Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate

[cloughie]

I enjoyed the Debussy-Beamish movement from La Mer but wish Suzy had played the whole work. What an annoying format.

[french frank]

I think it's meant to be 'accessible', but ends up sounding patronising.

"If you like classical music, you'll love this."

[oddoneout]

The Time Traveller slot was to do with Christmas gifts in 1817, and mentioned pictures of Belvoir Castle, pronounced 'Bellvwahr'(ie french style). I had always understood it to be 'Beever', or is that only as in Vale of....?

[vinteuil]

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... yes, that grated. It's "beever" castle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belvoir_Castle

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[Zucchini]

... and every barmaid knows what you mean when you order a "beever" soft drink.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I didn't appreciate being told by Suzy (in her worst hectoring tone) that, if Blessed Brian didn't make me smile, I was a miserable grouch or some such.

Perhaps more of a bully than a hectorer. She has form.

[LMcD]

"If you like classical music, you'll love this."

'Yes ma'am, certainly ma'am'.
She reminds me more than a little of the fearsome schoolteacher in 'The Singing Detective'.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

'Yes ma'am, certainly ma'am'.
She reminds me more than a little of the fearsome schoolteacher in 'The Singing Detective'.

Pah! SK is feeble - Janet Henfrey was genuinely scary! (In that role, a reprise from the earlier Stand Up, Nigel Barton! - I once had lunch with her [and several others] at a Brecht conference in the early '90s: she's lovely!)

[BBMmk2]

Pah! SK is feeble - Janet Henfrey was genuinely scary! (In that role, a reprise from the earlier Stand Up, Nigel Barton! - I once had lunch with her [and several others] at a Brecht conference in the early '90s: she's lovely!)

But she likes brass and concert bands!

[Bryn]

But she likes brass and concert bands!

Nobody's perfect.

[BBMmk2]

Nobody's perfect.

Thank you Bryn! Merry Christmas!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

SK's arrogant assumptions are very much like those of the writer of Radio 3's Facebook starters. Childish and patronising.

[vinteuil]

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... tho' I prefer arrogance to chumminess.


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[french frank]

... tho' I prefer arrogance to chumminess.

On the whole I prefer the opposite, on the grounds that some presenters one warms to naturally and others one doesn't; so sometimes chumminess is less grating. Arrogance is universally unattractive.

[teamsaint]

On the whole I prefer the opposite, on the grounds that some presenters one warms to naturally and others one doesn't; so sometimes chumminess is less grating. Arrogance is universally unattractive.

Well quite.
The world isnt really in need of more arrogance, is it?
R3 chumminess is fine, if it is of the well informed kind.
Like RC , in fact.