The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[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.

[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]

As Time Goes By, he certainly will.

[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!

[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 ?

[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.)

[Serial_Apologist]

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'.

My interpretation as well: VW's idea of what music could be expressing were it not for the complexity of his and our hyper-mediated, hyper-complex age, which he (and other great 20th century mystically-inclined artists) confronted elsewhere in his music.

[hmvman]

... 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.)

I hadn't realised that was the situation at one time. Seems absolutely incredible now!

[smittims]

Yes, ironically I had to wait for the start of Radio 3 to hear it at all!

The Bean/Boult has for so long been regarded as the classic recording that listeners may imagine they'd been playing it together for years, but in fact when Sir Adrian asked Hugh Bean to record it he said he didn't know it and had to learn it for the session.

[LMcD]

Yes, ironically I had to wait for the start of Radio 3 to hear it at all!

The Bean/Boult has for so long been regarded as the classic recording that listeners may imagine they'd been playing it together for years, but in fact when Sir Adrian asked Hugh Bean to record it he said he didn't know it and had to learn it for the session.

First recorded in 1928, with 78 rpm sets being issued in the 1940s and early 1950s.

[oddoneout]

Petroc was very careful to do the spoiler alert when reporting the result of the YM finals, but rather undermined it by playing the winner performing something from an earlier round and then back announcing it with the information that the player was the winner...