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  • Richard Tarleton

    #76
    Originally posted by mercia View Post
    RC currently playing Alborado del Gracioso, I think he has a bit of an obsession with this piece
    It's just so that he can practise his Spanish pronunciation

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    • french frank
      Administrator/Moderator
      • Feb 2007
      • 30213

      #77
      Originally posted by mercia View Post
      whilst Spiegel im Spiegel was playing this morning
      Last week there were two different versions of this in the Classical Artists Top 40. Only one this week (at no 33, between The Best of Karl Jenkins and Tango). Can't remember which version has dropped out. The Best of Arvo Pärt has been in the classical compilation chart for 213 weeks.
      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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      • mercia
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 8920

        #78
        many thanks for all that information
        I think I'm out of kilter with what's best / most popular "these days"

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        • antongould
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8775

          #79
          Originally posted by french frank View Post
          The Best of Arvo Pärt has been in the classical compilation chart for 213 weeks.
          Oh dear ff as I am playing AA I am listening to Part's Te Deum does that make me an even worse person!?

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          • mercia
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8920

            #80
            I didn't want to start an argument

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            • french frank
              Administrator/Moderator
              • Feb 2007
              • 30213

              #81
              Originally posted by antongould View Post
              Oh dear ff as I am playing AA I am listening to Part's Te Deum does that make me an even worse person!?
              No. People's choice in music isn't any reflection on them as human beings, is it? For my own sake, I hope not
              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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              • antongould
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 8775

                #82
                I feel ff and I partake in intelligent debate - she may wish to argue.

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                • mercia
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 8920

                  #83
                  well well well, I never knew that that quirky little tune that used to introduce the "Alfred Hitchcock presents ......... " series on TV was by Gounod, Funeral March of a Marionette. Also on Breakfast this morning an unknown (to me) piece by Walton called I think "Granada" which Petroc seemed to connect in someway to Granada Television, but I didn't catch the details.

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                  • Suffolkcoastal
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 3290

                    #84
                    The Gounod has featured a few times of Breakfast Mercia, presumably because of its 'Hitchcock associations'. The Walton isn't heard very often. It was indeed composed for Granada TV in 1961, orginally a Prelude, Call signs and End Music.

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                    • mercia
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 8920

                      #85
                      many thanks SC

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                      • greenilex
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 1626

                        #86
                        Have just read all the way through this thread - quite an achievement in itself.

                        I still think there is room commercially and otherwise for a whole radio station made up of TTN and not much else. Then when I feel sickened by some aspect of 3beebies I'll be able to switch easily.

                        I'd even be willing to subscribe...

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                        • kernelbogey
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 5735

                          #87
                          Originally posted by greenilex View Post
                          Have just read all the way through this thread - quite an achievement in itself.

                          I still think there is room commercially and otherwise for a whole radio station made up of TTN and not much else. Then when I feel sickened by some aspect of 3beebies I'll be able to switch easily.

                          I'd even be willing to subscribe...

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                          • aka Calum Da Jazbo
                            Late member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 9173

                            #88
                            just wanted to share the yuk experience of PT introducing the Lark this morning, never hit the OFF SWITCH faster ....
                            According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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                            • aeolium
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 3992

                              #89
                              You keep hitting that OFF switch in the morning, Calum, but my question is: why do you hit the ON switch knowing what is likely to come? Triumph of hope over experience?

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                              • kernelbogey
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 5735

                                #90
                                Originally posted by FF'S M63
                                From 1999 to 2004 there was a different direction: the range of music was widened, presumably with the aim of attracting audiences to those different kinds of music. Then the audience began to fall off quite seriously so they changed tack.
                                Originally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo View Post
                                just wanted to share the yuk experience of PT introducing the Lark this morning, never hit the OFF SWITCH faster ....
                                I believe that it was in the period before that referred to above by ff - mid nineties? - that PT first appeared on R3 on whatever the equivalent of Breakfast was. I stopped listening to that early morning show on R3 for several years as a result.

                                Have I remembered correctly that it was at the end of that period that Andrew MacGregor began introducing that show? For me he set the gold standard for that time of the day - in content as well as voice.

                                I agree with Calum - I find PT as Breakfast presenter harder and harder to stomach and I listen less and less.

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