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Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostA letter in today's Times slagging off the new-look EC, cancelled out by a letter praising R3's am output"...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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The coming week's episodes.
Tuesday with Rob Cowan. Schubert's Quartettsatz, Sunday Night TV
Wednesday with Rob Cowan. Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet, Pigeon Cure.
Thursday with Rob Cowan. Handel's Water Music, Munch's Scream.
Friday with Rob Cowan. Lakmé's Flower Duet, Stoke Potteries.
Monday with Rob Cowan. Mozart's Exultate Jubilate, How to smell like a Georgian.
It should be funny. But it's not. Et tu Rob?
Mel Brooks. "This program is nuts".Last edited by Rex Bartlett; 02-10-17, 15:45.
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I quitter like it when Suzy Klein presents it, as you may just get a brass band or a wind band playing. had both last week! Including Grimethorpe Colliery Band/Gary Cutt or a wind band, London Symphonic/Nigel Hess.
Both fine by me!Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750
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Caught a section of this programme today, for the first time really since the 'revamp' (apart from the odd specific extract on iPlayer for ... ahem... research purposes concerning S Klein).
It's terrible, banal stuff. Makes the old Essential Classics look positively scholarly. The crowning turd in the slop bucket was Harriet Harman telling listeners that Act 2 of Tosca is set in a 'Palazzio'. Then back to poor Rob Cowan having to witter about Vivaldi's 'Autumn'...
How/why has Alan Davey allowed this to happen on his watch? Has anyone asked him?"...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 PostCaught a section of this programme today, for the first time really since the 'revamp' (apart from the odd specific extract on iPlayer for ... ahem... research purposes concerning S Klein).
It's terrible, banal stuff. Makes the old Essential Classics look positively scholarly. The crowning turd in the slop bucket was Harriet Harman telling listeners that Act 2 of Tosca is set in a 'Palazzio'. Then back to poor Rob Cowan having to witter about Vivaldi's 'Autumn'...
How/why has Alan Davey allowed this to happen on his watch? Has anyone asked him?
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostIt's terrible, banal stuff.
1. Mozart's Piano Sonata No 11 in A major announcement, described as 'pseudo-Turkish' (yes, Mozart Austrian, not Turkish; I would have objected less to 'pastiche', though), 'very fashionable', but nothing else said as an intro.
2. Back announcement, described as having 'nothing to do with Turkey at all'. Well, it did have something to do with Turkey and it would have been good to have been told what (Turks in Europe? Janissary bands? percussion instruments, like Turkish crescent? - Grove is good, but even Wikipedia has some useful comments).
3. First movement described as 'nursery-type' music, simplicity 'that Mozart was so good at'. Rather dismissive of the six mercurial variations which followed the theme. But perhaps 'variations' are too technical a term for the intended audience?
And Jeremy Irons as 'Enry 'Iggins to follow (not a listener suggestion, but an example of the expert curation). I've never personally heard the entire sonata referred to as the 'Turkish sonata, but that may just be my ignorance.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 Caliban View PostThe crowning turd in the slop bucket was Harriet Harman telling listeners that Act 2 of Tosca is set in a 'Palazzio'.
O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!
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Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View PostPerhaps she meant Palazzo.
"...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 PostCaught a section of this programme today, for the first time really since the 'revamp' (apart from the odd specific extract on iPlayer for ... ahem... research purposes concerning S Klein).
It's terrible, banal stuff. Makes the old Essential Classics look positively scholarly. The crowning turd in the slop bucket was Harriet Harman telling listeners that Act 2 of Tosca is set in a 'Palazzio'. Then back to poor Rob Cowan having to witter about Vivaldi's 'Autumn'...
How/why has Alan Davey allowed this to happen on his watch? Has anyone asked him?I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostIt just annoys me that someone is allowed on national radio to inform people about Tosca and its setting when they can't even get the name correct - and that no one on the R3 team picked up the error.
I bet they did spot it but no one had the nerve to correct her ...
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