Originally posted by Barbirollians
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That was a wonderful high-quality, thought-provoking and thoroughly educational and enjoyable series, wasn't it Bariollians
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How did it differ from Building a Library (genuine question - I never heard Interpretations on Record)?
It seems to me that the two programmes, BaL and DM, were/are/have been - in concept, if not always in realisation - equally detailed, in-depth examinations: the one of the artistic interpretation and recording of a composition, the other focusing on the musicological detail. CD Review will be the last refuge of such programming on R3.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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well my tuppence is on CD Review becoming a chart show ....According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.Comment
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I wondered about that a few of weeks ago when Andrew MacGregor and David Fanning were some reviewing new recordings of Shostakovich String Quartets. DF made it fairly clear that he wasn't impressed and kept referring back to the first Borodin Quartet recordings (available on Chandos) but AM seemed very eager to say nice things about the new recordings (it seemed a bit odd at the time).Originally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo View Post
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I think the crucial difference is that BAL is a process of whittling down a list of recordings to arrive at a single 'winner'. This means the reviewer has to discard what might be very good (even outstanding) recordings because of, say, a fluff, a slightly non-mainstream reading, a particular passage, etc, etc. Necessary in view of the task at hand but, IMO, a traversty of what music should be about.Originally posted by french frank View Post
Interpretations on Record was able to take a much more rounded view.Comment
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Absolutely - the Mahler 6 programme was a highlight .Originally posted by amateur51 View PostThat was a wonderful high-quality, thought-provoking and thoroughly educational and enjoyable series, wasn't it Bariollians
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A little more information in reply to my enquiry to the programme:
Discovering Music will be moving to enhance our Monday to Friday 'Live
in Concert' live music broadcasts. Each week, in a concert interval,
Stephen Johnson will introduce listeners to a work from the second half
of the concert.
The dates will be more flexible than our current weekly slot, but here
are the first 4 transmission dates:
15th Sept Duruflé: Requiem
23rd Sept Elgar: Caractacus
27th Sept Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor
3rd Oct Beethoven: Grosse Fuge
Well ... it will be interesting to see how much - and what - can be said about the Grosse Fuge (as one example) in 20 minutes. I believe DM was always 45 (?) minutes long, even without the following performance.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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A awful lot more than can be said about the Liszt Piano Sonata in that time!Originally posted by french frank View PostComment
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Liszt Piano sonata! One of my favourites! (from the channel 4 testcard, of course.) JUst 1 mvt and half an hour.
I always fancied having a bash at discovering Music. Well, that won't happen now.
Another thing about the show, it even featured composers talking about their music and other peoples! eg. Maxwell Davies 8 songs for a Mad King, Alwynne Pritchard, George Benjamin.
Can't imagine they are going to do this sort of stuff in a 20 minute interval!
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Radio 3. Aka Classic FM-lite.Comment
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