Originally posted by salymap
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Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate
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I actually stayed tuned until 10.30 yesterday..RC somewhere near form...it was listenable at least. then the interview.....oh dear. Gave up then.
Incidentally, i ended up listening to CFM for an hour or two yesterday tea time, due to being in a loan car and not really being up to wagner. Pretty much as expected,bland and uninspiring but I was shocked at how it compared to Breakfast..made me realise, If I didn't already, how poor Breakfast is now.Last edited by teamsaint; 25-10-12, 16:18.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostI was determined to give it another chance this morning.
Big mistake. It just made me angry, with all this irrelevant patronising twaddle about texting and e-mailing.
And now we have "The Lark Ascending" - a wonderful work, but again...?
I've noticed during the half hour slot at 1030 that the more boring the interviewee, and the less they have to say, the more mushy the pieces played. So, this morning we did get The Lark Ascending complete, but this was followed by the slow movement only of the Ravel G major Piano Concerto. The producers love to find people whose favourite piece is Blow the Wind Southerly sung by Kathleen Ferrier or today's dickie bird, both nice pieces it's true, but the overall effect is suffocating.
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Northender
Just after 0900 I found myself enjoying what I took to be a rather jolly chamber work by Haydn. It turned out to be the Piano Trio No. 1 by Richard Strauss. (Oh yes, and it sounded as if they played ALL of it). A lovely surprise musical snack, especially after the almost completely nourishment-free tidbits on offer between 0630 and 0900.
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Lateralthinking1
Clive Swift was on Essential Classics today. I could have sworn it was Charles Collingwood. Don't they sound similar!
Collingwood may have been on the programme before. I have a vague memory of it but I might be wrong there.
The Chopin choice was good but I felt that Swift was not at home with music.
He dislikes opera and described the aforementioned piece, admittedly positively, as "a waif - almost as if it isn't there".
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Originally posted by Lateralthinking1 View PostClive Swift was on Essential Classics today. .......I felt that Swift was not at home with music.
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Don Petter
Originally posted by Lateralthinking1 View PostClive Swift was on Essential Classics today. I could have sworn it was Charles Collingwood. Don't they sound similar!
Collingwood may have been on the programme before. I have a vague memory of it but I might be wrong there.
The Chopin choice was good but I felt that Swift was not at home with music.
He dislikes opera and described the aforementioned piece, admittedly positively, as "a waif - almost as if it isn't there".
(I switched to a CD just after RC had mentioned it to be a choice of Clive Swift. Who is he, by the way?)
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Don Petter
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostHyacinth Bucket's husband.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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Lateralthinking1
Originally posted by Don Petter View PostI got in the car today to hear part of Act 2 of Aida, which was apparently chosen by him. Was this therefore to illustrate what he didn't like about opera?
(I switched to a CD just after RC had mentioned it to be a choice of Clive Swift. Who is he, by the way?)
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