I thought today's edition was excellent, displaying Sir George Solti's versatility as conductor and pianist, with a generous helping of complete works by, among others, Elgar, Bartok, Haydn and Mozart.
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I was disappointed that we only got the first movement of the Kreutzer, followed by the whole of a Haydn symphony, which seemed a bit unbalanced. -
Don you are only entitled to a certain proportion of full works on these 'pull in the new listeners who dont want to watch final score on a Saturday afternoon' programmes.Originally posted by Don Petter View PostComment
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I suppose I was a bit miffed that it was the chamber work which got the axe.Originally posted by cloughie View Post
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I understand your miffedness. But I still think that overall it was a very well planned edition, given the almost impossible task of doing full justice to Solti's recorded legacy in a total of 2 2-hour programmes.Comment
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Just managed to listen to this and agree it was a very fine programme with some excellent recordings. The Cockaigne was as good as I have heard and JJ seemed to rate Solti's recordings of the symphonies - is this a view people hereabouts agree with?Comment
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Well, I do: the fire in the belly of the Second is astonishing - only the Composer himself and Boult in the '30s match this! Solti's Elgar are for me amongst the very recordings he ever made.Originally posted by antongould View Post[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Loving the Saturday Classics on now with John Wilson and the show tunes (wouldn't want it every week but it's great fun)Comment
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Reactivating this thread for general use in relation to the Saturday afternoon programme - because I though that the edition yesterday with JEG was excellent.
With the right host, this can be R3 at its best - and (like Private Passions, in a different way) it's a much better format to hear from interesting people about their "significant" music than the bitty 10.30am slot every weekday (interesting though those can be).
A fascinating selection, with interesting remarks about JEG's personal memories of Boulanger, Monteux et al - I recommend the iPlayer version for anyone fleeing early morning inanities over the next 5 days
"...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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Couldn't agree more M'Lud very, very enjoyable and not exactly the selection I would have expected.Originally posted by Caliban View PostReactivating this thread for general use in relation to the Saturday afternoon programme - because I though that the edition yesterday with JEG was excellent.
With the right host, this can be R3 at its best - and (like Private Passions, in a different way) it's a much better format to hear from interesting people about their "significant" music than the bitty 10.30am slot every weekday (interesting though those can be).
A fascinating selection, with interesting remarks about JEG's personal memories of Boulanger, Monteux et al - I recommend the iPlayer version for anyone fleeing early morning inanities over the next 5 daysComment
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Dear Philip Franks,
Could I *really* have just heard you say that Tchaikovsky's wonderful music for The Snowmaiden was for a play "which no one much remembers"?
Yes, I fear I did.
Well .... quite aside from the fact that it serves as the basis of Rimsky's popular opera of the same name, which is a Christmas favourite throughout Russia, Ostrovsky's masterpiece is one of the most revered national dramas, existing in at least three film versions besides that opera, and still the most performed of all his plays, not excepting "The Storm" (source of Janacek's "Katya Kabanova")
Really, you should get outside England more.
(Actually, you'd be rather good casting as the gentle, noble and silver-haired Tsar Berendey in Ostrovsky's beautiful play.)
Best wishes
CW
(PS does nobody CHECK the scripts of you C-list celeb presenters for this kind of parochial idiocy?)Comment
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