we had a Grosse Fugue last Thursday lunchtime too
Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate
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Noticed on the EC playlist this morning the St.Trinians film muusic. And on Breakfast....the Warsaw Concerto. Aint getting any better, is it.
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Originally posted by mercia View Postwe had a Grosse Fugue last Thursday lunchtime too
(Some of us don't find it gross at all)I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!
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Originally posted by zola View PostAh, looking closer I see that the lunchtime concert listing in Radio Times for today is for the two piano version. And I have noticed this week that the items listed for the lunchtime concert in Radio Times have in fact moved around the week and appeared on different days. So perhaps someone did notice the clash.
But if it was two different versions it would be interesting to have the opportunity to hear them close together.
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Essential Classics and Rob Cowan at their best this morning - just as I Entered Hyde Park in the sunshine on my bike, the Eintritt started from Richter's 1956 Prague recording of Schumann's Waldszenen. I'd stupidly never got round to listening to that performance before.
The ensuing 20 minutes were rather special"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostEssential Classics and Rob Cowan at their best this morning - just as I Entered Hyde Park in the sunshine on my bike, the Eintritt started from Richter's 1956 Prague recording of Schumann's Waldszenen. I'd stupidly never got round to listening to that performance before.
The ensuing 20 minutes were rather special
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Originally posted by antongould View PostPresume you missed darling Penelope and her selections then Rumpole?"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostI did catch the tail end of some pretty random stuff - the Hummel trumpet concerto, Dame P discussing village life and advising Rob C to buy a light aircraft, and Rob mentioning having been struck down with rheumatic fever
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Originally posted by antongould View PostShame you missed her first selection ...... one of your all time favourites!! She claimed never to have heard yer Hummel ever played on the radio!!!
.... I dodged that bullet!!!"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by antongould View PostShame you missed her first selection ...... one of your all time favourites!! She claimed never to have heard yer Hummel ever played on the radio!!!
Does that mean she had never heard anything on Radio 3 by Hummel, at all? Strange to have remembered hearing Hummel but NOT the trumpet concerto. She also chose B-o-D's favourite: Rodeo.
Now, let's be analytical. It does sound 'snobbish' to belittle the choices of people who apparently have 'little knowledge of classical music'. But don't blame the 'snobs': blame Radio 3 for relentlessly, obsessively, pursuing an audience which has 'little knowledge of classical music' and foisting their choices on its core audience which does know the odd fact or two.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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Originally posted by french frank View Post
She also chose B-o-D's favourite: Rodeo*
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*I think I even gave the damn thing a kicking in my 'survey' response, didn't I?"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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well at least it was not Hewitt in the Bach keyboard [or was that Breakfast - it all merges into one dollop eh] ...
... er checking helps, it was Scarlatti in Breakfast ... well it is all much of a muchness and i dare say not much of a muchness to make much ofAccording to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.
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Originally posted by Caliban View Post*I think I even gave the damn thing a kicking in my 'survey' response, didn't I?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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