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Thanks for this, Lord Byron. I'm a bit busy so missed it in my cursory scan of the listings. I've already cleared my schedule for the remaining programmes. Now to create a half hour period of peace and quiet round my PC so I can catch up on the one I missed. I've seen her twice at our concert society and she impressed me very favourably both times.
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« Reply #2 on: 15:16:16, 20-02-2007 » |
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I loved Rameau suite that she played. I loved the way she played it. I have to listen again if they have it.
Her Bach's inventions are good too. I find it kind of cool jazzy. I loved it.
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« Reply #3 on: 15:18:28, 20-02-2007 » |
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« Reply #4 on: 23:35:04, 20-02-2007 » |
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Just one cotton-picking minute. There's something seriously amiss with this slot. Last night (Monday) I thought I had misread the schedules, because at 22.50 it certainly wasn't Angela Hewitt who was playing.
So I took particular note tonight of what happened. The programme began, as billed, with Angela Hewitt playing an except from Chabrier's Dix Pieces Pittoresques. This lasted ten minutes. There then followed a song by Chabrier, with orchestral accompaniment, an orchestral work by Steynhammer ... followed by several other works in which Angela Hewitt was not involved in any way.
I feel cheated.
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« Reply #5 on: 08:24:49, 21-02-2007 » |
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Nick, I thought she only played Rameau on Monday and I missed Tuesday. (Was she there on Tuesday too). The rest was orchestrated version or something. It was disappointing, I have to say, to tune in for Hewitt and hear something else.
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« Reply #6 on: 16:30:24, 21-02-2007 » |
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I was quite surprised, too. A programme called Artist Focus which has very little of the named artist and no discernable focus has to be considered a let down. I haven't yet heard Monday's programme but I'm wondering whether tonight's and tomorrow's are worth the effort. Philip Langridge was most enjoyable but it wasn't what I tuned in for. Unless I just haven't looked hard enough - always a possibility - there is no advance play list for these programmes. The RT and the online listings just say "Angela Hewitt, who begins the programme with..." for each programme. Pretty poor show, I must say. No wonder they don't want to to provide a messageboard for people to comment.
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« Reply #8 on: 08:46:31, 22-02-2007 » |
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Last night programme featured Angela Hewitt playing Couperin. I liked it, her sound is light and pleasant.
After that the orchestral version of Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin. It was nice, but why do they call it Artist in focus programme?
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« Reply #9 on: 14:45:57, 22-02-2007 » |
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Sorry all - missed this thread & started a new one elsewhere - I will delete!
I said:
Having listened to this a couple of times, I have to say I am rather disappointed by it. I was expecting a critical appreciation of the chosen artist over 4 nights, but it is not that at all. It is merely a half-hour hodge-podge of miscellaneous music, topped and tailed by a recording from the chosen artist. And DJ-ed by the ubiquitous Petrock.
Seeing as Later Junction has been pushed back to accomodate this programme, frankly I'm rather miffed!
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« Reply #10 on: 22:46:17, 26-02-2007 » |
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I turned the radio on to listen to artist in focus again (26th Feb). I was expecting to hear Vengerov play. But what do I hear? It is a chant of monks or something. Now they play new age music, I could not hear the composer. And the link doesn't work They want no feed back now on radio 3.  |
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« Reply #11 on: 17:01:09, 13-03-2007 » |
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yes it is laughably bad...half an hour of Angela Hewitt or other artist might have been a compensation for the butchery of the 10.15 slot...but the mish mash is clearly a copy of CFM degeneracy...and in the name of some beautiful artists too.
almost as bad as that sunday sequence (expletive deleted)....where at least they don't seem to try to do poetry and music simultaneously any more (well i heard about 10 minutes of it this sunday...but it seems to diminish both still).
ah but it's more respectable than all this music produced by dusky foreigners...................
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