Originally posted by Anna
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Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate
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Originally posted by Anna View PostBut. If the object of the film music theme is to attract new listeners, what happens to those new listeners once Radio 3 switches back at the end of the month to a strictly classical mode?
Surely they won't stick around and those of us who have given up may not drift back ...
At the other end of the scale, it may even be too intellectual! By the time the presenter has explained the context to the piece, with reference to the European emigres, development of the film noir and the decline of the Hollywood studio system, followed by something that isn't the Superman theme, they may well have switched back to Cfm.
The crying shame is that there's some good stuff being played and some good commentary on it. In small doses I'd make a point of listening. But I've more or less turned off until it's over.
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Black Swan
I suggest there is some merit in all the film broadcasts. The US Homeland Security can download the Podcasts, as I heard they are available, to play to the prisoners in Guantanamo instead of Water Boarding.
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Originally posted by Sir Velo View PostWhat on earth has Dr Sarah Walker been taking? Today's "brainteaser" quiz was promised to be "challenging" and put together by "boffins". I was expecting, at the least, a multi-part question along the lines of those that used to be posed in the Gramophone, involving laborious checking in Grove and hunting out obscure long forgotten records. What we got was "Juliet as a Young Girl", and were then asked to text or tweet in who was dancing. Jeez.Originally posted by Norfolk Born View PostIf you take the 'Radio Times', you will have noticed (and if you don't, you may well have suspected, or deduced) that Essential Classics is now officially segmented - or do I mean fragmented:
0900 Essential CD of the Week
0930 The daily brain teaser
1000 Artist of the Week
1030 Guest of the Week
1100 Host's Essential Choice
On Mondays, there is also the Building a Library recommendation
This week, the essential choices - which occupy the longest segment - could fairly be described as 'risk-averse': Brahms 2nd piano concerto, Britten Serenade, Mozart 'Prague' symphony, Schubert 'Unfinished'."...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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Announcing the different parts of the programme can act two ways: for those who hate the guest spot or brainteaser, you can easily avoid them but still listen - thus keeping the audience figures up. (Alternatively, if you really look forward to a daily mental work-out, you can tune in specially for the brainteaser...)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 Bryn View PostWould CFM have a listing in its on-line schedule such as this?
"Orchestra: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Кирилл Петрович Кондрашин."
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What it surely shows is that whoever prepared the online playlist hadn't a clue who it was and just pasted the Cyrillic version. I noticed this a couple of days ago where a couple of works had the conductor as Васи́лий Серафи́мович Сина́йский .
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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Just to say that while I only remember a few, mainly chemistry related, words of Russian from my "Science Russian" classes at school, I can transliterate Cyrilic easily enough. I just thought it amusing that the Beeb appeared to expect all Essential Classics listeners to be conversant with it.Last edited by Bryn; 15-10-13, 20:54. Reason: Origianally sent from Sony Xperia Z. Damned predictive text!
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Originally posted by french frank View PostWhat it surely shows is that whoever prepared the online playlist hadn't a clue who it was and just pasted the Cyrillic version. I noticed this a couple of days ago where a couple of works had the conductor as Васи́лий Серафи́мович Сина́йский .
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03bfpm4
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Originally posted by Bryn View PostAnd he's one of their own!
Ooh, let me see, wasn't is Васи́лий Серафи́мович Сина́йский ?
Yeah, I think you're right, Васи́лий Серафи́мович Сина́йский it was.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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