Private Passions

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

"allowed"?

[kernelbogey]

Listened to PP today for the first time in a long while. Opera designer Hildegard Bechtler was the guest. Michael B seems to have slowed down and become... a bit boring? I'm not quite sure what has changed. I nearly switched off, but persisted to the end.

[eighthobstruction]

....that hated (by some here)playwright Stephen Poliakoff was guest a couple of weeks ago....the music had the atmosphere of his TV scripts....a bit fascinating but not enough to make me stay listening....

[un barbu]

I enjoyed Sebastian Barry earlier this month, more for his craic perhaps than for the music. And the extraordinary use of a shared memory of his father taking him to hear Rostropovich play Bach which he used as a gesture to heal what he described as a 'sundering' breach between them.

[Wychwood]

A gentle PP today, with Nick Davies speaking so beautifully about the behaviour of birds. A repeat, but I missed it first time around, so apologies if this adds nothing new. Thought-provoking: the cheating, murderous cuckoo could survive or perish, depending on whether it chooses the Spanish or Italian route on its migration to sub-Saharan Africa.

[LeMartinPecheur]

A gentle PP today, with Nick Davies speaking so beautifully about the behaviour of birds. A repeat, but I missed it first time around, so apologies if this adds nothing new. Thought-provoking: the cheating, murderous cuckoo could survive or perish, depending on whether it chooses the Spanish or Italian route on its migration to sub-Saharan Africa.

I'd heard the end of it before, the bit you mention about the alternative routes to sub-Saharan Africa, but was delighted to hear the whole programme. It taught me a lot about cuckoos, though it still rather puzzles me how the trick of foisting eggs onto unsuspecting 'parents' ever got started in the first place.

But I guess this is just a variation on the anti-evolution 'argument' that kangaroos can never have evolved from ordinary '4 feet on ground' animals because those making the earliest attempts to hop would have had the worst of both worlds for survival. (?)

[LMcD]

Today's guest Eugenia Chang had some very interesting things to say about making mathematics and classical music accessible.
A rare factual error from Michael Berkeley, referring to the conclusion of Mahler's 2nd symphony: 'Words and music by Mahler'. I don't think so!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A rare factual error from Michael Berkeley, referring to the conclusion of Mahler's 2nd symphony: 'Words and music by Mahler'. I don't think so!

That depends on how much of the "conclusion" was broadcast: the text from "O glaube, mein hertz" is indeed from the pen of the composer.

[LMcD]

That depends on how much of the "conclusion" was broadcast: the text from "O glaube, mein hertz" is indeed from the pen of the composer.

I like to learn one useful fact every day - so thank you! My CD liner notes don't make this clear.
(Did Mahler actually spell 'Herz' as 'hertz'? )

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

(Did Mahler actually spell 'Herz' as 'hertz'? )

Ouch!

[cloughie]

Ouch!

Don’t worry it was only rented!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Don’t worry it was only rented!

By the kilo?

[cloughie]

Don’t worry it was only rented!

maybe by the vanload!

[LMcD]

I always rent from Hertz when I want to go ohm.

[Serial_Apologist]

I always rent from Hertz when I want to go ohm.

Watt are you on about?