One Hit Wonders

[Guest]

Radio 3 and The Other Place have a knack of reducing some composers' output to a single piece of music. So if it's Mendelssohn you nearly always get Midsummer Night's Dream (he didn't write anything else, you see). If RVW, you usually get Thomas Tallis Theme. If Mozart quartets, it's always The Hunt (he did write some others but they were Haydn's…). If Prokofiev, it's usually the Classical Symphony. If Grieg, it's usually the Holberg Suite. And so on. It's called Aubade's Law.

Extraordinary moment on Breakfast this morning. The theme over recent weeks has been inviting suggestions to tie in with the location of the olympic torch. This morning, our location was Hammersmith.

Hammersmith anybody? Hmm - well a brass band struck up in my mind. Then SM-P informed us that Holst was head of music at St Paul's Girls School. St Paul's? The brass band faded in my mind and I thought… But SM-P went on to say that the school is still there on Brook Green. Brook Green? Ah, now I knew what was coming. Then she said "while Holst was teaching there he wrote this…" What did we get? JUPITER!

Other suggestions for Aubade's Law please.

[Northender]

If it's RVW, it's much more likely to be 'The Lark Ascending'
Songs of the Auvergne - 'Bailero', of course.
Barber - Adagio for Strings
Shostakovitch - Festival Overture
Mozart piano concertos - K467 (the middle movement)

[cloughie]

I beg to disagree with you but only marginally. Many composers have up to three pieces.

RVW - Tallis, Lark and Greensleeeves.
Mendelssohn - MND, Hebrides and Sym 4 (Movt 1)
Grieg - Holberg, Peer Gynt (Morning) and Wedding Day at T....
Prokofiev - Sym 1, bits of Lieu Kije and Peter and the Wolf
Ravel - Bolero, La Valse, Alborada

but then the one work Aubade does apply to:
Bernstein Candide Ov
Copland Fanfare
Walton Crown Imperial (Portsmouth Point Ov occasionally)

[salymap]

Litolff that scherzo. But wasn't it from Concerto Symphonique no 4. I think there were 5 of them so what about some of the other movements of the other works.

[aeolium]

The Aubade of Haydn piano trios has to be the Gypsy - rarely indeed is any other played.

Suffolkcoastal will be the expert on the operation of this law on R3.

[Resurrection Man]

I thought Prokofiev's was Romeo and Juliet?

[Aubade]

I thought Prokofiev's was Romeo and Juliet?

Of course: the dance of the knights.

(Am beginning to warm to Cloughie's Law.)

[Beef Oven]

The BBC reduced the enormous talent and repertoire of German artist 'Nena' to just one song - 99 red Balloons.

[amateur51]

Of course: the dance of the knights.

(Am beginning to warm to Cloughie's Law.)

That's very generous of you, Aubade

[Northender]

Litolff that scherzo. But wasn't it from Concerto Symphonique no 4. I think there were 5 of them so what about some of the other movements of the other works.

Many years ago, André Previn was guest presenter on a Radio 3 request programme. He played a recording of the whole of the C.S. no. 4, after which he left a brief but telling pause , then said something along the lines of 'OK, that can safely be put back in the drawer' (where, to the best of my knowledge, it has remained ever since).

Rachmaninov: THAT variation (no. 18?) from the Paganini Rhapsody, or the 2nd movement of the 2nd piano concerto.
John Adams: Short Ride In A Fast Machine
Fauré: the 'In Paradisum' from the Requiem

[Suffolkcoastal]

If you put all of these together you'll virtually have a daily Breakfast playlist. The Holst that Aubade mentions just about sums up what a total and utter embarassment parts of R3 have now become. For parts of the day Classic FM is probably now vastly preferable, especially if they cut the adverts.

[Pabmusic]

If you put all of these together you'll virtually have a daily Breakfast playlist. The Holst that Aubade mentions just about sums up what a total and utter embarassment parts of R3 have now become. For parts of the day Classic FM is probably now vastly preferable, especially if they cut the adverts.

But wait ... we've forgotten Ludwig van B! Roll out ... Für Elise, schmaltzily played.

[Serial_Apologist]

Erik Satie - Gymnopedies

[Ferretfancy]

Widor's Toccata, the only bit of growly organ music he's remembered for , although he did churn it out!

[Serial_Apologist]

Widor's Toccata, the only bit of growly organ music he's remembered for , although he did churn it out!

Diddle diddle diddle diddley, rather than growly, I would think, Ferret.