The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[cloughie]

well if we'd had the whole of SS3 we wouldn't have had time for the ER, RRB or FB

Fine, cut the cloth to make the garment. A three and a quarter four progamme should be able to accommodate a 33 minute work!

[Don Petter]

time to concede and just enjoy

I may enjoy the music, but not the CFM philosophy that a work of multiple parts should be thought of as 'just the popular bit'.

[french frank]

Like to contemplate RW's total rewright of weekday mornings back in 2001 (Tues 14 August), two years after he took over?

6am Morning on 3 (replacing On Air), nb shorter works may have been included as fillers:
Dyson: Rhapsody No 3
6.45 Paisiello: Piano Concerto No 7 in A
7am Palestrina: Stabat Mater
7.40 Falla: Four Spanish Pieces
8am Beethoven: Leonora 3
8.40 Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
9am Composer of the Week (brought forward from midday to its old time):
Johann Sebastian Bach: 2 Bach the Intellectual (music titles available on request)
10am Work in Progress: The artist John Keane reflects on the new directions his work has taken. Keane was the official artist for the Gulf War [...]
10.05 CD Masters with Jonathan Swain:
Poulenc: Suite française
Schütz: St Matthew Passion (exc)
Poulenc: Double piano concerto
11am Morning Performance: Live from the Edinburgh Festival
Mozart: Quintet in E flat, K 452, C. Zacharias and principal winds of the SCO
11.40 Twenty Minutes: Inside Schubert's head
Pianist Susan Tomes explores the complex process of interpreting music
12pm Morning Performance Part 2:
Beethoven: Quintet in E flat, Op 16
1pm News, followed by the Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
A recital by Freddy Kempf (repeat).
Liszt: Transcendental Etudes


Oh, Roger, Roger - weep with those who weep ...

[Frances_iom]

Like to contemplate RW's total rewright of weekday mornings back in 2001 (Tues 14 August), two years after he took over?
...
Oh, Roger, Roger - weep with those who weep ...

Roger and his wrecking ball - probably gets gong next year for services to 'popular' culture (aka dumbing down)

[mercia]

nb shorter works may have been included as fillers

they must have been. Leonora 3 doesn't last 35 minutes.

[mercia]

Oh, Roger, Roger - weep with those who weep

sounds like a madrigal by Wilbye

[mercia]

6am Morning on 3 (replacing On Air), nb shorter works may have been included as fillers:
Dyson: Rhapsody No 3
6.45 Paisiello: Piano Concerto No 7 in A
7am Palestrina: Stabat Mater
7.40 Falla: Four Spanish Pieces
8am Beethoven: Leonora 3
8.40 Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
9am Composer of the Week (brought forward from midday to its old time):
Johann Sebastian Bach: 2 Bach the Intellectual (music titles available on request)
10am Work in Progress: The artist John Keane reflects on the new directions his work has taken. Keane was the official artist for the Gulf War [...]
10.05 CD Masters with Jonathan Swain:
Poulenc: Suite française
Schütz: St Matthew Passion (exc)
Poulenc: Double piano concerto
11am Morning Performance: Live from the Edinburgh Festival
Mozart: Quintet in E flat, K 452, C. Zacharias and principal winds of the SCO
11.40 Twenty Minutes: Inside Schubert's head
Pianist Susan Tomes explores the complex process of interpreting music
12pm Morning Performance Part 2:
Beethoven: Quintet in E flat, Op 16
1pm News, followed by the Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
A recital by Freddy Kempf (repeat).
Liszt: Transcendental Etudes

I'm not sure if this is being put to me as a good or bad schedule

[french frank]

I'm not sure if this is being put to me as a good or bad schedule

You make up your own mind on that. It depends if you want the light chat, ill-informed celebrity comment and background music or something more substantial. Radio 3's mornings are sufficiently bad for me that I don't listen at all, and as a result hardly ever listen to R3 either. The old schedule had me glued to the radio for most of the morning.

[kernelbogey]

[...] Radio 3's mornings are sufficiently bad for me that I don't listen at all, and as a result hardly ever listen to R3 either[...]

I entirely agree - my experience too, excepting TTN.

[mercia]

how can one tell if a programme is bad if one doesn't listen to it ......... I wonder.

if 14 August 2001 was typical, things have somewhat improved in the intervening years

[antongould]

how can one tell if a programme is bad if one doesn't listen to it ......... I wonder

You have to wonder surely.............but then those of us that do listen are not to be trusted?

[Don Petter]

how can one tell if a programme is bad if one doesn't listen to it ......... I wonder.

Surely the way one decides whether to go to a particular concert or not - Does it have music which one wants to hear?

[Roehre]

You make up your own mind on that. It depends if you want the light chat, ill-informed celebrity comment and background music or something more substantial. Radio 3's mornings are sufficiently bad for me that I don't listen at all, and as a result hardly ever listen to R3 either. The old schedule had me glued to the radio for most of the morning.

Could have been my reply

[cloughie]

how can one tell if a programme is bad if one doesn't listen to it ......... I wonder.

if 14 August 2001 was typical, things have somewhat improved in the intervening years

Scan the schedules and pick and mix from iplayer Simples!

What are your criteria for claiming they've improved?

[mercia]

I'm not entirely convinced that people check the playlist for Breakfast before deciding not to listen to it, but fair enough, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt