The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[oddoneout]

Sounds like we're in for a non-classical Christmas morning with PT - jazz and folk :-(

Martin Handley's actual Breakfast programme may well be more conventional? The Christmas day schedule seems like a pretty good mix in some respects IMO. Whether all of it is "proper" R3 content is another matter, but most of the programmes are standard Sunday fare.

[JasonPalmer]

That was a nice piece of Bruckner..... I usually try sleep in on days I can so usually miss the breakfast show.

[kernelbogey]

Really unsure about the Debussy arranged by Son Lux from the film Everthing Everywhere All At Once. If Shari is right that we are going to hear a a lot of it if the fillm wins its Oscar I think it could quickly become tedious.

[Serial_Apologist]

Really unsure about the Debussy arranged by Son Lux from the film Everthing Everywhere All At Once. If Shari is right that we are going to hear a a lot of it if the fillm wins its Oscar I think it could quickly become tedious.

When Debussy needed others to arrange him, he called on Koechlin, Caplet, and, in one instance for an early, stylistucally uncharacteristic work, Danse, Ravel: which should have offered some sort of clue. Whoever others may dredge up, today's recruiters should take more than a hint from Colin Matthews' settings of the Préludes, but I think they will more likely be following Emerson, Lake & Palmer's setting of La cathédrale engloutie.

[cloughie]

Really unsure about the Debussy arranged by Son Lux from the film Everthing Everywhere All At Once. If Shari is right that we are going to hear a a lot of it if the fillm wins its Oscar I think it could quickly become tedious.

Yes - a bit messed about - I’m not sure that Debussy should be any more adapted than the excellent Tomita’s disc.

I did enjoy the Trenet and Brel in CC this morning however.

[Serial_Apologist]

Yes - a bit messed about - I’m not sure that Debussy should be any more adapted than the excellent Tomita’s disc.

I did enjoy the Trenet and Brel in CC this morning however.

One thing about Debussy's music is that it allows the soloist a wider range of interpretive freedom than almost any other composer I can think of. First having come across works through one particular interpreter rather than others I have heard subsequently probably decided for ever thereafter if I liked it or not. Similarly the works involving more than one performer, though here it is colour combinations that come closest to the fore in the reading: miss a high violin note here, play that phrase too fast to catch or too low in the mix to hear, and all can be lost.

[JasonPalmer]

Caught some of petroc lovely picks this morning, classical tastic

[Pulcinella]

We might not be a very Christian country any longer, but surely someone at R3 knows that Wachet auf is an Advent cantata, not a Lenten one, delightful as the first movement is.

[antongould]

We might not be a very Christian country any longer, but surely someone at R3 knows that Wachet auf is an Advent cantata, not a Lenten one, delightful as the first movement is.

Kate’s response “ interesting – do you think the cantatas should only be played at specific times of year? I reckon (as Bach did!) his tunes are up for grabs at any time”

[Pulcinella]

Kate’s response “ interesting – do you think the cantatas should only be played at specific times of year? I reckon (as Bach did!) his tunes are up for grabs at any time”

Are you in touch with Kate, or did she actually say this and I didn't notice?
And doesn't her use of 'tunes' say it all?

[antongould]

Are you in touch with Kate, or did she actually say this and I didn't notice?
And doesn't her use of 'tunes' say it all?

….. like the rest of us TwitterTwits ….. she tends to respond when contacted ……

[kernelbogey]

Should we be lilstening to music during Lent?

[Bryn]

Should we be lilstening to music during Lent?

Should we let this 'ere Lent lark get in the way of music? The tyranny of 'the church' is now, thankfully, a thing of the past.

[smittims]

That quoted response is typical of what I've seen over the years from Government spokesmen, etc. an attempt to settle a matter with a witty soundbite.

Of course, it is well-known that Bach's church cantatas were intended for use within a Lutheran act of worship on specific Sundays, though many of them contain music available elsewhere, including some of the 'Brandenburg' concerti. Once people could buy recordings of them they were free to play them at any time , and not necessarily in any religious context. I don't know if they are still given in Lutheran churches but I expect most people who know a few of them or more have gotten to know them at home in recordings.

So I think it's OK to play a Bach cantata on the Radio 'out of season'. But as with the notorious Government spokesman who appeared not to know what 'mysogyny' was, I think Kate is mistaking Bach's use of his music in other contexts to suggest that he would have welcomed this.

[cloughie]

Should we be lilstening to music during Lent?

Yes, stolen, borrowed and whatever we choose.