Overkill ?

[Serial_Apologist]

I recorded every minute of that 'Beethoven Experience' on mini-discs which now live in a shoe box with that week's Radio Times! One day, I'll listen to all of it. (Although I do have a friend who HAS heard it all after I loaned him the aforementioned shoe box!)

A very brave experiment by the BBC, imho!

I really can't see what is very brave or experimental about it.

[Serial_Apologist]

there are probably still many who listen "live", and they could get fatigue really quite quickly.

Dear me, how terrible!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I thought the Composerthons (Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, & others) were one of Wright's shoddiest ideas - devoted for up to two weeks to the works of a single composer, one after another after another: no way to respect the Music - just a pseudo-cultural gorging equivalent to Mr Creosote's dining habits.

But devoting 26 weeks of CotW (which these days focusses almost entirely on biographical matters anyway) isn't a bad way to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of one of humanity's greatest thinkers. Plenty of (I hope) other Music and discussion in between the programmes - and (I hope) a variety of different contributors talking about a variety of different topics with Donald MacLeod. Could be one of the gems in R3's history, if done properly ... "could be", I say ...

[ardcarp]

I had to check the OP to be sure it wasn't dated 1st April.....