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  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30253

    #16
    The BBC's news.
    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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    • underthecountertenor
      Full Member
      • Apr 2011
      • 1584

      #17
      Originally posted by french frank View Post
      Classic FM's version. This has clearly been brewing for a while. Who knows? Perhaps a beneficial shake-up for the turgid Ess. Cla.? A big move for Skellers.
      Rob Cowan said: “I’ve always said that, over the years, Classic FM has been responsible for bringing great music into the national consciousness. Now, after a creatively varied seventeen-year period of absence, I’m delighted to be going full circle, reaching out to a public that’s eager to be nourished by quality repertoire, whether familiar or unfamiliar, as performed by artists who are fully up to the job. I intend to have a ball – and hope my listeners will, too.”

      About as awkward as much of what he comes up with on Ess. Cla. these days. 'Artists who are fully up to the job'????

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      • underthecountertenor
        Full Member
        • Apr 2011
        • 1584

        #18
        ....though to give him credit, his parting words on the BBC press release are generous and read very well.

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        • french frank
          Administrator/Moderator
          • Feb 2007
          • 30253

          #19
          Originally posted by underthecountertenor View Post
          ....though to give him credit, his parting words on the BBC press release are generous and read very well.
          What's more: BEWARE LEBRECHT!!! He's had his knife into AD since before he took over at R3. ('Arts Council loser in line for R3'? Or headline to that effect? )

          That said, I see a parallel with the departure of Catherine Bott to CFM.
          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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          • underthecountertenor
            Full Member
            • Apr 2011
            • 1584

            #20
            Originally posted by french frank View Post
            What's more: BEWARE LEBRECHT!!! He's had his knife into AD since before he took over at R3. ('Arts Council loser in line for R3'? Or headline to that effect? )

            That said, I see a parallel with the departure of Catherine Bott to CFM.
            Lebrecht is a mischief-maker, and often a very unpleasant one at that. For that reason I take his reference to a 'general talent and producer exodus' with a mine of salt.

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            • underthecountertenor
              Full Member
              • Apr 2011
              • 1584

              #21
              FF: I've found it, and it's breathtakingly nasty. http://slippedisc.com/2014/09/lord-w...ng-at-the-bbc/

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              • Sir Velo
                Full Member
                • Oct 2012
                • 3225

                #22
                No doubt the Skellywag will be a distinct improvement on what's gone before hitherto, but even he may be powerless to improve on (In)essential classics.

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                • underthecountertenor
                  Full Member
                  • Apr 2011
                  • 1584

                  #23
                  Originally posted by Sir Velo View Post
                  No doubt the Skellywag will be a distinct improvement on what's gone before hitherto, but even he may be powerless to improve on (In)essential classics.
                  Although it's possible that he will extract the urine so mercilessly from contributors to the 'whatever next?' feature that they will be too afraid to tweet and the ghastly thing will die a death.

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                  • hmvman
                    Full Member
                    • Mar 2007
                    • 1097

                    #24
                    Wow! I read this item on Slipped Disc and thought it was a spoof..

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                    • Paulie55
                      Full Member
                      • Jan 2012
                      • 87

                      #25
                      More please!

                      Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
                      Isn't that where he came from in the first place ? Perhaps he can take Petroc back with him .
                      ........SK and KD too!

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                      • Eine Alpensinfonie
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 20570

                        #26
                        Um. I'm speechless. But I'd prefer several others to go before Rob.

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                        • french frank
                          Administrator/Moderator
                          • Feb 2007
                          • 30253

                          #27
                          Originally posted by underthecountertenor View Post
                          FF: I've found it, and it's breathtakingly nasty.
                          Yes, for a moment one is taken aback until one remembers who wrote it. I don't look at his blog that often but there's not infrequently a dig at R3. Last time it was aimed at AD and David Pickard/the Proms too (then it was about That Barenboim Prom last summer). All blamed on Davey and Pickard.

                          I think Ian Skelly may well be able to make the programme listenable, but it seems to be an unbridgeable gap: listeners who really take their music seriously and aren't satisfied with a string of short to shortish pieces, each apparently chosen for having nothing whatever to do with the previous one, alongside people who definitely want a variety of short pieces each having little to do with the previous one.

                          Surely, the best that can be hoped for is that the links will be tolerable?
                          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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                          • hmvman
                            Full Member
                            • Mar 2007
                            • 1097

                            #28
                            Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                            Um. I'm speechless. But I'd prefer several others to go before Rob.
                            Agree. In some ways I think it's a shame that Rob's going but perhaps more of a shame that R3 didn't make best use of his talents and knowledge in recent years. I used to like his contributions to 'CD Review' and 'Building a Library' as well as 'CD Masters' but more recently, with his 'Breakfast' and "Essential Classics' appearances, I've grown weary of that benign, avuncular style of presentation with lazy links and too much use of the adjective "wonderful". I'm sure it'll go down well at CFM.

                            Hopefully Skelly will bring a bit of fresh air to the programme and I might well listen to it a bit more. A fond hope? Maybe.

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26523

                              #29
                              Originally posted by underthecountertenor View Post
                              A welcome side-effect of any exodus may be that Radio 3 is forced to rehabilitate the likes of James Jolly and Jonathan Swain, and perhaps promote the excellent John Shea from his nocturnal ghetto.
                              I had the same thought this afternoon.


                              Originally posted by underthecountertenor View Post
                              FF: I've found it, and it's breathtakingly nasty. http://slippedisc.com/2014/09/lord-w...ng-at-the-bbc/


                              Never read that before...
                              "...the isle is full of noises,
                              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                              • Barbirollians
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 11671

                                #30
                                I regard Norman Lebrecht as a thoroughly nasty piece of work .

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