BaL 4.02.12 - Rachmaninov's Symphony no. 2 in E minor

[Panjandrum]

According to the new listings on the BBC website, this week's BaL is a repeat.

WTF?

[Alison]

23.-6.12 - 9.30am Building a Library
Another chance to hear William Mival with a personal recommendation from the available recordings of Rachmaninov's Second Symphony.

According to the new listings on the BBC website, this week's BaL is a repeat.

Goodness me, that's a first isn't it ? Could be a chance to catch up with missed editions I suppose . . .

[Nick Armstrong]

Goodness me, that's a first isn't it ? Could be a chance to catch up with missed editions I suppose . . .

That's looking on the bright side.

The money's obviously run out.

Not even enough left to pay for AMcG to lavish praise for an hour on 3 or 4 CDs "in conversation with" a chum.

Last one to leave, turn out the lights.

If the meter hasn't already run out...

[Sir Monty Golfear]

Perhaps Gergiev's over-rated poorly recorded version might sound better second around !

[cloughie]

The money's obviously run out.

R3 obviously has splashed out too much on celebrity presenters and guests for essential classics.

[Nick Armstrong]

R3 obviously has splashed out too much on celebrity presenters and guests for essential classics.

I was feeling ratty earlier. I wonder if that is the reason, or if someone's let them down....

[vinteuil]

... ah, well - perhaps someone has at last realised that we don't need to devote too much time to this sort of composer

[Sir Monty Golfear]

R3 obviously has splashed out too much on celebrity presenters and guests for essential classics.

Yes....maybe so......but I think David Owen Norris was well worth it!

[Nick Armstrong]

... ah, well - perhaps someone has at last realised that we don't need to devote too much time to this sort of composer

(I got a yellow card for "parading" my Liszt antipathy... but others can take their bêtes noires for walks on a silken leash whenever they choose )

[Sir Monty Golfear]

... ah, well - perhaps someone has at last realised that we don't need to devote too much time to this sort of composer

Nothing wrong with Rachmaninov.....no room for music snobs here!

[vinteuil]

no room for music snobs here!

... so we are to be banned - censored - excluded???

Ah, so much for this welcoming inclusive approach

[mikealdren]

"23.-6.12 - 9.30am Building a Library
Another chance to hear William Mival with a personal recommendation from the available recordings of Rachmaninov's Second Symphony.
According to the new listings on the BBC website, this week's BaL is a repeat."

Does anyone else remember the classic broadcasting faux pas a few years ago when they played the tape from the previous week's BAL again. After about 20 mins they stopped it with comment to the effect that 'although the format of the programme doesn't change from week to week it shouldn't be that similar!'

Mike

[Roehre]

... ah, well - perhaps someone has at last realised that we don't need to devote too much time to this sort of composer

That's what i was told as I started to listen to classical music, some 40 years ago

[Sir Monty Golfear]

... so we are to be banned - censored - excluded???

Ah, so much for this welcoming inclusive approach

Perhaps you can qualify your original quote .........Regarding Rachmaninov as being " this sort of composer"...if that is not exclusive I fail to understand what is.

[jayne lee wilson]

Come on now, The Bells, Symphonic Dances, Symphony No.1, Isle of the Dead, Piano Concerto No.4, Paganini Rhapsody... Heavens he produced quite enough out-and-out masterpieces for one lifetime, might have done more if he hadn't had to scratch a living banging away at the keyboard...

... ah, well - perhaps someone has at last realised that we don't need to devote too much time to this sort of composer