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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26523

    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    (Do you know Copland's 'Rodeo'? It's in the same category!)
    Worse, in fact! Guess what's on now? Copland's

    BLOODY *UCKAROO HOLIDAY!!!

    "...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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    • mercia
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8920

      bring on the Liszt

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26523

        Originally posted by mercia View Post
        bring on the Liszt





        Got on Peter Hill playing works from Book II of the 48, recorded from the end of CD Review a couple of weeks ago. Absolutely sublime!!

        Perfect to ease one's way calmly into the last day of the working week
        "...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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        • Thespian

          Today

          One Song from Das Lied von der Erde...Now "part" of Daphnis and Chloe part 2

          AHHHHHHH

          I give up. It's time to find an alternative in the mornings.

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          • old khayyam

            I notice Breakfast is slipping into a pattern used by many other music stations: Just before the news they play a song/piece that they know everyone likes - as if to say 'we know you think news is boring and there's every chance you'll turn off, but this tune will make you like us and stay for more'. They then reward your commitment by playing another popular number immediately after the news. Then its all downhill from there.

            I first noticed this with R2 about 10yrs ago. The theory is rather strange. Its as if, when they really do fear losing you, they will give you what you want. The rest of the time, they will knowingly give you what they know you dont want.
            Last edited by Guest; 17-05-12, 11:11. Reason: wrong thread. but near enough.

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            • cloughie
              Full Member
              • Dec 2011
              • 22114

              Present to us a complete Mahler seven
              Play all of Daphisand Chloe just for me
              Not just a part of an opus one eleven
              Or the organ bit chopped out from Saint-Saens three.

              We’re fed up of just hearing bits and pieces
              And the depths to which morning on 3 has sunk
              Listening as the gravitas decreases
              With chunk after chunk and another bleeding chunk

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              • Barbirollians
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 11669

                Am I the only person driven mad by these ghastly Radio 3 Masterchef style trailers - a ridiculous one for the Brahms Violin Concerto to be played by Isabelle Faust this thursday described it as noble and spacious and capped by a gypsy finale as if it were a cake ! The orchestra and conductor of course were not mentioned .

                Which idiot is behind all this ?

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                • Lateralthinking1

                  Erm, Whitacre's 'Sleep' on EC this morning. Welcome but the programme list has it that it is by Chris 'Dow Jones' Whitacre. Isn't he a rap artist?

                  10.12 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hzb0h

                  (Seems to have just been removed - maybe they are correcting it.)

                  This latest excellent list from Andrew shows how the Beeb had it moments ago:

                  Weekly Listings for BBC Radio 3 supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/
                  Last edited by Guest; 29-05-12, 11:00.

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26523

                    Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
                    Am I the only person driven mad by these ghastly Radio 3 Masterchef style trailers
                    You are certainly not alone!!

                    Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
                    Which idiot is behind all this ?


                    "...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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                    • Norfolk Born

                      Originally posted by Caliban View Post




                      Got on Peter Hill playing works from Book II of the 48, recorded from the end of CD Review a couple of weeks ago. Absolutely sublime!!

                      Perfect to ease one's way calmly into the last day of the working week
                      In my case, that means waiting until Friday!

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                      • french frank
                        Administrator/Moderator
                        • Feb 2007
                        • 30241

                        Originally posted by Lateralthinking1 View Post
                        Erm, Whitacre's 'Sleep' on EC this morning. Welcome but the programme list has it that it is by Chris 'Dow Jones' Whitacre. Isn't he a rap artist?
                        Not only that but, perplexingly, he doesn't have a Wikipedia article about him so it's hard to know how he ever got included in the software. Eric Whitacre, on the other hand, has a reasonably long article.

                        If they've put it right, at least it shows that someone is checking the playlists - for a change.

                        And who knows, after the Eurovision debacle, Engelbert Humperdinck may be thought of by playlist compilers as a German opera composer ...
                        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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                        • gurnemanz
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 7380

                          I now rarely tune in before Composer of the Week at 12. From then on things are more or less OK. I still don't understand why there can be no late evening classical music between 10 and 12.30.

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                          • french frank
                            Administrator/Moderator
                            • Feb 2007
                            • 30241

                            Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
                            In my case, that means waiting until Friday!
                            I think 11 May was a Friday, so even Caliban works on much the same basis as the rest of the country ...
                            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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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26523

                              Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
                              In my case, that means waiting until Friday!
                              Mystified by Frenchie's kind remark, I wonder what you were getting at here, Norfs?
                              "...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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                              • Norfolk Born

                                Sorry, I thought the message had been posted today. I must be suffering from EOJOF(Early Onset JubOlympics Fever).

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