Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate

[antongould]

So you don't have this set then, anton?
https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...d-air-and-rain

At the moment no .....

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I’m inkleined to think it’s priti bad!

You'll be made to stand in the corner at haaaaaaaarf paaaaaaaaarst nine.

[cloughie]

Currently tuned in to Essential Classics - Suzi is blessed with a clear speaking voice but it is a shame she doesn’t use it, instead she insists on mumbling on air and lowering her voice at the end of sentences. Georgia could give her lessons!

[LMcD]

Currently tuned in to Essential Classics - Suzi is blessed with a clear speaking voice but it is a shame she doesn’t use it, instead she insists on mumbling on air and lowering her voice at the end of sentences. Georgia could give her lessons!

... or perhaps she'll have learnt something from working with Lennie Henry?

[Bryn]

... or perhaps she'll have learnt something from working with Lennie Henry?

Who, in turn, could learn that a sonata for piano and violin is not a symphony (his interview on BBC 1 this morning where he went on about the origin of the Kreutzer Symphony[sic]). Congratulations to him for taking up the piano in his dotage, though (grade 4, heading for grade 5). Good description and promotion of Joplin's Treemonisha, too.

[LMcD]

Who, in turn, could learn that a sonata for piano and violin is not a symphony (his interview on BBC 1 this morning where he went on about the origin of the Kreutzer Symphony[sic]. Congratulations to him for taking up the piano in his dotage, though (grade 4, heading for grade 5). Good description and promotion of Joplin's Treemonisha, too.

More forgivable than Will Gompertz's gaffe on 'Pointless':
'La Traviata is the by this composer, whose English name 's Joe Green' (V)
WG's answer: 'Vivaldi'

LH is more likely to enthuse people than lecture them - if nothing else, he and SK could make an entertaining 'odd couple'.

[underthecountertenor]

Currently tuned in to Essential Classics - Suzi is blessed with a clear speaking voice but it is a shame she doesn’t use it, instead she insists on mumbling on air and lowering her voice at the end of sentences. Georgia could give her lessons!

Indeed: every gaffe that Georgia makes is crystal-clear. Her introduction to 'Bach before 7' this morning was a shocker.

[antongould]

More forgivable than Will Gompertz's gaffe on 'Pointless':
'La Traviata is the by this composer, whose English name 's Joe Green' (V)
WG's answer: 'Vivaldi'

LH is more likely to enthuse people than lecture them - if nothing else, he and SK could make an entertaining 'odd couple'.

I recall when Lady Strictly Of InTune was on she couldn’t identify Maria Callas in a picture round ........

[cloughie]

I recall when Lady Strictly Of InTune was on she couldn’t identify Maria Callas in a picture round ........

She'd probably not fare well setting up a booze-up in a brewery either.

[alycidon]

After this morning’s offerings it should be renamed Essential Jazz! Don’t get me wrong, I quite enjoy jazz but not when it is mixed in with the classics. Just saying!

[Bryn]

After this morning’s offerings it should be renamed Essential Jazz! Don’t get me wrong, I quite enjoy jazz but not when it is mixed in with the classics. Just saying!

[alycidon]

Thanks Bryn. I take your point - at least, I think that I do!

[oddoneout]

After this morning’s offerings it should be renamed Essential Jazz! Don’t get me wrong, I quite enjoy jazz but not when it is mixed in with the classics. Just saying!

Afraid I will have to disagree somewhat with you there, and also ask why you take that view? Do you find that the juxtaposition jars?
I think that mixing in jazz is a good thing so long as not done to excess, and the morning schedule programmes are a good place to do it. There is after all a longstanding interest on the part of both 'classical' and jazz musicians in each others music, which I assume is the purpose of Bryn's post. As an uninformed music listener I am hard put to differentiate between the contemporary jazz I occasionally hear on R3 and the contemporary 'classical' music ditto, particularly where improvisation is involved, in terms of why they fall into different camps. The boundaries seem to me to be pretty fluid in many cases.

[Ein Heldenleben]

After this morning’s offerings it should be renamed Essential Jazz! Don’t get me wrong, I quite enjoy jazz but not when it is mixed in with the classics. Just saying!

I love Duke Ellington - I think he is one of the all time greats . His 30’s / 40’s band was probably the greatest assemblage of horn and wind virtuosi in history. But the BBC singers mangling of Sophisticated Lady exemplifies why classically trained singers need to be very careful when tackling Jazz. It might be summed up in the phrase “leave it to Ella ...”

[cloughie]

Afraid I will have to disagree somewhat with you there, and also ask why you take that view? Do you find that the juxtaposition jars?
I think that mixing in jazz is a good thing so long as not done to excess, and the morning schedule programmes are a good place to do it. There is after all a longstanding interest on the part of both 'classical' and jazz musicians in each others music, which I assume is the purpose of Bryn's post. As an uninformed music listener I am hard put to differentiate between the contemporary jazz I occasionally hear on R3 and the contemporary 'classical' music ditto, particularly where improvisation is involved, in terms of why they fall into different camps. The boundaries seem to me to be pretty fluid in many cases.

You mean the ‘when does the tune start’ stuff! I’ll wager you are also very much into ‘minimalist’ and ‘rap’!