Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate

[Nick Armstrong]

(Do you know Copland's 'Rodeo'? It's in the same category!)

Worse, in fact! Guess what's on now? Copland's

BLOODY *UCKAROO HOLIDAY!!!

[mercia]

bring on the Liszt

[Nick Armstrong]

bring on the Liszt

Got on Peter Hill playing works from Book II of the 48, recorded from the end of CD Review a couple of weeks ago. Absolutely sublime!!

Perfect to ease one's way calmly into the last day of the working week

[Thespian]

Today

One Song from Das Lied von der Erde...Now "part" of Daphnis and Chloe part 2

AHHHHHHH

I give up. It's time to find an alternative in the mornings.

[old khayyam]

I notice Breakfast is slipping into a pattern used by many other music stations: Just before the news they play a song/piece that they know everyone likes - as if to say 'we know you think news is boring and there's every chance you'll turn off, but this tune will make you like us and stay for more'. They then reward your commitment by playing another popular number immediately after the news. Then its all downhill from there.

I first noticed this with R2 about 10yrs ago. The theory is rather strange. Its as if, when they really do fear losing you, they will give you what you want. The rest of the time, they will knowingly give you what they know you dont want.

[cloughie]

Present to us a complete Mahler seven
Play all of Daphisand Chloe just for me
Not just a part of an opus one eleven
Or the organ bit chopped out from Saint-Saens three.

We’re fed up of just hearing bits and pieces
And the depths to which morning on 3 has sunk
Listening as the gravitas decreases
With chunk after chunk and another bleeding chunk

[Barbirollians]

Am I the only person driven mad by these ghastly Radio 3 Masterchef style trailers - a ridiculous one for the Brahms Violin Concerto to be played by Isabelle Faust this thursday described it as noble and spacious and capped by a gypsy finale as if it were a cake ! The orchestra and conductor of course were not mentioned .

Which idiot is behind all this ?

[Lateralthinking1]

Erm, Whitacre's 'Sleep' on EC this morning. Welcome but the programme list has it that it is by Chris 'Dow Jones' Whitacre. Isn't he a rap artist?

10.12 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hzb0h

(Seems to have just been removed - maybe they are correcting it.)

This latest excellent list from Andrew shows how the Beeb had it moments ago:

http://radiolists.blogspot.co.uk/

[Nick Armstrong]

Am I the only person driven mad by these ghastly Radio 3 Masterchef style trailers

You are certainly not alone!!

Which idiot is behind all this ?

[Norfolk Born]

Got on Peter Hill playing works from Book II of the 48, recorded from the end of CD Review a couple of weeks ago. Absolutely sublime!!

Perfect to ease one's way calmly into the last day of the working week

In my case, that means waiting until Friday!

[french frank]

Erm, Whitacre's 'Sleep' on EC this morning. Welcome but the programme list has it that it is by Chris 'Dow Jones' Whitacre. Isn't he a rap artist?

Not only that but, perplexingly, he doesn't have a Wikipedia article about him so it's hard to know how he ever got included in the software. Eric Whitacre, on the other hand, has a reasonably long article.

If they've put it right, at least it shows that someone is checking the playlists - for a change.

And who knows, after the Eurovision debacle, Engelbert Humperdinck may be thought of by playlist compilers as a German opera composer ...

[gurnemanz]

I now rarely tune in before Composer of the Week at 12. From then on things are more or less OK. I still don't understand why there can be no late evening classical music between 10 and 12.30.

[french frank]

In my case, that means waiting until Friday!

I think 11 May was a Friday, so even Caliban works on much the same basis as the rest of the country ...

[Nick Armstrong]

In my case, that means waiting until Friday!

Mystified by Frenchie's kind remark, I wonder what you were getting at here, Norfs?

[Norfolk Born]

Sorry, I thought the message had been posted today. I must be suffering from EOJOF(Early Onset JubOlympics Fever).