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

[cloughie]

And I have a sneaky feeling that were anyone to composer something to be called Dover Beach, it would be on a very different theme of today!

They’d need copious paper!

[AuntDaisy]

Here's what we missed today - available to our European friends via EBU Notturno, e.g. Swedish radio https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/1875592

01:01 Maurice Durufle; Requiem, Op 9; Jacqueline Fox (alto), Stephen Charlesworth (bass), BBC Singers, David Goode (organ), Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
01:42 Cesar Franck, Jean Pierre Rampal (arranger); Sonata for flute and piano (orig. violin and piano); Carlos Bruneel (flute), Levente Kende (piano)
02:08 Franz Liszt; Mephisto waltz no 1, S514; Khatia Buniatishvili
02:18 Jean-Baptiste Arban, David Stanhope (arranger); Fantasy and variations on a Cavatina from 'Beatrice di Tenda' by Bellini; Geoffrey Payne (trumpet), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halasz (conductor)
02:26 Carl Nielsen; Serenata in vano (FS.68); Kari Kriikku (clarinet), Jonathan Williams (horn), Per Hannisdahl (bassoon), Oystein Sonstad (cello), Katrine Oigaard (double bass)
02:33 John Field; Rondo for piano and strings (H.18A) in A flat major; Eckart Selheim (pianoforte), Collegium Aureum, Franzjosef Maier (director)
02:41 Carl Maria von Weber; Aufforderung zum Tanz; Niklas Sivelov (piano)
02:50 Carl Friedrich Abel; Symphony (K.21) (Op.10 No.3) in E flat major; La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (conductor)
Info from https://www.ebu.ch/files/live/sites/...ary%202022.pdf

[AuntDaisy]

It really annoys me that R3 keep Tweating about TTN when it's only 4 hours as if they're doing us a favour.
I've started #FreeTheTTN2 - ready for it to take R3 by storm

https://twitter.com/BBCRadio3/status/1489733258975842305

[french frank]

I've started #FreeTheTTN2 - ready for it to take R3 by storm

Oh, I SAY! Will it go viral …?

[kernelbogey]

What do we want?
Two hours back!
When do we want it?
At one o'clock!

[Nick Armstrong]

I've started #FreeTheTTN2 - ready for it to take R3 by storm

Nice one!

I know to avoid the offending time slot so have never heard the replacements but from cursory glances at schedules, the presenters’ silly nicknames are offputting enough… Slack Alice or similar (with her Waterfall of Sounds or whatever).

[french frank]

We already knew this, but R3 is being deprived of those two hours so that 'marginal' R3 listeners (who don't bother with the main R3 output) are just listening at some chosen time convenient to them - proof that that's the very intention: today's Piano Flow is "Music for dreaming on a winter's day: Relax, reflect and drift away on a winter's day as Tokio Myers brings you a playlist for drifting off on a winter's day". That seems to be pretty clear to me: it's for a winter's day. At 1 o'clock in the morning. Surely there are two hours somewhere else on the BBC's online provision other than on R3?

[oddoneout]

We already knew this, but R3 is being deprived of those two hours so that 'marginal' R3 listeners (who don't bother with the main R3 output) are just listening at some chosen time convenient to them - proof that that's the very intention: today's Piano Flow is "Music for dreaming on a winter's day: Relax, reflect and drift away on a winter's day as Tokio Myers brings you a playlist for drifting off on a winter's day". That seems to be pretty clear to me: it's for a winter's day. At 1 o'clock in the morning. Surely there are two hours somewhere else on the BBC's online provision other than on R3?

Doesn't it come back to the excuse we were given when they first started this erosion process, namely that it has to be broadcast before it can be made available online? As R3 has a small audience and is a niche station it's the obvious one to cannibalise for that purpose, as there won't be an embarrassingly large and public outcry, and certainly no risk of political interference.

[french frank]

Doesn't it come back to the excuse we were given when they first started this erosion process, namely that it has to be broadcast before it can be made available online? As R3 has a small audience and is a niche station it's the obvious one to cannibalise for that purpose, as there won't be an embarrassingly large and public outcry, and certainly no risk of political interference.

I don't think that last bit was the excuse they gave!

[AuntDaisy]

Oh, I SAY! Will it go viral …?

Wait and see

What do we want?
Two hours back!
When do we want it?
At one o'clock!

