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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26575

    Proms Extra - BBC2 for 6 weeks on a Saturday evening

    Worth a look, these programmes. If only for the little cameo appearance from David Owen Norris who each week analyses a single chord - is this first one, the 'big' chord from Rite of Spring. Always fun and informative.

    Some interesting other comments - esp. from Semyon Bychkov stressing how carefully the concert programmes are constructed... BBC TV CONCERT PRODUCERS TAKE NOTE FOR GOODNESS' SAKE!!

    With a report from Daniel Barenboim's Ring Cycle and a performance by Nobuyuki Tsujii.



    (Final bugbear - I can't watch Ms Derham. Even when she starts a sentence sensibly, one dreads the inevitable crinkling of her face into a saccharine, unnatural grimace of a grin at some point And why does she say 'Sir Antonio Pappano' with a dreadful cod-Italian accent?!? She doesn't do the same with 'Valery Gergiev' in an attempted Russian accent, for instance. And Tony Pappano's from Essex!!! Just say it in English!!

    And... breathe... calm.... )
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

  • amateur51

    #2
    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    Worth a look, these programmes. If only for the little cameo appearance from David Owen Norris who each week analyses a single chord - is this first one, the 'big' chord from Rite of Spring. Always fun and informative.

    Some interesting other comments - esp. from Semyon Bychkov stressing how carefully the concert programmes are constructed... BBC TV CONCERT PRODUCERS TAKE NOTE FOR GOODNESS' SAKE!!

    With a report from Daniel Barenboim's Ring Cycle and a performance by Nobuyuki Tsujii.



    (Final bugbear - I can't watch Ms Derham. Even when she starts a sentence sensibly, one dreads the inevitable crinkling of her face into a saccharine, unnatural grimace of a grin at some point And why does she say 'Sir Antonio Pappano' with a dreadful cod-Italian accent?!? She doesn't do the same with 'Valery Gergiev' in an attempted Russian accent, for instance. And Tony Pappano's from Essex!!! Just say it in English!!

    And... breathe... calm.... )
    Great news about more work for Nosser - he's rapidly turning into a replacement for Sir Patrick Moore

    Every time La Derham tries to say Pappano's name my neck disappears - a verbal road crash in prospect, I guess. He is such a natural talker in contrast - I loved the interview that he did with her. You're right about his unusual facial gymnastics whilst conducting but I forgive him - he's fast becoming a national treasure

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    • Sir Velo
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      • Oct 2012
      • 3269

      #3
      Originally posted by Caliban View Post

      [(Final bugbear - I can't watch Ms Derham. Even when she starts a sentence sensibly, one dreads the inevitable crinkling of her face into a saccharine, unnatural grimace of a grin at some point
      She reminds me of that other televisual bete noire of mine, Carol Klein; she of the little laugh in every sentence, just so that you know that she's not being dreadfully serious, and is really open and friendly.

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      • amateur51

        #4
        Originally posted by Sir Velo View Post
        She reminds me of that other televisual bete noire of mine, Carol Klein; she of the little laugh in every sentence, just so that you know that she's not being dreadfully serious, and is really open and friendly.
        What about Whispering Dan Cruickshank - you can only make out one word in five and he's EVERYWHERE!!

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        • aka Calum Da Jazbo
          Late member
          • Nov 2010
          • 9173

          #5
          er ahem, i enjoyed the first of these programmes, and was much taken with Ms Derham to my surprise since she usually brings me out in an allergic rash ....
          According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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          • mercia
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8920

            #6
            I couldn't quite understand the purpose of the programme - "by the way, this is what you missed this week"
            a programme looking forward to what's coming up in the following week would make more sense to me, perhaps I'm being overly grumpy
            Last edited by mercia; 28-07-13, 14:11.

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            • Word
              Full Member
              • Jan 2011
              • 132

              #7
              Originally posted by mercia View Post
              I couldn't quite understand the purpose of the programme - "by the way, this is what you missed this week"
              Does seem a bit odd but presumably because it'll still be available on iPlayer?

              I have yet to see the programme as I'm, appropriately enough, in Italy but I don't think I'd be able to say 'Pappano' without being accused by some honourable members of having put on a cod-Italian accent.

              Originally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo View Post
              er ahem, i enjoyed the first of these programmes, and was much taken with Ms Derham
              Careful, you'll be denounced as a heretic .
              (I think) I have recorded it so have that to look forward to when I return.

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26575

                #8
                Originally posted by Word View Post
                I have yet to see the programme as I'm, appropriately enough, in Italy but I don't think I'd be able to say 'Pappano' without being accused by some honourable members of having put on a cod-Italian accent.

                Careful, you'll be denounced as a heretic .
                (I think) I have recorded it so have that to look forward to when I return.
                I enjoyed it too!

                Lucky you, Word... Whereabouts are you? (Wherever, I am sure you are delighting the locals with your linguistic skills )
                "...the isle is full of noises,
                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                • Word
                  Full Member
                  • Jan 2011
                  • 132

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  Lucky you, Word... Whereabouts are you? (Wherever, I am sure you are delighting the locals with your linguistic skills )
                  In the Apennines, some way south of Milan between Piacenza and Parma. Even up here in the mountains it's a little too hot right now.

                  I don't think (perhaps mistakenly) that my accent is that bad but in all other respects my Italian is definitely substandard .

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26575

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Word View Post
                    In the Apennines, some way south of Milan between Piacenza and Parma. Even up here in the mountains it's a little too hot right now.

                    I don't think (perhaps mistakenly) that my accent is that bad but in all other respects my Italian is definitely substandard .

                    *envy!*
                    "...the isle is full of noises,
                    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                    • BBMmk2
                      Late Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 20908

                      #11
                      I find that she, in one programme, pronounced Gergiev's name differently each time and yes with Sir Antonio Pappano, Gah! Also gushing! Also trying to be Welsh when pronouncing Bryn Terfel's name!
                      Don’t cry for me
                      I go where music was born

                      J S Bach 1685-1750

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                      • MrGongGong
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 18357

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Word View Post
                        In the Apennines, .
                        aaah Hebden Bridge

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