Sunday Morning

[Barbirollians]

Welcome to Sunday Morning - a mixed bag today chosen by members of the Radio 3 Forum . After a noisy piece by someone called Lachenmann, we will have an arrangement of the Scherzo from Mahler 5 for brass band . Then I see we have Elgar 2 from Barbirolli, an impassioned discussion about which is the best recording of Varese's Ameriques , Butterworth's A Shropshire Lad songs arranged for orchestra , some organ music from a baroque composer I have never heard of and to conclude one of VW's symphonies but as yet the panel are still arguing about which one and the recording.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... rubbish programme - nothing from before 1600!

[vinteuil]

... rubbish programme - nothing from before 1600!

... and far too much 'British Music'


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[Barbirollians]

... and far too much 'British Music'


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We announce an amendment to the programme now we will be having a Bruckner symphony rather than VW but this may take longer to decide as the Panel are now also arguing about the version and whether if Bruckner 9 is chosen there should be a completion.

[cloughie]

We announce an amendment to the programme now we will be having a Bruckner symphony rather than VW but this may take longer to decide as the Panel are now also arguing about the version and whether if Bruckner 9 is chosen there should be a completion.

With due respect to all the other Brucknerheads on the forum, the first Bruckner decision must be Jayne's together with rationale for choice of version! I can't think who would make the choice of recording, but the featured Symphony will be by Richard Strauss!

[cloughie]

... rubbish programme - nothing from before 1600!

I thought you'd be more concerned about nothing after 2000, ferney!

[Barbirollians]

I thought you'd be more concerned about nothing after 2000, ferney!

I think Lachenmann has written music since 2000.

[Serial_Apologist]

With due respect to all the other Brucknerheads on the forum, the first Bruckner decision must be Jayne's together with rationale for choice of version! I can't think who would make the choice of recording, but the featured Symphony will be by Richard Strauss!

...Concluding with a discussion as to whether or not symphonic poems can be considered to be symphonies.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I think Lachenmann has written music since 2000.

... and some of it has been recorded, so they can use it on Sunday Morning. (Grido for S4tet from 2001 has no fewer than three recordings currently available - and Double, the composer's String Orchestra re-working from 2004, has also been recorded.)

[hmvman]

To say nothing of Billy Mayerl, Peggy Lee and Bernstein's Wonderful Town. Plus bandoneonist J Rowlands playing Piazzolla. It seems that if the performer is better known for classical music (Susan Tomes, Simon Rattle &c) it becomes classical music. Can't explain Peggy Lee.

I've been rather enjoying the little morsels of light music on a Sunday morning. There's precious little anywhere else on BBC (or, indeed, any other network) radio.

[cloughie]

I think Lachenmann has written music since 2000.

'appen you're right. Barbs!

Perhaps there should be a featured conductor - any suggestions?

[cloughie]

...Concluding with a discussion as to whether or not symphonic poems can be considered to be symphonies.

What Bruckner's?

[cloughie]

Can't explain Peggy Lee.

Is that all there is, 'cos She's a Woman W O M A N. she gives Fever!

[french frank]

I've been rather enjoying the little morsels of light music on a Sunday morning. There's precious little anywhere else on BBC (or, indeed, any other network) radio.

That's precisely how they get away with it It doesn't matter what they do, someone will like it and others won't. Who wins? Why should those who appreciate light music be given priority over those who don't? All Radio 3 is doing is gradually welcoming in the light music lovers and driving out those who want 'heavier' fare - at least on the programmes which are supposed to be classical.

Just expect the audiences for other programmes which don't include light interludes to go down: evening concerts which expect listeners to listen for 40 mins+ at a time; Record Review which is for informed listeners who take a critical attitude to what they're listening to; Hear and Now, Music Matters, Discovering Mu … oh, but that one's gone already, hasn't it?

[cloughie]

That's precisely how they get away with it It doesn't matter what they do, someone will like it and others won't. Who wins? Why should those who appreciate light music be given priority over those who don't? All Radio 3 is doing is gradually welcoming in the light music lovers and driving out those who want 'heavier' fare - at least on the programmes which are supposed to be classical.

Just expect the audiences for other programmes which don't include light interludes to go down: evening concerts which expect listeners to listen for 40 mins+ at a time; Record Review which is for informed listeners who take a critical attitude to what they're listening to; Hear and Now, Music Matters, Discovering Mu … oh, but that one's gone already, hasn't it?

...and light music has all but disappeared from Radio 2, as is to be the fate of the Organist Entertains and Listen to the Band, replaced by the exR1 DJ entertains and listen to the bland!