BaL 11.05.19 - Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos

[Pulcinella]

Was there really no mention at all of the Duchable, Collard/ Conlon, the only one on my shelves? It's in Alpie's list, and in my last Penguin Guide (2009) it got their exceptional 4-star rating, as did TMcK's winner today.

Didn't hear anything (but my attention drifted more than once).

I did hear the dreaded words 'Joining me next week.....' though.
And also the comment after, trumpeting the sell-out Proms performances, apparently blithely unaware of all the problems being reported.

[edashtav]

It IS a twofer.

Yes, it was but one of the better ones: it sounded slick and well-oiled unlike last Saturday's ill co-ordinated effort.

[Pulcinella]

Yes, it was but one of the better ones: it sounded slick and well-oiled unlike last Saturday's ill co-ordinated effort.

Yes, I'll grant that (not that I listened last week).

[Barbirollians]

It looks like this is permanent - all BALs now will be twofers - the excellent Shostakovich Piano Quintet BAL being the last recorded BAL.

All have been twofers since the schedule change.

[Mal]

Was there really no mention at all of the Duchable, Collard/ Conlon, the only one on my shelves? It's in Alpie's list, and in my last Penguin Guide (2009) it got their exceptional 4-star rating, as did TMcK's winner today.

Duchable, Collard/Conlon is the only Poulenc piano concerto disc recommended in my last Gramophone guide (2010). It's easily available on CD at a reasonable price,...

[visualnickmos]

It looks like this is permanent - all BALs now will be twofers - the excellent Shostakovich Piano Quintet BAL being the last recorded BAL.

All have been twofers since the schedule change.

There's been a schedule change?

....for the better, the worse, or "past caring?"

[Pulcinella]

There's been a schedule change?

....for the better, the worse, or "past caring?"

Yes: the programme is now 30 minutes shorter.

[pastoralguy]

Yes, it was but one of the better ones: it sounded slick and well-oiled unlike last Saturday's ill co-ordinated effort.

Yes I agree it was much better than last week but that's not difficult.

Alas, BaL has now slipped from a 'must listen' to well, ok, if I can be bothered.

[pastoralguy]

Yes: the programme is now 30 minutes shorter.

I wonder if the deal is that now the programme is 30 minutes shorter then Andrew has to participate in BaL in order to make up his hours!

The way the BBC is going it wouldn't surprise me!

[Master Jacques]

It has been shortened by 30 minutes with Music Matters still following directly, in order to make space for the half-hour kids' programme with Jess Gillam that comes on at 12:30.

That is so obviously a disaster-zone, as (good muzo though she is) JG is the world's worst broadcaster and communicator, that we must hope it will be ditched after a trial run, and timings restored to normal. Though doubtless R3 will blithely report that their virtual postbag is inundated with happy tweets from teens, saying how much they lurrrvvv the new show, so much more lively than that fuddy-duddy old Record Review thing, which only appeals to the dead and dying.

[BBMmk2]

It has been shortened by 30 minutes with Music Matters still following directly, in order to make space for the half-hour kids' programme with Jess Gillam that comes on at 12:30.

That is so obviously a disaster-zone, as (good muzo though she is) JG is the world's worst broadcaster and communicator, that we must hope it will be ditched after a trial run, and timings restored to normal. Though doubtless R3 will blithely report that their virtual postbag is inundated with happy tweets from teens, saying how much they lurrrvvv the new show, so much more lively than that fuddy-duddy old Record Review thing, which only appeals to the dead and dying.

We can hope and pray!

[Cockney Sparrow]

........doubtless R3 will blithely report that their virtual postbag is inundated with happy tweets from teens, saying how much they lurrrvvv the new show, so much more lively than that fuddy-duddy old Record Review thing, which only appeals to the dead and dying.....

This is the essence, surely. (Comments about A Macgregor's fees are not really worthy of a serious broadcaster who very probably (surely?) is only doing the bidding of the new strategy of morning (..other...) broadcasting being firmly pinned to the "personalities" who present).

I'm prompted to comment by a discussion on R4 Today this morning about Brian Walden - which took in the format of the long political interview and when that became impossible. Brian Walden responded to management feedback about the low representation of the young amongst the viewers (I paraphrase, but only slightly) : "So not many Grannies watch Formula 1 racing.........".

(Disappointed to hear he was firmly in favour of the UK leaving the EU - and latterly didn't live here, in common with others of that ilk. But in his favour, so far as I know he didn't pop back regularly to preach to us about how we should vote (and then suffer the consequences) before popping back to sunnier climes.... And if he had, it wouldn't have been in the House of Lords).

[Stanfordian]

It has been shortened by 30 minutes with Music Matters still following directly, in order to make space for the half-hour kids' programme with Jess Gillam that comes on at 12:30.

That is so obviously a disaster-zone, as (good muzo though she is) JG is the world's worst broadcaster and communicator, that we must hope it will be ditched after a trial run, and timings restored to normal. Though doubtless R3 will blithely report that their virtual postbag is inundated with happy tweets from teens, saying how much they lurrrvvv the new show, so much more lively than that fuddy-duddy old Record Review thing, which only appeals to the dead and dying.

These are the same teenagers that pack concert halls.

Most teenagers I come across (my nephews, nieces and their friends) wouldn't be seen dead listening to R3.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Most teenagers I come across (my nephews, nieces and their friends) wouldn't be seen dead listening to R3.

What very intelligent teenagers you know, Stanf.

(I can concur - for most of my teaching career, I could happily recommend R3 to the teenagers that I taught. I could recommend fewer and fewer programmes in the last decade - and the [somewhat blunt, such as 15-18-year-olds can be] responses to the presenters in the last three years meant that there was nothing I could suggest they listen to.)