The New Schedule

[french frank]

Well, here's the first glimpse of the 'new' Breakfast programme, starting a week today.

'Starting at the new time of 6.30am, Petroc Trelawny joins the breakfast team to wake the UK up with the best in classical music. Featuring favourite pieces in the finest performances, the latest BBC news and stories from the day's papers together with listeners calling in to talk about the music that means the most to them. A fresh new way to start the day on Radio 3.'

[NB. TTN begins at 12.30am]

[longinus]

Actually, I rather welcome the thought of Petroc's presence. I used to yield to no-one in my criticisms, but he has massively improved his game over the last 6 or 7 years. Whatever his faults, he's nobody's fool, and I shall be surprised if he can bring himself to dumb it down as far as the appalling SM-P (whom I loathe to the bottom of my soul). Even so, I anticipate that I shall be switching off even more often than I do at present. This morning I slept rather late, switched on to hear the pointless Proms puff for Tchaikovsky's hardly-known 5th Symphony (which really needs serious advocacy to get anyone to listen to it - not), followed by the tedious Waltz, and then the announcement of Vivaldi's Autumn, which compelled me to go straight to Handel Duets on CD - probably the shortest ever slice of Breakfast for me).

[Lateralthinking1]

Quote - NB. TTN begins at 12.30am.

Erm, what does this mean for the 11pm-1am programmes? If they are still to be two hours long, which half hour during the evening/night is being lost?

[Suffolkcoastal]

At first sight the whole thing looks like even more chat and less music. R3 looks broken beyond repair.

[Thespian]

more chat less music continues

9am
A selection of must-hear music including the Essential CD of the Week: Violin Romances, Arthur Grumiaux.

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, Christopher Hogwood: Bach (Concerto in C minor, BWV1060), Handel (Concerto grosso op.6/3), Susato (Allemaigne & Recoupe). Also in this hour, Satie's Gymnopedies from Pascal Roge.

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is Marcus du Sautoy, the current professor Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science. Today he introduces the first piece he remembers hearing, and music he used to play himself.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.4
London Symphony Orchestra
Igor Markevitch (composer).

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[Panjandrum]

more chat less music continues
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, Christopher Hogwood: Bach (Concerto in C minor, BWV1060), Handel (Concerto grosso op.6/3), Susato (Allemaigne & Recoupe). Also in this hour, Satie's Gymnopedies from Pascal Roge.

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is Marcus du Sautoy, the current professor Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science. Today he introduces the first piece he remembers hearing, and music he used to play himself.
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[Don Petter]

A year or two ago some derided the suggestion that R3 should be renamed TalkRadio. Perhaps now they can start to see the point.

[french frank]

Quote - NB. TTN begins at 12.30am.

Erm, what does this mean for the 11pm-1am programmes? If they are still to be two hours long, which half hour during the evening/night is being lost?

There's always been a bit of a mystery about this. They've just put up the Tuesday schedule and LJ seems to be 11pm - 12.30, which is beginning to look like the pattern for the week, though NB Jazz Line-Up began at 10-45 on Sunday. That makes JL-U the longest jazz programme as Jon3 is (back to) 90 minutes.

[barber olly]

more chat less music continues

9am
A selection of must-hear music including the Essential CD of the Week: Violin Romances, Arthur Grumiaux.

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, Christopher Hogwood: Bach (Concerto in C minor, BWV1060), Handel (Concerto grosso op.6/3), Susato (Allemaigne & Recoupe). Also in this hour, Satie's Gymnopedies from Pascal Roge.

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is Marcus du Sautoy, the current professor Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science. Today he introduces the first piece he remembers hearing, and music he used to play himself.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.4
London Symphony Orchestra
Igor Markevitch (composer).

.

We don't need this! What a missed opportunity. Cut out the silly brainteaser, the non-music guest. Give us two hours of CD/LP recorded music and a hour of stuff from the BBC archives (eg from 70s,80s,90s eg Bryden Thomson, Norman Del Mar, M Janssons, N Jaarvi or old Lunchtime chamber concerts.) and instead of an overview of what will be included over the three hours how about a proper schedule of what's on when. I'm happy to have a big essential classic at the end of the programme and a featured CD of the week, but the overall sequence looks a mess!

[french frank]

It looks as if the guest will be present through the week. Another clue will be how complete the playlist will be in advance. What is the point of 'Rob's Essential Choice'? Essential in what sense? Will it be a kind of Beginner's Building a Library, starting from scratch?

[Paul Sherratt]

>>Erm, what does this mean for the 11pm-1am programmes? If they are still to be two hours long, which half hour during the evening/night is being lost?


The not-quite-so late-at-night broadasts will be 90 minute affairs.
I think !

[salymap]

I hope I'm wrong in having the feeling that everything's falling apart.

[Ariosto]

It looks as if the guest will be present through the week. Another clue will be how complete the playlist will be in advance. What is the point of 'Rob's Essential Choice'? Essential in what sense? Will it be a kind of Beginner's Building a Library, starting from scratch?

I've lost all faith in Rob since he described Midori's performance of the Walton violin concerto at the recent Prom as "Heifezterian!" (When in fact it was "failed studenterian").

[Don Petter]

11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.4
London Symphony Orchestra
Igor Markevitch (composer).

As mentioned in another thread, Markevitch was a composer, but is this meant to be relevant?

[Norfolk Born]

There's a reference in the Radio Times to DID guest Lang Lang discussing the reasons for her (sic) choice of music.