Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate

[Bryn]

An almost angelic patronymic, what?

[french frank]

An almost angelic patronymic, what?

Would make a good pair with Cherubini.

[AndyJW]

I have a couple of CDs that I have copied into iTunes - Brahmns violin concerto / Kennedy and The Eagles greatest hits - and both come up in Japanese (I think) symbols on the ipod screen.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Are we going to be asked to text our thoughts on live concerts next?

[Sir Velo]

Just to say that while I only remember a few, mainly chemistry related, words of Russian from my "Science Russian" classes at school, I can transliterate Cyrilic easily enough. I just thought it amusing that the Beeb appeared to expect all Essential Classics listeners to be conversant with it.

Here is the response from the Essential Classics team:

Hi,

We'll pass on your comments to the BBC department which runs and develops the website, as they are responsible for how performers are listed.

The performer is Kirill Kondrashin. If you click on any of the red-highlighted performers on a playlist you are taken to their biography page and their full name is listed there in English.

With best wishes,
The Essential Classics Team

So, not my responsibility Guv, innit?

[teamsaint]

I have a couple of CDs that I have copied into iTunes - Brahmns violin concerto / Kennedy and The Eagles greatest hits - and both come up in Japanese (I think) symbols on the ipod screen.

My Bertini Mahler set does the same.

The Eagles, you say.....

Er, what I meant to say was, I have heard a bit of RC this week. How I wish they would set him free. (but take away his Slavonic and Hungarian dances beforehand!)

[french frank]

What it surely shows is that whoever prepared the online playlist hadn't a clue who it was and just pasted the Cyrillic version. I noticed this a couple of days ago where a couple of works had the conductor as Васи́лий Серафи́мович Сина́йский .

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03bfpm4

Now altered to Vassily Serafimovich Sinaisky...

[Bryn]

Now altered to Vassily Serafimovich Sinaisky...

Cyrillic? Pah! From today's Saturday Classics listing

John Adams Nixon in China - Act 1 sc.1; News has a kind of mystery

Singer: Robert Orth. Singer: 袁晨野. Orchestra: Colorado Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.

NAXOS : 8.669022, Naxos, 6

[Thropplenoggin]

The ideograms are hyperlinked, clicking through gets you to Yuan Chenye. Born 1976.

So how difficult would it have been for someone to do what I just did and write the name in English?

My guess is that these listings are automatically generated.

[french frank]

My guess is that these listings are automatically generated.

Probably. And no one goes through them to check, as if it wouldn't be better to at least change them after they'd been displayed for an hour or so rather than not look at all. They just don't have anyone to spare with that level of knowledge. Or the technical knowledge plus the knowledge to foresee the problems.

[Thropplenoggin]

Probably. And no one goes through them to check, as if it wouldn't be better to at least change them after they'd been displayed for an hour or so rather than not look at all. They just don't have anyone to spare with that level of knowledge. Or the technical knowledge plus the knowledge to foresee the problems.

One less salary to pay = value for money to the customer, right? Right???

Trebles all round.

[mercia]

I'm not convinced that guests always want to be manhandled

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/galleries/p01kgf2x

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm not convinced that guests always want to be manhandled
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/galleries/p01kgf2x

Couldn't agree more, mercs!

The grip looks just a little too tight, his grin a little too sinister, hers a little too ... fixed... !

Hey! It's Hallowe'en!

[french frank]

I'm not convinced that guests always want to be manhandled
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/galleries/p01kgf2x

That's what I call an Eric Morcambe hug

[Nick Armstrong]

That's what I call an Eric Morcambe hug

- What do you think of it so far, Penelope?

- Ruggish!!