Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate

[teamsaint]

I don't know if this has been commented on before, but I find SW's use of the word 'there' most irksome, e.g.

Fred Bloggs THERE playing Beethoven

The Chipping Sodbury Philharmonic THERE, etc, etc

Once you've noticed it, you want to scream.

There there.

sod it, missed the CSP again.

[Ferretfancy]

I hate it when SW announces " X on clarinet" or "Y on piano", as if they were playing jazz in a club.

[Sir Velo]

I hate it when SW announces " X on clarinet" or "Y on piano", as if they were playing jazz in a club.

I don't know if this has been commented on before, but I find SW's use of the word 'there' most irksome, e.g.

Fred Bloggs THERE playing Beethoven

The Chipping Sodbury Philharmonic THERE, etc, etc

Once you've noticed it, you want to scream.

She is generally irksome IMO . She sounds like she is auditioning for the Masterchef voiceover most of the time .

I'll see each of you on this and raise you: "Now time for my artist of the week". Oh yeah, you're their patron are you????

Or

"I really love this piece. Listen out for the [instrument] solo in the slow movement".

[antongould]

I know it's the wrong thread but we do tend to treat them as interchangeable - has anyone any views to our new young lady's first two weeks, or perhaps more to the point has anybody listened?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

"I really love this piece. Listen out for the [instrument] solo in the slow movement".

- and, even worse, IMO - "Just listen to the [instrument] solo in the slow movement": as if the rest of the essential performance can tick away in the background whilst you do something more worthwhile like clipping your toenails! and thrice

[Nick Armstrong]

I'll see each of you on this and raise you: "Now time for my artist of the week".

Oh quite

Dreadful posh guest this week... "I can only stay in my stately home for three weeks at a time, I have to come up to London, any longer than that and it's just too preoccupying... "

How did I know that SW's choice for her would be some soupy, trite thing for cello.

And how did I know that the reaction would involve the word "charming"

Awful, predictable tosh this week, I'm afraid.

[Sir Velo]

How did I know that SW's choice for her would be some soupy, trite thing for cello.

You've just reminded me of a phrase I hate with a passion: "Your personal shopper". 'nuff said.

[Nick Armstrong]

You've just reminded me of a phrase I hate with a passion: "Your personal shopper". 'nuff said.

Esp when wrongly used as this morning when the piece was described as "your personal shopper". Huh?!



And another thing...

On Wednesday, there's something called "Lucky Dip" - a piece that bears no relation to one of the various 'themes for the week'... That warrants its own description?!

JUST PLAY THE ******** MUSIC FOR ***** ***** *****************'s SAKE!

[Serial_Apologist]

Esp when wrongly used as this morning when the piece was described as "your personal shopper". Huh?!



And another thing...

On Wednesday, there's something called "Lucky Dip" - a piece that bears no relation to one of the various 'themes for the week'... That warrants its own description?!

JUST PLAY THE ******** MUSIC FOR ***** ***** *****************'s SAKE!

I thought I heard "personal chopper"!

[Serial_Apologist]

- and, even worse, IMO - "Just listen to the [instrument] solo in the slow movement": as if the rest of the essential performance can tick away in the background whilst you do something more worthwhile like clipping your toenails! and thrice

It almost makes one look foward to the boring, uninspired bits...

[ardcarp]

Now time for my artist of the week

There seems to be a complete breakdown in the use of possessive pronouns. I just got a letter from E.ON saying, "Your prices are increasing and we're changing your tariff". OK, I'm willing to own up to the tariff, but MY PRICES???

[Sir Velo]

I just got a letter from E.ON saying, "Your prices are increasing and we're changing your tariff". OK, I'm willing to own up to the tariff, but MY PRICES???

Write back to them and tell them you've changed your mind and you're lowering your prices instead.

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Seen near where I live: "Your new Aldi is opening". OK, if it's my Aldi I'll thank you for sending me a share of my profits each week.

[french frank]

I've just been doing my homework: listening to the celebrity guest spot on today's Essential Classics:

"Rob's guest this week is the astrologer and media personality, Russell Grant. Russell has written several books on Astrology and regularly provides newspaper horoscopes. He is best known for his appearances on radio (BBC Radio 2's Steve Wright in the Afternoon) and breakfast television shows such as This Morning with Richard and Judy, offering astrological advice. More recently, he has appeared in several reality television shows including Celebrity Fit Club, Kitchen Burnout and most notably, Strictly Come Dancing and its sister show, It Takes Two."

I tuned in to discover whether this would turn out to be unexpectedly enlightening: it was! The Prince Igor music ended and... "Let's talk about Strictly Come Dancing." And they did. So that's a nice promo for the BBC. The ad for digital radio is the same (virtually) as the one I hear on Kiss FM in the gym.

Before SCD, they were talking about Russell's grandmother's Alzheimer's - in case you missed the prog and would like to hear it. I don't think I have the will to listen to yesterday's.

[Bax-of-Delights]

I've just been doing my homework: listening to the celebrity guest spot on today's Essential Classics:

"Rob's guest this week is the astrologer and media personality, Russell Grant. Russell has written several books on Astrology and regularly provides newspaper horoscopes. He is best known for his appearances on radio (BBC Radio 2's Steve Wright in the Afternoon) and breakfast television shows such as This Morning with Richard and Judy, offering astrological advice. More recently, he has appeared in several reality television shows including Celebrity Fit Club, Kitchen Burnout and most notably, Strictly Come Dancing and its sister show, It Takes Two."

I tuned in to discover whether this would turn out to be unexpectedly enlightening: it was! The Prince Igor music ended and... "Let's talk about Strictly Come Dancing." And they did. So that's a nice promo for the BBC. The ad for digital radio is the same (virtually) as the one I hear on Kiss FM in the gym.

Before SCD, they were talking about Russell's grandmother's Alzheimer's - in case you missed the prog and would like to hear it. I don't think I have the will to listen to yesterday's.

I dipped in and out of today's EC while fetching and carrying in the car. Apart from the usual commonplace playlist material -Orpheus in the Underworld, Firebird, Ravel's Introduction and Allegro - the moment I finally switched off was on hearing Russell Grant describing his heart "having little wings and flying away" on hearing a Purcell piece.

Everything, but everything, on the BBC is now designed to plug another programme. It can be done subtly such as a piece is played by a certain performer and that performer "will be with Sean this evening on In Tune" or it can be done utterly shamefacedly as in puffing SCD on EC through the use of Russell Grant. Or it can be the squirmingly awful titter-fest that is Derham and Rafferty. Take your pick.

By the bye I see the Afternoon on 3 programmes are headed thus: "Katie Derham continues her week-long celebration of the human voice." I think that should be "the week-long celebration" should it not?

[AndyJW]

I heard, unfortunately, part of the Russell Grant interview today. He wasn't even in the same studio, the sound quality was different and it sounded very 'edited' All about his encounter with the Queen Mother - vomit making!!! Shouldn't be allowed.