Originally posted by LMcD
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Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostThis one is different - it's a work that's complete in itself, unlike movements ripped out of concertos, symphonies and suites.
Where would Totentanz fit?
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostWell it would be churlish for it not to be a dance - how about Danse Macabre dedicated to Suzi, or Valse Triste to match the state of R3 morning programmes?
Where would Totentanz fit?Last edited by Stanfordian; 14-11-17, 16:54.
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Originally posted by LMcD View PostWhen inviting suggestions just now for a 'follow on' piece to Weber's 'Introduction to the Dance', Rob said 'there are no wrong answers'. Let's hope this encourages Suzy Klein to come up with something really witty and brilliant.....
It would be interesting to know what the people charged with administering this unpalatable offering really think - are there differences of opinion I wonder.
Incidentally a new trend seems to be starting - playing a snippet of the 'follow on' piece as well as pleading for suggestions. So not only filleting a larger work to provide the day's sacrifice but then performing a biopsy on the fillet....
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Originally posted by oddoneout View Postnot only filleting a larger work to provide the day's sacrifice but then performing a biopsy on the fillet....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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Well with the exception of Saturdays, Radio 3 has since the format re-jig been a complete no-go area here before noon. What on earth has the controller been playing at, after a reasonably hopeful start?
Originally posted by zola View PostI saw that "Rob's guest" was Vladimir Jurowski. Jurowski spoke for three minutes about Pushkin and then they played Anna Netrebko singing the letter song from Eugene Onegin. I wondered what Jurowski's illuminating comments might be after it finished but no, that was it.
Originally posted by zola View PostI won't bother"...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 oddoneout View PostWhen this bit of nonsense started that phrase was used frequently and so must have been uttered by Miss Suzy. I suspect that certain recent actions by persons not a million miles from this august platform have given her cause to at least reconsider the wording.....
It would be interesting to know what the people charged with administering this unpalatable offering really think - are there differences of opinion I wonder.
Incidentally a new trend seems to be starting - playing a snippet of the 'follow on' piece as well as pleading for suggestions. So not only filleting a larger work to provide the day's sacrifice but then performing a biopsy on the fillet....
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If they should play Saint-Saens' music for the Dying Swan (quite a likely Breakfast choice being both a famous chunk and quite short), I look forward to suggesting Wagner's Parsifal complete as a companion piece - it's "essential" for me - but would be prepared to compromise and just take the first Act where the swan-killing takes place.
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Originally posted by gurnemanz View PostIf they should play Saint-Saens' music for the Dying Swan (quite a likely Breakfast choice being both a famous chunk and quite short), I look forward to suggesting Wagner's Parsifal complete as a companion piece - it's "essential" for me - but would be prepared to compromise and just take the first Act where the swan-killing takes place.
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Originally posted by Bryn View PostWhat evidence have you that the Saint-Saens swan was dying? I thought it was Brahms's nemesis what did the Dying Swan tune.Last edited by Stanfordian; 15-11-17, 10:16.
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Originally posted by gurnemanz View PostIf they should play Saint-Saens' music for the Dying Swan (quite a likely Breakfast choice being both a famous chunk and quite short), I look forward to suggesting Wagner's Parsifal complete as a companion piece - it's "essential" for me - but would be prepared to compromise and just take the first Act where the swan-killing takes place.
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