Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

and as I drove back from getting 4 new tyres

4 at once? Are you a racing driver?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I discovered it by accident
can't we just have a couple of hours of music of this elk? (sic)

At first I thought this exceedingly boring, but after a while, I could see how much more interesting it was than R3's morning shows.

[MrGongGong]

At first I thought this exceedingly boring, but after a while, I could see how much more interesting it was than R3's morning shows.

Try this

http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/boring-formless-nonsense-9781441122131/

[teamsaint]

They played this today

and as I drove back from getting 4 new tyres (£££ ) I discovered it by accident
can't we just have a couple of hours of music of this elk? (sic)

who played it?

actually, it seems much beloved of Six Music, " the sound of Happy Motoring".

( hope you got a 4 for the price of 3 on the tyres)

[Lento]

Sorry to mention it, but it's that Lark again, not Haydn's, unfortunately.

[Richard Tarleton]

My new car radio has a touch screen which displays the name of the piece being played on Essential Classics, which means that by keeping it on mute I don't actually have to listen to it.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Sorry to mention it, but it's that Lark again, not Haydn's, unfortunately.

Are they COMPLETELY lacking in imagination?

[vinteuil]

Sorry to mention it, but it's that Lark again, not Haydn's, unfortunately.

... ah well, at least they balanced it by also giving us the Pavanng pour une Enfanngt Defunngt this morning - personally I think we shd start our own version of Bingo/Housey-Housey - a line of three with (perm from... ) Lark Ascending, this Pavanng or the other one, the Albinoni, the Pachelbel, the Gipsy Rondo, Brahms Hungarian or Dvorak Slavonic...

[Lancashire Lass]

... ah well, at least they balanced it by also giving us the Pavanng pour une Enfanngt Defunngt this morning - personally I think we shd start our own version of Bingo/Housey-Housey - a line of three with (perm from... ) Lark Ascending, this Pavanng or the other one, the Albinoni, the Pachelbel, the Gipsy Rondo, Brahms Hungarian or Dvorak Slavonic...

:-)

But then they give us a jewel like the Newmark violin concerto today and it shows they can do it if they want to ... veins of quality still shining through but degraded by management box-tickers and bonkers production values.

[Nick Armstrong]

:-)

But then they give us a jewel like the Newmark violin concerto today and it shows they can do it if they want to ... veins of quality still shining through but degraded by management box-tickers and bonkers production values.

Ahem... Goldmark I think.

But yes, I agree - I enjoyed hearing that for the first time. Lovely slow movement.

And Milstein is one of the very few violinists I could listen to all day and all night - sovereign playing. Just right.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

But then they give us a jewel like the Newmark violin concerto today and it shows they can do it if they want to ... veins of quality still shining through but degraded by management box-tickers and bonkers production values.

Yes - I have noticed that if you join the programme after 10:30 the Music and presentation does improve.

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes - I have noticed that if you join the programme after 10:30 the Music and presentation does improve.

In fact....

Btw in case I were took amiss, I wasn't pleading that there should BE a 10.30 watershed (patronising crap before, full works in interesting performances after), merely in favour of turning on around 10.30 for some decent programming (faute de mieux earlier)

I would continue to plead in favour of the 10.30 watershed. After that, it's much better. OK at 10.30 RC played Liszt's Tasso, about which the less said the better (but some people like that sort of thing and it's at least not a regular war-horse), but after that, I managed to coincide with Foulds's April-England, always welcome and captivating, and then Sokolov playing the Chopin Op.28 Preludes complete, which I was very interested to hear.

[antongould]

In fact....

You are Martin Peters - I claim my £5 .......

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Great minds think alike - it's just that some take a little longer to get there!

[antongould]

Great minds think alike - it's just that some take a little longer to get there!

But from now on, thanks to Rumpole, we will all take 90 minutes to get there ......