Schubert on 3

[Frances_iom]

Like this one for Breakfast Monday March 26th:

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's Breakfast Show celebrating The Spirit of Schubert including between 8.00 and 8.30 the world premiere of Brian Newbould's completion of Schubert's Minuet and Trio D2f.

I'd be very interested, but this simply is too much to ask for at most 4 minutes of music.

but the other 26mins will be news flashes, random thoughts of PT and of various tweeters and others who can't resist the lure of hearing their names read out on air.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I'm going to catch up with my Furtwangler 107 CD set during Schubert saturation week. Like others, I shall join the Big Radio 3 Switch-Off.

[gurnemanz]

I'm going to catch up with my Furtwangler 107 CD set during Schubert saturation week. Like others, I shall join the Big Radio 3 Switch-Off.

I shall still be working my way through this cheapo Membran Schubert box which I have just acquired. http://www.membran-online.de/product...roducts_id=168. It is unappetisingly packaged but contains ten CDs of classic recordings - only £10.48 at Amazon.

[Norfolk Born]

I am an avid listener to Bells on Sunday but I worry if I listen too much to Radio 4 I could eventually end up hearing John Humphrys and, for me, that would be to enter Room 101.

I don't generally offer an opinion on individual presenters, but... would you, if forced to choose, REALLY rather listen to Petroc Trelawny than John Humphrys?

[BBMmk2]

This is like Radio 3's Immersion of a particular composer's work sessions! Exceptt rather longer!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I shall still be working my way through this cheapo Membran Schubert box which I have just acquired. http://www.membran-online.de/product...roducts_id=168. It is unappetisingly packaged but contains ten CDs of classic recordings - only £10.48 at Amazon.

That sounds a better way to listen to Schubert. You won't end up hating his music for the next year or so.

[Wallace]

I don't generally offer an opinion on individual presenters, but... would you, if forced to choose, REALLY rather listen to Petroc Trelawny than John Humphrys?

A dilemma with which I hope I am never faced. (R3 is already silent on my radio 0630-1200 Mon - Fri and I keep away from Today because of the risk of encountering JH.)

But back to the Schubert. Has there been any guidance from the broadcaster as to how the listener should approach 200 hours of continuous broadcasting of nothing but Schubert? Should it be as lover of good food on a visit to the restaurant of a superb chef or should be as a goose on a farm where foie gras is produced?

[Don Petter]

But back to the Schubert. Has there been any guidance from the broadcaster as to how the listener should approach 200 hours of continuous broadcasting of nothing but Schubert? Should it be as lover of good food on a visit to the restaurant of a superb chef or should be as a goose on a farm where foie gras is produced?

Rather more like a lover of good food who is forced to eat nothing but foie gras for a whole week.

[David-G]

I meant to add 'potentially' ruined. The reason for my concern is that Schubert could indeed be ruined for some people. If you admire some of his works but not all and are presented with nothing but Schubert or whichever composer is the subject of RWs latest 'fest', it could be possible to be put off that composer by non-stop broadcasting especially if you keep catching works you're not to keen on. For those who like me admire Schubert deeply then of course he can withstand anything, but otherwise non-stop broadcasting of a composer could indeed turn you off a composer for a period of time or even permanently. These stupid 'fests' do nothing for a composer/R3 or the BBC. Also isn't the current strategy to try and entice new listeners to classical music? If some new listener is turning in for the 1st time during one of these stupid 'fests' and finds they don't respond to the composer and tries several other times during the next few days and is continually presented with the same composer, they could easily be put of R3 for good. R3 has actually put me off a few works by continual playing which is why I now avoid the CBeebies style programmes so I can hopefully learn to love these works again. I caught La Valse 12 times within a few weeks back in 2009 and it annoyed me so much I've been unable to listen to the work again and still can't bear to hear it, I used to really enjoy this work too.

It works the other way too. If a new listener is tuning in for the first time, he might decide that he just loves Schubert, and be hooked on Radio 3 for good!

[Old Grumpy]

It works the other way too. If a new listener is tuning in for the first time, he might decide that he just loves Schubert, and be hooked on Radio 3 for good!

Possibly, but I doubt it. Perhaps it depends if s/he tunes in at the beginning or the end of the fest. Anyone tuning in hour one (other than [or perhaps even] the most devoted Schubert fan) is likely to turned off by hour two hundred.

[french frank]

It works the other way too. If a new listener is tuning in for the first time, he might decide that he just loves Schubert, and be hooked on Radio 3 for good!

It would seem rather excessive to go to all this trouble just to attract one new listener

[MrGongGong]

Made me think of this classic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schubert_Dip

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

It works the other way too. If a new listener is tuning in for the first time, he might decide that he just loves Schubert, and be hooked on Radio 3 for good!

I should think there was a far greater chance of a listerner being hooked on Radio 3 if a variety of musical styles were presented...

[Hornspieler]

I should think there was a far greater chance of a listerner being hooked on Radio 3 if a variety of musical styles were presented...

I check every day what is being broadcast on Radio 3 after 7 o'clock and, if it's something that attracts my attention, or something that I like,
I listen.

Well I like most of Schubert's music, so it's an opportunity for me to pick out works that I may not know, or works that I have not heard for a long time.
It's only for week, isn't it? Why don't we all wait and see?

At the very worst, it will give me more time to attend to other tasks or pleasures.

HS

[kernelbogey]

'Spirit of Schubert' is an odd name for the broadcast of everything he wrote.

What single work of his embodies for you his spirit?

I've been thinking about this and for me one aspect of his greatness is that ability to slip beneath the outward face of calm, or even jolly, acceptance to the tristesse of existence. There are many examples of this but perhaps the most consistent expression of it for me is in the String Quintet.