Originally posted by gurnemanz
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Interesting that you choose a CD ahead of the radio, where I understand they are playing Schubert at the moment. In fact, if you text SM-P, Gurney, then she will probably play Gretchen just for you.
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They have fallen into the pit of their own making in seeking to be all things to all men/women. It's this damned need to be accessible, and not put anyone off by coming over too high falutin', don't you know? There is scholarship out there, and Graham Johnson and Brian Newbould are definitely worth hearing, but that actor "impersonating" Schubert. What was it I heard on Saturday about him describing his infatuation for some young Viennese ("Yes sirree, she's one hot honey")? To paraphrase Lady Bracknell, I believe German has always been an eminently respectable language, and even allowing for issues of translation, that seemed a phrase unlikely to be one the young Franz would have used.Originally posted by hackneyvi View Post
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Happily, the German language, and Schubert's reputation, will survive the current outburst of simulated chumminess. Meanwhile, back in the real world, there are dramatic developments a-plenty in Corrie!
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Absolutely, and the Breakfast formula is bringing out the worst of it... The trailers....!!!! As others have said, what on any view is the point of filling the programme one is actually listening to with repetitive trailers for itself?!Originally posted by hackneyvi View Post
.... I'm already listening to it you morons!!!! What's the point?!?
I too like the idea of comparing lots of versions of sonatas, symphonies, songs even (though if I hear another Erlkönig I'm going to abduct the firstborn of someone high up in Radio 3 and...
) - but the way it's being done... 
Can they really not be mortified with embarrassment?
"...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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Ils n'ont aucune pudeur. I'm sorry, but not that surprised, that a degree of disillusionment is starting to creep into your Schubertathon-related messages...
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Ah, but you must remember that 90% of the breakfast audience don't even know what station they're tuned into it. This is all about subliminal marketing and product placement.Originally posted by Caliban View PostAbsolutely, and the Breakfast formula is bringing out the worst of it... The trailers....!!!! As others have said, what on any view is the point of filling the programme one is actually listening to with repetitive trailers for itself?! .... I'm already listening to it you morons!!!! What's the point?!?
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I wonder what is actually known about this. A little searching on the internet has turned up little, and even the diagnosis of syphillis seems to be questioned by some. Sean Rafferty (nearly typed FaffertyOriginally posted by ucanseetheend View Post
) on Sunday made a passing reference to there being more to come on this. Presumably a society that was shamed about sexuality would not record what these young fellahs got up to.
Incidentally, there was a reference, also by SR on Sunday, to Schubert and his mates having been picked up by the secret police: 'Schubert's writing was said to be never the same afterwards' - presumably an inference of torture.Comment
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Welcome to the forum, Resurrection Man! Hope you'll cease to lurk when R3 gets back to 'normal' and that you'll chip in on the topical debateOriginally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
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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Good to read a first post, as always, RMOriginally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
Even though it's a sad one, about the great Radio 3 switch off...
"...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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Thanks for this heads-up Ammy. I have appended my opinion in the interesting 'comments' section under Mr Service's item...Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
"...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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Indeed, NorfyOriginally posted by Norfolk Born View PostIls n'ont aucune pudeur. I'm sorry, but not that surprised, that a degree of disillusionment is starting to creep into your Schubertathon-related messages... Still, thanks for the good news that there is much to look forward to next weekend in the Corrie omnibus!
"...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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There was an incident in early 1820 when Schubert and three friends were arrested. Schubert and two others were 'cautioned' for "enveighing against officials with insulting and opprobrious language" (I wish I could find the original German!) and released. The fourth, Johann Senn, was tried and got 12 months' imprisonment, followed by exile from Vienna. No authority I can find suggests torture, which (strange as it may seem) would have been anachronistic for Metternich's Vienna.Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostComment
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Perhaps the choice of Schubert's Death and the Maiden music in Ariel Dorfman's play has an additional significance....Comment
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Probably not, while the Administrator of this august forum doesn't appear to know what time it isOriginally posted by Caliban View PostCan they really not be mortified with embarrassment?
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