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CD Masters will be replaced by Classical Collection, first programme will be broadcast 2nd April. Sarah Walker and James Jolly are to present the new weekday morning (10.00am-noon) programme offering "an in-depth guide to both contemporary and historic recordings of classical music, focussing mainly upon the core repertoire". Eh, so couldn't we have kept the programme name CD Masters  ? ?Sarah Walker will introduce the first programme on 2nd April and presumably we will hear from James Jolly in later programmes (he has previously been a guest/contributor CD Review on Saturday mornings). James Jolly is Editor-in-Chief of the Gramophone magazine. Anyway, the BBC press office have published this announcement: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/03_march/13/collection.shtmlJohn W |
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« Reply #1 on: 13:50:56, 14-03-2007 » |
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Why do they have to concentrate on “core” repertoire? I would more likely to listen at music by composers that have been neglected. This is where the Saturday afternoon request progamme came into its own. I am not interested in listening to works composed in the 18th and 19th century. Mozart fills me with dread.
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« Reply #2 on: 14:29:29, 14-03-2007 » |
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Indeed, it looks increasingly, with the axing of Mixing It at one end and the almost total exclusion of other kinds of new music from Afto3,and Perfo3 that R3 strategy now implies being a museum curator? Endless recycling of the 'core repertoire'.
Does that by any chance remind you of any other classical music station you know?
Anyone remember the Thursday Invitation Concerts?
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« Reply #3 on: 15:40:42, 14-03-2007 » |
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We have had dissenting voices here from Mark Russell and Tommy Pearson. I wonder if Jonathan Swain will make an appearance with his real feelings in a couple of weeks ? Do you think a BBC executive will be sitting in the studio for the final broadcast of CD Masters ala Mixing It ?
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« Reply #4 on: 15:52:12, 14-03-2007 » |
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Anyone remember the Thursday Invitation Concerts?
I remember them very well. One of their conspicuous features was that new works were sometimes performed twice, once in each half of the concert, an idea of Hans Keller. But I daresay they're remembered most for the "Piotr Zak" hoax, perpetrated by Keller and others. I listened to that concert and I must admit that I enjoyed the Mobile for Tape and Percussion.  |
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Martin
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« Reply #5 on: 21:09:09, 14-03-2007 » |
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so couldn't we have kept the programme name CD Masters I guess that's because CD Masters was a programme made by an outside company, Classic Arts, who, we may presume, didn't want anyone else pinching the prog's title name  (cf. Mixing It?) |
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« Reply #6 on: 22:32:02, 14-03-2007 » |
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Martin, I expect that is a very good guess  |
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« Reply #7 on: 22:35:41, 14-03-2007 » |
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What's the betting that Sarah Walker will include a certain recording of Chopin Etudes before too long? (Possibly correctly attributed...)
If she is an expert on English experimental music let's have some of that. Perhaps (following on from M Satie) after quarter past eleven for safety...
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« Reply #8 on: 10:25:31, 19-03-2007 » |
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OK this is the press release: Classical Collection from Monday 2nd April 10.00am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 3 Sarah Walker and James Jolly, editor-in-chief of Gramophone magazine, present a new weekday series, Classical Collection, the successor to CD Masters. The series focuses on great music in fine recordings, both contemporary and historic, but primarily from the stereo era onwards. On Mondays, listeners have the opportunity to hear a complete performance of the Building A Library critics' choice from the previous Saturday's CD Review programme. At least twice a week, the series features a Group Of Three – a chance to compare and contrast performers' interpretations or composers' treatments of a group of three short pieces. And on Wednesdays and Fridays there's a chance to hear more substantial works performed by the current artist featured in Radio 3's Artist Focus series. Presenters/Sarah Walker and James Jolly, Producer/Wendy Thompson BBC Radio 3 Publicityhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/radio/wk14/mon.shtml#radio3 |
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« Reply #9 on: 12:49:52, 19-03-2007 » |
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We have had dissenting voices here from Mark Russell and Tommy Pearson. I wonder if Jonathan Swain will make an appearance with his real feelings in a couple of weeks ? Do you think a BBC executive will be sitting in the studio for the final broadcast of CD Masters ala Mixing It ?
Hang on! I want to make it clear that I have not given any opinion on Classical Collection - why would I? It hasn't even started yet! The only comment I have made directly about R3's new schedule is about the lack of live concerts, which I do think is a mistake. bws Tommy |
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« Reply #10 on: 14:11:35, 19-03-2007 » |
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Tommy
Loose use of language on my part, apologies. I merely meant that Mark Russell and yourself had expressed certain reservations on these boards about the current R3 situation. It just happened to be this thread that I attached that throwaway comment to as part of a general musing as to why J. Swain wasn't going to be involved in Classic Collection. Didn't mean to put words into your mouth as it were.
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« Reply #11 on: 01:46:44, 02-05-2007 » |
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Tuned into James Jolly this morning. Amiable enough but very Daily Mail giveaway cd-on the lines of 'more wedding music..here's another 1st symphony'-unimaginative scripting. However rarities: Boulez conducting Mozart today and the Emperor concerto tommorrow. You wonder at some point if Jolly will have a Peter Finch moment in
'Network' -draw himself up to his full height and shout '..I'm mad as hell and I won't take it any more' -or will
his librium prescription last?
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'...A celebrity is someone who didn't get the attention they needed as an adult'
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Today May 31? Friday Alkan is played. It is very good. I hear a good pianist and a good piece.
I am glad I turn the radio on by chance. I don't know what is being played. It sounds a lot like Schumann. I can not turn it off, I have to listen to the end (even if I will be late).
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Just to say a word in favour of James Jolly  I know, I know. I share the general despair at the decline of the Gramophone on his watch and, partly for that reason, haven't bothered much with 'Classical Collection' because I thought I knew what to expect. But I've been pleasantly surprised this week. Some highly enjoyable off-the-beaten-track repertoire (I'd never managed to hear Janacek's wonderfully bonkers setting of the Lord's Prayer before and it's a joy) and he (and/or his producer?) have dug out some revelatory recordings in the good 'ole Rob Cowan style. The introductions seem helpful and to the point as far as I'm concerned. No complaints from me, not even the traditional Message Board dyspeptic outrage and projectile vomiting at the fact that he breathes, or has a whistle in his left nostril or can't pronounce Shaham or something. [A bit later: Except the bugler has now just jumped in almost before the last notes of Martinu's Field Mass had faded away. Grrr . OK Jolly, you're back on probation again before you get any more praise from me.] |
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« Reply #14 on: 17:32:34, 14-07-2007 » |
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Is there perhaps a secret society devoted to the credo of Daily Mail giveaway cd's (the Prince of Minneapolis, wearer of a privet hedge barnet, the latest inductee?). I feel there would be a lot of
ritual coughing, the attack upon on morendos George endured, clapping between movements, and the trimming of woggles.
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