The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[smittims]

Well, I don't know what you know but I don't think that's a fair description of the piece. There is more to it than that: the middle section for instance. And I think the apparently static nature of the work is intentional , as is , for instance,the second movement of Beethoven's violin concerto: they're both about 'being' rather than 'becoming'.

I've never thought of it as overplayed, perhaps because I don't listen ot CFM and not much to R3, or because I can remember a time when there was no available recording in the UK, (between the deletion of Boult 1 and the issue of Boult 2.)

[Ein Heldenleben]

I don’t tire of hearing it - but then I choose when I want to listen to it by largely abandoned listening to R3!

I’m tired of hearing it. Not least because it’s just a few chords and then an extended violin improv . It just doesn’t go anywhere - sounds nice though. I honestly think it’s one of his weakest works but what do I know ?

[cloughie]

BBC Radio 3 is well on the way to becoming 'The Home Of Popular Classical Music' - RVW's Lark is ascending yet again at the moment.

I don’t tire of hearing it - but then I choose when I want to listen to it by largely abandoned listening to R3!

[french frank]

As Time Goes By, he certainly will.

[LMcD]

[QUOTE=french frank;n1321320]

Sadly, for today's R3 managers, that appears to be the reason to play it rather than not. Go on, play it again, Sam.[/QUOTE]

As Time Goes By, he certainly will.

[french frank]

Classic FM ‘s Best Tune for years in a row and , as you say , very overplayed .

Sadly, for today's R3 managers, that appears to be the reason to play it rather than not. Go on, play it again, Sam.

[Pulcinella]

Classic FM ‘s Best Tune for years in a row and , as you say , very overplayed .
More Larks on the radio than there on the average farm . And vastly more cuckoos come to that.
They have just played the Oboe Concerto on Sunday Morning- that rarely gets an outing

Still less the Violin concerto (Concerto accademico) or indeed the Concerto grosso, though I'm happy for the Oboe concerto to be given an airing.

[Ein Heldenleben]

BBC Radio 3 is well on the way to becoming 'The Home Of Popular Classical Music' - RVW's Lark is ascending yet again at the moment.

Classic FM ‘s Best Tune for years in a row and , as you say , very overplayed .
More Larks on the radio than there on the average farm . And vastly more cuckoos come to that.
They have just played the Oboe Concerto on Sunday Morning- that rarely gets an outing

[oddoneout]

BBC Radio 3 is well on the way to becoming 'The Home Of Popular Classical Music' - RVW's Lark is ascending yet again at the moment.

I only turned on partway through the RVW, but looking at the playlist so far does little to contradict that observation.

[LMcD]

From the My First Car section of the Yorkshire Post Weekend Magazine:

"Popular Classical music presenter from BBC Radio 3, Elizabeth Alker..."

BBC Radio 3 is well on the way to becoming 'The Home Of Popular Classical Music' - RVW's Lark is ascending yet again at the moment.

[Old Grumpy]

From the My First Car section of the Yorkshire Post Weekend Magazine:

"Popular Classical music presenter from BBC Radio 3, Elizabeth Alker..."

[Serial_Apologist]

Good news, surely, for the gulls in Looe harbour.

Pull the other one!

[LMcD]

Feed the birds tuppance a bog ?

Good news, surely, for the gulls in Looe harbour.

[cloughie]

Feed the birds tuppance a bog ?

[LMcD]

However I'm enjoying the script - whoever wrote it....

Is whoever wrote the trailer for the upcoming Tallis Scholars concert sure that Saffron Hall is in Suffolk?