As frenchie pointed out earlier, the softening of Breakfast's worst excesses may be just a temporary fixture whilst it is the centre of attention of various eyes and ears after the recent articles and criticism. The test will be if it remains the same in say 6 months or has reverted back to the embarrassment it had become. Meanwhile the excesses seem to have been shifted on to the already appalling Inessential Classics (Late Breakfast Show).
The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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clive heath
Have you noticed how something like today's Zadok only gets back announced!!? It's not the first time a warhorse has crept in.
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Originally posted by Radio64 View PostNo wonder Clemency couldn't be bothered anymore. All this moaning and whining...
Mumble Grumble, bah Humbug, and other things !!
Anyway, shouldn't you be supporting your local specialist Classical Chart based station, Rads?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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Originally posted by teamsaint View Postno more than anybody else gets in a regular job, without huge pay, one week on one week off, playing records, (its not that difficult, check out some student radio), kudos, free tickets, taxi to work at their expense etc etc.
Mumble Grumble, bah Humbug, and other things !!
Anyway, shouldn't you be supporting your local specialist Classical Chart based station, Rads?
Come back Clemmy..they won't hurt you!"Gone Chopin, Bach in a minuet."
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Originally posted by clive heath View PostHave you noticed how something like today's Zadok only gets back announced!!? It's not the first time a warhorse has crept in.
In expectation of such a selection, many wouldn't switch on anyway.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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Domeyhead
Originally posted by french frank View PostSame reason why they don't publish the playlist in advance, I suppose. A day like today, where 26 pieces last an average of under 5 minutes each (assuming the usual 30 mins for chat), starting with a Robert Docker light piece, ending with a Walton film march, with Les Patineurs, Zadok and Girl Crazy in between, would be an invitation for some not to bother. [However much more bearable the presentation was this morning].
In expectation of such a selection, many wouldn't switch on anyway.
Having said all that it does feel that we have climbed slightly away from the nadir recently though.
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As one of the few regular listeners hereabouts, to be honest, I haven't noticed any great change - PT this morning was much as he has been for ages - the IS/LF week was different but mainly I feel for the way they presented the "required" format. I do agree when the hurly burly hereabouts settles down I feel we should be better served by
Essential Classics - Suffolkcoastal seems to see RC as quite a master of the war horse.
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Regular listeners to Breakfast may be interested in the March issue of BBCMM which features both CB-H and RC (amongst others):
A day in the life of Radio 3
Jeremy Pound spends a day at BBC Broadcasting House with Rob Cowan, Clemency Burton-Hill et al
I do not anticipate that all contributors to this forum will be interested.
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Originally posted by Domeyhead View PostI quite enjoy the short duration of many of the pieces selected for breakfast Sarah - I am quite partial to the lighter interludes of (say) Grainger, Poulenc or a march by Holst to name just a few breakfast examples.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 Old Grumpy View PostRegular listeners to Breakfast may be interested in the March issue of BBCMM which features both CB-H and RC (amongst others):
A day in the life of Radio 3
Jeremy Pound spends a day at BBC Broadcasting House with Rob Cowan, Clemency Burton-Hill et al
I do not anticipate that all contributors to this forum will be interested."Gone Chopin, Bach in a minuet."
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Originally posted by Old Grumpy View PostRegular listeners to Breakfast may be interested in the March issue of BBCMM which features both CB-H and RC (amongst others):
A day in the life of Radio 3
Jeremy Pound spends a day at BBC Broadcasting House with Rob Cowan, Clemency Burton-Hill et al
I do not anticipate that all contributors to this forum will be interested.
The choice of presenters is interesting!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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Unusally for me, I listened to a few minutes of Sunday's 'show', and was appalled that we were given only two movements of Respighi's The Birds, and one of Copland's Three Latin American Sketches. Even with the predilection for short pieces, for those with short attention spans, or a busy life, surely these could have been programmed as complete works, given their structure.
I have looked at the playlist, and unless I am mistaken it gives the impression that the complete works were played. I might have missed the track details, I now realise, but even if they are given you'd have to be on the ball to realise that the whole piece was not played. The listing strikes me more as deliberate misinformation on R3's part. No surprise there!
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