The old days

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ2c-Fi4JDM

[teamsaint]

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 wonder if there is some sort of scale for off topicness, and if so, what it is called.

The Hornspieler scale, perhaps?


(still smarting from an "all valves" telling off from the brassmeister the other day !!)


all looks very interesting though..............

[Don Petter]

I wonder if there is some sort of scale for off topicness, and if so, what it is called.

I don't see how that could be off topic. Surely the essential thing about anoraks is that they cover everything?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Please stop this thread. It's doin' my 'ead in - all these references to presenters who treated us like intelligent people rather than brainless morons.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

excuse my off topicness but can any one tell me the name of the little piece for wind that kicks off through the night? i used to know this S_A told me - alas brain cell death is accelerating ... thanks

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

excuse my off topicness but can any one tell me the name of the little piece for wind that kicks off through the night? i used to know this S_A told me - alas brain cell death is accelerating ... thanks

IIRC, it's by Milhaud. Pastorale??

[Serial_Apologist]

IIRC, it's by Milhaud. Pastorale??

La Cheminee du Roi Renee, by Milhaud, correct, with acute accents where required.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

La Cheminee du Roi Renee, by Milhaud, correct, with acute accents where required.

- the final section "Madrigal-Nocturne".

[Roslynmuse]

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.

The da-da-da's don't quite add up, but there was a programme late 70s/early 80s that used part of Jean Françaix's L'horloge de flore as its signature tune - oboe solo plus pizz strings at this point. It's perhaps the third section or maybe the fourth.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The da-da-da's don't quite add up, but there was a programme late 70s/early 80s that used part of Jean Françaix's L'horloge de flore as its signature tune - oboe solo plus pizz strings at this point. It's perhaps the third section or maybe the fourth.

Hmm, no - I've gone through the work, and though there are a couple of similarities, it isn't the Record Review tune:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgcYK09cOpY

You're right - there is a missing "Dah" at the very start of the last line of my previous post. The pizzicato strings are accompanying with a Rumba rhythm (Om-papa Om-papa Om-pa).

[Roslynmuse]

Hmm, no - I've gone through the work, and though there are a couple of similarities, it isn't the Record Review tune:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgcYK09cOpY

You're right - there is a missing "Dah" at the very start of the last line of my previous post. The pizzicato strings are accompanying with a Rumba rhythm (Om-papa Om-papa Om-pa).

The section I was thinking of starts at about 7'23'' on the youtube video. If it wasn't used for Record Review, can you remember which programme the Françaix was used for? (Was it one of those Saturday lunchtime programmes presented by Robin Ray?)

[Zucchini]

Please stop this thread. It's doin' my 'ead in - all these references to presenters who treated us like intelligent people rather than brainless morons.

You're being stupid. You were younger then, knew much less and had much to learn and explore. Now you are older there are diminishing returns and there iis less to interest you. Not your fault, it's the same with me. You just have to give up your seat for people who are now as you were...

(I would not be in the least bit surprised if 50% of listeners had NOT heard in full say, 5 Beethoven Concertos, or all 9 symphonies, 3 pieces by Prokofiev or Britten and so on...and could not name 10 top quality living and active conductors, pianists, violinists or 6 each non-operatic sopranos, tenors and baritones)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The section I was thinking of starts at about 7'23'' on the youtube video. If it wasn't used for Record Review, can you remember which programme the Françaix was used for? (Was it one of those Saturday lunchtime programmes presented by Robin Ray?)

No! My mega bad! That is it exactly, Roslynmuse - I must have skimmed right past it. Record Review, John Lade vintage, mid-late '70s.

[hmvman]

As far as my memory's concerned it was definitely the Rameau Tambourin used as the theme for Record Review in the late '70s. It always evokes happy memories of Saturday mornings in the early years of my interest in classical music. I was fairly certain that the Britten variation followed it as the theme to RR sometime in the early to mid '80s but there may have been something else used before that.

[DublinJimbo]

Hi all.

Bellini's Oboe Concerto is definitely the music I associate with a Radio 3 programme (Saturday mornings, I think). It was part of the concluding section which was featured, and that's to be heard on You Tube, here:

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve7UYrpFllo>