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  • Thropplenoggin
    • Nov 2024
    #1

    Worst BaL ever?

    Thanks to Nice Guy Caliban, I had the (dis)pleasure of hearing the most abominable BaL I've ever heard: Hilary Finch's ludicrously cursory stroll through Mahler's Rückert Lieder. No sense of coherence or methodical approach. A confusing mishmash with ill-chosen excerpts that petered out before they'd fulfilled their exempli gratia duties. Thankfully it was all over in 30 minutes. The only good that came of it was to make me appreciate more how good many BaLs are!

    I do wonder, though, whether this was some whittled down Podcast version and whether the original broadcast (Nov 6 2010, it would seem) was longer. However, this has not been the case with other BaL podcasts that Caliban has kindly made available to me.

    Anyway, can anyone think of a worse BaL?
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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26540
    #2
    Originally posted by Thropplenoggin View Post
    Thanks to Nice Guy Caliban, I had the (dis)pleasure of hearing the most abominable BaL I've ever heard: Hilary Finch's ludicrously cursory stroll through Mahler's Rückert Lieder. No sense of coherence or methodical approach. A confusing mishmash with ill-chosen excerpts that petered out before they'd fulfilled their exempli gratia duties. Thankfully it was all over in 30 minutes. The only good that came of it was to make me appreciate more how good many BaLs are!

    I do wonder, though, whether this was some whittled down Podcast version and whether the original broadcast (Nov 6 2010, it would seem) was longer. However, this has not been the case with other BaL podcasts that Caliban has kindly made available to me.

    Anyway, can anyone think of a worse BaL?
    Morning Throppers and thanks for the compliment

    I don't remember that BAL. I think the only pruning that goes on is in the length of the musical extracts - I don't think they curtail the spoken text. The all come up as short measure compared with the broadcast original. So I don't think that's the explanation, because those other podcasts I sent you will have similarly-abbreviated clips.

    The BBC must have a really lousy deal with the recording industry - the podcasts from France-Musique never have 'clipped clips' - "Le Jardin des Critiques" podcast features the same clips as the radio transmission, sometimes up to 5 or 6 minutes each...
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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    • Don Petter
      #3
      Small BCs have smaller Cs and so ... ad infinitum?

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26540
        #4
        Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
        Small BCs have smaller Cs and so ... ad infinitum?
        Bit early for me, um... whaaat?
        "...the isle is full of noises,
        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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        • Thropplenoggin
          #5
          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          Bit early for me, um... whaaat?
          Befuddlement abounds Chez Thropplenoggin, too.

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          • Don Petter
            #6
            A joke explained is a ... joke killed.

            So I'll just say two words to those who need them: The Siphonaptera.

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26540
              #7
              Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
              A joke explained is a ... joke killed.

              So I'll just say two words to those who need them: The Siphonaptera.
              It's one of those days when I think: work is going to be the easy bit today !!! (I often get that feeling from the AA thread!)

              You have defeated me, Don! (Fortunately we've just had a great win in a case at work, so I'll still get paid! )
              "...the isle is full of noises,
              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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              • Don Petter
                #8
                When in doubt - Wiki out!

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                • amateur51
                  #9
                  Is this the fastest thread to go off-topic ever?!?

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                  • Don Petter
                    #10
                    Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                    Is this the fastest thread to go off-topic ever?!?
                    I don't think it has, yet! The current subject is the truncation of already truncated excerpts, as mentioned in #1.

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                    • amateur51
                      #11
                      Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
                      I don't think it has, yet! The current subject is the truncation of already truncated excerpts, as mentioned in #1.
                      It was an observation based in awe & delight, not a criticism I assure you
                      Last edited by Guest; 23-11-12, 10:03. Reason: further clarification

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                      • Don Petter
                        #12
                        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                        It was an observation based in awe & delight, not a criticism I assure you
                        No offence taken! I can't help it if an idle throwaway line needs extensive explanation for the general public.

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26540
                          #13
                          Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
                          No offence taken! I can't help it if an idle throwaway line needs extensive explanation for the general public.
                          I've woken up now!! BC = bleeding chunks... and they breed smaller and smaller chunks... ! Indeed - on topic, Monsieur Petter !!
                          "...the isle is full of noises,
                          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                          • amateur51
                            #14
                            Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
                            No offence taken! I can't help it if an idle throwaway line needs extensive explanation for the general public.

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                            • vinteuil
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 12846
                              #15
                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                              I've woken up now!! BC = bleeding chunks... and they breed smaller and smaller chunks... ! Indeed - on topic, Monsieur Petter !!
                              ... in which Caliban too finds that abbreviations can baffle

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