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

[Pulcinella]

What is this fluviatile obsession these days? - there’s something called “River of Music” sometime today too.

Bloody silly.

R3 is a no-go area before 9 and after 11.45 on Saturdays anyway, so I shan’t be getting wet.

Not even to get immersed in Stravinsky?
Is that where the river concept stems from, I wonder.

[LMcD]

What is this fluviatile obsession these days? - there’s something called “River of Music” sometime today too.

Bloody silly.

R3 is a no-go area before 9 and after 11.45 on Saturdays anyway, so I shan’t be getting wet.

It's so we can all go with the flow as we stream, man ...

[vinteuil]

It's so we can all go with the flow as we stream, man ...

... if the Brook were in German




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[Frances_iom]

What is this fluviatile obsession these days? -..

it's just a fancy name for Muzak - just let it flow past you - no conscious thought required on anyone's part both source & sink

[Nick Armstrong]

... if the Brook were in German

[french frank]

there’s something called “River of Music” sometime today too.

One of the first gimmicks of the present regime was a "River of Music". You don't like the presenters? So we'll omit all presentation and just play a sequence of music. Am I right that this river is 50 pieces in 5hrs 30 mins? The usual average of just over 6 mins per piece? No need to announce the name of the composer each time either as it's all by Stravinsky …

[AuntDaisy]

One of the first gimmicks of the present regime was a "River of Music". You don't like the presenters? So we'll omit all presentation and just play a sequence of music. Am I right that this river is 50 pieces in 5hrs 30 mins? The usual average of just over 6 mins per piece? No need to announce the name of the composer each time either as it's all by Stravinsky …

There are certain announcers I'd happily not have announcing :-)

In comparison, over on BR Klassik this evening is "Die Radio-Nacht der Alten Musik" 5 hours of Early Music including "Jordi Savall, Andreas Scholl, Simone Kermes, Vincent Dumestre, Capriccio Stravagante, Anima Eterna & Il Giardino Armonico". Repeats due to Covid, hopefully next year...

https://www.br-klassik.de/programm/radio/ausstrahlung-2417128.html

Die Radio-Nacht der Alten Musik

Höhepunkte aus den vergangenen "Langen Nächten" im Germanischen Nationalmuseum in Nürnberg

19.05 Musica Nova
Anonymus/Du Manoir: "Musiques pour le Roy Louis XIII"; Tobias Hume: "Musicall Humors"; Henry Purcell: "The Fairy Queen", Suite (Hespèrion XXI: Jordi Savall)

19.30 I saw my Lady weep
Anonymus: "I am a poor wayfaring stranger"; "Pretty Saro"; "Black is the colour"; "I loved a lass"; "Henry Martin" (Andreas Scholl, Countertenor; Crawford Young, Gitarre); Andreas Scholl: "All beauty must die" (Andreas Scholl, Countertenor; Orlando und die Unerlösten)

20:00 Karneval der Tiere
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Karneval der Tiere" (Pius Maria Cüppers, Sprechstimme; Claire Chevallier, Hammerklavier; Anima Eterna, Hammerklavier und Leitung: Jos van Immerseel)

20.30 Henry's Music
Philippe Verdelot: "Ave gratia plena"; Jean Lhéritier: "O clemens, O pia virgo"; Thomas Tallis: "Dum transissent sabbatum"; William Byrd: "Emendemus in melius" (Alamire Vokalensemble: David Skinner)

21.00 Der harmonische Garten
Baldassare Galuppi: Konzert G-Dur; Arcangelo Corelli: Sonata, G-Dur, op. 1, Nr. 9; Antonio Vivaldi: Sonata d-Moll, op. 1, Nr. 12 - "La Follia"; Konzert g-Moll, Allegro, R 157 (Il Giardino Armonico)

21.30 Remember me
Johann Adolf Hasse: "Viriate", Arie des Siface aus dem 2. Akt; Georg Friedrich Händel: "Giulio Cesare in Egitto", Arie der Cleopatra aus dem 2. Akt; Riccardo Broschi: "La Merope", Sinfonia; Henry Purcell: "Dido and Aeneas", Rezitativ und Arie Didos aus dem 3. Akt (Simone Kermes, Sopran; Le Musiche Nove: Claudio Osele)

