Radio 3 reaches its nadir

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

If we complain about the cabbage each day to the waiter, but continue to eat it, nothing much is likely to change.

At least if we leave it on the plate the chef might eventually realise something could be wrong. (Though some hope with the current chef!)

I'm almost exclusively doing my own cooking these days, with the exceptions of occasional takeaways from CDReview and Hear & Now - Ms Bott might just tempt me to a different restaurant.

Anyone hear Feedback yesterday? No chance of any changes in the Menu

[french frank]

Anyone hear Feedback yesterday? No chance of any changes in the Menu

They spent longer reading out [sic] the Radio 3 standard response, sent to everyone who complained, than they gave to the listeners. To my certain knowledge they were directed to the complaints on the Radio 3 Facebook page. And they were told that that particular R3 response had 'inaccuracies'. Didn't stop them reading it out anyway, and not querying it.

[Sir Velo]

Listened to the R3 documentary on The Piano (R) this Sunday. At the end of the programme, the announcer mentioned that "The Essay" for the forthcoming week would feature five personal responses to the instrument, as part of the current "Piano Season". Initially, I was surprised as, being a pianophile, I was unaware that such a season was running. Checking the Schedule I find, however, that "The Essay" for this week is on "Existentialism" (sic). So why the disconnect?

Investigating further, I find that the "piano season" alluded to was actually broadcast in 2012. Clearly, some bright spark just shoved the whole recording from the previous year into the player, including the announcements, without bothering to check for any such anachronistic idiocies.

Is this the nadir?

[Mattbod]

Beyond belief really wasting money on trying to orchestrate (good luck) boyband dross to play on Radio 3! Hall has all the arrogance of the modern BBC executive on a fat salary and not subjected to any commercial pressures. He won't have any listeners left at this rate but it won't matter as the licence fee will let him off anyway :/ Classic FM, much as I loathe it, could never afford to alienate its listeners.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Beyond belief really wasting money on trying to orchestrate (good luck) boyband dross to play on Radio 3!

Please, PLEASE tell me this is a spoof ...

[french frank]

Please, PLEASE tell me this is a spoof ...

Was this a trail for the R3 Boys v R3 Girls charity stunt? Little Mix (girls) v One Direction (boys) mixed with a bit of yer classical to give it a bit of R3 class?

[Stephen Whitaker]

Beyond belief really wasting money on trying to orchestrate (good luck) boyband dross to play on Radio 3! Hall has all the arrogance of the modern BBC executive on a fat salary and not subjected to any commercial pressures. He won't have any listeners left at this rate but it won't matter as the licence fee will let him off anyway :/ Classic FM, much as I loathe it, could never afford to alienate its listeners.

What makes you think that a Children in Need jocular fund-raiser has ANYTHING to do the arrogance of the DG?

It's all down to this chap

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio3/posts/For-Children-in-Need-the-ultimate-musical-battle

[muzzer]

I did laugh when SM-P having played the trailer said something to the effect "I know you'll all be wanting to hear much more about where that came from....." - toeing the party line admirably.

[Stephen Whitaker]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbXZ-XCnb5w

"As for the Turnage - I didn't like it much . It is ,however, an original composition influenced by other forms - not a transcription of a piece of tripe"

Just caught up with this old response and would like to point out that M-A T got into some considerable trouble precisely because it wasn't an original composition but an arrangement of Beyoncé's - Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It).

[Mattbod]

@Steven Whittaker: I take it back some composers can make a silk purse out of a sow's ear like Giovanni Dettori's "Lady Gaga" Fugue. Maybe that is unfair though as Gaga is I believe a classically trained pianist and her tunes are quite good. However 1Direction and the other dross: please...or at least keep it on Radio 1.

[Stephen Whitaker]

That's great indeed.
I think I prefer...........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9xyYnHDHZM&list=PL2E7359C18C8FF77B

Don't know if this will work or if the little clip tells us much.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151720004987060&set=vb.115493828472514&type=2&theater

[Mattbod]

That's great indeed.
I think I prefer...........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9xyYnHDHZM&list=PL2E7359C18C8FF77B

Don't know if this will work or if the little clip tells us much.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v...type=2&theater

Didn't know that one!

If the boy band stuff is for Children in Need then I guess that is an understandable bit of fun :) I thought from the tone of the original post that it was some kind of bizarre commissioning project on the part of R3.

[Nick Armstrong]

The Piano (R) ....

Is this the nadir?

No.

This is:

orchestrate(d) boyband dross

crossed with the damned tubthumping anvil Verdi thing.

Crossover vocals and all.

The worst.

Ever.

[maestro267]

Ah. I had a feeling this would ruffle the feathers of people here. Just do what I do. Ignore it and pass it over as a little bit of fun for charity. There. Problem solved.

[Anna]

Ah. I had a feeling this would ruffle the feathers of people here. Just do what I do. Ignore it and pass it over as a little bit of fun for charity. There. Problem solved.

I do that because: Children in Need is mandatory across all BBC platforms (I think they started it?) and it's not worth getting upset about programmes just lasting one day. I get more upset about the endless film music foisted upon us or the 24 hour Bach/Schubert Fest. There are alternative stations, or indeed, silence.