The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[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...

[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.

[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.

[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!

[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.