Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

When inviting suggestions just now for a 'follow on' piece to Weber's 'Introduction to the Dance', Rob said 'there are no wrong answers'.

This one is different - it's a work that's complete in itself, unlike movements ripped out of concertos, symphonies and suites.

[cloughie]

This one is different - it's a work that's complete in itself, unlike movements ripped out of concertos, symphonies and suites.

Well it would be churlish for it not to be a dance - how about Danse Macabre dedicated to Suzi, or Valse Triste to match the state of R3 morning programmes?

Where would Totentanz fit?

[Stanfordian]

Well it would be churlish for it not to be a dance - how about Danse Macabre dedicated to Suzi, or Valse Triste to match the state of R3 morning programmes?

Where would Totentanz fit?

How about the music to Riverdance?

[oddoneout]

When inviting suggestions just now for a 'follow on' piece to Weber's 'Introduction to the Dance', Rob said 'there are no wrong answers'. Let's hope this encourages Suzy Klein to come up with something really witty and brilliant.....

When this bit of nonsense started that phrase was used frequently and so must have been uttered by Miss Suzy. I suspect that certain recent actions by persons not a million miles from this august platform have given her cause to at least reconsider the wording.....
It would be interesting to know what the people charged with administering this unpalatable offering really think - are there differences of opinion I wonder.
Incidentally a new trend seems to be starting - playing a snippet of the 'follow on' piece as well as pleading for suggestions. So not only filleting a larger work to provide the day's sacrifice but then performing a biopsy on the fillet....

[french frank]

not only filleting a larger work to provide the day's sacrifice but then performing a biopsy on the fillet....

[Nick Armstrong]

Well with the exception of Saturdays, Radio 3 has since the format re-jig been a complete no-go area here before noon. What on earth has the controller been playing at, after a reasonably hopeful start?

I saw that "Rob's guest" was Vladimir Jurowski. Jurowski spoke for three minutes about Pushkin and then they played Anna Netrebko singing the letter song from Eugene Onegin. I wondered what Jurowski's illuminating comments might be after it finished but no, that was it.

I also noticed that VJ was scheduled and despite his interlocutor being 'the world's worst interviewer', poor miscast Rob Cowan, I was going to have a listen. Quite apart from the fact that the Onegin song is on my blacklist, what you say has saved me time, because now, like you,

I won't bother

[Serial_Apologist]

When this bit of nonsense started that phrase was used frequently and so must have been uttered by Miss Suzy. I suspect that certain recent actions by persons not a million miles from this august platform have given her cause to at least reconsider the wording.....
It would be interesting to know what the people charged with administering this unpalatable offering really think - are there differences of opinion I wonder.
Incidentally a new trend seems to be starting - playing a snippet of the 'follow on' piece as well as pleading for suggestions. So not only filleting a larger work to provide the day's sacrifice but then performing a biopsy on the fillet....

So long as they don't Fillet Mignon... should anyone else have a beef...

[gurnemanz]

If they should play Saint-Saens' music for the Dying Swan (quite a likely Breakfast choice being both a famous chunk and quite short), I look forward to suggesting Wagner's Parsifal complete as a companion piece - it's "essential" for me - but would be prepared to compromise and just take the first Act where the swan-killing takes place.

[Bryn]

If they should play Saint-Saens' music for the Dying Swan (quite a likely Breakfast choice being both a famous chunk and quite short), I look forward to suggesting Wagner's Parsifal complete as a companion piece - it's "essential" for me - but would be prepared to compromise and just take the first Act where the swan-killing takes place.

What evidence have you that the Saint-Saens swan was dying? I thought it was Brahms's nemesis what did the Dying Swan tune.

[Stanfordian]

What evidence have you that the Saint-Saens swan was dying? I thought it was Brahms's nemesis what did the Dying Swan tune.

Maybe Wagner's Lohengrin which features a Swan. Some hope!

[cloughie]

If they should play Saint-Saens' music for the Dying Swan (quite a likely Breakfast choice being both a famous chunk and quite short), I look forward to suggesting Wagner's Parsifal complete as a companion piece - it's "essential" for me - but would be prepared to compromise and just take the first Act where the swan-killing takes place.

Mahler 3 would be good to keep the presenters quiet for over half the 9 to 12 schedule - perhaps it would lead them a dance!

[oddoneout]

So long as they don't Fillet Mignon... should anyone else have a beef...

Wellington?(flinging for the use of given the current frustrations)

[pastoralguy]

What evidence have you that the Saint-Saens swan was dying? I thought it was Brahms's nemesis what did the Dying Swan tune.

As did Sibelius.

[gurnemanz]

I don't think Saint-Saens' swan was actually dying but they used his music for the famous ballet choreographed by Fokhine for Anna Pavlova. (thanks, Wiki)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Tomorrow's programme will request a companion piece for an aria from Handel's Julius Caesar, so presumably the right answer will become the wrong answer one again.