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Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostAnd this, in turn, reminds me of the audience member coming out at the end of another Rossini opera and saying "Well, if that's a Semiramide, I'm glad we didn't get a whole one."
As you were...
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I have to say I'm a fan of Ian Skelly. Rather good in the slot. Iplayer Radio does make a difference to one's listening habits though. I have found myself picking out Afternoon Concerts of interest. Having no classical knowledge really to speak of I have been going by location and have rather enjoyed the Verbier/Swiss Concerts!
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Originally posted by cmr_for3 View PostI have to say I'm a fan of Ian Skelly. Rather good in the slot. Iplayer Radio does make a difference to one's listening habits though. I have found myself picking out Afternoon Concerts of interest. Having no classical knowledge really to speak of I have been going by location and have rather enjoyed the Verbier/Swiss Concerts!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 french frank View PostLoads of Skelly fans here, too. But not for the programme. The success of a Radio 3 programme shouldn't rest with the popularity of its presenter, style, tone &c. It should be with the sound musical basis - including, in a 3-hour programme, several full length works.
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Originally posted by cmr_for3 View PostI have to say I'm a fan of Ian Skelly. Rather good in the slot. Iplayer Radio does make a difference to one's listening habits though. I have found myself picking out Afternoon Concerts of interest. Having no classical knowledge really to speak of I have been going by location and have rather enjoyed the Verbier/Swiss Concerts!
Like you, iPlayer Radio is much used - the lunchtime concerts last month from Verbier and LSO St Luke's (Michael Collins) much listened to here in the mornings... and Tom Poster's Mendelssohn from Hay last week...
I wonder if the ease of side-stepping dross is part of why they foist it on the airwaves - on the basis that if you don't like the twittering bleeding chunks, you can just find something else that's preferable.
"...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 PostMe too but the ghastly format keeps me away.
I wonder if the ease of side-stepping dross is part of why they foist it on the airwaves - on the basis that if you don't like the twittering bleeding chunks, you can just find something else that's preferable.
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post... shorter than many symphony movements.
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Originally posted by antongould View PostNitpicking surely ...... He played the full length of Rhapsody in Blue last week .......
And by "full-length" I meant more than 20 minutes. Not just "the whole piece".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 PostMe too but the ghastly format keeps me away.
Like you, iPlayer Radio is much used - the lunchtime concerts last month from Verbier and LSO St Luke's (Michael Collins) much listened to here in the mornings... and Tom Poster's Mendelssohn from Hay last week...
I wonder if the ease of side-stepping dross is part of why they foist it on the airwaves - on the basis that if you don't like the twittering bleeding chunks, you can just find something else that's preferable.
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Originally posted by hmvman View PostI must admit I was surprised (and not a little niggled) last week when he played only the first movement of an early Haydn symphony the whole of which would only have been 20-25 minutes duration.
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Eighteen pieces in 180 minutes today, that's - um - 10 minutes(?) average, minus 2 or 3 minutes for the chat. Too exhausting, even though the individual works were better than usual (though the Defunct Infant isn't the most imaginative choice). Short of signing in to Andrew's Workaround (and I'd have to look for the link) I'm not sure how long any of the pieces were.
[That said, he played the whole of the Mzt Oboe 4tet K370 (apparently) - though that is under 20 mins longLast edited by french frank; 04-06-18, 20:43.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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