Schubert on 3

[gurnemanz]

How are you all loving it?
Or are you, like me, discovering exactly why 80% of the Schubert we are hearing has rarely been given an outing before?

I can't think of much by Schubert that is not worth listening to. Thank you and good night.

[Alf-Prufrock]

Alf, whose music would you turn to for something masculine?

The thought that Schubert's music is feminine is not one that I am happy with, and I rather wish I had not posted the remark.

But today I have switched Schubert off and played recordings of Sibelius's fifth symphony, Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, and Bach Brandenburg Concertos. I am not quite sure that this fact answers your question! I would hate to think of them as masculine (but it was refreshing to hear them), and I am trying to guard myself against entertaining similar thoughts in future.

[Norfolk Born]

It has crossed my mind that this Schubert week is a sort of smoke screen and that R3 will look and sound different when the schedules for the week commencing Monday 2nd April appear.

Is it possible that the late evening slot will change permanently to a request show?

I can't fathom who thought up Play Schubert for Me (this does allude to one of Clint Eastwood's tackier films, doesn't it)? I don't recall ever having heard a bad idea quite so clearly announce itself as bad than the part of the trail which asks for requests and then asks for requests even when the person doesn't have any request to make.

That just seems demented.

Quite. I like Schubert's 'Trout' and I like rainbow trout. In fact, I had rainbow trout for supper tonight. I enjoyed it all the more because I didn't have it last night or the night before and probably won't have it again for quite a while. The same principle applies to Schubert or any other great composer. An unrelieved diet of anything soon palls.

[MrGongGong]

Quite. I like Schubert's 'Trout' and I like rainbow trout. In fact, I had rainbow trout for supper tonight. I enjoyed it all the more because I didn't have it last night or the night before and probably won't have it again for quite a while. The same principle applies to Schubert or any other great composer. An unrelieved diet of anything soon palls.

Schubert's Trout might be good
but I much prefer Don's

[Don Petter]

Schubert's Trout might be good
but I much prefer Don's

I'll let her know.

[MrGongGong]

I'll let her know.

or even this Don

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWNhq0dDr5I

[french frank]

I can't fathom who thought up Play Schubert for Me

Well, it might be the same person who thought up Play Mozart for Me ('Sara Mohr-Pietsch is the late night Mozart DJ with the discs').

[gurnemanz]

I can't think of much by Schubert that is not worth listening to. Thank you and good night.

Just to reply to my own message....I think I could happily live without the Deutsche Messe just playing which sounds like a commission from the Salvation Army.

[JFLL]

Just to reply to my own message....I think I could happily live without the Deutsche Messe just playing which sounds like a commission from the Salvation Army.

-- but I remember it was a favourite of Alan Keith's (he of 'Your' 100 Best Choons), when easy listening was still restricted to Radio 2. It usually preceded 'And now I wish you well, and a very good night to you all' (the intonation really needs a stave to do it justice). All was right with the world, and Monday morning could be faced with equanimity ... Ah, the innocence of it all ....

[Suffolkcoastal]

-- but I remember it was a favourite of Alan Keith's (he of 'Your' 100 Best Choons), when easy listening was still restricted to Radio 2. It usually preceded 'And now I wish you well, and a very good night to you all' (the intonation really needs a stave to do it justice). All was right with the world, and Monday morning could be faced with equanimity ... Ah, the innocence of it all ....

Yes it was usually the Sanctus that Alan Keith played. His manner was very distinctive, each sentence had a gentle crescendo and rise in pitch to the penultimate word followed by a rapid diminuendo and drop in pitch on the final two syllables.

[Norfolk Born]

I'm afraid my reaction was always: 'Will he make it to the end of the sentence?'

[Don Petter]

I'm afraid my reaction was always: 'Will he make it to the end of the sentence?'

Sans paroles?

[cloughie]

I'm afraid my reaction was always: 'Will he make it to the end of the sentence?'

I always used to think 'If he goes any slower he'll stop' - then of course one day he did. He is remembered with great affection even if he was the pioneer of the 'bleeding chunk'.

[kernelbogey]

[QUOTE=hackneyvi;144537I can't fathom who thought up Play Schubert for Me (this does allude to one of Clint Eastwood's tackier films, doesn't it)? I don't recall ever having heard a bad idea quite so clearly announce itself as bad than the part of the trail which asks for requests and then asks for requests even when the person doesn't have any request to make. That just seems demented.[/QUOTE]

Demented indeed:

A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the picture.

Another example of talking down to the listeners with an ill-conceived attempt at empathy (like your Dad dancing at your eighteenth birthday party).

[amateur51]

-- but I remember it was a favourite of Alan Keith's (he of 'Your' 100 Best Choons), when easy listening was still restricted to Radio 2. It usually preceded 'And now I wish you well, and a very good night to you all' (the intonation really needs a stave to do it justice). All was right with the world, and Monday morning could be faced with equanimity ... Ah, the innocence of it all ....

Aaaaah Alan Keith - the Benylin of Broadcasting