Clipping the wings of VW's skylark ....

[Bryn]

Sir Thomas would have held you up as an example! He said that as long as the musicians began together and ended together the audience would not mind what went on in between.

A bit lkie Egnislh wrods tehn.

[pastoralguy]

[QUOTE=Suffolkcoastal;But quite agree playing a chunk of a movement is just getting ridiculous, at the rate RW and his cronies are going I can see the following happening in the not too distant future.

'Now for the opening 10 bars of Beethoven's 5th, after which please we'll be reading your texts and tweets on what your dog has been doing whilst you've been listening to these 10 bars, then we'll chat to another member of the public and play the opening chords of Tchaikovsky's 1st Piano Concerto, please tweet in with what your budgie is doing etc etc etc...[/QUOTE]

To be fair, this was the 'Official specialist classical chart' part of the programme which appears to be required to play 4 extracts from the weeks highest new entries. Since the new No. 1 was the latest recording of DSCH 7 it would be unwieldy to play a complete movement from this huge behemoth of a symphony.

[Andrew Slater]

we are given its take-off and landing and spared all the stuff in between?

.... but it doesn't actually land ....

[Mr Pee]

.... but it doesn't actually land ....

Good point.....

[BBMmk2]

I cant see any reason why Radio 3 does'nt broadcast RVW's Tuba Concerto?

[Beef Oven]

Bored beyond measure by 'Today's obsession with Sir Alex Ferguson's immediate plans, I retuned to Radio 3 just in time to hear part of the last movement of the Shostakovitch 7th. To demonstrate my appreciation of this commendable time-saving measure, may I suggest that, the next time VW's Lark is featured, we are given its take-off and landing and spared all the stuff in between?

I've never heard this piece - can anyone recommend a recording?

[EdgeleyRob]

The Lark Ascending is a lovely piece, but recently it has been broadcast more often than its charms return. It feels as if the Lark has been caged, in order to sing whenever the broadcasters demand, instead of being a rare and memorable encounter. The occasional Norfolk Rhapsody, Variants on Dives & Lazarus, Serenade to Music, Concerto Grosso, Oboe/Tuba Concerto, In the Fen Country would be very welcome.

I agree.

Feel a bit sorry for the Lark.

My beautiful ascending lark.
Your critics are wide of the mark.
It's not your fault it seems to me.
Overworked by Radio three.
When you rise and begin to round.
I love that silver chain of sound.
Over the course of many years.
You've brought sheer delight to my ears.
And so much pleasure still to give.
I'll love you as long as I live.

[french frank]

To be fair, this was the 'Official specialist classical chart' part of the programme which appears to be required to play 4 extracts from the weeks highest new entries. Since the new No. 1 was the latest recording of DSCH 7 it would be unwieldy to play a complete movement from this huge behemoth of a symphony.

But a large part of the programme was made up of single movements (albeit the entire single movement).

[Bryn]

I've never heard this piece - can anyone recommend a recording?

If you mean the Lark, there is Little to compare to Iona Brown (her ASV recording, rather than the later one on Decca). Oh, I don't know, whichever of her recordings is well worth having.

Try

which is, I think, her first.

[Beef Oven]

If you mean the Lark, there is Little to compare to Iona Brown (her ASV recording, rather than the later one on Decca). Oh, I don't know, whichever of her recordings is well worth having.

Try

which is, I think, her first.

Great vid - cheers!

P.S. I have heard it before come to think of it

[pastoralguy]

I cant see any reason why Radio 3 does'nt broadcast RVW's Tuba Concerto?

Good taste...?

[Pabmusic]

I cant see any reason why Radio 3 does'nt broadcast RVW's Tuba Concerto?

I'd agree with that. The Tuba Concerto is a fine piece, beautifully written for the instrument, and has a lovely slow movement. Echt-Vaughan Williams in fact. There are a few recordings, all good, but this one was recorded the day after the first performance by the same team (Philip Catelinet, LSO & Barbirolli):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Barbirolli-Conducts-Elgar-Vaughan-Williams/dp/B000023YEK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1368062116&sr=8-2&keywords=tuba+concerto+halle

Or here it is again:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ralph-Vaughan-Williams-Symphony-Greensleeves/dp/B005O0N1IO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1368062493&sr=8-1&keywords=tuba+concerto+halle

[Suffolkcoastal]

The slow movement of RVW's Tuba Concerto was on Breakfast fairly recently I believe (or possibly In Tune). I think we tend to notice certain works being apparently played more than others. We've had 12 or 13 (I'll need to check my figures) Italian Serenades for example this year, around 20 chunks from Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Nights Dream and about the same from The Nutcracker, The Hebrides Overture is around the 12 dozen mark for example, but this isn't noticed as much as The Lark or Rodeo fro example.

[doversoul1]

The slow movement of RVW's Tuba Concerto was on Breakfast fairly recently I believe (or possibly In Tune). I think we tend to notice certain works being apparently played more than others. We've had 12 or 13 (I'll need to check my figures) Italian Serenades for example this year, around 20 chunks from Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Nights Dream and about the same from The Nutcracker, The Hebrides Overture is around the 12 dozen mark for example, but this isn't noticed as much as The Lark or Rodeo fro example.

A very interesting observation. I wonder what makes us more/less notice the repeats? Have we accepted certain works as a kind of nice fillers between the chats and now being more sensitive to a new set of works being introduced in this way? And is their selection arbitrary?

[aeolium]

The Hebrides Overture is around the 12 dozen mark for example

Do you really mean that, sc? Grossly disproportionate, surely.