Which is more irritating.....?

[Guest]

Yesterday I made a rare visit to the morning schedule, to be treated to 2 movements of a Saint-Saens piano concerto (a work presumably suggested by guest Simon Jenkins). I can't decide whether or not this is more irritating than being offered just one movement. (The remainder of the half-hour was dedicated to another extract from another work, even though there would probably have been time for the missing concerto movement....)

[Alison]

More irrittating IMHO.

How sad Radio 3 doesn't want to cater for classical music aficionados.

Even or especially those 'seeking' would benefit greatly from full immersion in the whole of the music.

[antongould]

Yes it was suggested by Mr. Jenkins and like you I would have liked all of it. I raised this point about Bruckner 8 on Essential Classics and was told that even in the good old days things as massive as the latter would not have got a total morning airing. But that is a matter of scale.

[Ferretfancy]

We could do with a little less of Simon Jenkins. It's almost impossible to open a newspaper or a magazine without seeing his smug expression heading an article on almost any topic under the sun. "Let's ask Jenkins, he can churn it out"

The last few weeks on Essential Classics have reached a new low.

[Biffo]

Simon Jenkins is an improvement on Rick Stein but that is not saying much. Today, just as the irrelevant witter was becoming unbearable, we got Monteverdi's 'Beatus vir' (all of it!). Even so I didn't make it to the end of the program.

[Bax-of-Delights]

Yes it was suggested by Mr. Jenkins and like you I would have liked all of it. I raised this point about Bruckner 8 on Essential Classics and was told that even in the good old days things as massive as the latter would not have got a total morning airing. But that is a matter of scale.

I stand to be corrected and the memory may be a little fuzzy but I could almost swear that in the days when JS and RC were in control that we did on occasion have a substantial piece such as a complete Mahler symphony (other than 1 or 4) on the CD Masters.

[Frances_iom]

The last few weeks on Essential Classics have reached a new low.

I doubt very much if the nadir is even anywhere in sight - wait until the guest budget is exhausted and the barrel bottom of grade-B celebs are used.

[teamsaint]

jenko, as his friends call him, also completey failed to answer one question, and instead more or less repeated the answer to a previous one.
not that it really matters.

[teamsaint]

oh yes, and essential classic, at least the Dr Walker weeks, are prdictable and dull.

And believe me, I am really not one with deep knowledge or expertise.

PLEASE can we have some C20 music that isn't stravinsky crowd pleasers.

please Rob, promise us next week it will be different.