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  • AuntDaisy
    Host
    • Jun 2018
    • 1635

    Aft er no on Con cer t

    I knew Afternoon Concert was getting bitty, but why is Káťa Kabanová split over 3 afternoons? (It's not that long, Mackerras & Söderström = ~140mins / 2 CDs.)
    Think I'll wait for the omnibus (ninety-seven horsepower, ting ting).

    What next? The Ring Cycle in 10 minute chunks, liberally spread over 5 months?
  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30281

    #2
    Originally posted by AuntDaisy View Post
    I knew Afternoon Concert was getting bitty, but why is Káťa Kabanová split over 3 afternoons? (It's not that long, Mackerras & Söderström = ~140mins / 2 CDs.)
    Think I'll wait for the omnibus (ninety-seven horsepower, ting ting).

    What next? The Ring Cycle in 10 minute chunks, liberally spread over 5 months?
    I noticed a few years back that Radio 4 broadcast Shakespeare's Henry V over five days - I assumed one act per day. Could only think, oh, well, perhaps a few more people will listen who otherwise wouldn't have bothered. But that was Radio 4 …
    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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    • Ein Heldenleben
      Full Member
      • Apr 2014
      • 6779

      #3
      Originally posted by AuntDaisy View Post
      I knew Afternoon Concert was getting bitty, but why is Káťa Kabanová split over 3 afternoons? (It's not that long, Mackerras & Söderström = ~140mins / 2 CDs.)
      Think I'll wait for the omnibus (ninety-seven horsepower, ting ting).

      What next? The Ring Cycle in 10 minute chunks, liberally spread over 5 months?
      Yes I missed the transition from Act One to the Maconchy Piano Concerto and was left thoroughly confused!

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      • oddoneout
        Full Member
        • Nov 2015
        • 9184

        #4
        They tried a similar gimmick earlier in the year with some of the Easter music, and it's perhaps a follow on from the "take a concert recording, split it up, then insert all sorts of other (unrelated)bits and pieces between the component parts" approach started some time ago.
        I wondered about the decision process that came up with Saint-Saens oboe concerto and Maconchey piano concertino fore and aft. As with most AC broadcasts now there doesn't seem to be any connection - but then I am a higgorant soul in matters musical so perhaps it's just R3 highbrow and beyond me?

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        • cloughie
          Full Member
          • Dec 2011
          • 22119

          #5
          Originally posted by AuntDaisy View Post
          I knew Afternoon Concert was getting bitty, but why is Káťa Kabanová split over 3 afternoons? (It's not that long, Mackerras & Söderström = ~140mins / 2 CDs.)
          Think I'll wait for the omnibus (ninety-seven horsepower, ting ting).

          What next? The Ring Cycle in 10 minute chunks, liberally spread over 5 months?
          The Beeb never stop when they’re requested!

          However they’ll probably latch on to your idea to Ring in the New Year!

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          • gurnemanz
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 7386

            #6
            Originally posted by AuntDaisy View Post
            What next? The Ring Cycle in 10 minute chunks, liberally spread over 5 months?
            The nearest to that I've had was standing in the Arena for Pars ifal over two nights at the Proms in 1972 with Pierre Boulez. I lapped it up, of course, but had been unable to persuade anyone to go with me. One of very few times over the decades that I have attended a concert on my own.

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            • Eine Alpensinfonie
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 20570

              #7
              Originally posted by AuntDaisy View Post

              What next? The Ring Cycle in 10 minute chunks, liberally spread over 5 months?
              They’ve already done that, spread over 10 days, but at least it was an act at a time.

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