Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte
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Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate
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Originally posted by Cherrytree View PostHello. This is my first post. We enjoy Essential Classics and unfashionably, loved the Brainteaser. However with the arrival of Suzy Klein it seems to be no more. I can cope with change, but I'm not stupid and would appreciate an explanation or even an announcement that it has disappeared. I had noticed! As for all that bit about listeners suggestions..
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Originally posted by underthecountertenor View Postwhen SK said that two listeners had suggested the Adagio from Spartacus because of its associations with the sea I found myself shouting 'no, it's all about an escape from a Roman orgy, not the Onedin bloody Line' at the radio."...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 LMcD View PostI see that the DFNLTA (Department For Not Leaving Things Alone) has turned its attention to Essential Classics. I shall miss the 10 o'clock chats and the Musical Challenge. And I shall certainly miss Sarah Walker....
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Originally posted by LMcD View PostMerely hoping to encourage a discussion. I always thought the idea of starting off with shorter pieces, an interview with somebody of interest and a bit of 'listener interaction' followed by longer, sometimes more challenging, pieces was basically sound.
I think it might be best to join up the two, to provide a consistent single thread on the subject?"...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 PostHello and welcome. Actually, there's already a discussion about it here: http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...272#post638272
I think it might be best to join up the two, to provide a consistent single thread on the subject?Last edited by cloughie; 12-09-17, 09:07.
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I certainly won't miss the "celeb" chats - no more than a desperate PR exercise by agents. Few if any of the guests showed more than a passing interest or knowledge of classical music and the off button was frequently grasped for amid mutterings and cursings in this household!
The quizzes, which range from the mindless to the humdrum, have no place on a serious music channel and should definitely be consigned to landfill rather than the recycling bin. So why am I not happy about the end of Essential Classics? The fear, that what is to come, will be if anything even worse.
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