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Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostOoooh! You've got the bit between your teeth!
"...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 PostAnd the hump - just tuned in and heard the flutey mystery piece, not really paying attention... and thought - Poulenc flute sonata. Mr Maconie, not knowing the piece, correctly deduced it was Prokofiev ... adding generously 'quite like Poulenc'. Good for him, I knew I liked him!
And threw in Rubbra to make him, surely, a firm favourite hereabouts. I have found him a very interesting guest - I know teamsaint's view but he's IMVVHO a bit up the Swansea......
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Originally posted by antongould View PostAnd threw in Rubbra to make him, surely, a firm favourite hereabouts. I have found him a very interesting guest - I know teamsaint's view but he's IMVVHO a bit up the Swansea......
Yes - didn't notice Dame Penelope nonchalantly referencing Rubbra..."...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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After just listening to Haydn's Symphony no. 47 with Adam Fischer and Mozart's Dissonance Quartet with the Smetana Quartet, I can't help feeling that the 11.00-12.00 slot should be excluded from the general execration heaped on this programme. If only Radio Times listed everything they're going to play in that hour, not just the first piece. For me, this is often the hour when the programme deserves the title of 'Essential Classics'.
(Talking of Haydn, wasn't it refreshing that Thomas Sondergard and the BBC NOW programmed his Symphony no. 28 in Live in Concert on Wednesday?)
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Originally posted by JFLL View PostAfter just listening to Haydn's Symphony no. 47 with Adam Fischer and Mozart's Dissonance Quartet with the Smetana Quartet, I can't help feeling that the 11.00-12.00 slot should be excluded from the general execration heaped on this programme. If only Radio Times listed everything they're going to play in that hour, not just the first piece.
Originally posted by JFLL View Post
(Talking of Haydn, wasn't it refreshing that Thomas Sondergard and the BBC NOW programmed his Symphony no. 28 in Live in Concert on Wednesday?)
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Originally posted by JFLL View PostAfter just listening to Haydn's Symphony no. 47 with Adam Fischer and Mozart's Dissonance Quartet with the Smetana Quartet, I can't help feeling that the 11.00-12.00 slot should be excluded from the general execration heaped on this programme. If only Radio Times listed everything they're going to play in that hour, not just the first piece. For me, this is often the hour when the programme deserves the title of 'Essential Classics'.
(Talking of Haydn, wasn't it refreshing that Thomas Sondergard and the BBC NOW programmed his Symphony no. 28 in Live in Concert on Wednesday?)
Couldn't agree more, and now the 'guest celeb' has been shoved up to 10am, it's usually pretty civilised from 10.30 - depending who the 'week's artist' is, i.e. not overexposed Balsom/Galway type 'stars'. Incidentally, I find Galway's sickly vibrato almost as annoying as the sound emitted by wobbly sopranos... am I alone in this?
I too caught both the Haydn (28 & 47) and loved every minute (though not especially keen on Fischer's strings...)"...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 too caught both the Haydn (28 & 47) and loved every minute (though not especially keen on Fischer's strings...)
There are some interesting observations by Richard Wigmore in his Gramophone review of the relevant Fischer set:
"… what immediately strikes you, as on previous issues, is the string tone, with that echt-Viennese sweetness (but never oversweetness) and plangency"
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"I was, though, increasingly irritated by Fischer’s almost invariable habit of using solo strings in the trios (and once or twice elsewhere, as in the finale of No. 48) – a charming, ear-tickling effect once in a while, perhaps, but here a predictable gimmick that can come close to trivializing the music."
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Originally posted by JFLL View PostIf only Radio Times listed everything they're going to play in that hour, not just the first piece.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 Don Petter View PostImitation or emulation?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 PostI checked this morning, and the website posts the titles as they've been played - which is, I think, the way Classic FM does it. Why? They must know what they're going to play before the programme starts, even if they don't know in time for Radio Times print dates.
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Originally posted by Flosshilde View PostPerhaps they want to make it more exciting for the listener - keeping them guessing.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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