I make that 12 items in 3 hours - and what an attractive mix! If today's 'Breakfast' offered that kind of fare, I'd be sorely tempted to desert my new-found friends on the 'Today' programme.
The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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Originally posted by french frank View Post
Thursday 30 January (2003?)
Presented by Penny Gore
Perhaps if "they" are reading this, they could start a new feature - repeating exactly a playlist from ,say, ten years ago. Let's call it "This Day Then"
It would beat the heck out of Tuesday's chart nonsense
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Originally posted by arancie33 View PostThank you for that,ff.
Perhaps if "they" are reading this, they could start a new feature - repeating exactly a playlist from ,say, ten years ago. Let's call it "This Day Then"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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Originally posted by antongould View PostDid anyone see the Grauniad's review of John Suchet who, it would seem, is one of our leading Beethoven authorities on CFM breakfast? They suggested he said too little and was sort of mildly boring in just playing the music!
"... when the pieces of music are so substantial, you really need something between them in counterpoint, and that's a bit more personality". I think it would have been less contentious if she had been clear and used the first person singular there. I, for example, might have said:
" ...when the pieces of music are so substantial, I really need something between them in counterpoint, and that's a bit more contextualisation."
Not to mention that 'so substantial', judging from yesterday's playlist, means occasionally a little over ten minutesIt 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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Could I add to my previous comment that this was not a criticism of Classic FM. It was simply that when you read the 'opinions' of such as EM when commenting on Radio 3, you know where they're coming from: R3 would be better if it was more like Classic FM.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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affenkopf
Two comments from the Guardian piece:
JS is a breath of fresh air after SB. The music on CFM is upstaged by the ads if anything rather than the links between the music. Normally a BBC R3 listener misself - but was forced to change horses in early January by the ridiculous Mozartathon.Only just returned to Classic FM - spent January listening to Radio 3 due to the fabulous 'Mozartathon'.
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Between CDs in the car this morning I heard a piece of viol consort music by John Ward - and I thought... espepecially when it was followed by an obscure piece of early Sibelius [which I didn't listen to, because I wanted to hear some Ockeghem, and my ears were tuned early] - but then I checked up on the schedule: "the world, it was the old world yet, I was I, my clothes were yet, and nothing now remained to do but to begin the game anew" and listen to Vivaldi's Primavera... First signs of spring? Probably not, but very grateful to the ears for once.
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Originally posted by french frank View PostCould I add to my previous comment that this was not a criticism of Classic FM. It was simply that when you read the 'opinions' of such as EM when commenting on Radio 3, you know where they're coming from: R3 would be better if it was more like Classic FM.
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Originally posted by antongould View PostSorry I was not aware of EM's "leanings"!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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An interesting Radio Review by French Frank's friend Elizabeth Mahoney in this morning's Grauniad - her review is on RC on R3 breakfast which she describes as "....a serene and civilised start to the day...". Her only moan is re the "sombre" newsreaders - no credit then for SMP reading her own, and I suppose our, news and IMHO, rather splendidly too!
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Originally posted by antongould View PostAn interesting Radio Review by French Frank's friend Elizabeth Mahoney in this morning's Grauniad - her review is on RC on R3 breakfast which she describes as "....a serene and civilised start to the day...". Her only moan is re the "sombre" newsreaders - no credit then for SMP reading her own, and I suppose our, news and IMHO, rather splendidly too!
Quote: "Cowan's commentary on the music sometimes uses classical music terms ("If you love lieder as much as I do") but it's hard to imagine how or why it should ditch this. Classic FM, which is drippingly accessible, uses this vocabulary too.
If the music intimidates you, then you're listening to the wrong breakfast show."
Hmmmmm I wonder what we should conclude from that?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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And to continue, quote: "The Trust recommends that the station does it all can to be "more welcoming" especially in breakfast and drive-time slots. Hmm."
That 'Hmm' seems to mean, 'I like it just as it is. Please don't make it more accessible to people who find it intimidating. Clearly this show isn't for them.' Hmm.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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