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

[AuntDaisy]

I'm sorry to dash your hopes of fresh material being broadcast on TTN, but according to the database it has been on TTN once or twice before, and seems to have been the same performers on at least 10 occasions.

Thanks Andrew - that is, as antongould says, impressive & I'll remember to check your DB first. I always live in hope

Now, my next question is why did the Google search fail? Have the BBC restricted indexing of TTN pages? They used to work.
This Google search brings up your pages, Andrew. While looking for F major finds yours, FoR3 and a TTN.

Impressive Andrew
Unimpressive R3 'Morning Anton!

Poor R3 - I'm enjoying Figaro's Nose as I type.

[antongould]

Impressive Andrew

Unimpressive R3 'Morning Anton!

…. and to you ……

[Andrew Slater]

Thanks Andrew - that is, as antongould says, impressive & I'll remember to check your DB first. I always live in hope

Not really - it just chugs through the BBC playlists and stores the results. It'd be unimpressive if it didn't work!

Now, my next question is why did the Google search fail? Have the BBC restricted indexing of TTN pages? They used to work.
This Google search brings up your pages, Andrew. While looking for F major finds yours, FoR3 and a TTN.

Perhaps Google has decided that its database is getting too full and has deleted items deemed to be of little interest to the general public?

Curiouser - this Google search finds one instance of the D major (fifth result), but including "sinfonia" or "d major" in the search terms fails to bring up anything. It seems as if the algorithm has become so "clever" as to be self-defeating.

[AuntDaisy]

Perhaps Google has decided that its database is getting too full and has deleted items deemed to be of little interest to the general public?

Curiouser - this Google search finds one instance of the D major (fifth result), but including "sinfonia" or "d major" in the search terms fails to bring up anything. It seems as if the algorithm has become so "clever" as to be self-defeating.

I think you're probably about overly clever algorithms and DB trimming.

Your search brings back happy memories of "Early Music Late" & old EMS.

[AuntDaisy]

Just noticed that Saturday 23rd April is currently a 6 hour TTN "Europe's Young Performers (1/3)" special starting at 1am (The following week, Saturday TTN is back to 3am.)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00169l1

Through the Night
Sat 23 Apr 2022 01:00 BBC Radio 3
In the first of three special nights, Jonathan Swain introduces performances by young artists from across Europe. Tonight's main concert is a collaboration between the French and German National Youth Orchestras and a programme of French music alongside Mendelssohn's less well-known Violin Concerto in D minor. Presented by Jonathan Swain.

[AuntDaisy]

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

https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/1909599

01:01 Francis Poulenc; Gloria for soprano, chorus and orchestra in G major; Annick Massis (soprano), Choir of Radio France, Orchestre National de France, George Pretre (conductor)
01:30 Joseph Haydn; Symphony No 43 in E flat, 'Mercury'; Orchestra Libera Classica, Hidemi Suzuki (conductor)
01:55 Jan Levoslav Bella; Overture to Hermina im Venusberg (Hermania in Venus' cave) (Operetta of 1886); Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Robl (conductor)
02:03 Louis-Nicolas Clerambault; Apollon et Doris (cantate profane); Isabelle Poulenard (soprano), Gilles Ragon (tenor), Ensemble Amalia, Florence Malgoire (violin), Marianne Muller (viola da gamba), Philippe Allain-Dupre (flute), Aline Zylberajch (harpsichord), Yasunori Imamura (theorbo)
02:22 Johann Sebastian Bach; Sarabande from Suite for solo cello no.6 (BWV.1012) in D major arr. for 4 cellos; David Geringas (cello), Tatjana Vassilieva (cello), Boris Andrianov (cello), Monika Leskovar (cello)
02:26 Johann Sebastian Bach; Badinerie, from Orchestral Suite no 2 in B minor, BWV 1067; Camerata Variabile Basel, Helena Winkelman (conductor), Helena Winkelman (violin)
02:28 Josef Strauss; Dorfschwalben aus Osterreich - waltz, Op 164; Arthur Schnabel (piano)
02:36 Georg Philipp Telemann; Quartet in G major TWV.43:G7 (Concerto alla Polonese); Aira Maria Lehtipuu (violin), Kore Ensemble
02:44 Bernat Vivancos; El cant dels ocells; Latvian Radio Choir, Ieva Ezeriete (soprano), Sigvards Klava (conductor)
02:51 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi; Violin Sonata in G major; Peter Michalica (violin), Elena Michalicova (piano)

https://www.ebu.ch/files/live/sites/ebu/files/notturno-playlists/2022/04/09%20April%202022.pdf

Clerambault's "Apollon et Doris" was excellent; plenty of Baroque in this missing section. This TTN looks to have been first broadcast in June 2020 & Notturno.

