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  • Pulcinella
    Host
    • Feb 2014
    • 10892

    Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Post
    To which I would add “Appalachian Spring”.
    Now playing.
    Again.
    But I would guess only the suite, not the full ballet, which we hardly ever hear.

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    • cloughie
      Full Member
      • Dec 2011
      • 22115

      Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
      But I would guess only the suite, not the full ballet, which we hardly ever hear.
      It is probably the Simple Gifts bit as a bleeding chunk. I quite like most of Copland’s music but by not listening to Breakfast or EC very often I can listen to the music when I want to listen to it rather than get annoyed by it - Simples!

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      • Cockney Sparrow
        Full Member
        • Jan 2014
        • 2283

        Friday always has the potential to be a mass cook-in day here (not involving me). In a chance encounter in the kitchen, I turned up the radio above the hubbub in an attempt to hear who had sung the baroque aria. Didn't get there in time. I don't want to end up hating the Copland, or other pieces, so I will return to my policy of not choosing to listen to R3 in the mornings certainly, and after midday mostly by intention (schedule reveals what is going to be played) or in arrears on iPlayer (holding out against "Sounds" unless it stops serving up follow-on pieces "I might be interested in").

        To give R3 its due, the progamme page shows that the album is by Magdalena Kozená on Pentatone - a themed album of Baroque arias "Il Giardino dei Sospiri". Due for release on 17 May, I'm listening to it now on Naxos Music Library http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...-library/page2 - #16 et al (Often new releases don't appear there for a month or two (can't blame the companies for wanting to sell the physical CDs, if that is intentional). Also with a PDF booklet! I suppose this counts as one of those chance encounters which leads me on to something new of interest - something that Radio 3 has provided to me for decades. A pity the BBC could claim this as a positive, when I agree with the sentiments as to the unnecessary dumbing down of these programmes coming from the discriminatory position that their present audience are old, on their way out and whose views and needs can be safely ignored....

        p.s. -- Yes - it was the Simple Gifts section !

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        • Pulcinella
          Host
          • Feb 2014
          • 10892

          Originally posted by cloughie View Post
          It is probably the Simple Gifts bit as a bleeding chunk. I quite like most of Copland’s music but by not listening to Breakfast or EC very often I can listen to the music when I want to listen to it rather than get annoyed by it - Simples!

          Absolutely right!

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          • LMcD
            Full Member
            • Sep 2017
            • 8410

            A much less well-known work by Copland - his Sextet - is currently being played on the Lunchtime Concert.

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            • Pulcinella
              Host
              • Feb 2014
              • 10892

              Originally posted by LMcD View Post
              A much less well-known work by Copland - his Sextet - is currently being played on the Lunchtime Concert.
              Effectively an arrangement of the Short Symphony, which, together with the Dance Symphony, would make a welcome change from the overexposure given to some of his other works!

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              • french frank
                Administrator/Moderator
                • Feb 2007
                • 30250

                If SK did indeed play Piazzolla's Libertango today (as advertised*), according to Andrew's database that will be the 8th time it's been played in 2019, plus 2 further arrangements. For some reason, it was played 4 times last month (Breakfast, Essential Classics, Afternoon Performance and Late Junction). It'll be the 100th anniversary Piazzolla's birth in two years time: expect a deluge.

                *Plus Sheep may safely graze, Alborada del gracioso, Appalachian Spring, Vltava, Magic Flute overture (plus a couple of other tangos). A total of 30 pieces in 3 hours (surely a record - or 30), an average of 6 mins each - assuming there were no pronouncements whatever from the presenter.

                The format is Classic FM, no matter how many 'unusual' pieces they play, scattered among the regulars.
                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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                • Bella Kemp
                  Full Member
                  • Aug 2014
                  • 458

                  Natalie Klein reminds me of a nervous mother whose child has just been given a ghastly present by Grandma and is furiously nodding and smiling and saying 'Wow! What a fantastic present! Isn't it just great!'

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                  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                    Gone fishin'
                    • Sep 2011
                    • 30163

                    Originally posted by Bella Kemp View Post
                    Natalie Klein reminds me of a nervous mother whose child has just been given a ghastly present by Grandma and is furiously nodding and smiling and saying 'Wow! What a fantastic present! Isn't it just great!'
                    Oh - I think Natalie Clein's a very good 'cellist. It's Suzy Klein I have difficulties with.
                    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                    • DracoM
                      Host
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 12960

                      OK, so who would you NOT 'have difficulties with' in Ess Class?

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                      • cloughie
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2011
                        • 22115

                        Originally posted by DracoM View Post
                        OK, so who would you NOT 'have difficulties with' in Ess Class?
                        The person at BBC mission control who, if it ever happened, has the guts to axe the programme.

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                        • french frank
                          Administrator/Moderator
                          • Feb 2007
                          • 30250

                          Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                          The person at BBC mission control who, if it ever happened, has the guts to axe the programme.
                          I don't feel that a 'good' presenter can do anything. For me, the format/content is more important than the presenter. The idea of making a daily appointment with one's favourite presenter aseems weird (to me) - I have no friends who are presenters or with whom I have any business.
                          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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                          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                            Gone fishin'
                            • Sep 2011
                            • 30163

                            Originally posted by DracoM View Post
                            OK, so who would you NOT 'have difficulties with' in Ess Class?
                            Err ... ummm ... eeeeehhh .... no, don't tell me .... give me a minute .... errrrr ....
                            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                            • BBMmk2
                              Late Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 20908

                              Suzy Klein, yuk!
                              Don’t cry for me
                              I go where music was born

                              J S Bach 1685-1750

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                              • Bella Kemp
                                Full Member
                                • Aug 2014
                                • 458

                                Mea culpa! Serves me right for being uncharitable.

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