAS DREADFUL - voice unsuited to the song but to my ears she was off the note. Are the record companies so desperate to cash in on the big names that this standard of performance is allowed out!
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostI heard Netrebko's September from Four Last Songs on breakfast this morning - IT WAS DREADFUL - voice unsuited to the song but to my ears she was off the note. Are the record companies so desperate to cash in on the big names that this standard of performance is allowed out!
Having said that, the reviewers seem to have fallen for it hook line and sinker. Are we the ones with the cloth ears? (Another rhetorical question for you).
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Originally posted by underthecountertenor View PostI've migrated once more to France Musique during CBH's tenure of the Breakfast chair"...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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Originally posted by Caliban View PostYes - CBH is wholly untenable. Classical-KUSC or recorded Through The Nights &c. here
With all due respect of course......I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by teamsaint View Posti too enjoy KUSC, but for some reason all classical music presentation that I have heard from across the pond puts me in mind of Niles Crane.
With all due respect of course......
Martin: People think you're stuffy. You know, with your opera parties, and your wine parties and your seasoned crepe pans.
Frasier: In my defense, Niles is the only one who has ever seasoned his crepe pans.
Niles: Which is precisely why I've had the same set since the ninth grade, thank you very much."...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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Originally posted by underthecountertenor View PostI've migrated once more to France Musique during CBH's tenure of the Breakfast chair. They too have been playing individual tracks from the Netrebko Four Last Songs recently. Obviously the DG publicity machine still carries some weight with broadcasters. I agree with you that she sounds pretty dreadful in them. But the answer to your (rhetorical?) question is: obviously yes. This will sell and sell, particularly with the help it's getting from the broadcast and other media, and will probably be one of DG's money-makers this year, however expensive it may have been to record. And, boy, are they desperate for money-makers! Back to Janowitz for me, however.
Having said that, the reviewers seem to have fallen for it hook line and sinker. Are we the ones with the cloth ears? (Another rhetorical question for you).
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Originally posted by mercia View PostBoB now available in alphabetical order
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/arti...abetical-order
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On this morning's programme PT wished Dame Judi Dench Happy 80th Birthday, which I guess many listeners would go along with. What followed demonstrated that the birthday girl, having had a great and long career as an actress chose well not to have relied heavily on her singing ability - why, on what should be a classical music programme was 'Cabaret' allowed on the playlist?
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