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[AuntDaisy]

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]

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 …

[Ein Heldenleben]

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!

[oddoneout]

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?

[cloughie]

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!

[gurnemanz]

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.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

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.