The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[cloughie]

I feared we’d have to pay the price for two double-Handley weekends earlier this summer

I think I prefer EA to G&S!

[Nick Armstrong]

I think I prefer EA to G&S!

No, I’ll take two hours of Ruddigore any day of the week, even at breakfast, thanks.

(Was trying to work in a Penny Gore pun but didn’t want to drift off-topic… )

[antongould]

I think I prefer EA to G&S!

……. and I, being a half wit, prefer EA to the semi conductor

[Old Grumpy]

……. and I, being a half wit, prefer EA to the semi conductor

Chalk and cheese, old boy, chalk and cheese.

[french frank]

……. and I, being a half wit, prefer EA to the semi conductor

Easily explained. You look for something totally different in presenters and presentation. And in radio programmes.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I think I prefer EA to G&S!

W.S. Gilbert's puns were intended to make you squirm a little, but I don't think Ms Alker has that deliberate intention.

[cloughie]

No, I’ll take two hours of Ruddigore any day of the week, even at breakfast, thanks.

(Was trying to work in a Penny Gore pun but didn’t want to drift off-topic… )

Matter of personal taste but I find most G&S Ruddy awful, though Sullivan wrote some really good music!

[french frank]

Matter of personal taste but I find most G&S Ruddy awful, though Sullivan wrote some really good music!

A lot of things are not suitable for Breakfast, but they still get served up. My sine qua non is intelligent, informative presentation focused on an imaginative selection of 'classical. music. Which sums up why I don't listen.

[Nick Armstrong]

A lot of things are not suitable for Breakfast, but they still get served up. My sine qua non is intelligent, informative presentation focused on an imaginative selection of 'classical. music. Which sums up why I don't listen.

That is what you get from MH & his producer of a Sunday, though, imvvvho

[oddoneout]

That is what you get from MH & his producer of a Sunday, though, imvvvho

But they're only bits of music not full works...
I like MH's voice and that is the primary problem I have with EA. Her choice of music isn't at the top of my wish list but it does at least introduce me to things I wouldn't otherwise hear, but I'm afraid I find her difficult to make out(not her accent, just something about the voice and the way the sound seems rather muffled and muddled at times) so her programmes are rather hard work. Not what I'm wanting on a Sunday morning which, unless I'm at work, is a time when I choose to indulge myself instead of being dutiful.

[french frank]

That is what you get from MH & his producer of a Sunday, though, imvvvho

I'm sure so. I suppose it's a matter of the morning routine being ruptured. Otherwise, Sundays aren't a lot different from any other day: I get up, I get on with whatever I plan to do. The radio doesn't get switched on.

I can't see much on yesteday's programme that I would be pleased to be introduced to - just a lot of pieces which, as far as I already know what they are, I wouldn't want to be listening to. Having a presenter like Elizabeth Alker just excuses a lot of stuff I would welcome not be on there. This isn't a judgement on their excellence; it's just that the entire programme is punctuated by works I don't want to have to listen to. And I have no confidence that I would hear anything insightful about Zavateri's Violin Concerto.

[kernelbogey]

I don't listen on Saturdays, but wanting the news, caught a bit of 'New Faith' by Daniel Avery, consisting of seven chords repeated for several minutes over a kind of white noise in slow crescendo. I wondered what it was doing on R3 Breakfast, but Ms Alker claimed it was 'gorgeous and banging'. Hmm.

[smittims]

'Gorgeus and banging' reminds me of the fulsome remarks that follow items on the 'New Music Show', many of them ripe for Pseud's Corner. After 15 minutes of someone thrashing a birdcage she says 'I loved the delicate tracery and subtly-dark nuances...'

[Nick Armstrong]

I don't listen on Saturdays, but wanting the news, caught a bit of 'New Faith' by Daniel Avery, consisting of seven chords repeated for several minutes over a kind of white noise in slow crescendo. I wondered what it was doing on R3 Breakfast, but Ms Alker claimed it was 'gorgeous and banging'. Hmm.

May I refer my Honourable Friend to my earlier answer elsewhere…

Plus both Breakfasts are no-go areas next weekend (pass me the Alker-Seltzer ).

Anyway, gone are the days when one could switch on R3 without checking the schedule first for Unwelcome Sounds…

(Sorry, anton! )

[seabright]

I may be in a minority of one but I've given up listening to Breakfast ever since they played a Mahler symphony slow movement and launched straight into Fats Waller singing "Ain't Misbehavin'" ... Now I go on-line and check the programme details once the broadcast is over and am content to say that I don't think I missed much after all!