Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate

[MrGongGong]

I suggested Walter Piston's 'Mountains' from his Three New England Sketches, but I see it wasn't chosen. At least listeners were spared Grieg's trolls.

I'm sorrry I missed it
I would have suggested this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrocu-Eknpo&frags=pl%2Cwn

[hmvman]

Meanwhile, at about that time, I was listening to a complete Haydn symphony via WDR3...

[LMcD]

I'm sorrry I missed it
I would have suggested this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vroc...&frags=pl%2Cwn

That would have made a wonderful pairing with a certain number from 'The Sound Of Music'

[french frank]

I'm sorrry I missed it
I would have suggested this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vroc...&frags=pl%2Cwn

As long as you'd been clear what it was, it would have stood a good chance of being chosen. Though IS might have refused to play it …

[oddoneout]

My point was that the best follow-up of the middle of a work is what the composer wrote for the rest of it - not the result of a parlour game, or even a referendum.

I understand that, but I'm coming at it from the other end as it were. If people only hear a bit that's better than nothing in my view in terms of opportunity to follow up something that's of interest(especially since that's so much easier now with the treasury of online resources), and if the follow-on pieces do the same so much the better. The morning schedule is what it is rather than what it should be, so expecting it to do something that's not in its current specification is a waste of effort, but if listener pressure(whether through criticism of certain aspects or by making more informed suggestions for music) can prevent it sliding even further down the slippery slope to complete uselessness, so much the better.
What would be really worrying is if the chunky approach became a feature of the afternoon and evening schedules...

[Bax-of-Delights]

To today’s follow on piece to “Peter and the Wolf” I emailed in and suggested “Sparky’s Magic Piano”.

To my chagrin it was not chosen nor mentioned nor even sneered at by SK.

[Nick Armstrong]

To today’s follow on piece to “Peter and the Wolf” I emailed in and suggested “Sparky’s Magic Piano”.

To my chagrin it was not chosen nor mentioned nor even sneered at by SK.

[oddoneout]

To today’s follow on piece to “Peter and the Wolf” I emailed in and suggested “Sparky’s Magic Piano”.

To my chagrin it was not chosen nor mentioned nor even sneered at by SK.

I thought it was a pretty poor choice of playlist starter. Playing single movements from a bigger work is less than ideal, and unacceptable to many, but to stop part way through Peter and the Wolf because, inconveniently, the whole thing is too long isn't even a 'bleeding chunk' as previously experienced, it's filleting said b.chunk. I hope it doesn't set a precedent; coupled with SK whose mannered manner(ham actor) I'm disliking more and more even I would likely admit defeat.

[LMcD]

To today’s follow on piece to “Peter and the Wolf” I emailed in and suggested “Sparky’s Magic Piano”.

To my chagrin it was not chosen nor mentioned nor even sneered at by SK.

My suggested follow-up to 'Wachet auf' was 'Wake Up Little Suzy', likewise greeted with a deafening silence.

[cloughie]

My suggested follow-up to 'Wachet auf' was 'Wake Up Little Suzy', likewise greeted with a deafening silence.

You'll have to suggest 'Sorry Suzanne' tomorrow to make amends!

[cloughie]

To today’s follow on piece to “Peter and the Wolf” I emailed in and suggested “Sparky’s Magic Piano”.

To my chagrin it was not chosen nor mentioned nor even sneered at by SK.

What did she play Peter Schreier singing a Hugo Wolf song?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I may think International Women’s Day is an excuse for BBC tokenism, playing music they apparently don’t seem fit for the other 364 days.

But, as happened in previous years, EC is far more interesting today than on other days, with music that’s mostly new to our ears.

Best of all, the ghastly playlist game was dropped.

[Serial_Apologist]

I may think International Women’s Day is an excuse for BBC tokenism, playing music they apparently don’t seem fit for the other 364 days.

But, as happened in previous years, EC is far more interesting today than on other days, with music that’s mostly new to our ears.

Best of all, the ghastly playlist game was dropped.

And last night's TTN introduced me, at any rate, to a whole wonderful realm of women composers, most of whom I had not previously heard (of).

[Master Jacques]

But, as happened in previous years, EC is far more interesting today than on other days, with music that’s mostly new to our ears. Best of all, the ghastly playlist game was dropped.

Very true, on both counts! I personally thanked goodness that we were - for one day in the year - spared Rhapsody in Blue and its ilk. The programme also proved beyond a shadow of doubt, that women are every bit as capable as men, when it comes to third-rate note-spinning.

[Serial_Apologist]

Very true, on both counts! I personally thanked goodness that we were - for one day in the year - spared Rhapsody in Blue and its ilk. The programme also proved beyond a shadow of doubt, that women are every bit as capable as men, when it comes to third-rate note-spinning.

I think that's what is known as negative capability, MJ!