A new low? I actually turned off R3 on the way to work....

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  • kevmusic
    • Nov 2024

    A new low? I actually turned off R3 on the way to work....

    .....when PT played 'The Blue Danube'. Oh, per-lease!! If it had been Strauss's centenary or something I might possibly have forgiven it.
  • Bryn
    Banned
    • Mar 2007
    • 24688

    #2
    Originally posted by kevmusic View Post
    .....when PT played 'The Blue Danube'. Oh, per-lease!! If it had been Strauss's centenary or something I might possibly have forgiven it.
    Damn! And I missed it. Still there's always the iPlayer.

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    • Flosshilde
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 7988

      #3

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      • Old Grumpy
        Full Member
        • Jan 2011
        • 3611

        #4
        Glad I missed that - seems to be just before 9, I was out of the car by then. The Monteverdi (Beatus Vir) was great though wasn't it? I think I'll probably give Glenn Gould's outing into harpsichord playing a miss though - sounded dreadful! And I did feel sorry for the harpsichord.

        OG

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26533

          #5
          Originally posted by Bryn View Post
          Damn! And I missed it. Still there's always the iPlayer.
          "...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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          • AjAjAjH
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 209

            #6
            Originally posted by kevmusic View Post
            .....when PT played 'The Blue Danube'. Oh, per-lease!! If it had been Strauss's centenary or something I might possibly have forgiven it.
            It's comments like these that give CFM a good name.

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            • David-G
              Full Member
              • Mar 2012
              • 1216

              #7
              Nothing wrong with the Blue Danube. It's a fine piece of music. It's the context that I object to. If it were to appear in the Vienna New Year Concert, or in Composer of the Week, or in some specific programme on the Strausses, that would be fine. I just hate the hotch-potch programming of the R3 morning programmes.

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              • Suffolkcoastal
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 3290

                #8
                I never can understand why 'The Blue Danube' is so popular, its just about the most tediously dull piece that even J Strauss II managed to compose.

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                • Paul Sherratt

                  #9
                  Now That's What I Call Classical Music

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                  • Ferretfancy
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 3487

                    #10
                    Every time i throw a bone over my shoulder I think of The Blue Danube.

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                    • Simon

                      #11
                      I haven't heard it for ages. I rather like it. It seems to me to embody rather well its place and time, and the world of music would be poorer without it, IMO.

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                      • MrGongGong
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 18357

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Ferretfancy View Post
                        Every time i throw a bone over my shoulder I think of The Blue Danube.


                        It's only a prelude to Ligeti ........ (and the Danube is grey)

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                        • Flosshilde
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 7988

                          #13
                          Originally posted by David-G View Post
                          Nothing wrong with the Blue Danube. It's a fine piece of music. It's the context that I object to. If it were to appear in the Vienna New Year Concert, or in Composer of the Week, or in some specific programme on the Strausses, that would be fine. I just hate the hotch-potch programming of the R3 morning programmes.
                          (The sound of rapid back-pedalling)


                          If it's a 'fine piece of music' & it's just the 'hotch-potch' programming you dislike, why not object to Monetverdi's Beatus Vir being included? It too is a fine piece of music, & programming it is just as 'hotch-potch'.

                          One of the vitues of 'hotch-potch' programming (the only virtue?) is that if a piece of music is played that you don't like you know that it won't last long & something else that you do like (you hope) will be along soon.

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                          • Roehre

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Suffolkcoastal View Post
                            I never can understand why 'The Blue Danube' is so popular, its just about the most tediously dull piece that even J Strauss II managed to compose.
                            SC, I'm afraid we disagree here.
                            The full Blaue Donau score as composed by Johann II (therefore without all the usual cuts, like the intro and the other non-3/4 parts, and then lasting approximately 15 minutes) is a well orchestrated and fine symphonic-poem like work. it is not by chance that Brahms wrote the opening bars of the work onto a fan of one of Stauss' daughters' accompanied by the words "Unfortunately not by Joh.Brahms" ("Leider nicht von Joh.Brahms"). The 2nd Vienna School thought high of its qualities - and made reductions of i.a. this score.

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                            • kevmusic

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Roehre View Post
                              The full Blaue Donau score as composed by Johann II (therefore without all the usual cuts, like the intro and the other non-3/4 parts, and then lasting approximately 15 minutes) is a well orchestrated and fine symphonic-poem like work.
                              Not on 'Breakfast' at 8.55 it wasn't! I suspect for that we need a dedicated art music radio staion. Oh wait....

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