Presenters - Again

[eighthobstruction]

OK then what's the soundtrack...?

...I can quite imagine a bit of your mums Berlioz.....

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Threads about individual presenters are best avoided. We may not admire certain Radio 3 presenters, but giving a thread the name of the individual could be seen as an invitation to pillory him/her and proceed to throw metaphorical tomatoes.

So I've merged this latest thread with an earlier, more general one about Radio 3 presenters.

[Padraig]

Threads about individual presenters are best avoided.

[Ein Heldenleben]

Threads about individual presenters are best avoided. We may not admire certain Radio 3 presenters, but giving a thread the name of the individual could be seen as an invitation to pillory him/her and proceed to throw metaphorical tomatoes.

So I've merged this latest thread with an earlier, more general one about Radio 3 presenters.

Couldn’t agree more - particularly when the presenter in question has hosted an intelligent debate on a subject of great importance which no one seems to have commented on !

[gradus]

Couldn’t agree more - particularly when the presenter in question has hosted an intelligent debate on a subject of great importance which no one seems to have commented on !

I ducked in and out of the debate so can't form a balanced view but it included an attack on large orchestras, which must have been irritating for the CBSO's manager who was included in the discussion and reminded everyone that 2020 is the CBSO's centenary, surviving against all the odds and producing great music, education and outreach, together with a plea for dilution/broadening, depending on your view, of the South Bank halls and their offerings, as well as the usual recitation of the last rites for the orchestral concerts that many of us unobligingly continue to enjoy greatly. I get the impression that the views of anyone over 60 don't count any longer in discussions of this kind.

[Ein Heldenleben]

I ducked in and out of the debate so can't form a balanced view but it included an attack on large orchestras, which must have been irritating for the CBSO's manager who was included in the discussion and reminded everyone that 2020 is the CBSO's centenary, surviving against all the odds and producing great music, education and outreach, together with a plea for dilution/broadening, depending on your view, of the South Bank halls and their offerings, as well as the usual recitation of the last rites for the orchestral concerts that many of us unobligingly continue to enjoy greatly. I get the impression that the views of anyone over 60 don't count any longer in discussions of this kind.

The debate was a lot more complex than your summary suggests....

[gradus]

The debate was a lot more complex than your summary suggests....

'I ducked in and out of the debate so can't form a balanced view ...'

[Paulie55]

Georgia Mann on Essential Classics

I am sure Georgia is a very nice person but I have never known any other presenter to gabble ceaselessly for ages before playing a piece of music, especially when announcing the suggested playlists. A female version of Tom Service, perhaps? However, nobody could be worse than EA on Saturday morning, the selection of music on offer being pure "pants".

[DracoM]

Smack on the money - well said!!

[gurnemanz]

Yes, but why tune in to a programme you know you won't enjoy? Plenty of alternatives.

[pastoralguy]

However, nobody could be worse than EA on Saturday morning, the selection of music on offer being pure "pants".

Hmm. ‘Pure Pants’, eh?

Smetana. Bartered Bride Overture.

Chausson. 2nd movement of the Concerto for Violin, String Quartet and Piano.

Schumann Phantasiestücke for clarinet and piano.

Bernstein. Three Dance Episodes for On the Town.

Mozart. Piano Sonata in C. K 545.

Ponchielli. Dance of the Hours from La Gioconda.

Rautavaara. Ehtoohymni.

Delius. On hearing the first cuckoo in spring.

Benjamin Britten. Sunday Morning for Peter Grimes.

Beethoven. Sextet for two horns and string quartet.

Chopin. Tarantelle in Ab.

Handel. Where ‘er you walk’ from Semele.

Interspersed with lighter music and a bit of whimsy. (It’s the weekend after all).

I don’t honestly think I would be so bold as to describe ANY of that music as ‘pure pants’. (Well, maybe the Delius but that’s my loss).

I agree, if you don’t like it, switch it off!

[cloughie]

Hmm. ‘Pure Pants’, eh?

Smetana. Bartered Bride Overture.

Chausson. 2nd movement of the Concerto for Violin, String Quartet and Piano.

Schumann Phantasiestücke for clarinet and piano.

Bernstein. Three Dance Episodes for On the Town.

Mozart. Piano Sonata in C. K 545.

Ponchielli. Dance of the Hours from La Gioconda.

Rautavaara. Ehtoohymni.

Delius. On hearing the first cuckoo in spring.

Benjamin Britten. Sunday Morning for Peter Grimes.

Beethoven. Sextet for two horns and string quartet.

Chopin. Tarantelle in Ab.

Handel. Where ‘er you walk’ from Semele.

Interspersed with lighter music and a bit of whimsy. (It’s the weekend after all).

I don’t honestly think I would be so bold as to describe ANY of that music as ‘pure pants’. (Well, maybe the Delius but that’s my loss).

I agree, if you don’t like it, switch it off!

I agree PG but you forgot the highlight items the Croissant Corner selection, from which over the weeks I’ve a number of gallic things I don’t normally listen to, but have liked. The thing that I find most irritating about Lizzy is not her choice of music which is as listed above pretty good (other than her tuneless disconnected stuff), nor her accent but the fact that she tends to mumble and drop her voice at the end of sentences, and as I listen at a lower level when it is background rather than serious listening and so I don’t always catch what she is saying.
Georgia may talk a lot but at least has a good radio speaking voice!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Threads merged. The new one could be interpreted as being one that directly attacks an individual presenter, though I'm sure that wasn't the intention as others were mentioned too.

(Note post 62)

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes, but why tune in to a programme you know you won't enjoy? Plenty of alternatives.

Absolutely. The only way to get anything other than irritation from R3 is to be aware of the (sadly increasing) no-listen zones. Fortunately technology makes this very easy. No need to stray into areas of gabbling, gushing and the downright infantile

[Ein Heldenleben]

Hmm. ‘Pure Pants’, eh?

Smetana. Bartered Bride Overture.

Chausson. 2nd movement of the Concerto for Violin, String Quartet and Piano.

Schumann Phantasiestücke for clarinet and piano.

Bernstein. Three Dance Episodes for On the Town.

Mozart. Piano Sonata in C. K 545.

Ponchielli. Dance of the Hours from La Gioconda.

Rautavaara. Ehtoohymni.

Delius. On hearing the first cuckoo in spring.

Benjamin Britten. Sunday Morning for Peter Grimes.

Beethoven. Sextet for two horns and string quartet.

Chopin. Tarantelle in Ab.

Handel. Where ‘er you walk’ from Semele.

Interspersed with lighter music and a bit of whimsy. (It’s the weekend after all).

I don’t honestly think I would be so bold as to describe ANY of that music as ‘pure pants’. (Well, maybe the Delius but that’s my loss).

I agree, if you don’t like it, switch it off!

There are some lovely pieces there - I think that’s a well chosen selection for a Sunday morning . Some of those pieces like the Chopin Tarantelle hardly ever get an outing. Perhaps the Ponchielli is a little overplayed.