Originally posted by french frank
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Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate
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It would be nice, wouldn't it, if some BBC R3 executive responsible for programming could make an appearance here and explain what they think they're playing at with the changes made to Essential Classics. This, after all, is the relevant music forum that's dedicated to discussions of Radio 3 programmes. I don't think they would get much applause, but at least we could get to hear what their game-plan is, whether it is proving "successful" from their point of view, and whether or not the typically negative comments that are frequently made here have cut any ice with them.
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Originally posted by oddoneout View PostWhat I don't support is ditching the whole thing completelyIt 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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I am now a very infrequent listener to R3 and the reason is partly the recurring adverts for concerts up to a week before the event which continue after the concert as “catch-up” on Iplayer. And partly because the repetition of the same pieces over and over. A good example is the Urlicht movement from Mahler’s 2nd played yesterday on the Mixtape at 7 p.m. and hey presto it lurched into view again today in EC. This happens so often that I feel that R3 has absolutely nothing new to show me or indeed hold my interest.O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!
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Something to make you weep - I've posted in another thread a recording of R3 on a weekday at 10am in 1983 - proper full-length pieces and proper announcements. Oh, and a Bax symphony!
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Sad isn’t it? There is a whole generation of listeners who’s only knowledge of Bax, Malcom Arnold and to a lesser extent, Vaughan Williams is “Tintagel”, “Padstow Lifeboat” and “Lark Ascending”.Last edited by Bax-of-Delights; 22-02-18, 10:35.O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!
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To be fair, there's a prospect of Malcolm Arnold's 4th Symphony in or after October - I've just heard that the BBCCO will be playing it at the next MA Festival. I doubt whether it will be thought an 'Essential Classic', though ......
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Originally posted by peterthekeys View PostAs the programme started today, Suzy Klein said that she would later be playing part of Mozart's Jupiter Symphony and invited listeners to say what they would follow it with. At that point I turned off in disgust. I've just sent in a very sarcastic email saying that if it wasn't the last movement, I'd follow it with the next movement, so I look forward to getting flamed by the producer. (I've just checked the schedule, and apparently it's the finale that they're broadcasting.)
A bleeding chunk of Mozart?
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Originally posted by Gasteiner View PostIt would be nice, wouldn't it, if some BBC R3 executive responsible for programming could make an appearance here and explain what they think they're playing at with the changes made to Essential Classics. This, after all, is the relevant music forum that's dedicated to discussions of Radio 3 programmes. I don't think they would get much applause, but at least we could get to hear what their game-plan is, whether it is proving "successful" from their point of view, and whether or not the typically negative comments that are frequently made here have cut any ice with them.
One possibility struck me the other day (whilst I was listening to York Bowen's violin concerto on the internet station Audiophile Classical.) Maybe we should start our own internet radio station, and call it something like "NotRadio3". No chat, complete works, and lots of the music that R3 never seems to broadcast. If nothing else, it would be an interesting experiment to see what the reaction would be.
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I've just turned EC off again - this new format is just unbearable! Bit o' Bizet's L'Arlesienne; bit o' Brahms Symphony no.3; bit o' Bill Evans; now a bit o' Handel's Messiah. It's just somehow insulting to be treated as though one is incapable of digesting one's music without having to have it cut up into bite-sized chunks (at least, that's the way I feel about it. I'm sure others feel differently.)
(My internet radio arrives today. Can't wait ... )
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