Brilliant.

Nice one!
I know to avoid the offending time slot so have never heard the replacements but from cursory glances at schedules, the presenters’ silly nicknames are offputting enough… Slack Alice or similar (with her Waterfall of Sounds or whatever).

Re. Slack Alice, better Shut that door.

[AuntDaisy]

For a bit of variety, Mystic Meg is standing in this week and predicting what we'll be missing tomorrow...

01:01 Edward Elgar; Concerto for cello and orchestra in E minor (Op.85); Pieter Wispelwey (cello), National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gabriel Chmura (conductor)
01:29 Bela Bartok, Igor Karsko (arranger); Excerpts from '44 Duos for Violin, Sz 98' and 'Mikrokosmos, Sz 107'; Camerata Zurich, Igor Karsko (conductor)
01:47 Pablo de Sarasate; Concert fantasy on Carmen for violin and orchestra, Op 25; Julia Fischer (violin), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green (conductor)
02:00 Robert de Visee; Suite in D minor; Eduardo Egüez (lute)
02:15 Rued Langgaard; 3 Rose Gardens Songs (1919); Danish National Radio Choir, Kaare Hansen (conductor)
02:26 Heino Eller; Romance, Dance and A Homeland Tune (from Five Pieces for Strings); Estonian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vallo Jarvi (conductor)
02:38 Johann Sebastian Bach; Toccata and fugue in D minor, BWV 565; Velin Iliev (organ)
02:48 Umberto Giordano; Aria 'Nemico Della Patria' from "Andrea Chenier", Act 3; Allan Monk (baritone), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
02:53 Giuseppe Tartini; Sonata No 6, 'Senti lo Mare' (Listen to the Sea)
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin)
Info from https://www.ebu.ch/files/live/sites/...ary%202022.pdf

[AuntDaisy]

Available to our European friends via EBU Notturno, e.g. Swedish radio https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/1876134

[AuntDaisy]

Here's what we missed today - available to our European friends via EBU Notturno, e.g. Swedish radio

https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/1878854

01:01 Fernando Lopes-Graca; Cancoes regionais portuguesas (Op.39) (1943-88); Ricercare Chorus, Rodrigo Gomes (piano), Pedro Teixeira (conductor)
01:44 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Quartet for strings (K.589) in B flat major 'Prussian'; Johnston Quartet, Magnus Johnston (violin), Donald Grant (violin), Martin Saving (viola), Marie Bitlloch (cello)
02:08 Sergey Rachmaninov; Romance and Waltz; Dutch Pianists Quartet
02:14 Carl Maria von Weber; Concertino for oboe and wind ensemble in C major (arr. for trumpet); Geoffrey Payne (trumpet), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halasz (conductor)
02:22 William Byrd; O Lord, how vain, for voice and 4 viols; Emma Kirkby (soprano), Rose Consort of Viols
02:29 Ralph Vaughan Williams; Overture to The Wasps - Aristophanic suite (from incidental music); BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
02:39 Chiel Meijering; La vengeance d'une femme; Janine Jansen (violin)
02:45 Fryderyk Chopin; Fantaisie-impromptu in C sharp minor Op 66; Anastasia Vorotnaya (piano)
02:51 Francesco Geminiani; Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op 3 no 2; Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (director)
Info from https://www.ebu.ch/files/live/sites/...ary%202022.pdf

[oddoneout]

As always with these listings there is something I don't know and yet again it makes me wonder about why we can't have more of these lesser known works/composers(particularly the latter) scattered through the daytime schedules - heaven knows there is enough space in the current bits and pieces model of R3 programming by the time Afternoon Concert is added to the morning schedules. The EBU Christmas day of music is another window onto a different repertoire that shouldn't be as foreign as it is.

[french frank]

As always with these listings there is something I don't know and yet again it makes me wonder about why we can't have more of these lesser known works/composers(particularly the latter) scattered through the daytime schedules - heaven knows there is enough space in the current bits and pieces model of R3 programming by the time Afternoon Concert is added to the morning schedules. The EBU Christmas day of music is another window onto a different repertoire that shouldn't be as foreign as it is.

Crumbs! I thought you'd been listening to "Tearjerker, Downtown Symphony, Piano Flow, Happy Harmonies and other Saturday padding" and wanted to hear Crooked Underwear or Rudi and the Nosepickers on AC