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[Guest]

Looking at the playlist for Essential Classics I noticed that the Overture to Hansel and Gretel by Englebert Humperdinck is being played

Next to which is a "photo" of Englebert Humperdinck - click on the link and you are taken to the SINGER'S detail!

The Radio 3 website really is a waste of space now with so many errors. Worse than Wikipedia.

[Norfolk Born]

Talking of errors - do you mean 'Hansel and Gretel'?

[MrGongGong]

Excellent
this is exactly what we need !!!!

I've had the same problem talking about James Taylor
there's James Taylor the mediocre Singer Songwriter and the Genius of the Hammond

or even .......................

[VodkaDilc]

I remember going to a bookshop and asking for a novel by John Wain. You can guess which section I was directed to!

[MrGongGong]

A while back there was a series of commissioned new electroacoustic pieces with dance performance. One was from Michael Clarke the professor at Huddersfield who , on the night of the performance a huge group of new dance folk turned up to see Michael Clark , famous for waving his dangly bits but a great choreographer none the less.

In the light of this , I was considering changing my name.

[french frank]

Looking at the playlist for Essential Classics I noticed that the Overture to Hansel and Gretel by Englebert Humperdinck is being played

Next to which is a "photo" of Englebert Humperdinck - click on the link and you are taken to the SINGER'S detail!

It's one of those entries that they periodically get right. Not this time, though.

The vast majority of the R3 online effort now seems to be focused on Twitter (45,000 tweets - which seems to be a BBC Radio record, far outstripping R4 or R2) and Facebook. Promotion, promotion, promotion, rather than Education ...

[Osborn]

Looking at the playlist for Essential Classics I noticed that the Overture to Hansel and Gretel by Englebert Humperdinck is being played.

It's happened before. It's not just you but there's no point in telling us that is there? Email or contact the programme & they can correct it for the future - & you will have been helpful.

[french frank]

It's happened before. It's not just you but there's no point in telling us that is there? Email or contact the programme & they can correct it for the future - & you will have been helpful.

They already have corrected it for the future. And they still go on making the mistake. Why do you want their inefficiency to be kept secret?

Of course, you could join Facebook and post it there - as has now been done. It will soon be put right, no doubt ...

In any case, I don't suppose anyone thinks that they don't know the difference between the two Humperdincks. But the software used throughout the radio websites is geared for pop music(ians), not classical, and the R3 playlists have been riddled with mistakes as a consequence. It's to free up staff, presumably, for other duties - like the social media sites. Surely, getting a good quality website is more important?

[barber olly]

A while back there was a series of commissioned new electroacoustic pieces with dance performance. One was from Michael Clarke the professor at Huddersfield who , on the night of the performance a huge group of new dance folk turned up to see Michael Clark , famous for waving his dangly bits but a great choreographer none the less.

In the light of this , I was considering changing my name.

For which other MrGongGong have you been mistaken?

Oh and by the way I feel your comments about James Taylor are rather subjective. I've seen fire and I've seen rain and I have heard many singer/songwriters who fit the mediocrity bill better than JT!

Other names that Radio 3 might have problems with - John Williams, Ann Murray and Sarah Walker.

[MrGongGong]

of course it's "subjective" and not meant to be taken very seriously !

[Hitch]

Radio 3's website is a mess. How can it waste so much screen space yet appear so cluttered?

[Frances_iom]

Radio 3's website is a mess. How can it waste so much screen space yet appear so cluttered?

turn off javascript, images + force your own font rendering - then not too bad - must admit my taste for nursery wall graphics declined 60years ago but guess R3 needs to attract all these days and starting young might be the way to go (or of course simple incompetence by webpage 'designer')

[mercia]

in the golden age of Radio 3 there was no website, no listen again facility, and if one wished to complain to the BBC (not, of course, that one ever needed to) one had to post a letter

[Suffolkcoastal]

Well the Humperdick was corrected yesterday but has now reverted back to the singer again! There is also on the same playlist a new composer called Finale who appears to have written a first symphony. Nice to see R3 takes such pride in its website.

[french frank]

Well the Humperdick was corrected yesterday

- thank goodness for that!!!