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I'm listening with great pleasure to Pierre Monteux performance of Brahm's Variations on at Theme by Haydn at the moment, but I'm also sad about the fact this is the last week of CD Masters. A very fine programme that I will miss enormously.
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« Reply #1 on: 10:36:44, 26-03-2007 » |
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I had that recording on a cassette coupled with the Enigma Variations. I hardly play what cassettes I have because they haven't aged as well as the vynil.
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« Reply #2 on: 11:02:25, 26-03-2007 » |
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I had that recording on a cassette coupled with the Enigma Variations. I hardly play what cassettes I have because they haven't aged as well as the vynil.
The Elgar by Monteux was broadcast by CD Masters a few weeks ago. Very funny performance: Elgar with a wonderful La Mer sound in the brass. |
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« Reply #3 on: 11:29:30, 26-03-2007 » |
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The Monteux programme today has been marvellous!
I have several Beethoven symphonies by Monteux/LSO on vinyl which need an airing after this! I can't remember how good they are, nor when I last played them.
John W
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« Reply #4 on: 11:55:25, 26-03-2007 » |
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I see that even Monteux' recording of Willem Pijper's Third Symphony will be broadcast this week!  A Monteux recording I like very much is the Chausson symphony with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. |
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« Reply #5 on: 12:04:21, 26-03-2007 » |
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I am listening to the end of CD Master's today Buxtehude: Membra Jesu. I checked the schedule and they are on tomorrow. I don't understand something.
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« Reply #6 on: 13:00:32, 26-03-2007 » |
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I am listening to the end of CD Master's today Buxtehude: Membra Jesu. I checked the schedule and they are on tomorrow. I don't understand something.
t-p CD Masters is being broadcast all this week but Friday's edition will be the final one of the programme. It is being replaced from Monday by a programme called Classic Collection with different presenters. |
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« Reply #7 on: 13:17:05, 26-03-2007 » |
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I am listening to the end of CD Master's today Buxtehude: Membra Jesu. I checked the schedule and they are on tomorrow. I don't understand something.
The same is sometimes happening with Night Waves. Recently, a few issues that were scheduled on Mondays were part of the Tuesday episodes.  |
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« Reply #8 on: 16:44:55, 26-03-2007 » |
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Whatever mix the new Classical Collection has, following CDM is going to be a very, very tricky act to follow.
The one thing about CDM that I value most is the sense of musuic I kow being contextualised in terms of intrepretation, recording history, style and performance options / practice. If the new prog abandons that and simply plays new offerings - yes I KNOW what they say they are going to do, but who believes BBC hype? - the BBC will be reneging on a significant part of its remit to educate. For me, CDM has been a real weekly / daily class on air, and I will miss it.
So, no pressure, Classical Collection, Sarah Wlaker and the egregious James Jolly.
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« Reply #9 on: 20:10:31, 26-03-2007 » |
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I've always enjoyed Monteux's Scheherazade with the LSO. I don't think Decca got round to releasing it on CD so it was left to Belart.
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« Reply #10 on: 09:04:56, 28-03-2007 » |
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I caught a flyer for "Classical Collections" on RC's Breakfast "show" (  ) in which Sarah Walker puffed up the style and content. If I had been listening to CFM I would not have been surprised by what I heard. I am not confident that it will be anything other than a motley collection of unconnected pieces that just extends the Breakfast "show" ( ) by a couple of hours. Am I alone in finding Sarah Walker's voice intensely irritating? I don't often comment on voice styles as there is room for every regional accent so long as they are comprehensible but SW's has a timbre that suggests she is constantly - well how can I put it without sounding offensive - smirking. I will miss Jonathan Swain's comparable gravitas tremendously.  |
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« Reply #11 on: 11:29:08, 28-03-2007 » |
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I have some time off work tomorrow, and I'm looking forward to the Monteux Tchaik 4
Friday's CDM looks good too - ending with Brahms Symphony No.2
It'll be missed
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« Reply #13 on: 13:55:30, 30-03-2007 » |
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So, that was that.
I must say I was moved by Jonathan Swain's words on the last CD Masters this morning. I'm not a regular listener of Through the Night so I don't think I will be hearing much of Jonathan in the future. I will miss his knowledge and his way of presenting very much.
Thank you, CD Masters, for six wonderful years of music on radio.
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