22.00 Paradizo
Werke von Antony Holborne, John Dowland, Samuel Scheidt, Alfonso Ferrabosco der Jüngere, William Barde, Jacob van Eyck, John Dowland, Thomas Morley (Julien Martin, Blockflöte; Capriccio Stravagante: Skip Sempé)

22.30 Chill-out in der Kartäuserkirche
Mittelalterliche Musik
Anonymus: "Mon ami ne plourez plus"; "Amours, escoute"; "Jeux a vendre"; "Cuncti potens"; "O Maria, stella maris" (VocaMe)

23.00 Airs de cour
Fabrice Marin Caietain: "Allons vieille imperfaite"; Adrien Leroy: "O combien est heureuse"; Pierre Guédron: "A Paris sur petit pont - Qu'on ne me parle plus d'amour"; Jacques Dutronc: "L'Arsène" (Le Poème Harmonique: Vincent Dumestre)

23.30 Zeitloser Flamenco
Anonymus: Improvisación sobre "La Spagna" - "Toná" - "Romance del Rey Moro" - "Las morillas de Jaén & Jaleos"; "Guarcha & Guajira" (Arcángel, Gesang; Accademia del Piacere: Fahmi Alqhai)
Aufnahmen von 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015 und 2018

[french frank]

There are certain announcers I'd happily not have announcing :-)

Yes, I think R3 were annoyed at having certain presenters criticised so they removed all of them, even the ones who are good!

In comparison, over on BR Klassik this evening is "Die Radio-Nacht der Alten Musik" 5 hours of Early Music including "Jordi Savall, Andreas Scholl, Simone Kermes, Vincent Dumestre, Capriccio Stravagante, Anima Eterna & Il Giardino Armonico". Repeats due to Covid, hopefully next year...

https://www.br-klassik.de/programm/radio/ausstrahlung-2417128.html

22.30 Chill-out in der Kartäuserkirche
Mittelalterliche Musik
Anonymus: "Mon ami ne plourez plus"; "Amours, escoute"; "Jeux a vendre"; "Cuncti potens"; "O Maria, stella maris" (VocaMe)

I like their idea of "chill-out" - wish R3 had the same interpretation!

[AuntDaisy]

Yes, I think R3 were annoyed at having certain presenters criticised so they removed all of them, even the ones who are good!

I like their idea of "chill-out" - wish R3 had the same interpretation!

Given modern technology, could we resurrect deceased announcers to replace the unwanted? I might try "Happy Harmonies" with Patricia Hughes - her choices (and diction) would be impeccable. ("Ghosts of the Future! Shades of Time to come!")

I don't believe that BR Klassik have any sulky teenagers as presenters - perhaps R3's streaming drivel success will inspire them?

[Nick Armstrong]

Am I right that this river is 50 pieces in 5hrs 30 mins? The usual average of just over 6 mins per piece? …

Hang on, I’ll just get me kayak

[LMcD]

One of the first gimmicks of the present regime was a "River of Music". You don't like the presenters? So we'll omit all presentation and just play a sequence of music. Am I right that this river is 50 pieces in 5hrs 30 mins? The usual average of just over 6 mins per piece? No need to announce the name of the composer each time either as it's all by Stravinsky …

There were indeed 50 pieces, with periodic introductions from Sarah Walker. One item I happened to spot as I 'dipped in and out' was 'Lyke Wake Dirge (Cantata'), which was nowhere near as scary as Britten's setting (especially as in Robert Tear's 'British' recording).

[cloughie]

There were indeed 50 pieces, with periodic introductions from Sarah Walker. One item I happened to spot as I 'dipped in and out' was 'Lyke Wake Dirge (Cantata'), which was nowhere near as scary as Britten's setting (especially as in Robert Tear's 'British' recording).

Memories of Pentangle’s great version!

[cloughie]

Hang on, I’ll just get me kayak

I’ll take a punt on that!

[LMcD]

I’ll take a punt on that!

Thanks for reminding me of headlines such as 'the punt is sinking' which appeared when the ROI's economy was struggling in its pre-euro days.

[kernelbogey]

What is this fluviatile obsession these days? - there’s something called “River of Music” sometime today too.

...send not to know
For whom the river flows -
It flows for thee.