Music Matters 'Celebrating Claude Debussy' (23.6.12)

[Nick Armstrong]

Just catching up with this programme via the podcast, and I am finding it excellent. Iplayer version as well as podcast still available at

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jyyjq

The contribution of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet is completely delightful. I am rapidly becoming an unconditional fan!

(Slight flat note: Tom Service's increasingly mannered interventions, providing a kind of audible sub-title for any word or concept he judges too much for listeners Maybe it's just the week-on-week repetition, but I'm finding it increasingly intrusive. He's not always correct either - at one point, Bavouzet refers to the Debussy quote about "la chair nue de la passion" - Service's interpolated translation was "the turbulence of passion" whereas of course it's "the naked flesh of passion")

[Roehre]

Just catching up with this programme via the podcast, and I am finding it excellent. Iplayer version as well as podcast still available at

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jyyjq

The contribution of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet is completely delightful. I am rapidly becoming an unconditional fan!

(Slight flat note: Tom Service's increasingly mannered interventions, providing a kind of audible sub-title for any word or concept he judges too much for listeners Maybe it's just the week-on-week repetition, but I'm finding it increasingly intrusive. He's not always correct either - at one point, Bavouzet refers to the Debussy quote about "la chair nue de la passion" - Service's interpolated translation was "the turbulence of passion" whereas of course it's "the naked flesh of passion")

Despite Tom Service a good programme. His way of speaking incresingly leaves me out of breath, I'm afraid - mannerisms? I don't know. But it is increasingly irritating and thus threatens to overshadow the contents of his programmes for me, I'm afraid

[Nick Armstrong]

Despite Tom Service a good programme. His way of speaking incresingly leaves me out of breath, I'm afraid - mannerisms? I don't know. But it is increasingly irritating and thus threatens to overshadow the contents of his programmes for me, I'm afraid

I'd have to agree, one has to try and tune him out and enjoy the programme despite the presenter (as so often these days on radio and TV )