Schubert on 3

[Norfolk Born]

Ah! Enlightenment! Thank you, Roehre, I must try to memorise more Deutsch numbers.

OK, you can start on these:
Eins
Zwei
Drei
Vier
Fünf
Sechs
Sieben

That Schubert, 'e 'ad lots of ideas, it seems (sounds better read out loud)

[vinteuil]

If the NT or the RSC were to put on 24/7 continuous performances of all of Shakespeare's works, or dramatised readings from all Dickens' novels, they would probably be considered bizarre Guinness Book of Records or charity marathon stunts rather than meaningful cultural events. Yet the continuous transmission of all of a composer's works on R3 for 9 days is thought by its controller to be 'distinctive and engaging broadcasting'

Absolutely


I so completely loathe these completefests. All the more so when it's a composer whom I revere - Bach, Schubert. I don't want a radio 3 gavage. I want particular works at particular times.

[Roehre]

I so completely loathe these completefests. All the more so when it's a composer whom I revere - Bach, Schubert. I don't want a radio 3 gavage. I want particular works at particular times.

wholeheartedly seconded.

[JFLL]

Absolutely


I so completely loathe these completefests. All the more so when it's a composer whom I revere - Bach, Schubert. I don't want a radio 3 gavage. I want particular works at particular times.

Well, I share the loathing for 'celebrations' and 'commemorations' generally ('today is the 221st anniversary of Haydn's first arrival in London, so I thought I'd play you his 'London' symphony' -- yet another excuse for a witterfest), but these R3 marathons are, in theory, an opportunity to hear works which are rarely played -- except that you can bet that the works won't be listed individually in Radio Times, and that the piece you particularly want to hear wll be on at 3:51 a.m. (OK, at least we have the iPlayer now to catch up.)

[amateur51]

-- yet another excuse for a witterfest),

Many thanks for this splendid neologism, JFLL - may I starting using 'witterfest' (with suitable attribution, natch!)?

[Suffolkcoastal]

I don't think that Schubert actually needs a Schubertfest, his music is already having an exceptionally good year on R3, this is presumably in preparation for the Schubertfest. That's another 9 days rest I'll have from doing my survey.

Does anyone actually what planet RW is actually on? You think even the most stupid person would have learnt from the mistake of the Mozartfest, obviously RW is now totally out of control. Poor Schubert another great composer ruined by R3s idiotic dictator and his politburo.

[JFLL]

- may I starting using 'witterfest' (with suitable attribution, natch!)?

I shall expect 'tmjfll' in a little circle after every mention .............

[Pabmusic]

OK, you can start on these:
Eins
Zwei
Drei
Vier
Fünf
Sechs
Sieben

That Schubert, 'e 'ad lots of ideas, it seems (sounds better read out loud)

That's difficult. Beyond fünf always has been, whatever the language! But I can do it in Anglo-saxon:

an
twa
þrie
feower
fif

[Norfolk Born]

I don't think that Schubert actually needs a Schubertfest, his music is already having an exceptionally good year on R3, this is presumably in preparation for the Schubertfest. That's another 9 days rest I'll have from doing my survey.

Does anyone actually what planet RW is actually on? You think even the most stupid person would have learnt from the mistake of the Mozartfest, obviously RW is now totally out of control. Poor Schubert another great composer ruined by R3s idiotic dictator and his politburo.

I hope that Britten isn't subjected to this sort of thing in November 2013. I'm quite happy to listen to everything he wrote, but NOT to have it packed into a humungous 'Benjie Bonanza' which would require me to record most if not all of it. By the time I'd got round to listening to it all, the centenary year would be over, which would be a pity and rather beside the point.

[Brassbandmaestro]

I think these programmes give a very good insight into a composer's output. Although in some ways, I know it appears, in another front, that it could be a way of Radio 3 to do one of their economy drives?