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CotW is supposed to be available as a podcast now, but I've only been able to find Monday's programme in the last 2 weeks ie Howells and Verdi. Is it just me? Or is this all we get? I've subscribed using Google Reader and the first item is "COTW: Welcome" which says: "Welcome to this new BBC podcast. If you subscribe to the podcast's feed, you should receive the first episode of this series automatically within the next seven days." so it looks as if Monday's is all we get  |
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Don Basilio
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« Reply #1 on: 20:47:25, 25-02-2008 » |
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I think they only put it on podcast on Friday, after the show is over.
I have listened to the last two, and they whiled away a foot slog nicely (I can walk to Kings Cross from home in the period of one programme.)
What you get is most of McCleod's text, but the music is cut to the bone. Even Howell's one well know hymn tune Michael was faded out before the last line. (Which as pew fodder I find the most unsatisfactory bit of word setting in the hymn book. "Be-he MY own.")
Since he spent a lot of time last week summarising Verdi scenes and then you only heard a minutes worth, I wondered of it value.
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Andy D
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« Reply #3 on: 00:57:35, 26-02-2008 » |
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Thanks guys. When they said u cld get the prog as a podcast, I was obviously being naive. You can't - end of story, as I believe some people at the BBC say  |
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Andy D
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« Reply #4 on: 10:47:24, 26-02-2008 » |
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I hadn't actually listened to the 2 mp3s I'd downloaded when I started this thread but I've got the Howells on now. It's not in fact the Monday programme, it's a digest of all 5 progs with nearly all the music cut out. They don't tell you this on the R3 webpage. Vaguely useful I suppose.
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« Reply #5 on: 10:51:38, 26-02-2008 » |
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And the next week, ie last week, Donald tells you the plot of Act 1 of Traviata in detail, to be followed by one minute of Sutherland doing the flashy bits from Sempre libera. (Which I am only to glad to hear, but as you say it is not what it says on the tin.)
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« Reply #6 on: 10:54:25, 26-02-2008 » |
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To complement these podcasts, it would be useful if podcast subscribers could also access streamed musical examples.
The fact that you have to listen to the entire week's broadcasts in order to listen to the music makes it all a bit pointless for my own use or interest.
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« Reply #7 on: 21:29:06, 20-10-2008 » |
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Am I alone in 'collecting' (I put this in inverted commas to stress I'm not obsessive about the practice in any way) the CoTW podcasts? I have about six months' worth stored on my laptop, which I tend to listen to at random - I might not be in a Vaughan Williams mood one week, but prefer Schoenberg instead. Yes, the severe excising of the music is a little irritating, but the edited biographical content does make for a good listen.
I also 'collect' (those inverted comma again) the Building a Library podcasts. These have actually promoted one or two purchases, so no matter how edited they are, I still find them rather valuable. Rob Cowan's survey of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring was a particularly fascinating broadcast, resulting in me buying not one but two of his final choices.
Incidentally, I imagine those of us downloading these podcasts are doing so because we're not able to tune in during the week? That's my reasoning, anyway.
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« Reply #8 on: 22:14:11, 20-10-2008 » |
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No you're not alone, Kuhlau, I've been downloading them, whenever I remember to, ever since they started appearing. I have missed some of them when I don't remember to download during the 7 days that they're available. However they're all sitting around waiting to be listened to, I don't think I've played any of them yet. Perhaps I am an obsessive collector? |
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« Reply #9 on: 22:25:40, 20-10-2008 » |
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« Reply #10 on: 22:33:29, 20-10-2008 » |
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... ever since they started appearing.
When was that, exactly? FK |
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« Reply #11 on: 01:12:13, 21-10-2008 » |
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... ever since they started appearing.
When was that, exactly? FK Judging from the date of my first post on this thread, sometime in early Feb 2008. |
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« Reply #12 on: 01:15:43, 21-10-2008 » |
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« Reply #13 on: 01:22:51, 21-10-2008 » |
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oh and btw for martle Yes, that was very rude of him after you went to all the trouble of turning up to his concert, even though the roof of the hall was leaking.  Oh, is that the time? |
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« Reply #14 on: 12:19:37, 21-10-2008 » |
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I've been downloading them since Feb, but I try to listen to them in the week in question. The musical examples are a bit silly with only snippets, but Donal Macleod can be highly entertaining. I never thought I would find a talk on Bruckner funny, (and not at the composer's expense either.)
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