Old Radio 3 recordings - does anybody have any....?

[cmr_for3]

It seems there are not many on youtube. I've always wanted to hear for example continuity from the 70s 80s and 90s....

[MarkG]

This blog has some interesting recordings of veteran R3 announcers of the past.

http://andywalmsley.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/radio-3-announcers.html

[cmr_for3]

This blog has some interesting recordings of veteran R3 announcers of the past.

http://andywalmsley.blogspot.co.uk/2...nnouncers.html

I vaguely remember seeing this, but good to explore it again - Many Thanks

[ChrisBennell]

I have many examples recorded on Cassette from about 1979 to 1993 - some of the more interesting ones I have copied to hard disk, then CD, as the cassettes are now deteriorating. Some of my favorites include :

An extract from "At Home for Today" introduced by Jack Brymer and featuring the harpist Zicanor Zaboleta. (I wonder if this was actually from R4)
A complete programme on Spanish 15C and 16C songs with copious introductions and the New London Consort.
A complete programme on Soler and Scarlatti harpsichord sonatas, again with copious introductions.
A concert featuring Les Noces (Stravinsky) with many pianists in their earlier career, and now well known, (Ian Brown, Malcolm Martineau etc)

[Bryn]

I have a few reel-to -reels going back to the mid-'60s, but nothing in working order to play them on. Cassettes I have from the '70s, including one from a 1972 Prom in which the Scratch Orchestra performed a specially revised and shortened concatenation of Paragraphs 1 and 2 of Cornelius Cardew's The Great Learning. That has a particularly edgy introduction from the announcer (this was in the time before 'presenters').

[Andrew Slater]

There is a snippet from 1979 after a Prom concert (Victor Hallam), information about the next day's concert and change-over to the next duty announcer (Donald Price) here which I uploaded to Mediafire a few years ago. I suspect that the long silence was during chair and 'phones change-over!

[cmr_for3]

There is a snippet from 1979 after a Prom concert (Victor Hallam), information about the next day's concert and change-over to the next duty announcer (Donald Price) here which I uploaded to Mediafire a few years ago. I suspect that the long silence was during chair and 'phones change-over!

How marvelous - thank you. We don't have broadcasting like that anymore - such a shame.

[pastoralguy]

Superb! Thank you. I love the way the announcer says 'they were desperately in love' with a sense of disapproval as if this isn't quite Radio 3 behaviour.

[ardcarp]

An elderly musician whom I knew died. Then his widow died. Her will was very complicated with lots of small bequests to various friends. To me she left an enormous box of reel-to-reel tapes which her husband had made of The Third Programme from an old valve radio via a microphone to an early Grundig. I regret to say that as I didn't really want 'The Classics' as heard through a closed door in a thunderstorm, I no longer have them. Am I a Philistine? Even if they had some historical interest, I doubt that even the latest technology could have 'cleaned them up'.

[Andrew Slater]

More here, all Patricia Hughes 1979 to 1982:

https://www.sendspace.com/file/n4rugu

https://www.sendspace.com/file/y1ujdk

https://www.sendspace.com/file/j9e2j0

I think if you press the 'download' button you can ignore the encouragement to log in / create an account.

I've quite a lot of tapes with such snippets and last year acquired a large number of tapes, which I haven't gone through yet, but which will contain similar. I'll try to upload suitable bits from time to time.

[Andrew353w]

How marvelous - thank you. We don't have broadcasting like that anymore - such a shame.

Absolutely brilliant! Many thanks for going to the trouble to put this piece of nostalgia "out there" (as the current argo has it!) I love that style of broadcasting and miss it terribly!

[cmr_for3]

More here, all Patricia Hughes 1979 to 1982:

https://www.sendspace.com/file/n4rugu

https://www.sendspace.com/file/y1ujdk

https://www.sendspace.com/file/j9e2j0

I think if you press the 'download' button you can ignore the encouragement to log in / create an account.

I've quite a lot of tapes with such snippets and last year acquired a large number of tapes, which I haven't gone through yet, but which will contain similar. I'll try to upload suitable bits from time to time.

Thanks very much - those were a great listen

[MickyD]

Yes, I have one or two programmes from the early 80s which featured specially made programmes for the BBC by the Academy of Ancient Music and Christopher Hogwood. One featuring the wonderful Patricia Hughes (Mozart symphony 1, which may be the very one that Andrew mentions above) plus one or two other announcers I can't remember. It was probably Andrew who very kindly put my recordings (from mini disc) on to CD for me some time ago.

[Andrew Slater]

Yes, I have one or two programmes from the early 80s which featured specially made programmes for the BBC by the Academy of Ancient Music and Christopher Hogwood. One featuring the wonderful Patricia Hughes (Mozart symphony 1, which may be the very one that Andrew mentions above) plus one or two other announcers I can't remember. It was probably Andrew who very kindly put my recordings (from mini disc) on to CD for me some time ago.

Yes, and yes - all the uploads are from the CDs I sent you: the Mozart from your minidisc, the others from my archives - apologies for not crediting you

[jean]

I have a few reel-to -reels going back to the mid-'60s, but nothing in working order to play them on.

I have all the reconstructed Renaissance masses from the 1980s on reel-to-reel tape, but I have nothing to play them on nor have I discovered any means of transferring them to another format!