BBC Young Musician on Four

[Panjandrum]

And of course - I've just remembered! Young Clemency's dad started the whole Young Musician thing off on BBC television. I wonder what he thinks of it now that his youngest has taken over his role

Remember?

I wonder whether CB-H has declared her interests in writing promotional material to the BBC? One would like to imagine that in order to avoid potential conflicts of interest the BBC would prevent one of its presenters from broadcasting on a concert in which their clients were appearing.

[Pianorak]

. . . a televising of the competition [as in days of yore] . . .

. . . such as the 10th Eurovision Grand Prix for Young Musicians 2000, which I have just rerun. Either complete works or complete movements - no waffle, no interruptions - just music making. Bliss!

[EdgeleyRob]

You should submit this to the "Any Poets Out There?" thread, Alpie - better than the majority of what is submitted!

Wot,even mine? I was thinking of giving up the day job too !

[Nick Armstrong]

. . . such as the 10th Eurovision Grand Prix for Young Musicians 2000, which I have just rerun. Either complete works or complete movements - no waffle, no interruptions - just music making. Bliss!

I have a recording of the piano stages and final of the BBCYM contest which Freddie Kempf won (great Rach Pag Variations - can't remember the year) and likewise, it's bliss compared with the soft-focus life-style gush that characterises the current coverage (I saw the first bit of the prog on it's early morning re-run.)

[french frank]

So next time you hear a presenter gush about how "wonderful" or "marvellous" or "iconic" so-and-so's performance has been, stop to ask yourself whether they might not just be writing their PR too.

I should make it clear, perhaps, that that's what I was referring to as 'promotional material', plus the Breakfast tweets ...

I'm impressed. Last year the Daily Mail named her as number 8 in Britain's top 50 most powerful posh people under 30. ("Bewilderingly multi-talented, the St Paul’s Girls’ School old girl is also an actress, violinist, presenter on The Culture Show and journalist. There’s nothing she can’t do." )
Yes, she's published a novel too. Her mother, agent Gillian Hill ...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Wot,even mine? I was thinking of giving up the day job too !

I did say "the majority", Rob!

[Pianorak]

Having just caught up with Young Musician 2012 on the iPlayer I must admit there is just about enough uninterrupted piano playing to form an opinion. The standard was very high indeed. I particularly liked the Morel Etude and the Dutilleux piece.

[vinteuil]

Having just caught up with Young Musician 2012 on the iPlayer I must admit there is just about enough uninterrupted piano playing to form an opinion. The standard was very high indeed. I particularly liked the Morel Etude and the Dutilleux piece.

... I watched this in part - enough to be terminally frustrated by the presentation, and enormously impressed by the talent on offer. Like Pianorak, I thought the Dutilleux was particularly good.

What made it sad for me was the mis-match between the crass trashy populism of the presentation - not just Clemency 'Burton' Hill, but the whole BBC schmaltzerei ladled around it - on the one hand : and on the other hand, the commitment and serious musicianship of the pianists, which shook me out of my middle-aged lethargy to realise how really wonderful they were. More of them - less of the presentariat, that's what I want...

[MrGongGong]

I've Sky plussed this and was going to watch later.....I'm beginning to wonder whether I should even bother.......

I wouldn't bother if I were you, Murdoch is a crook and we shouldn't be encouraging him by supporting his evil empire !
Nice to see you are on the verge of abandoning the whole Sky thing

[Mr Pee]

I wouldn't bother if I were you, Murdoch is a crook and we shouldn't be encouraging him by supporting his evil empire !
Nice to see you are on the verge of abandoning the whole Sky thing

Oh God.....I am certainly not on the verge of abandoning Sky. I might abandon BBC Young Musician though.

Why do you feel the need to derail a perfectly reasonable thread with yet another childish jibe?

Give it a rest, please.

[Nick Armstrong]

I wouldn't bother if I were you, Murdoch is a crook and we shouldn't be encouraging him by supporting his evil empire !
Nice to see you are on the verge of abandoning the whole Sky thing

Sneaky!

[Mr Pee]

Sneaky!

I repeat, for Caliban's benefit:-

Give it a rest, please.

[Nick Armstrong]

I repeat, for Caliban's benefit:-

[MrGongGong]

Maybe for mrP's benefit I should confine my contributions to a detailed Schenkerian Analysis of the music played then .........................................

are you following me at the back ?

[Richard Tarleton]

This really is getting boring.

Not for the first time, and almost certainly not for the last - were it not for the existence of Sky, some of us would not get a digital TV or radio signal at all. It's nothing to do with what you think of News Corp, or the Murdochs, or phone hacking - it's to do with getting a picture on your TV screen, or digital radio signal, or not. It's satellite or nothing. There is no longer an analogue signal (which was crap anyway), and it's impossible to get Freeview or cable. Sky is it. So to everyone who has a choice, fine (except that without Sky, you won't get Sky Arts or Sky Arts 2). If you live in a rural area like this, there is no alternative. It's a technical solution to a technical problem - with added benefits.