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

[Guest]

.....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]

.....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.

[Flosshilde]

[Old Grumpy]

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

[Nick Armstrong]

Damn! And I missed it. Still there's always the iPlayer.

[AjAjAjH]

.....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.

[David-G]

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.

[Suffolkcoastal]

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.

[Paul Sherratt]

Now That's What I Call Classical Music

[Ferretfancy]

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

[Simon]

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.

[MrGongGong]

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)

[Flosshilde]

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.

[Roehre]

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.

[kevmusic]

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....