Chatter on Radio 3.

[cloughie]

I timed two complete Breakfast programmes and I imagine it's no coincidence that speech took up almost exactly - to the minute - 30 minutes: 20% of the programme for which there are no performing rights fees to be paid. If something musically interesting was being said, it might not be quite so bad.

I like the comment that 'inclusivity' means a place for everyone, not everyone in the same place ...

Is performing rights paid on a recording or on time - if the former then surely a good case for playing complete works.

[cloughie]

I'm quite willing to be convinced! (At least it held my interest throughout, which is more than can be said for Glazunov's 5th symphony which recently occupied the same slot).
Out of interest, do you have any views on Moeran's Sinfonietta - a more substantial work, perhaps, than its title suggests?

A really delightful work - back in the seventies there were two really good recordings - LPO Boult on Lyrita and NS Dilkes on EMI. As for the Stenhammar there was a recording by Kubelik on Heliodor which got regular playings on my old Garrard SP25!

[Don Petter]

I take it Radio Classique is commercial, like Classic FM?

I don't recall adverts, but perhaps they wafted past me, being in French. Can some francophile confirm?

(There is a French Wiki article saying the station was privately owned, started in 1982 by ex-France Musique producers. Since 2007, it has been part of the Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton Group.)

[french frank]

Is performing rights paid on a recording or on time - if the former then surely a good case for playing complete works.

I'm not sure but it's on time for the classical podcasts that have recorded music - it started out as not more than 2-minute extracts (much like the original 'needle time').