Schubert on 3

[Panjandrum]

Demented indeed:


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

I had to chuckle during the toe-curling first live "Schubertiade" when SM-P said " I just hope none of our listeners react in the same way as the film". Quite.

[gurnemanz]

Aaaaah Alan Keith - the Benylin of Broadcasting

I don't think I ever listened to Alan Keith for more than about 30 seconds. I have vague memories of hurriedly tuning away from him as a teenager in the early 60s, as I searched for something to listen to on my transistor radio on a Sunday night probably while desperately completing some homework for Monday morning. Good old Aunty Beeb saw fit to broadcast almost no pop music and it was Radio Luxembourg and later on the pirate stations that would fill the gap.

[amateur51]

Tom Service sticks his head about the parapet ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/tomserviceblog/2012/mar/25/critics-notebook-tom-service

[Frances_iom]

Tom Service sticks his head about the parapet ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/to...ok-tom-service

disingenuous - rare bits of Schubert as well as dedicated educational programs (eg 30 mins a day over a week would be enough for an excellent programme based around the songs) - these could easily have been part of the usual programming instead of the phone-ins, tweet-requests, advert-ridden playola of the best 100 tuneful bleeding chunks that now passes for R3 in the morning

[Norfolk Born]

As he's part of the Schubertathon, surely anything Tom Service says must be considered parti pris. In any case, I still haven't forgiven him for describing a Rawsthorne piano concerto as 'blancmange'.

[Nick Armstrong]

In any case, I still haven't forgiven him for describing a Rawsthorne piano concerto as 'blancmange'.

Note to self: don't cross Norfy re: Rawsthorne!!

[amateur51]

As he's part of the Schubertathon, surely anything Tom Service says must be considered parti pris. In any case, I still haven't forgiven him for describing a Rawsthorne piano concerto as 'blancmange'.

By using blancmange was he suggesting that like blancmange,the Rawsthorne concerto was very popular in the 1950s but rarely seen in the days of Angel Delight and more recently panna cotta?

Pass the raspberry coulis

[Nick Armstrong]

By using blancmange was he suggesting that like blancmange,the Rawsthorne concerto was very popular in the 1950s but rarely seen in the days of Angel Delight and more recently panna cotta? erm:

Pass the raspberry coulis

[amateur51]

By using blancmange was he suggesting that like blancmange,the Rawsthorne concerto was very popular in the 1950s but rarely seen in the days of Angel Delight and more recently panna cotta?

Pass the raspberry coulis

Who remembers junket?

[That'll get the 'Life's Not Been The Same Since Festival of Britiain' brigade out ]

[Nick Armstrong]

Who remembers junket?

[That'll get the 'Life's Not Been The Same Since Festival of Britiain' brigade out ]

On a similar note, my old dad's partial to syllabub...

[That'll get the 'Life's Not Been The Same Since Great Exhibition' brigade out ]

[amateur51]

On a similar note, my old dad's partial to syllabub...

[That'll get the 'Life's Not Been The Same Since Great Exhibition' brigade out ]

[Norfolk Born]

Tom Service made this comment sitting in a box at the RAH after the first half of a Prom a few years ago. I got the impression that he found the work in question bland, unadventurous and uninspiring. I accept that Rawsthorne is not everybody's tasse de thé but, like Finzi (and arguably Rubbra), is original enough to have a recognizable sound. To those not familiar with his oeuvre, I would recommend in particular his concerti and 'Pastoral' symphony. He is, perhaps inevitably, better known for his film scores.

[Pianorak]

the days of Angel Delight

Ah, memories! Can one still get Angel Delight? Loved it - but I suppose it was thoroughly unhealthy?

[amateur51]

Ah, memories! Can one still get Angel Delight? Loved it - but I suppose it was thoroughly unhealthy?

Have you read Nigel Slater's book Toast about his childhood and family life, mediated through his food memories, Pianorak? It's full of nostalgia and very evocative of the period when Angel Delight was a treat, gawd bless us one and all

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Toast-The-Story-Boys-Hunger/dp/1841154717

[Norfolk Born]

From Imogen Cooper to Angel Delight - what a thread....