Essential Classics??

[BBMmk2]

hmmm...... what type of programmes would Radio 3 listeners want to have on their radio station????

[BetweenTheStaves]

The 'guest's questionnaire' is what I meant by triviality:

The Essential Classics Questionnaire

1 - What was the first piece of classical music you can remember hearing?
2 - What piece first stimulated your interest in classical music
3 - What was the first classical record/CD you bought yourself?
4 - Do you have a favourite performer, and what piece would you choose to hear him/her/them play?
5 - If you could choose to be a virtuoso on any instrument, what would it be, and what piece would you like to play?
6 - Is there a piece you can play, or would like to play yourself?
7 - Do you have a favourite composer – and a favourite piece by him/her?
8 - What piece of music do you use to relax to?
9 - What piece of music makes you glad to be alive?
10 - What piece of music would you listen to on a journey (car/train/plane)?
11 - Is there a piece that you find particularly moving?
12 - Is there a piece that reminds you of a particular place?
13 - Is there a piece that makes you laugh?
14 - Can you work while listening to music, and what piece would you choose, and why?
15 - If you are entertaining friends, is there a particular piece you would put on?
16 - Is there a piece that you think should be more widely known – a hidden gem?
17 - Is there a piece of film or TV music that has particularly affected you?
18 - If you could step back in time to hear a great performer who’s no longer with us, who would it be, and what piece would you choose to hear?
19 - If we gave you an orchestra/choir/soloists, what piece would you choose to conduct?
20 - What piece of music do you want played at your funeral/to be remembered by?

21 - Which piece of music do you floss your teeth to?
22 - If you were in a balloon and it was losing height, which CD would you hang onto until the last?
23 - If Roger Wright was a wombat, what colour fur would he have?

I was quietly optimistic listening to the trails that Essential Classics might be 'educational' and a worthy replacement to CC and so prepared to keep an open mind. But now having seen these banal questions, I'm struggling to remain optimistic. We shall see.

[scottycelt]

Q) What piece of music makes you glad to be alive?


A) Death & Transfiguration Opus 24 (R Strauss) ...

[Norfolk Born]

There's a particularly irritating trail that certainly won't become essential listening in our house.

[Panjandrum]

These straw-man arguments seem strangely familiar.

Ah, I see our constructor of straw man arguments has resigned their membership. How all very odd.

[french frank]

Au contraire. He was not given the option of resigning.

[Panjandrum]

Au contraire. He was not given the option of resigning.

No twofer the price of one here, eh?

[Paul Sherratt]

>>One of the memorable Private Passions was with Frances Partridge

Boum !

[BetweenTheStaves]

ff

Have you really no other choices? For radio can't you pick up many of the foreign radio stations via t'Internet? What do you want radio for anyway? Is it to listen to music you know already, when it's on? .......

I am with FF on this one. Radio is convenient. I used to listen to R3 to hear different interpretations of works that I already know and to hear works for the first time. There was a time when one could turn on R3 in the morning and usually be rewarded with something worth listening to. Now, it is full of inane blether. So the 'noise' to value has swung way way out of balance and in the wrong direction. I couldn't care less what piece of music Joe Bloggs listens to in the bath/having a ****/picking his nose. I have only just recently heard that Discovering Music is also going. That was educational and enlightening. R3 has gone down the pan...it is virtually wall to wall worthless 'noise' with no in-depth coverage anymore.

[french frank]

>>One of the memorable Private Passions was with Frances Partridge

Boum !

Did you enjoy it, too, Paul?

[Paul Sherratt]

I'm sure I would have done ff.
I wonder if Charleston have a copy of the programme.
I'll ask them sometime.


Not that keen on ' Boum ' mind you. I'd have chosen something else.

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Que Reste-T-Il de Nos Amours?

[antongould]

I'm sure I would have done ff.
I wonder if Charleston have a copy of the programme.
I'll ask them sometime.


Not that keen on ' Boum ' mind you. I'd have chosen something else.

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Que Reste-T-Il de Nos Amours?

Michael Berkeley's guest on Saturday 23/05/1998 was Frances Partridge

The music played was:
1: Zefiro torna by Monteverdi
Paul Derenne, Hugues Cuenod (tenors)/Ensemble/Nadia Boulanger
CD/Record number:EMI CDH761025 2

2: Double Concerto in D minor, BWV 1043 (2nd mvt – Largo ma non tanto) by Bach
David and Igor Oistrakh (violins)/RPO/Sir Eugene Goossens
CD/Record number:DG 419 833-2

3: Quartet in C sharp minor, by Beethoven
Busch Quartet
CD/Record number:EMI CHS565308 2

4: Boum! by Trenet & Breton
Charles Trenet/Wal-Berg’s Orchestra
CD/Record number:ASV CD AJA 5166

5: O sleep, why dost thou leave me (from Semele) by Handel
Norma Burrowes (Semele)/English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner
CD/Record number:Erato2292-45982-2

6: Piano Trio in E flat, D.929 (2nd mvt) by Schubert
Alexander Schneider (violin)/Pablo Casals (cello)/Mieczyslaw Horszowski (piano)
CD/Record number:Sony SMK 58988

7: Piano Concerto in B flat, K 238 (1st mvt) by Mozart
Geza Anda (piano and director)/Salzburg Mozarteum Camerata Academica
CD/Record number:DG 419 001-2

8: Metamorphosen (conclusion) by R. Strauss
New Philharmonia Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
CD/Record number:EMI CDM 565078 2


Before my time but interesting................................

[french frank]

Michael Berkeley's guest on Saturday 23/05/1998 was Frances Partridge
[...] Before my time but interesting................................

Eccellente, antongould (though I see Paul was there before you!). And I see my memory had not let me down.

Interestingly (interesting to me), in 1998 I passed over Beethoven's Op. 131 which I was almost certainly 'not ready for' but which now is among the works which I value most highly - more than the Strauss or Monteverdi.

[teamsaint]

so what did anybody think of the actual show?
Bits I heard sounded good, but I suspect there won't be much really out of the ordinary in terms of repretoire, which would be a big shame with someone as outstanding ads RC at the helm.

[BetweenTheStaves]

I switched off about 5 minutes into the 'I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here' chat bit.