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  • smittims
    Full Member
    • Aug 2022
    • 4062

    Thanks, Nick. I enjoyed that Estonian concert. Fine Rach 1.

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    • smittims
      Full Member
      • Aug 2022
      • 4062

      And I'd like to recommend a listen to the opening part of today's (16 September) 'Through the Night' a superb, sublime even, Schubert recital by Imogen Cooper, recorded in a lovely acoustic in Catalonia, a part of the world she likes, if her photos are anything to go by.

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      • Bryn
        Banned
        • Mar 2007
        • 24688

        Originally posted by smittims View Post
        And I'd like to recommend a listen to the opening part of today's (16 September) 'Through the Night' a superb, sublime even, Schubert recital by Imogen Cooper, recorded in a lovely acoustic in Catalonia, a part of the world she likes, if her photos are anything to go by.
        Indeed. I spotted that in the schedule when I checked, this morning, and immediately grabbed it with get_iplayer. A real treat. Not a bad compilation altogether, last night, I thought, but that was the icing on the cake.

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        • smittims
          Full Member
          • Aug 2022
          • 4062

          This is just to warn fans of 'Through the Night' that there is no edition of the programme next Saturday (12 November). I wouldn't want anyone to have the unsettling experience I had once when this happened and I switched on at 4 am. (not a time for unpleasant surprises) expecting to be soothed by my favourite programme and heard instead.... I will not say.

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26520

            Originally posted by smittims View Post
            This is just to warn fans of 'Through the Night' that there is no edition of the programme next Saturday (12 November). I wouldn't want anyone to have the unsettling experience I had once when this happened and I switched on at 4 am. (not a time for unpleasant surprises) expecting to be soothed by my favourite programme and heard instead.... I will not say.

            Plus both Breakfasts are no-go areas next weekend (pass me the Alker-Seltzer ).

            Anyway, gone are the days when one could switch on R3 without checking the schedule first for Unwelcome Sounds…
            "...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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            • antongould
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8777

              Originally posted by Nick Armstrong View Post

              Plus both Breakfasts are no-go areas next weekend (pass me the Alker-Seltzer ).

              Oh excellent …… and as I cannot recall your views - are you a fan of our Kate …… …. ????

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26520

                Originally posted by antongould View Post
                Oh excellent …… and as I cannot recall your views - are you a fan of our Kate …… …. ????
                "...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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                • oddoneout
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2015
                  • 9139

                  Originally posted by smittims View Post
                  This is just to warn fans of 'Through the Night' that there is no edition of the programme next Saturday (12 November). I wouldn't want anyone to have the unsettling experience I had once when this happened and I switched on at 4 am. (not a time for unpleasant surprises) expecting to be soothed by my favourite programme and heard instead.... I will not say.
                  Well at least the music genre isn't completely alien to R3, even if it's not to everyone's taste and some of the delivery/presentation may not please either. I see they still have to shoehorn in a Dumbtime contribution though.

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                  • french frank
                    Administrator/Moderator
                    • Feb 2007
                    • 30231

                    Originally posted by Nick Armstrong View Post
                    Anyway, gone are the days when one could switch on R3 without checking the schedule first …
                    That just sums it up for me. There were the odd (no disrepect!) slots which I was aware of and avoided, but they were few. The joy of Radio 3 for me was that whenever I switched on there was something of interest (music or speech/documentary). Some current presenters demonstrate that style will evolve naturally over time: Patricia Hughes > Penny Gore, Victor Hallam > John Shea. It's when 'bringing the style up to date' and 'modernising it' become deliberate policy, forcing it in the direction management wants in order to achieve its 'goals' that you get uncomfortable/unlistenable changes. They are made to serve the BBC not its audiences.
                    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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                    • kernelbogey
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 5735

                      Originally posted by french frank View Post
                      That just sums it up for me. There were the odd (no disrepect!) slots which I was aware of and avoided, but they were few. The joy of Radio 3 for me was that whenever I switched on there was something of interest (music or speech/documentary). Some current presenters demonstrate that style will evolve naturally over time: Patricia Hughes > Penny Gore, Victor Hallam > John Shea. It's when 'bringing the style up to date' and 'modernising it' become deliberate policy, forcing it in the direction management wants in order to achieve its 'goals' that you get uncomfortable/unlistenable changes. They are made to serve the BBC not its audiences.
                      Last edited by kernelbogey; 05-11-22, 17:36.

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                      • smittims
                        Full Member
                        • Aug 2022
                        • 4062

                        Yes indeed. For me the watershed came when I switched on at random and instead of hearing music, as before, I nearly always heard chat.

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                        • oddoneout
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2015
                          • 9139

                          Originally posted by smittims View Post
                          Yes indeed. For me the watershed came when I switched on at random and instead of hearing music, as before, I nearly always heard chat.
                          Or silence. Back in the day they weren't afraid to leave gaps at the end of the music or between one thing and the next and one got used to switching on and hearing nothing - it was confirmation that the tuning was on R3!

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                          • smittims
                            Full Member
                            • Aug 2022
                            • 4062

                            Oho, silence. Does anyone else remember that morning When Radio 3 went off the air suddenly for about 15 minutes when Edward Seckerson (I think) tipped his coffee into a bank of faders, and they had to find another studio?

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                            • kernelbogey
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 5735

                              Very interesting Goldberg Variations
                              A 75-minute sequence of arrangements for different combinations variously by Dmitry Sitkovetsky and Heribert Breuer - all very much in the spirit of Bach the pragmatist. (John Shea)

                              12:31 AM - 17 November 2022

                              Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Dmitry Sitkovetsky (arranger), Heribert Breuer (arranger)
                              Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
                              Stephen de Pledge (fortepiano), New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Vesa-Matti Leppanen (director)
                              Last edited by kernelbogey; 17-11-22, 09:56.

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                              • Serial_Apologist
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 37576

                                Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                                Very interesting Goldberg Variations
                                A 75-minute sequence of arrangements for different combinations variously by Dmitry Sitkovetsky and Heribert Breuer - all very much in the spirit of Bach the pragmatist. (John Shea)

                                12:31 AM - 17 November 2022

                                Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Dmitry Sitkovetsky (arranger), Heribert Breuer (arranger)
                                Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
                                Stephen de Pledge (fortepiano), New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Vesa-Matti Leppanen (director)
                                It sounded to me as if some of the variations were being stretched out by needless irritating repetitions, though I could have been mistaken.

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