The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Er… Hang on. This thread is about Breakfast.

[vinteuil]

Er… Hang on. This thread is about Breakfast.

... I think noöne's listening to 'Breakfast' any more. Hence the divagation from the notional Topic

[teamsaint]

Er… Hang on. This thread is about Breakfast.

You can get stuff for breakfast at many of the stores mentioned.

[underthecountertenor]

... I think noöne's listening to 'Breakfast' any more. Hence the divagation from the notional Topic

I am. It was rather fun today, I thought.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

... I think noöne's listening to 'Breakfast' any more. Hence the divagation from the notional Topic

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I am. It was rather fun today, I thought.

Glad you liked it. I must have missed that bit.

[underthecountertenor]

Glad you liked it. I must have missed that bit.

Interesting that, given that you were listening so intently as to be able to discern that PT sounded tired and bored. I bow to your supernatural powers of perception, and I must therefore be wrong.

[french frank]

I am. It was rather fun today, I thought.

Ooh, yes. I see from the playlist they played some Paganini. Radio 3 can be relied on to dig out some unusual arrangements.

[underthecountertenor]

Yup, I knew you'd alight on that item out of them all. It startled me, but amused me also. I recall buying the album in my teens when it first came out, putting it on with great anticipation, and tearing it off after 5 minutes in dismay. With my dear father supporting me, I returned it to Woolies, and managed to persuade them to exchange it for 3 CfP LPs (one of which, ironically, was of the recently much over-played Slavonic Dances of Dvorak and Norwegian Dances of Grieg, conducted by Mackerras). Hearing it again, without warning, produced a rather pleasurable frisson in the circumstances, but I realise that this was a very personal thing. However PT post-announced it amusingly, and deadpanned a listener's reaction that it was 'vile'. All in all, it was a good show, professionally and winningly presented. IMV etc etc

[french frank]

Yup, I knew you'd alight on that item out of them all.

It was mainly the equally 'dead-pan' way it appeared on the playlist as being by Paganini, with his portrait, and then the title.

[But I hate it ]

[Serial_Apologist]

Not noticed that in our local Waitrose (Welwyn Garden City)

"I buy, therefore I am"?

[french frank]

Today's playlist http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b043pwn3

Can anyone confirm? The polka from Les vendredi seems variously to be credited to Glazounov or Lyadov rather than Sokolov. Or did all three really collaborate on that single piece?

[mercia]

wiki says (which doesn't answer your question)

In 1886, the suite for string quartet, Fridays (Les Vendredis), was written by Nikolai Artsybushev, Borodin, Felix Blumenfeld, Glazunov, Alexander Kopylov, Lyadov, Maximilian D'Osten-Sacken, Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai Sokolov and Joseph Wihtol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_music_written_in_collaboration

if this was the CD, it says the polka is by Kopilov

http://www.allmusic.com/album/les-vendredis-mw0001944348

http://imslp.org/wiki/Les_vendredis_(Various)

[underthecountertenor]

Very superficial on-line research throws up Glazounov, Lyadov OR Sokolov, or indeed Kopilov as the composer of the Polka. No one seems to be suggesting collaboration, but on the other hand there doesn't seem to be any overwhelming support for one over the others. But I don't have my Grove to hand... How very odd.

[underthecountertenor]

I can't believe that the individual movements, slight as they are, could possibly be the result of collaboration. I mean, the Polka's just a tune, innit?