Originally posted by Bryn
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Or perhaps my correspondent won't find much comfort there, either
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. -
Just before the 1 o'clock news on Radio 3, there was a trailer for Sarah Walker's new Sunday programme. I had to check, just to make sure that I hadn't tuned to Classic FM by mistake.
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Whereas in the new Radio Times are two letters slagging it off, plus some editorial italics indicating that readers 'continue to express doubts about the changes'. No praise.Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post"...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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The coming week's episodes.
Tuesday with Rob Cowan. Schubert's Quartettsatz, Sunday Night TV
Wednesday with Rob Cowan. Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet, Pigeon Cure.
Thursday with Rob Cowan. Handel's Water Music, Munch's Scream.
Friday with Rob Cowan. Lakmé's Flower Duet, Stoke Potteries.
Monday with Rob Cowan. Mozart's Exultate Jubilate, How to smell like a Georgian.
It should be funny. But it's not. Et tu Rob?
Mel Brooks. "This program is nuts".Last edited by Rex Bartlett; 02-10-17, 15:45.Comment
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I quitter like it when Suzy Klein presents it, as you may just get a brass band or a wind band playing. had both last week! Including Grimethorpe Colliery Band/Gary Cutt or a wind band, London Symphonic/Nigel Hess.
Both fine by me!Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
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Caught a section of this programme today, for the first time really since the 'revamp' (apart from the odd specific extract on iPlayer for ... ahem... research purposes concerning S Klein).
It's terrible, banal stuff. Makes the old Essential Classics look positively scholarly. The crowning turd in the slop bucket was Harriet Harman telling listeners that Act 2 of Tosca is set in a 'Palazzio'. Then back to poor Rob Cowan having to witter about Vivaldi's 'Autumn'...
How/why has Alan Davey allowed this to happen on his watch? Has anyone asked him?
"...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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Indeed - it is getting Stockton-on-Tees a bad name ... "someone" should ask him .......Originally posted by Caliban View PostCaught a section of this programme today, for the first time really since the 'revamp' (apart from the odd specific extract on iPlayer for ... ahem... research purposes concerning S Klein).
It's terrible, banal stuff. Makes the old Essential Classics look positively scholarly. The crowning turd in the slop bucket was Harriet Harman telling listeners that Act 2 of Tosca is set in a 'Palazzio'. Then back to poor Rob Cowan having to witter about Vivaldi's 'Autumn'...
How/why has Alan Davey allowed this to happen on his watch? Has anyone asked him?Comment
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I noted three points which I found questionable during the 16 minutes I listened a couple of weeks back. And almost 14 minutes were listening to the music - and I leave out the fact that most of the versions I know take 21-22 minutes, not 14 mins.Originally posted by Caliban View Post
1. Mozart's Piano Sonata No 11 in A major announcement, described as 'pseudo-Turkish' (yes, Mozart Austrian, not Turkish; I would have objected less to 'pastiche', though), 'very fashionable', but nothing else said as an intro.
2. Back announcement, described as having 'nothing to do with Turkey at all'. Well, it did have something to do with Turkey and it would have been good to have been told what (Turks in Europe? Janissary bands? percussion instruments, like Turkish crescent? - Grove is good, but even Wikipedia has some useful comments).
3. First movement described as 'nursery-type' music, simplicity 'that Mozart was so good at'. Rather dismissive of the six mercurial variations which followed the theme. But perhaps 'variations' are too technical a term for the intended audience?
And Jeremy Irons as 'Enry 'Iggins to follow (not a listener suggestion, but an example of the expert curation). I've never personally heard the entire sonata referred to as the 'Turkish sonata, but that may just be my ignorance.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.Comment
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The damn thing has just been plugged yet again. I don't listen to much R3 these days so one can assume Ms.Harman (just, well, why?) has been wheeled out plenty more times than the thrice I have encountered it. Perhaps she meant Palazzo. This one.Originally posted by Caliban View Post
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Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Post
It just annoys me that someone is allowed on national radio to inform people about Tosca and its setting when they can't even get the name correct - and that no one on the R3 team picked up the error.
"...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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Perhaps it was left up to Will Gompertz to approve the script.....Comment
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You'd think that the aristocracy would know better........Originally posted by Caliban View PostCaught a section of this programme today, for the first time really since the 'revamp' (apart from the odd specific extract on iPlayer for ... ahem... research purposes concerning S Klein).
It's terrible, banal stuff. Makes the old Essential Classics look positively scholarly. The crowning turd in the slop bucket was Harriet Harman telling listeners that Act 2 of Tosca is set in a 'Palazzio'. Then back to poor Rob Cowan having to witter about Vivaldi's 'Autumn'...
How/why has Alan Davey allowed this to happen on his watch? Has anyone asked him?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.Comment
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Originally posted by Caliban View Post It just annoys me that someone is allowed on national radio to inform people about Tosca and its setting when they can't even get the name correct - and that no one on the R3 team picked up the error.
I bet they did spot it but no one had the nerve to correct her ...Comment
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Oh, Steph McGovern has already done that. (I know - she's actually from Middlesbrough.)Originally posted by antongould View PostComment
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Can I just point out, in defence of 'Essential Classics', that they've just played the WHOLE of the Ritual Fire Dance from 'El Amor Brujo'.Comment
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