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Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostAt first I thought this exceedingly boring, but after a while, I could see how much more interesting it was than R3's morning shows.
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Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
actually, it seems much beloved of Six Music, " the sound of Happy Motoring".
( hope you got a 4 for the price of 3 on the tyres)I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Richard Tarleton
My new car radio has a touch screen which displays the name of the piece being played on Essential Classics, which means that by keeping it on mute I don't actually have to listen to it.
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Originally posted by Lento View PostSorry to mention it, but it's that Lark again, not Haydn's, unfortunately.
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Originally posted by vinteuil View Post... ah well, at least they balanced it by also giving us the Pavanng pour une Enfanngt Defunngt this morning - personally I think we shd start our own version of Bingo/Housey-Housey - a line of three with (perm from... ) Lark Ascending, this Pavanng or the other one, the Albinoni, the Pachelbel, the Gipsy Rondo, Brahms Hungarian or Dvorak Slavonic...
But then they give us a jewel like the Newmark violin concerto today and it shows they can do it if they want to ... veins of quality still shining through but degraded by management box-tickers and bonkers production values.
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Originally posted by Lancashire Lass View Post:-)
But then they give us a jewel like the Newmark violin concerto today and it shows they can do it if they want to ... veins of quality still shining through but degraded by management box-tickers and bonkers production values.
But yes, I agree - I enjoyed hearing that for the first time. Lovely slow movement.
And Milstein is one of the very few violinists I could listen to all day and all night - sovereign playing. Just right."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Lancashire Lass View PostBut then they give us a jewel like the Newmark violin concerto today and it shows they can do it if they want to ... veins of quality still shining through but degraded by management box-tickers and bonkers production values.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostYes - I have noticed that if you join the programme after 10:30 the Music and presentation does improve.
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostBtw in case I were took amiss, I wasn't pleading that there should BE a 10.30 watershed (patronising crap before, full works in interesting performances after), merely in favour of turning on around 10.30 for some decent programming (faute de mieux earlier)
Originally posted by Caliban View PostI would continue to plead in favour of the 10.30 watershed. After that, it's much better. OK at 10.30 RC played Liszt's Tasso, about which the less said the better (but some people like that sort of thing and it's at least not a regular war-horse), but after that, I managed to coincide with Foulds's April-England, always welcome and captivating, and then Sokolov playing the Chopin Op.28 Preludes complete, which I was very interested to hear."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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