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  • LMcD
    Full Member
    • Sep 2017
    • 8396

    Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
    On the contrary, you are part of an articulate, informed and intelligent community here, a large number of whom feel exactly the way you do.

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    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
      Gone fishin'
      • Sep 2011
      • 30163

      Originally posted by antongould View Post
      It’s the Mantovani Show .......
      Binge listening?
      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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      • oddoneout
        Full Member
        • Nov 2015
        • 9135

        Why are those involved in the Classical Century strand being referred to as 'centurions'? Did someone panic when they realised that 'centenarians' might give the wrong idea and just reached for the next 100 related word they could think of?
        Sorry this is EC strictly speaking.
        Last edited by oddoneout; 15-11-18, 09:41. Reason: factual correction

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        • LMcD
          Full Member
          • Sep 2017
          • 8396

          Originally posted by antongould View Post
          It’s the Mantovani Show .......
          What is? Are we talking about Breakfast, Essential Classics or the Century whatsit thingy?

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          • LeMartinPecheur
            Full Member
            • Apr 2007
            • 4717

            Originally posted by LMcD View Post
            What is? Are we talking about Breakfast, Essential Classics or the Century whatsit thingy?
            Big presence on Breakfast today. It's his 113th birthday today - clearly one to mark!
            I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!

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            • cloughie
              Full Member
              • Dec 2011
              • 22110

              Originally posted by LMcD View Post
              What is? Are we talking about Breakfast, Essential Classics or the Century whatsit thingy?
              Tuned in this morning and was pleased to hear Sibelius Oceanides but I did not agree with SK that had I not known it was Sibelius may have mistaken it for Debussy. Well it isn’t Debussian and for me unmistakenly Sibelius! As to what to follow it wth? Sib 5 would go down superbly well and still leave the best part of two hours for the bleeding chunks and other tittle tattle!

              Following the above, may we’ll have La Mer but will it be Mantovani conducting Trenet or Debussy!

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              • french frank
                Administrator/Moderator
                • Feb 2007
                • 30210

                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                Binge listening?
                Stop it, ferney! So much going on, I haven't kept up with it all. Mantovani, you say?
                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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                • LMcD
                  Full Member
                  • Sep 2017
                  • 8396

                  Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                  Tuned in this morning and was pleased to hear Sibelius Oceanides but I did not agree with SK that had I not known it was Sibelius may have mistaken it for Debussy. Well it isn’t Debussian and for me unmistakenly Sibelius! As to what to follow it wth? Sib 5 would go down superbly well and still leave the best part of two hours for the bleeding chunks and other tittle tattle!

                  Following the above, may we’ll have La Mer but will it be Mantovani conducting Trenet or Debussy!
                  I'm no expert, but for me the way Sibelius writes for woodwind is unmistakable. Am I right in thinking that The Oceanides was originally going to be called 'Naiads' or something along those lines? As for a follow-on piece, I'm always looking for excuses to sing the praises of that wonderful Frank Bridge work 'The Sea', which I've come to prefer to 'La Mer'.

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                  • Eine Alpensinfonie
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 20569

                    I thought the pathetic follow-on game was on Essential Classics (replacing the playing a tune backwards game).

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                    • Old Grumpy
                      Full Member
                      • Jan 2011
                      • 3594

                      Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                      I thought the pathetic follow-on game was on Essential Classics (replacing the playing a tune backwards game).
                      It is, but this thread could perhaps be renamed "the eternal Classic Essential Breakfast" thread

                      OG

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                      • antongould
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8774

                        Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                        I thought the pathetic follow-on game was on Essential Classics (replacing the playing a tune backwards game).
                        As OG says EA it is and you’ll be delighted to hear they now play 3 or 4 of bbm’s choices .....

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                        • kernelbogey
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 5735

                          From another thread:
                          Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                          Petroc hasn't had the best of mornings, has he?
                          I've just started giving Breakfast a chance after a very long gap. I try to tune out the speech and just enjoy the music. But announcng the Brahms as Parry penetrated my fog.
                          Last edited by kernelbogey; 22-11-18, 10:17. Reason: Brahms, Parry, Stanford... whatevs

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                          • underthecountertenor
                            Full Member
                            • Apr 2011
                            • 1584

                            Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                            From another thread:

                            I've just started giving Breakfast a chance after a very long gap. I try to tune out the speech and just enjoy the music. But announcng the Brahms as Parry penetrated my fog.
                            Seems to have been a rare minute or so of brain freeze on PT's part, and he was clearly mortified as he made a succession of corrections. I certainly don't believe he actually thought he'd played Parry as opposed to Brahms. He's probably in need of the couple of weeks' holiday he's apparently got coming up....

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                            • antongould
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8774

                              “Morning all! Another less than lovely morning in London but I have musical loveliness on @BBCRadio3 this morning in the form of a vintage recording of Chopin by Cortot and all of Bach's Cantata BWV130 before 7. Plus Mozart arranging Handel. Join us!” A tweet from Wor Georgia ....... all of it note ......

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                              • LMcD
                                Full Member
                                • Sep 2017
                                • 8396

                                Originally posted by antongould View Post
                                “Morning all! Another less than lovely morning in London but I have musical loveliness on @BBCRadio3 this morning in the form of a vintage recording of Chopin by Cortot and all of Bach's Cantata BWV130 before 7. Plus Mozart arranging Handel. Join us!” A tweet from Wor Georgia ....... all of it note ......
                                ...and a Rhapsody by Atterberg plus pieces by Derek Bourgeois (arr.) and Alan Abbott. What's not to like? I like Georgia's style.
                                (The weather has been pretty grotty here on the Suffolk coast, but is now attempting to brighten up).

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