The old days

[DublinJimbo]

Listening yesterday to Schubert's An die Musik in an orchestration by Max Reger reminded me of the way-back-when days and Radio 3's (or its then equivalent) use of a piano arrangement of this song as signature tune for one of its regular programmes. Was it Music Magazine? Can anyone remember?

My own memories are of setting my alarm and making a point of listening to the programme as part of my weekly routine. And that in turn reminds me of another signature tune for another Radio 3 programme. It took me some time to establish that the music was from Bellini's Oboe Concerto. What programme was this? Was it Record Review (later CD Review)?

My rambling point is that I cannot imagine myself setting an alarm for anything on Radio 3 at the moment. Ah, memories!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

You remember correctly on both counts, DJ - Music Weekly (?Julian Herbage?) had Handy Music and the Bellini was used for Record Review (John Lade - also used one of the Britten Frank Bridge variations in the early '80s).


EDIT: Oh! Hold on ... checking the Bellini on youTube, that wasn't the perky tune I was thinking of! I don't recognise the Bellini at all (which doesn't mean it wasn't used, of course).

[rauschwerk]

EDIT: Oh! Hold on ... checking the Bellini on youTube, that wasn't the perky tune I was thinking of! I don't recognise the Bellini at all (which doesn't mean it wasn't used, of course).

Surely it was the slow tune at 7 seconds in that was used.

To me the mysterious thing about this piece is that, although in E flat major, it has a brief intro in G major.

[kernelbogey]

[...] Music Weekly (?Julian Herbage?) had Handy Music [...]

Michael....---?---. A lovely voice and microphone technique.

[amateur51]

Michael....---?---. A lovely voice and microphone technique.

Michael Oliver? If so much missed in this house for his voice, his musical intelligence and powers of communication

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

My bad - the superb Michael Oliver presented Music Weekly ('70s & '80s) - the intro Music of which was Schubert's Magic Roundabout Impromptu played by Brendel; Julian Herbage (and Anna ???) presented Music Magazine ('50s & '60s) with Gerald Moore's solo arrangement of An die Musik as "theme tune".

The Record Review opener of the late '70s was a perky, jazzy little number (sounding a bit "British Music 1930s-style" - more Arnold Cooke than Finzi). (da-da-da Dah_dadadadadida dah-di-dah; da-da-da dadadida dohdiDah - oboe solo, pizzicato string orchestra accompaniment. Doesn't sound in the least bit like Bellini! ) Replaced in the early '80s by the "Italian" variation from Britten's Bridge Variations.

[Pabmusic]

My bad - the superb Michael Oliver presented Music Weekly ('70s & '80s) - the intro Music of which was Schubert's Magic Roundabout Impromptu played by Brendel; Julian Herbage (and Anna ???) presented Music Magazine ('50s & '60s) with Gerald Moore's solo arrangement of An die Musik as "theme tune".

The Record Review opener of the late '70s was a perky, jazzy little number (sounding a bit "British Music 1930s-style" - more Arnold Cooke than Finzi). (da-da-da Dah_dadadadadida dah-di-dah; da-da-da dadadida dohdiDah - oboe solo, pizzicato string orchestra accompaniment. Doesn't sound in the least bit like Bellini! ) Replaced in the early '80s by the "Italian" variation from Britten's Bridge Variations.

No offence, Ferney, but are you an Aspie as well?

[amateur51]

My bad - the superb Michael Oliver presented Music Weekly ('70s & '80s) - the intro Music of which was Schubert's Magic Roundabout Impromptu played by Brendel; Julian Herbage (and Anna ???) .

Anna Instone, ferney

Turns out she was married to ... Julian Herbage!

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp82802/anna-instone-mrs-j-herbage

[tigajen]

My bad - the superb Michael Oliver presented Music Weekly ('70s & '80s) - the intro Music of which was Schubert's Magic Roundabout Impromptu played by Brendel; Julian Herbage (and Anna ???) presented Music Magazine ('50s & '60s) with Gerald Moore's solo arrangement of An die Musik as "theme tune".

The Record Review opener of the late '70s was a perky, jazzy little number (sounding a bit "British Music 1930s-style" - more Arnold Cooke than Finzi). (da-da-da Dah_dadadadadida dah-di-dah; da-da-da dadadida dohdiDah - oboe solo, pizzicato string orchestra accompaniment. Doesn't sound in the least bit like Bellini! ) Replaced in the early '80s by the "Italian" variation from Britten's Bridge Variations.

Anna Instone I believe

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Anna Instone I believe

... and to ami, too (whose post I missed when I saw tigajen's).

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

No offence, Ferney, but are you an Aspie as well?

No - common-or-garden sad bastard, me.

[Pabmusic]

No - common-or-garden sad bastard, me.

I'll lend you my anorak.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I'll lend you my anorak.

Oh - you wouldn't happen to have a Thomas Wilson Fibre Quilt, would you? The company only existed between March 1954 and August 1961 and only produced about seventy said items from their Crewe factory just before they went bust. (The Doncaster factory, of course, didn't produce the Fibre Quilt model, concentrating on the "SpeediZipp" nylon zip - but I've already got four of these - including the massively unpopular "Terracotta" colour, which made wearers look as if they were going to a fancy dress party as a carrot.) Interesting character, Thomas Wilson, born in Scuinthorpe in 1887, he ... (contd pg 3461783)

[Pabmusic]

Oh - you wouldn't happen to have a Thomas Wilson Fibre Quilt, would you? The company only existed between March 1954 and August 1961 and only produced about seventy said items from their Crewe factory just before they went bust. (The Doncaster factory, of course, didn't produce the Fibre Quilt model, concentrating on the "SpeediZipp" nylon zip - but I've already got four of these - including the massively unpopular "Terracotta" colour, which made wearers look as if they were going to a fancy dress party as a carrot.) Interesting character, Thomas Wilson, born in Scuinthorpe in 1887, he ... (contd pg 3461783)

I can't believe… (no, don't go there…)

[MickyD]

At some point during the late 1970s, Record Review also used a sprightly little Tambourin from Rameau's "Zoroastre".