The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[cloughie]

Only 3? I thought the number of listeners enjoying Breakfast was supposedly increasing!

They maybe enjoy their breakfast listening to something else!

I enjoy silence more as I age.

[LMcD]

They maybe enjoy their breakfast listening to something else!

I enjoy silence more as I age.

That reminds me - it's time to play my Simon and Garfunkel Greatest Hits album again.

The discovery of a fourth listener would doubtless be hailed as a 33.33333% increase in the Radio 3 audience.

[oddoneout]

... because they couldn't find a fourth

.

And an arpeggio was out of their reach.

[oddoneout]

BBC listings are terrible...
Reluctantly switched on R3 while getting breakfasts ready this morning. Heard some dreary choral piece (even worse than last night's turnip) but missed who wrote it... No sign of it on the Breakfast listings and, using rewind on VLC to check, no sign of several other pieces (with the ring ouzel & before the Beethoven piano 5). He did mention technical faults being ironed out... Sam, Sam quick find a CD.
Why does Auntie bother putting up listings if they're not even accurate?

And while I'm moaning, why does TM have to quote the 3 listeners saying how much they've enjoyed the Breakfast selections?

And I can't help thinking they are getting worse.
Choral Evensong is always badly served in terms of the psalm listings in Music Played, but the entry for last Sunday(16th) doesn't give any of the items at all, even scrambled, just the Liszt piece used as a filler at the end of the broadcast. Just as well that anyone looking at that page is likely to know enough to realise the lie, and that the order of service was correct.
Normally I am out volunteer gardening on a Wednesday morning but this week was confined to quarters by a messy cold and happened to listen to part of Breakfast and then later check the Music Played and had to laugh. I can only assume that because it's only parts of longer pieces that are played, the AI can't cope with a complete work being played, as the Tartini Trumpet concerto is given a separate entry for each of the 3 movements... And no they are not 3 different performances.

[AuntDaisy]

And I can't help thinking they are getting worse.
Choral Evensong is always badly served in terms of the psalm listings in Music Played, but the entry for last Sunday(16th) doesn't give any of the items at all, even scrambled, just the Liszt piece used as a filler at the end of the broadcast. Just as well that anyone looking at that page is likely to know enough to realise the lie, and that the order of service was correct.
Normally I am out volunteer gardening on a Wednesday morning but this week was confined to quarters by a messy cold and happened to listen to part of Breakfast and then later check the Music Played and had to laugh. I can only assume that because it's only parts of longer pieces that are played, the AI can't cope with a complete work being played, as the Tartini Trumpet concerto is given a separate entry for each of the 3 movements... And no they are not 3 different performances.

The luxury of a whole piece! And with the bits in the right order.

Auntie's "Giuseppe Tartini Trumpet Concerto" is a tad short on detail. I'm guessing it's this 2013 version, Concerto for Trumpet and String Orchestra in D major.

[Pulcinella]

I keep being offered to answer a questionnaire about the website but can't be bothered: they'd take no notice of any comments anyway.

[oddoneout]

The luxury of a whole piece! And with the bits in the right order.

Auntie's "Giuseppe Tartini Trumpet Concerto" is a tad short on detail. I'm guessing it's this 2013 version, Concerto for Trumpet and String Orchestra in D major.

"He only wrote the one, why do you need to know what flavour it is?"

[AuntDaisy]

"He only wrote the one, why do you need to know what flavour it is?"

It's a key question.

According to the Flores' booklet notes, “The Tartini piece is a violin concerto popularised by Maurice André, and I add my own very personal ornaments to it using an A piccolo trumpet." and it was a "Titán Brandemburgo piccolo trumpet with copper bell".
Given the length of that listing, Auntie could have put something interesting in...

[french frank]

Keep the ridicule coming, chaps! I'm really enjoying it ...

[LMcD]

The luxury of a whole piece! And with the bits in the right order.

Auntie's "Giuseppe Tartini Trumpet Concerto" is a tad short on detail. I'm guessing it's this 2013 version, Concerto for Trumpet and String Orchestra in D major.

I think you're right.

[kernelbogey]

My bedside FM/DAB/CD player on which I listen to TTN on FM when not playing a CD, often shows on the 'rolling text announcement' something like 'Quartet in C major Op 57' [fictional example] without the name of the composer! Sort of Innocent Ear without Hans Keller.

[kernelbogey]

Hannah French is a good presenter.

[antongould]

Hannah French is a good presenter.

I agree

[Mcewan]

I agree

So do I. It's always a good day when Hannah presents Breakfast. Real musical erudition worn lightly and the perfect voice. Courteous credits to the Producers.
I created an account just to say that.
In my ideal world we'd have Martin Handley back for Sundays and Hannah French every other day.

[Ein Heldenleben]

She couldn’t resist just now though a knowing reference to the composer Samuel Scheidt which Is a) precisely the thing you’d expect from Classic FM b) something that an experienced old hand would never do and c) 20 years ago might have taken a bit of explaining to the presentation editor. These days of course no one gives a monkey’s