Fading music on Breakfast

[Nick Armstrong]

Letters were written and grapes were crushed.

[amateur51]

The entire Breakfast programme would make pefect sense, if only they preceded it with Dog's.

[JFLL]

I do remember that COTW went through a phase of fading (!) some years ago. I remember being livid that a work I'd always wanted to hear (the Busoni Violin Concerto) having Donald McLeod talk through the first 30 seconds. (Probably edited in the studio - I couldn't imagine him being party to that crassness).

Letters were written and grapes were crushed. Thank goodness it didn't catch on. (Until now!)

The business of ‘talking over’ music seems to be spreading to more serious programmes, I fear. This morning there was a programme called ‘Musical Deletions’ about the way composers develop their final versions. For the first few minutes there was a succession of people all talking over (but not about) the first movement of Beethoven’s Ninth, with short periods of non-talk where the music was faded up, only to be faded down a few seconds later when the next person started talking. I switched off in disgust, so don't know whether this went on all through the programme. What was the point of it? You can either listen to the music or the talk, but not both.