BBC Sounds

[Andrew Slater]

30 plays in 399 days?

But only two of them available on Sounds (all of 35 hours apart).

[DracoM]

Well, next week, we TWO Messiahs - even worse, on successive evenings on R3.
What on EARTH is going on?

[Andrew Slater]

Well, next week, we TWO Messiahs - even worse, on successive evenings on R3.
What on EARTH is going on?

I can only find one - on Thursday

Where did you get the info?

[LMcD]

I knew it! Piazzolla Libertango has been played 14 times in the last 13-14 months (399 days)

That's 14 times too many, I reckon. MEANWHILE, 'Breakfast' is playing a movement from a Mahler symphony - care to guess which one? (Dirk Bogarde fans are banned from answering).

[Cockney Sparrow]

After 23 minutes of wildlife/drumming/etc sounds. I'm going to go for an Internet station on Sunday mornings, I think. I might listen to.Martin Handley's, in arrears, so I can skip the "sounds".

[BBMmk2]

After 23 minutes of wildlife/drumming/etc sounds. I'm going to go for an Internet station on Sunday mornings, I think. I might listen to.Martin Handley's, in arrears, so I can skip the "sounds".

That was the sound of the woodpecker! Gawd! I think it’s ratger nice. Messiaen was a great lover of bird song. It’s music after all!

[Cockney Sparrow]

That was the sound of the woodpecker! Gawd! I think it’s ratger nice. Messiaen was a great lover of bird song. It’s music after all!

Sounds like you are their target audience, BBMmk2! They will be delighted - there is a cohort who welcome 23 minutes of "sounds" at 08:10 on Sunday morning.
Also, I'd better correct myself now, in my hazy recollection - it was more likely from about 08:15.

[Globaltruth]

There's some more info here

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?19369-Goodbye-iPlayer

[french frank]

Anyway, back to Andrew's playlist database Beta: Oh, the Games People Play Now …

Following the announcement of D. Scarlatti's "Köchel 455" yesterday, which appeared on the Breakfast playlist as K. 455, I looked at the last 100 days, and for this composer there were 41 (approx.) pieces played on Radio 3, of which 34 (approx.) were marked K, Kk or k; of which, 20 (approx.) were simply marked K, 12 (approx.) were marked Kk and two (approx.) were marked k.

Should a presenter with a limited knowledge of classical music be allowed to 'research' what K.455 stands for?

Was the presenter under the impression that K.455 always meant 'Köchel 455'?

Was the presenter told by a member of the production team what K.455 stood for, and the presenter simply repeated it?

Would it be marginally preferable to indicate Scarlatti's works by the quite usual Kk?

By the way, Köchel 455 is the 10 Variations on 'Unser dummer Pöbel meint' …

[Bryn]

Anyway, back to Andrew's playlist database Beta: Oh, the Games People Play Now …

Following the announcement of D. Scarlatti's "Köchel 455" yesterday, which appeared on the Breakfast playlist as K. 455, I looked at the last 100 days, and for this composer there were 41 (approx.) pieces played on Radio 3, of which 34 (approx.) were marked K, Kk or k; of which, 20 (approx.) were simply marked K, 12 (approx.) were marked Kk and two (approx.) were marked k.

Should a presenter with a limited knowledge of classical music be allowed to 'research' what K.455 stands for?

Was the presenter under the impression that K.455 always meant 'Köchel 455'?

Was the presenter told by a member of the production team what K.455 stood for, and the presenter simply repeated it?

Would it be marginally preferable to indicate Scarlatti's works by the quite usual Kk?

By the way, Köchel 455 is the 10 Variations on 'Unser dummer Pöbel meint' …

Kk is fine, but what about Kp? Does that drive you nuts?

[french frank]

Kk is fine, but what about Kp? Does that drive you nuts?

[vinteuil]

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... ten times this year we have had extracts from Fęlá Şowándé's African Suite. That's nine times too many.


Very many thanks to Andrew for this clever thing!


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[vinteuil]

I'd be grateful for any reports of bugs here.

... hi Andrew. I was looking for Şowándé, which it did not recognize, perhaps because of the diacritics. But then it didn't like Sowande either. But it did respond to 'African Suite'.

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[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... hi Andrew. I was looking for Şowándé, which it did not recognize, perhaps because of the diacritics. But then it didn't like Sowande either. But it did respond to 'African Suite'.

If you replace all letters with accents by * (in this case "*ow*nd*" - without the inverted commas) it comes up. So, in this instance, do all the broadcasts of works by Dowland, but .... )


[Oops my mistake. Edited rather than Replied. Not sure I corrected it properly either ff]

[french frank]

What I was trying to post was :

If you replace all letters with accents by * (in this case "*ow*nd*" - without the inverted commas) it comes up. So, in this instance, do all the broadcasts of works by Dowland, but .... )

If you enter everything you know:

F*l* *ow*nd*