Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate

[cloughie]

Yonas Alexa maybe?

A smart speak-up there LMP. How are things in the East of the Duchy - I heard on Radio Cornwall your Post Office has closed!

[antongould]

Georgia to come ....

[cloughie]

Georgia to come ....

Has she been on your mind?

[antongould]

Has she been on your mind?

It’s your humour that keeps me going cloughers .....

[LMcD]

Has she been on your mind?

Yes - the whole day through!

[cloughie]

It’s your humour that keeps me going cloughers .....

I won't ask where, anton.

[antongould]

I won't ask where, anton.

It’s to where you probably suspect, but the tablets are helping ....

[cloughie]

It’s to where you probably suspect, but the tablets are helping ....

Laptops also!

[oddoneout]

Georgia Mann( who looks very like Ian Skelly on the webpage...) has just played Arvo Part's Spiegel im Spiegel. Normally I quite like this piece but this recording has jarred. For some reason the third note of the repeated opening sequence on the piano sounds 'not quite right' pitchwise, so elsewhere in the piece when it occurs I notice it as well. I don't have perfect pitch and I don't think that the piano would be in need of tuning in a recording situation, so the only thing I can think of is that the particular timbre of that piano affects what I am hearing?

[cloughie]

Georgia Mann( who looks very like Ian Skelly on the webpage...) has just played Arvo Part's Spiegel im Spiegel. Normally I quite like this piece but this recording has jarred. For some reason the third note of the repeated opening sequence on the piano sounds 'not quite right' pitchwise, so elsewhere in the piece when it occurs I notice it as well. I don't have perfect pitch and I don't think that the piano would be in need of tuning in a recording situation, so the only thing I can think of is that the particular timbre of that piano affects what I am hearing?

She sounds much better!

[oddoneout]

She sounds much better!

I'll settle for 'sounds different'. Someone did manage to change the headshot eventually.

[DracoM]

I'll settle for 'sounds different'. Someone did manage to change the headshot eventually.

[peterthekeys]

Georgia Mann( who looks very like Ian Skelly on the webpage...) has just played Arvo Part's Spiegel im Spiegel. Normally I quite like this piece but this recording has jarred. For some reason the third note of the repeated opening sequence on the piano sounds 'not quite right' pitchwise, so elsewhere in the piece when it occurs I notice it as well. I don't have perfect pitch and I don't think that the piano would be in need of tuning in a recording situation, so the only thing I can think of is that the particular timbre of that piano affects what I am hearing?

You don't need absolute (or, synonymously, perfect) pitch to detect something wrong in the intervals between several notes heard consecutively - all musicians (well, hopefully most ) would be able to do that. If you have absolute pitch, you can hear a single note, and without any external reference can immediately say what it is. (I can usually work it out, by mentally comparing it with a few notes that I can apparently remember accurately - but it takes me a few seconds, and I'm sometimes a semitone out. So strictly speaking, I don't have it.)

Absolute pitch is still a mysterious thing, and really needs more serious research. I think it varies a lot. Being able to choose from a range of 12 semitones is one thing - but I knew a guy at music college who could actually identify the frequency of the note in Hz.

[peterthekeys]

Wish I could work out what it is about Suzy Klein's voice which makes me want to throw things at the radio.

[ardcarp]

I have the same problem with Tom Service.
Suzy is a knowleeable musician (as is Tom Service). It's partly to do with how R3 wants them to present themselves.