Originally posted by Caliban
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Ooooh! You've got the bit between your teeth!
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And the hump - just tuned in and heard the flutey mystery piece, not really paying attention... and thought - Poulenc flute sonata. Mr Maconie, not knowing the piece, correctly deduced it was Prokofiev ... adding generously 'quite like Poulenc'. Good for him, I knew I liked him!Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostOoooh! You've got the bit between your teeth!
"...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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Originally posted by Caliban View Post
And threw in Rubbra to make him, surely, a firm favourite hereabouts. I have found him a very interesting guest - I know teamsaint's view but he's IMVVHO a bit up the Swansea......Comment
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Originally posted by antongould View Post
Yes - didn't notice Dame Penelope nonchalantly referencing Rubbra..."...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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After just listening to Haydn's Symphony no. 47 with Adam Fischer and Mozart's Dissonance Quartet with the Smetana Quartet, I can't help feeling that the 11.00-12.00 slot should be excluded from the general execration heaped on this programme. If only Radio Times listed everything they're going to play in that hour, not just the first piece. For me, this is often the hour when the programme deserves the title of 'Essential Classics'.
(Talking of Haydn, wasn't it refreshing that Thomas Sondergard and the BBC NOW programmed his Symphony no. 28 in Live in Concert on Wednesday?)Comment
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Originally posted by JFLL View Post
Couldn't agree more, and now the 'guest celeb' has been shoved up to 10am, it's usually pretty civilised from 10.30 - depending who the 'week's artist' is, i.e. not overexposed Balsom/Galway type 'stars'. Incidentally, I find Galway's sickly vibrato almost as annoying as the sound emitted by wobbly sopranos... am I alone in this?
I too caught both the Haydn (28 & 47) and loved every minute (though not especially keen on Fischer's strings...)"...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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I know what you mean, Caliban, and generally prefer Brüggen in these middle-period symphonies, but I like a bit of Sachertorte as a change from Dutch rye bread from time to time!Originally posted by Caliban View Post
There are some interesting observations by Richard Wigmore in his Gramophone review of the relevant Fischer set:
"… what immediately strikes you, as on previous issues, is the string tone, with that echt-Viennese sweetness (but never oversweetness) and plangency"
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"I was, though, increasingly irritated by Fischer’s almost invariable habit of using solo strings in the trios (and once or twice elsewhere, as in the finale of No. 48) – a charming, ear-tickling effect once in a while, perhaps, but here a predictable gimmick that can come close to trivializing the music."Comment
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I checked this morning, and the website posts the titles as they've been played - which is, I think, the way Classic FM does it. Why? They must know what they're going to play before the programme starts, even if they don't know in time for Radio Times print dates.Originally posted by JFLL View PostIt 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.Comment
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Expediency? Actually, there seems to be a deliberate intention NOT to post playlists in advance of broadcast since, as ds noted, an EMS programme was a repeat - so the playlist was known before any of the programme details were posted. And they still withheld the playlist until after the programme. Or rather removed them.Originally posted by Don Petter View PostIt 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.Comment
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It is mysterious, particularly since Composer of the Week which follows always gets the most detailed listings imaginable in Radio Times, even though DM (as so oftenOriginally posted by french frank View Post
) is only playing the third movement of a piece. I'd have thought that if they know what the piece at 11.00 is going to be sufficiently in advance for RT, they ought also to know the shape of the rest of the programme.
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Perhaps they want to make it more exciting for the listener - keeping them guessing.Originally posted by french frank View PostComment
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But the listeners can guess anyway - by not looking at the websiteOriginally posted by Flosshilde View Post
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.Comment
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I might do more frequently, if I knew what you were on about.Originally posted by Caliban View Post
(I used to wonder who Flo Scampi was
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- so good to hear the less-often-heard Haydn symphonies 
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