Through the Night

[smittims]

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

[smittims]

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.

[Bryn]

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.

[smittims]

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.

[Nick Armstrong]

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…

[antongould]

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 …… …. ????

[Nick Armstrong]

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

[oddoneout]

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.

[french frank]

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.

[kernelbogey]

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.

[smittims]

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.

[oddoneout]

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!

[smittims]

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?

[kernelbogey]

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)

[Serial_Apologist]

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.