Tearjerker, Downtown Symphony, Piano Flow, Happy Harmonies and other Saturday padding

[french frank]

Alan Davey is trying to justify changes (Ian Skelly...) and Tearjearker on Feedback as I type.

Yes, he mentioned Lord Reith in his reply to me. [ "'Reach – increase it' – why not? It’s what Lord Reith wanted."] I think I could have written his script. As an ex-civil servant, he knows what to say to fob people off so that they finally give up. There's a certain brutality to these BBC responses: ordinary, reasonable people don't quite master the technique of landing the knock-out punches.

Would the best change for R3 be AD leaving?

but, then, imagine looking back on the days of Tearjerker and Happy Harmonies as a Golden Age D-G Tim Davie has no more culture that Reith had.

[Frances_iom]

he was brought back to talk about R3's move of 50% output to be from Salford by 2026 - he sounded as though he had had no part in the decision and gave no indication of any personal involvement in it - at times I think you just couldn't make it up. IMO it is obvious a staff + probably orchestra cut with lower studio costs and the less listened to network with of course the high costs of orchestras was the obvious choice in the bean counters' eyes but why can't they be honest that the Beeb is going bust and would have been off air if the Tories had followed up with their plan to decriminalise licence non-payment

[AuntDaisy]

but, then, imagine looking back on the days of Tearjerker and Happy Harmonies as a Golden Age D-G Tim Davie has no more culture that Reith had.

I'm willing to risk it To misquote, "Nothing in his life became him like the leaving of R3".

Reith, though dour, was entertaining enough to warrant a drama or two (one on R3).

[cloughie]

Yes, he mentioned Lord Reith in his reply to me. [ "'Reach – increase it' – why not? It’s what Lord Reith wanted."] I think I could have written his script. As an ex-civil servant, he knows what to say to fob people off so that they finally give up. There's a certain brutality to these BBC responses: ordinary, reasonable people don't quite master the technique of landing the knock-out punches.



but, then, imagine looking back on the days of Tearjerker and Happy Harmonies as a Golden Age D-G Tim Davie has no more culture that Reith had.

I think a completely 110% several times sterilised piece of surgical equipment has more culture than AD.

[AuntDaisy]

I think a completely 110% several times sterilised piece of surgical equipment has more culture than AD.

He's on "the Board of the English Folk Dance and Song Society" - does that count?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/whoweare/alan-davey

[cloughie]

He's on "the Board of the English Folk Dance and Song Society" - does that count?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/whoweare/alan-davey

If he likes Fairport Convention he may qualify for a modicum of redemption!

[Ein Heldenleben]

He's on "the Board of the English Folk Dance and Song Society" - does that count?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/whoweare/alan-davey

He’s also on the board for Hall For Cornwall - an excellent venue where I once saw a first rate live performance of Die Walküre produced by Ian Burnside and starring Susan Bullock.

[Frances_iom]

He’s also on the board for Hall For Cornwall...

If he has strong Cornish connections then I can see why he came over as unenthused about a compulsory transfer to the palm fringed banks of the Irwell - at least in recent years that river now no longer looks like raw Guinness including a good head of white foam floating on the thick brown 'water' that I used to see each morning going to school

[cloughie]

If he has strong Cornish connections then I can see why he came over as unenthused about a compulsory transfer to the palm fringed banks of the Irwell - at least in recent years that river now no longer looks like raw Guinness including a good head of white foam floating on the thick brown 'water' that I used to see each morning going to school

Very much looking forward to the reopening of HfC and what range of cultural fare it will bring, but all this has little to do with what is happening on R3.

[LMcD]

Very much looking forward to the reopening of HfC and what range of cultural fare it will bring, but all this has little to do with what is happening on R3.

So there's nothing to the rumour that Petroc threatened to hand over his slot to Tom Service if the venue remained close for a second longer than necessary? (Cornwall certainly gets its fair share of 'mentions' during the 0830 temperature forecasts .....)

[AuntDaisy]

Another 2 hours of missing Through the Night - remember, it's only 2 hours out of 42 a week!

Available to hear via more inclusive European broadcasters, e.g. Swedish radio:

https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/1682192

Here's what we missed:
05:01 Franz Schubert; Rosamunde (Ballet Music No 2), D 797; Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Heinz Holliger (conductor)
05:08 George Frideric Handel; Sonata for 2 violins in G minor, HWV 390a; Musica Alta Ripa
05:19 Vitezslav Novak; Piano Trio in D minor, 'quasi una ballata', Op 27; Suk Trio
05:35 Sergey Prokofiev; Symphony No 1 in D major, Op 25, 'Classical'; Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Michel Tabachnik (conductor)
05:50 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Adagio and Allegro in E flat major (K.Anh.C 17.07) for wind octet; Festival Winds
06:00 Joseph Haydn; String Quartet in G minor, Op 74 No 3, 'Rider'; Ebene Quartet
06:21 Felix Mendelssohn; Three Psalms (Op.78); Chamber Choir AVE, Andraz Hauptman (conductor)
06:41 Ludwig van Beethoven; Piano Sonata no 24 in F sharp major, Op 78; Cedric Tiberghien (piano)
06:49 Georg Philipp Telemann; Quartet in D minor, TWV.43:d2; Ensemble of the Eighteenth Century, Susanne Regel (conductor)

Info from: https://www.ebu.ch/files/live/sites/...ril%202021.pdf

I enjoyed the Handel & Prokofiev. Novák is new to me and a Czech composer I'll now listen out for - as ever, TTN educates and entertains.

[Bryn]

Another 2 hours of missing Through the Night - remember, it's only 2 hours out of 42 a week!

Available to hear via more inclusive European broadcasters, e.g. Swedish radio:

https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/1682192

Here's what we missed:
05:01 Franz Schubert; Rosamunde (Ballet Music No 2), D 797; Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Heinz Holliger (conductor)
05:08 George Frideric Handel; Sonata for 2 violins in G minor, HWV 390a; Musica Alta Ripa
05:19 Vitezslav Novak; Piano Trio in D minor, 'quasi una ballata', Op 27; Suk Trio
05:35 Sergey Prokofiev; Symphony No 1 in D major, Op 25, 'Classical'; Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Michel Tabachnik (conductor)
05:50 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Adagio and Allegro in E flat major (K.Anh.C 17.07) for wind octet; Festival Winds
06:00 Joseph Haydn; String Quartet in G minor, Op 74 No 3, 'Rider'; Ebene Quartet
06:21 Felix Mendelssohn; Three Psalms (Op.78); Chamber Choir AVE, Andraz Hauptman (conductor)
06:41 Ludwig van Beethoven; Piano Sonata no 24 in F sharp major, Op 78; Cedric Tiberghien (piano)
06:49 Georg Philipp Telemann; Quartet in D minor, TWV.43:d2; Ensemble of the Eighteenth Century, Susanne Regel (conductor)

Info from: https://www.ebu.ch/files/live/sites/...ril%202021.pdf

I enjoyed the Handel & Prokofiev. Novák is new to me and a Czech composer I'll now listen out for - as ever, TTN educates and entertains.

And to think, Euroclassic Notturno/TtN is compiled and run from Radio 3, London.

[Pulcinella]

And to think, Euroclassic Notturno/TtN is compiled and run from Radio 3, London.

But what's in store when it's run from Radio 3, Salford?

[Bryn]

But what's in store when it's run from Radio 3, Salford?

A dampening down?

[cloughie]

A dampening down?

Depends on who’s in charge of the Quays!