Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate

[teamsaint]

Switched on in the car this morning, to catch a very strange 'disjointed' performance of the Pastoral. Luckily I arrived before having to hear the presenter.

I see from the schedule it was the Zurich Tonhalle under Zinman.

that wasn't how they trailed it yesterday !!

[french frank]

that wasn't how they trailed it yesterday !!

How was it trailed? I've just checked, that's how it was announced.

[teamsaint]

it wasn't trailed as a " Very strange disjointed version of the Pastoral "!

I wish it had been, I would have cancelled something and tuned in.

(sounds like something MrGG might champion, !)

[Don Petter]

I'm not musically qualified to analyse what I felt in a technical sense, but the phrases didn't sound as smoothly blended together as usual, as if the musical blocks weren't being joined up. It was about the middle of the work, before and then into the 'village band' section.

[Thropplenoggin]

Did mine ears deceive me or did I just hear "F**k art, let's dance!" thrice on Essential Classics from today's guest?

Now that was classic!

Poor Rob, scrabbling to apologise for the Australian lout he'd invited on. Well, he is a barrister, so such improprieties were to be expected, of course.

[Nick Armstrong]

Well, he is a barrister, so such improprieties were to be expected, of course.

Speaking as a non-barrister, of course.

Very smooth, ain't he? If one were being mean, one might almost say he loves the sound of his own voice. Surprised he didn't choose, Schwarzkopf-style, 8 records of himself telling anecdotes...

Obviously his rates were too high to get him to the studio - is he really on the phone? (Missed the start, is he in Aus or something?)

[salymap]

I missed the start too but was pleased to hear a bitof G&S Trial by Jury- which I prefer tothe others as the dialogue seems a bit creaky these days, and'Trial' ofcourse dispenses with the spokenn word.

And I have a good friend, now 92, who is a retired barrister and he is Welsh,lovely, and wouldn't dream of using such language.

[Stunsworth]

If one were being mean, one might almost say he loves the sound of his own voice

That was the first thought that went through my head.

[Richard Tarleton]

(Missed the start, is he is Aus or something?)

Dual nationality apparently, married to the salty Ms Kathy Lette. He it was who pointed out the other day that as an ex-Head of State the pope would no longer have immunity from prosecution. The pope must have had this pointed out to him as he apparently intends to spend the remainder of his days inside the Vatican, where the writ-servers won't be able to get at him.

[Zucchini]

If one were being mean, one might almost say he loves the sound of his own voice. Surprised he didn't choose, Schwarzkopf-style, 8 records of himself telling anecdotes...

Missed it. Are you talking about the member who once played foxtrots for Victor Silvestri on Bournemouth pier?

[Nick Armstrong]

Dual nationality apparently, married to the salty Ms Kathy Lette

Yes, I mistyped, I meant to wonder if he was actually in Australia - hence the phone call.

I once sat next to Ms Lette at a dinner at an academic institution, she set the table on a roar by enquiring of the octogenarian professor on the other side of her what time of day he preferred having sex. (FWIW early afternoon was the answer...).

[french frank]

Did mine ears deceive me or did I just hear "F**k art, let's dance!" thrice on Essential Classics from today's guest?

Now that was classic!

Poor Rob, scrabbling to apologise for the Australian lout he'd invited on. Well, he is a barrister, so such improprieties were to be expected, of course.

Probably for the first time ever, the Listen Again is marked 'Parental Guidance' (hover over the Essential Classics pic).

[Thropplenoggin]

Probably for the first time ever, the Listen Again is marked 'Parental Guidance' (hover over the Essential Classics pic).

I wonder what profanities will be unleashed tomorrow.

[Nick Armstrong]

Probably for the first time ever, the Listen Again is marked 'Parental Guidance' (hover over the Essential Classics pic).

Presumably we can expect, for instance, Chopin's Fourth Ballade in Effin' Minor...

[mercia]

just listening to this guest spot - I don't think we're going to hear much music this week - he's quite a windbag