Originally posted by mercia
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Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate
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RC has had the dubious distinction this week of taking the number of Hungarian Dances broadcast on R3 so far this year past the 100 mark. Programmes presented by him have accounted for a considerable proportion of these as they have done with Slavonic Dances. RC seems to have as much an obsession with these pieces as the current regime does generally.
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I found my car radio was tuned in to music the other morning when the CD ended and after another piece when I realised it must be R3 ( never listened to of choice in the morning ) as it stopped after the first movement - I was greeted with the "brainteaser" not a description of the music just played - OFF switch pressed. It is so depressing.
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Spluttered this morning when Sarah Walker, Essential Classics, asked us not to go away as a recording of One Fine Day was scheduled. Wasn't quite sure whether Dr Walker was sending herself up, the programme, or the listeners. We got to the spot, a commemoration of Callas at 90 and heard her recording of Un bel di, aka, Un Del Boy di! Instant reminders of Two Way Family Favourites in the 1950s! Time marches on.
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Originally posted by Stanley Stewart View PostSpluttered this morning when Sarah Walker, Essential Classics, asked us not to go away as a recording of One Fine Day was scheduled. Wasn't quite sure whether Dr Walker was sending herself up, the programme, or the listeners. We got to the spot, a commemoration of Callas at 90 and heard her recording of Un bel di, aka, Un Del Boy di! Instant reminders of Two Way Family Favourites in the 1950s! Time marches on.
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostHurrah for Philip Pullman selecting the Gilels reading of Medtner's 'Sonata Reminiscenza' this morning
And yesterday in the damp, wintry park, the second movement of Mahler 5 was terrific, reminding one of the quality of that Karajan / BPO performance: after the slow elegiac central bit, the return of the lilting dance music is given a real drunken, phantasmagorical quality by the use of portamenti, it sounded wonderful. Might need to get that performance (I recall borrowing the LPs from the local library 30 years ago, before I really knew the piece)."...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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