COTW "Podcast" or "Download" - Discus (sic)

[Podfather]

Does anyone listen to them?

[Cheapskater]

Does anyone listen to them?

With COTW I normally listen to them live but don't download, whereas for BaL I do both (for material of interest). With BaL I enjoy the analysis (almost!) as much as the music i.e. frustrated music scholar!

[Sir Velo]

I normally catch COTW on the iplayer. However, this thread has prompted me to seek out some of the archived COTW podcasts. My first thoughts are that there is precious little music to listen to! While one appreciates that there are rights issues involved, one would like to hear more than the 10-15 second snippets one gets on the podcasts, particularly frustrating with little known composers. I would have thought that BBC concert performances, or failing that, some form of DRM applied to the podcasts would have been a workable solution.

[Nick Armstrong]

I normally catch COTW on the iplayer. However, this thread has prompted me to seek out some of the archived COTW podcasts. My first thoughts are that there is precious little music to listen to!

Sometimes a mercy!! There are quite a few composers about whose lives I have been interested to know something more, without necessarily being forced to their music in extenso...

If one wants to follow up, then there are lots of pointers.

I d/l the podcast every week. I do sometimes hear quite a bit live as the evening repeat often coincides with the ride home. And sometimes I will download the whole 5 x 1 hour shooting-match (Fauré) if it's up my street

[Nick Armstrong]

I normally catch COTW on the iplayer. However, this thread has prompted me to seek out some of the archived COTW podcasts. My first thoughts are that there is precious little music to listen to!

Sometimes a mercy!! There are quite a few composers about whose lives I have been interested to know something more, without necessarily being forced to their music in extenso...

If one wants to follow up, then there are lots of pointers.

I d/l the podcast every week. I do sometimes hear quite a bit live as the evening repeat often coincides with the ride home. And sometimes I will download the whole 5 x 1 hour shooting-match (Fauré) if it's up my street

one appreciates that there are rights issues involved

True, but what's odd is that the podcast of Building a Library seems to have shaken off the same shackles - as of December, the BaL podcasts carry the clips in full, whereas before even they were curtailed. The 45 min broadcast would be reduced to 35 or so.

It's perhaps different with CotW where full movements or pieces are generally played on air.

[Sir Velo]

Sometimes a mercy!! There are quite a few composers about whose lives I have been interested to know something more, without necessarily being forced to their music in extenso...

Can't think whom you might mean.

If one wants to follow up, then there are lots of pointers.

True, but a middle ground could be found IWHT. After all, one can FF with a podcast (another reason why I rarely listen to any programme, radio or TV, live) if something happens not to be up votre trottoir.

[Flay]

I quite often download the podcasts to listen while dog-walking. I rarely have time to listen to the whole programmes so the podcast is a Godsend.

[Nick Armstrong]

this thread has prompted me to seek out some of the archived COTW podcasts. My first thoughts are that there is precious little music to listen to! While one appreciates that there are rights issues involved, one would like to hear more than the 10-15 second snippets one gets on the podcasts

Sometimes a mercy!! There are quite a few composers about whose lives I have been interested to know something more, without necessarily being forced to their music in extenso...

Can't think whom you might mean.

Gounod, for instance.

[Flosshilde]

After all, one can FF with a podcast

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[Nick Armstrong]

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[Sir Velo]

Gounod, for instance.

[Sir Velo]

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Not an oblique reference to the generalissimo.

I was trying to make the point (rather too elliptically) that, pace Cali, a podcast could contain significantly greater amounts of music than is currently the case; then, if one happened not to like the composer's actual compositions () but was interested in their bio, one could easily fast forward the musical excerpts. Just recently, I was listening to the podcast of the 2001 programme on Dutilleux, a composer about whom I regrettably know very little. It was immensely frustrating that each extract finished just as one was starting to appreciate the very real qualities of the music.

[Richard Tarleton]

I got excited when I saw this thread because I thought it said "Dowland".

[doversoul1]

Every time I type in Dowland, Google asks me if I mean download.

P.S. I thoroughly enjoyed the WF Bach CoW.