[kernelbogey]

By chance I listened to
Composed with Emeli Sandé: Find Hope with the Sounds Of Spring
at 0100

I found it surprsingly good - I didn't like everything, but I did like a lot of the tracks.

[AuntDaisy]

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

https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/1913619

01:01 Herbert Howells; Requiem; Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (director)
01:22 Igor Stravinsky; Le sacre du printemps; Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
01:57 Maurice Ravel, John Dahlstrand (arranger); Piece en forme de Habanera; Gary Karr (double bass), Harmon Lewis (piano)
02:00 Lepo Sumera; Pala aastast 1981 (A Piece from 1981); Kadri-Ann Sumera (piano)
02:08 Cesar Franck; Choral No.3 in A minor (M.40) from Trois Chorales pour grande orgue; Pierre Pincemaille (organ)
02:19 Johann Sebastian Bach; Overture from Suite No 1 in C major, BWV 1066; Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)
02:30 Albert Lortzing; Heiterkeit und Frohlichkeit - from Der Wildschutz Act 3; Brett Polegato (baritone), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor)
02:35 Camille Saint-Saens, Eugene Ysaye (arranger); Caprice for violin and piano, arr. Ysaye after Saint-Saens; Minami Yoshida (violin), Jean Desmarais (piano)
02:44 Leevi Madetoja; Overture, Op 7 (1911); Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, John Storgards (conductor)
02:54 George Frideric Handel; Aria "Lascia la spina" - from the oratorio Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno; Anna Reinhold (mezzo soprano), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
Info from https://www.ebu.ch/files/live/sites/...ril%202022.pdf

[AuntDaisy]

Hurray, clearly a red letter day - here's what we missed today...

Also available to our European friends via EBU Notturno, e.g. Swedish radio

https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/1918153

[AuntDaisy]

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

https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/1921714

01:01 Johannes Brahms; Symphony No.1 in C minor (Op.68); Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
01:46 Robert Schumann; Piano Trio in D minor (Op.63); Dan Almgren (violin), Torleif Thedéen (cello), Stefan Bojsten (piano)
02:20 Wilhelm Stenhammar; Varnatt (Spring Night); Swedish Radio Choir, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Sköld (conductor)
02:28 Dag Wiren; Violin Sonatina (1939); Arve Tellefsen (violin), Lucia Negro (piano)
02:39 Gabriel Fauré, Victor Hugo (author); Le Papillon et la fleur (Op.1 No.1); Paula Hoffman (mezzo soprano), Bengt-Åke Lundin (piano)
02:42 Hugo Alfvén; Minuet, op. 2 (1890'2); Valma Rydström (piano)
02:45 Hugo Alfvén; Nocturne (1911); Valma Rydström (piano)
02:48 Hugo Alfvén; Sorg (Sorrow) (Air mélancolique), op. 14; Valma Rydström (piano)
02:51 Ture Rangström; Suite for violin and piano No 1 'In modo antico'; Tale Olsson (violin), Mats Jansson (piano)
Info from https://www.ebu.ch/files/live/sites/...ril%202022.pdf

Continuing the Swedish Spring theme?

[AuntDaisy]

Not sure if this is the right place, but I hate the new, funereal look to the R3 webpages... I wish Auntie would stop fiddling with the website.

[oddoneout]

Goes from one extreme to the other doesn't it? The day's listings have suddenly got a lot of white background with small pictures/programme logos, but then the individual ones are black.

[muzzer]

Yes they’ve rejigged the icons for the News, Sport and iPlayer apps so they look like brutalist insignia. Consistent with their role as state thinkpiece, I mean mouthpiece.

[antongould]

Not sure if this is the right place, but I hate the new, funereal look to the R3 webpages... I wish Auntie would stop fiddling with the website.

Agreed …..

[kernelbogey]

i caught the end of Feedback today on R4, and it was announced that next Thursday Alan Davey would be interviewed about the R3 podcasts.