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  • Richard Tarleton

    I only listen to bits of EC by accident these days, yet I've long since lost count of the number of times RC has played Schwanda the Effing Bagpiper - it really is a particularly annoying piece of music. What is it about this piece that he keeps playing it?

    # weirdobsessions.

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    • cloughie
      Full Member
      • Dec 2011
      • 22126

      Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
      I only listen to bits of EC by accident these days, yet I've long since lost count of the number of times RC has played Schwanda the Effing Bagpiper - it really is a particularly annoying piece of music. What is it about this piece that he keeps playing it?

      # weirdobsessions.
      Richard, just think how more annoying it would be if it had actually been scored for bagpipes.

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      • Richard Tarleton

        cloughie, having Highland bagpipe music in my genes I'd be delighted if a daily pibroch (at, say, 10.30) became part of Rob C's routine instead of some of the rubbish he plays. Better still, start the programme with it

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        • underthecountertenor
          Full Member
          • Apr 2011
          • 1584

          Originally posted by cloughie View Post
          Richard, just think how more annoying it would be if it had actually been scored for bagpipes.
          Even that couldn't be as bad as the tune played on recorders supposed to be, but not in fact, in unison, as heard in my school classroom circa 1977. When Rob plays it (and yes, Richard, he plays it often) it sends an extra shudder through me on that account.

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          • Bax-of-Delights
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 745

            Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
            I only listen to bits of EC by accident these days, yet I've long since lost count of the number of times RC has played Schwanda the Effing Bagpiper - it really is a particularly annoying piece of music. What is it about this piece that he keeps playing it?

            # weirdobsessions.
            Perhaps you missed the other old friend of Breakfast and EC yesterday - Copland's Rodeo.
            Although this time, before playing it, RC apologised for the "un-PCness" of the ballet's plot (the guy only becomes interested in the gal when she wears a dress and puts a bow in her hair). Bonkers.
            O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!

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            • kernelbogey
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 5748

              Originally posted by underthecountertenor View Post
              next up - "Sumer is icumen in" on Building a Library


              Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
              Schwanda the Effing Bagpiper


              These lifted my morning... thanks!

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26538

                Thank heavens they gave the interviews with Ken Loach, a top-drawer guest, to the increasingly impressive Sarah Walker, and not to the increasingly out-of-his-depth-in-interviews Rob Cowan.

                Looking forward to catching up with the podcast of these conversations
                "...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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                • Richard Tarleton

                  I don't know if it was just me, or my car radio, but that Gilels Schubert D850 sounded like the clangiest, bangiest Schubert I've ever heard. Perhaps it was the piano, or the recording....RC waxing lyrical made me wonder how others found it. I did see Gilels live....

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                  • vinteuil
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 12842

                    Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
                    ...RC waxing lyrical made me wonder...
                    ... for me it's a fairly safe bet that if Rob Cowan waxes lyrical over a piece it'll be a work or a performance that I find dire in the extreme.

                    Tho' I usually like Gilels...

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                    • Paulie55
                      Full Member
                      • Jan 2012
                      • 87

                      RC is a poor interviewer

                      RC is ssssoooooooo bad at interviewing people naturally and places ssssssooooooo mmmmmmmmmmuuuuuuuuuuccccccchhhhhhhhhhhhh emphasis on ccccccccceeerrrrrrrrtain words. He is on the radio fffffffffaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrr toooooooooooo much.

                      Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
                      This morning Radio 3 was still tuned in on my radio after last night's Chailly concert.

                      I had the serious misfortune to catch ten minutes or so of this programme. It was like the worst sort of dumbed down schmaltz on Classic FM.

                      Rob Cowan whilst highly knowledgeable comes across as oily and irritating and there was an absurd " Who am I " segment - with Stephen Johnson doing his impression of the Mystery Voice from I Am sorry i have't a clue and then all manner of gooey e-mails read out about Rossini .

                      What is this trash doing on radio 3 ?

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                      • Serial_Apologist
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 37691

                        Originally posted by Paulie55 View Post
                        RC is ssssoooooooo bad at interviewing people naturally and places ssssssooooooo mmmmmmmmmmuuuuuuuuuuccccccchhhhhhhhhhhhh emphasis on ccccccccceeerrrrrrrrtain words. He is on the radio fffffffffaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrr toooooooooooo much.
                        Ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffli ppin' hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhheck!

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                        • ahinton
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 16122

                          Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
                          Schwanda the Effing Bagpiper
                          Should have been Squander the Bagpiper, surely?...

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                          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                            Gone fishin'
                            • Sep 2011
                            • 30163

                            The two poles of the programme were encapsulated for me at around 9:20 this morning when, after a superb performance of the Bach Triple Concerto BWV 1044 (complete) which really got me in a good mood, RC read out an assinine (no - that's not a spelling mistake!) tweet from a listener claiming that he didn't understand how someone who liked Bruckner could also mnngyer like listening to nnngye nnngyer this plinky-plonky-tonky-wonky mmnninniynggg harpsichordy wehinghymingey fnukfnnaaarrr gurgle stuff.

                            And THEN RC commented that this was a "fascinating" opinion!!!!!!!! No it wasn't - it was a public declaration of imbecility. What other fascinations might the chap shared - his perplexity with other matters beyond his intellectual compass - like spoons f'rinstance???!!!


                            Put me in a foul mood, I tell ye ... FOUL!!!!!
                            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                            • vinteuil
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 12842

                              ... ferney - I feel your pain.

                              The only consolation - you had to put up with that imbecility and arseininity from the 'listener' (and from RC ... ) for a moment or two - whereas said 'listener' has to endure being an imbecile and an arse all his ( I bet it was a him ) silly life...

                              And Bach is always here to save us

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                              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                                Gone fishin'
                                • Sep 2011
                                • 30163

                                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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