Night Tracks

[AuntDaisy]

But verify-email gives the message night.tracks@bbc.co.uk is BAD. What on earth does that mean? Is it an opinion?

Brilliant - that made me laugh.

It also says "late.junction@bbc.co.uk is BAD. TransientNetworkFault" and that is, according to Auntie, a valid e-mail address.
Tried "essentialclassics@bbc.co.uk" & "3breakfast@bbc.co.uk", same problem (then I hit the 5 free limit.)

If I retry using a VPN (location as Copenhagen), it gives "night.tracks@bbc.co.uk is OK. Success", ditto the others.
(But "desperately.seeking.younger.listeners@bbc.co. uk is BAD. MailboxDoesNotExist")

[french frank]

Tried "essentialclassics@bbc.co.uk" & "3breakfast@bbc.co.uk", same problem (then I hit the 5 free limit.)

Both of those worked first time for me (verify-email.org). verifyemailaddress okayed night-tracks@ as well. Anyway, I think we've answered DracoM's question

[Kingus]

Hello jayne lee ,fellow traveller of the dronebience,have loved king of the road since I was a kid.night tracks brought to me max richter and johann johannsson I didn't know there work before ,also I heard lankum and William basinski for the first time on this marvellous wireless programme

[DracoM]

For me, Night Tracks has been one of the real 'finds' on R3 and a fine way to lead into a good night's sleep.

[smittims]

Ah well, what a good job it is we all like different things. Following your lead, I listened to 'Night Tracks'. Oh dear, I shan't be doing that again. It was like having molten sugar poured over me. Yeuk. And I didn't like the presenter's smoochy 'come-to-bed' voice. Sorry!

[DracoM]

Chacun a son gout!

[Serial_Apologist]

Chacun a son gout!

Fortunately something I don't suffer from!

[french frank]

Fortunately something I don't suffer from!

Rather a tasteless remark!

[Pulcinella]

The bland leading the bland?

[gurnemanz]

Ah well, what a good job it is we all like different things. Following your lead, I listened to 'Night Tracks'. Oh dear, I shan't be doing that again. It was like having molten sugar poured over me. Yeuk. And I didn't like the presenter's smoochy 'come-to-bed' voice. Sorry!

I do not listen regularly but whenever I do it seems fine by me for that slot. What gives it piquancy is the very diversity and unpredictability of content which renders futile such generalisations as 'molten sugar".

[smittims]

I disagree. Having molten sugar poured over you could be unexpected,and therefore unpredictable and an example of the diversity of experience .

[kernelbogey]

A friend, not a great R3 listener, enjoys the pillow-talk voices of Sarah and Hannah, which I'm sure is deliberate. I have found it mildly irritating.

[Old Grumpy]

I disagree. Having molten sugar poured over you could be unexpected,and therefore unpredictable and an example of the diversity of experience .

[french frank]

A friend, not a great R3 listener, enjoys the pillow-talk voices of Sarah and Hannah, which I'm sure is deliberate. I have found it mildly irritating.

Isn't this what it's all about? - encouraging people who don't listen to/don't like Radio 3 to listen to what isn't/wasn't what Radio 3 was about? In the past 20 years there have been any number of new programmes: daily, weekly, occasional. How many have been aimed at the the people who were 'great R3 listeners', dedicated, knowledgeable and able to concentrate for longer than 4 minutes, rather than at those who weren't great R3 listeners? ... There was CD Masters back in 2004.

[AuntDaisy]

Isn't this what it's all about? - encouraging people who don't listen to/don't like Radio 3 to listen to what isn't/wasn't what Radio 3 was about? In the past 20 years there have been any number of new programmes: daily, weekly, occasional. How many have been aimed at the the people who were 'great R3 listeners', dedicated, knowledgeable and able to concentrate for longer than 4 minutes, rather than at those who weren't great R3 listeners? ... There was CD Masters back in 2004.

While working this morning, I tried listening to last night's Through the Night, but gave in - defeated by molten sugar.
Instead I dug out an ancient off-air from 2005... Clearly we were cheated back then - only 7 pieces and no chatty stuff about ponds or sprouts.

CD Masters, 10:00 14 December 2005
Jonathan Swain continues to feature music from JS Bach's personal library and recordings by Sir Adrian Boult.

Vivaldi: Concerto in Dm, Op 3, No 11; NBC Symphony Orchestra; Arturo Toscanini (conductor)
10.13 Caldara: Magnificat in C; Rheinische Kantorei; Das Kleine Konzert; Hermann Max (conductor)
10.21 Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Prelude, Act I; New Philharmonia Orchestra; Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)
10.32 Albinoni: Sonata in Am, Op 6, No 6; Amandine Beyer (violin); Jérémie Papasergio (bassoon); Laurent Stewart (harpsichord)
10.44 Beethoven: Symphony No 6 in F, Op 68, Pastoral; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)
11.24 Handel: Armida Abbandonata; Emma Kirkby (soprano); London Baroque; Charles Medlam (director/cello)
11.41 Marcello: Oboe Concerto in Dm; Heinz Holliger (oboe); Members of Dresden Staatskapelle; Vittorio Negri (conductor)