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  • Bax-of-Delights
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 745

    This Sunday morning's presenter, Clemency Burton-Hill, owned up to never having heard of Gretchaninoff.

    This used to be on Your 100 Best Tunes on a regular basis - and I bought this EP as a direct result of hearing it on R3.

    O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!

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    • Anna

      Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Post
      This Sunday morning's presenter, Clemency Burton-Hill, owned up to never having heard of Gretchaninoff.
      I love his Domestica Ligurtica!! Hiow could she not have heard of him? R3 becomes increasinly strange. Actually, I don't listen to Breakfast anymore.
      St Nicholas Chorale, directed by Symon Kohut, performing Se Zhenikh Griadet (Behold, the Bridegroom Cometh) by Alexander Gretchaninov.This performance is fro...

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      • Roehre

        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
        ...My first one [CD, that is] was Joseph Keilberth playing orchestral excerpts from R Strauss operas, it was right in my Strauss phrase and it seemed very exotic to be able to have the 'Potpourri' from Die Schwiegsame Frau and the Interludes from Intermezzo
        that's a coincidence: the LP-version of that Strauss/Keilberth CD was one of my very first LPs [in 1973], and my first completely Richard-Strauss-dedicated LP (I bought it for the Rosenkavalier waltzes - thinking Richard being Johann )

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        • Serial_Apologist
          Full Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 37560

          Originally posted by Roehre View Post
          that's a coincidence: the LP-version of that Strauss/Keilberth CD was one of my very first LPs [in 1973], and my first completely Richard-Strauss-dedicated LP (I bought it for the Rosenkavalier waltzes - thinking Richard being Johann )
          As my late father's opera-going friends from Hamburg always used to tell him: "Richard Strauss - the worst of Richard Wagner and Johann Strauss combined".

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          • Roehre

            Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
            As my late father's opera-going friends from Hamburg always used to tell him: "Richard Strauss - the worst of Richard Wagner and Johann Strauss combined".
            Or, as the Kaiser said about his court composer Richard Strauss: if it has got to be a Richard, then Wagner, if a Strauss, then Johann
            Let's say that these two men were not exactly best friends

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            • Il Grande Inquisitor
              Full Member
              • Mar 2007
              • 961

              Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Post
              This Sunday morning's presenter, Clemency Burton-Hill, owned up to never having heard of Gretchaninoff.
              I hope Clem will follow up my suggestion...
              Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency....

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26516

                Originally posted by Il Grande Inquisitor View Post
                I hope Clem will follow up my suggestion...
                "...the isle is full of noises,
                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                  Gone fishin'
                  • Sep 2011
                  • 30163

                  Originally posted by Roehre View Post
                  Or, as the Kaiser said about his court composer Richard Strauss: if it has got to be a Richard, then Wagner, if a Strauss, then Johann
                  Let's say that these two men were not exactly best friends
                  Kaiser (speaking of Strauss' Music generally): I prefer Freischutz
                  Strauss: Oh, so do I.
                  [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26516

                    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                    Kaiser (speaking of Strauss' Music generally): I prefer Freischutz
                    Strauss: Oh, so do I.


                    Why is it not possible to see anywhere on the website what's playing at the moment. I want to make sure I never again hear, either accidentally or deliberately, the ABSOLUTE SHOCKER of a piece that's on at the moment... What the hell is it??!

                    EDIT: was able to tune back in at the end - Glazunov's "La Mer"
                    "...the isle is full of noises,
                    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                    • vinteuil
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 12768

                      Originally posted by Caliban View Post


                      Why is it not possible to see anywhere on the website what's playing at the moment. I want to make sure I never again hear, either accidentally or deliberately, the ABSOLUTE SHOCKER of a piece that's on at the moment... What the hell is it??!

                      EDIT: was able to tune back in at the end - Glazunov's "La Mer"
                      ... very Rob Cowan.

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26516

                        "Essential Classic", my Ars Nova....
                        "...the isle is full of noises,
                        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                        • Hitch
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 367

                          I've said this before: R3's website is difficult to understand and navigate. It needs redesigning.

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                          • teamsaint
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 25190

                            Originally posted by Hitch View Post
                            I've said this before: R3's website is difficult to understand and navigate. It needs redesigning.
                            quite.
                            It comes from the "If it looks cool it must be good" school of webite design.
                            I thought that the Southbank centre "team" had reached the creative zenith of this style, until I "visited" the Barbican listing section......................

                            Incidentally H, I think that you may be labouring under the misapprehension that somebody high up at R3 wants it to be easy to navigate.
                            I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                            I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                            • Suffolkcoastal
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 3290

                              The playlist for this morning's 'Inessential Classics' seems to have been left incomplete (no mention of any Glazunov) an increasingly common occurrence under RW's shoddy couldn't care less regime.

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                              • french frank
                                Administrator/Moderator
                                • Feb 2007
                                • 30210

                                Originally posted by Hitch View Post
                                I've said this before: R3's website is difficult to understand and navigate. It needs redesigning.
                                "Action 3 –– Radio 3 should consider how it can help audiences best navigate the wide range of content on offer. This consideration should take into account the role of the Radio 3 website, as well as cross promotion and marketing. As part of this, we endorse Radio 3’’s plans to allow audiences to navigate online content by genre. [...] We have asked BBC management to report back by summer 2011." (From the Radio 3 Review)

                                IOW, I think they have redesigned it. That may be the problem.
                                It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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