The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[Stanley Stewart]

I'm not at all a morning person although a brief spell of early morning sunshine woke me around 7.30ish. Relished the Elgar before hearing the rich voice of Owen Brannigan in a favourite about the cliff tops of the Northumbrian coastline. My morale boosted by an extract from the Paul Robeson Moscow recital, 1949, one of the favourite discs in my collection. A listener responded by mentioning Robeson's performance of Othello at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, a few years before it became the RSC. The writer also mentioned a Sunday evening recital when Peggy Ashcroft recited a musical arrangement of Fear No More the Heat of the Sun, (Cymbeline?). This made me giggle a bit as it reminded me of Michael Billington's biography of the Dame which spoke of Ashcroft's early performance of Desdemona, late 20s, to Robeson's Othello - and their raging off-stage romance cut short when Mrs Robeson intervened by a visit to Ashcroft's home!

[ardcarp]

OMG. We got a whole movement (nicely done too) of Messiaen's Trois Petites Liturgies just now. Fings is lookin' up!

[Zucchini]

OMG. We got a whole movement (nicely done too) of Messiaen's Trois Petites Liturgies just now. Fings is lookin' up!

Ugh, I don't think so

[Pulcinella]

Was I still dreaming?
I could have sworn that I heard a bit of Stravinsky's Song of the nightingale while drifting in and out of sleep this morning, but the playlist suggests Kodaly's Psalmus Hungaricus was being played!
Perhaps it was just a little trailer for the Stavinsky that caught my ear?

[LeMartinPecheur]

Was I still dreaming?
I could have sworn that I heard a bit of Stravinsky's Song of the nightingale while drifting in and out of sleep this morning, but the playlist suggests Kodaly's Psalmus Hungaricus was being played!
Perhaps it was just a little trailer for the Stavinsky that caught my ear?

I heard the announcement to that effect. There was a nightingale theme announced. Thought we were going to get Beatrice Harrison's famous garden cello/nightingale duet but instead we had a very recent field recording in which the sound recordist for all the recent worldwide birdsong recordings provided a drone and some amazing overtone singing to 'inspire' the bird (didn't sound as if it needed any encouragement in fact...).

I'd even call the overtone stuff magical, which isn't a word I'd always use for Asiatic throat-singing!
Well worth chasing down on Iplayer if you missed it.

[cloughie]

Was I still dreaming?
I could have sworn that I heard a bit of Stravinsky's Song of the nightingale while drifting in and out of sleep this morning, but the playlist suggests Kodaly's Psalmus Hungaricus was being played!
Perhaps it was just a little trailer for the Stavinsky that caught my ear?

Maybe you were just dreaming of Berkeley Square.

[BBMmk2]

I am not so keen on the Radio 3 programmes at the weekend because they do not seem to agree with me. So today I have had some organ music by J S Bach. Apart from Record Review that is!

[Pulcinella]

Maybe you were just dreaming of Berkeley Square.

Well, he's coming up soon on Private Passions, so that might have been a good trailer!

[Lat-Literal]

There were some nice things on this morning - the Alfven and the Beach especially.

I also enjoyed the piece by Adams.

[BBMmk2]

Mud! Mud! Glorious mud! nothing quite like it for cooling the blood! So follow me, follow me, follow, down to the hollow!
Great hearing this today on Breakfast!!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Mud! Mud! Glorious mud! nothing quite like it for cooling the blood! So follow me, follow me, follow, down to the hollow!
Great hearing this today on Breakfast!!

Wrong Thread, Bbm?

[french frank]

Wrong Thread, Bbm?

Too late, ferney, I moved it a split second before you pressed the Post button!

[antongould]

The Squire has just invented a new MusicBox - Music to be played on Breakfast @ 08:03 - I would humbly suggest it is impossible to be more excited ......

[french frank]

Music to be played on Breakfast @ 08:03

You mean they're going to call the first piece after the news 'a new Music Box'? Like 'Bach before 7'? And perhaps 'The Last Piece before 9')?

[antongould]

You mean they're going to call the first piece after the news 'a new Music Box'? Like 'Bach before 7'? And perhaps 'The Last Piece before 9')?

It looks scarily so .......