Music Nation

[Frances_iom]

has anyone managed to listen to this mismash of easy listening, presenter waffle and mismatched items ? - Just what function is it supposed to play?

[DracoM]

Yes, a tiny bit. eg the Karl Jenkins 'music'.

[Frances_iom]

Yes, a tiny bit. eg the Karl Jenkins 'music'.

but he was billed as the great Welsh composer - did he have anything to say, judsging from his string quartet very little I suspect - apparently he holds some awrd for best muzak for use in lifts .

Are we going to have another 3 months of this nonsense linking some expensive sports day (do they have three legged races) with music and culture ?

[Norfolk Born]

I quite enjoyed the new Joubert cello concerto. The orchestra was announced on air as the 'National Chamber Orchestra', but in the Radio Times it's the 'Northern Chamber Orchestra', which I believe is correct. Perhaps DM was too distrracted by the vexed question of how to pronounce Shrewsbury.

[MrGongGong]

I enjoyed the BCMG gig on Saturday

[Chris Newman]

I quite enjoyed the new Joubert cello concerto. The orchestra was announced on air as the 'National Chamber Orchestra', but in the Radio Times it's the 'Northern Chamber Orchestra', which I believe is correct. Perhaps DM was too distrracted by the vexed question of how to pronounce Shrewsbury.

Yes, I too liked the Joubert Cello Concerto. I was interested to hear the City of London Sinfonia under Stephen Layton playing Vaughan Williams's music for the film Scott of the Antarctic with readings from Scott's tragic diaries and the Cecilia MacDowell song cycle on a similar theme sung by the excellent Robert Murray. I also heard the Shakespeare Sonnets Cycle written and sung by Rufus Wainwright with the BBCSO. It was fascinating to hear two composers both writing slow melismatic vocal lines. As so much modern music tends towards angular writing this was refreshing. I would say that Wainwright has a more individual sound. This is my first hearing of music by MacDowell and it sounded stylistically somewhere between Britten and Tippett.

Otherwise I have caught two loads of Bernstein: the excellent On the Waterfront from Northern Ireland and the less original West Side Story Symphonic Dances from the BBCSO.

[Hornspieler]

Are we going to have another 3 months of this nonsense linking some expensive sports day (do they have three legged races) with music and culture ?

Yes. As you can see, I have already submitted my entry. Should have a pretty good chance.

HS

[VodkaDilc]

Yes, a tiny bit. eg the Karl Jenkins 'music'.

I think I might have heard part of this. I expected to turn on for Choral Evensong during a car journey yesterday. Instead I heard a strange overblown concoction. I thought it might have been some film music - perhaps from one of the Planet of the Apes sequels (the music from the original film was much superior.) It turned out to be by Jenkins - doesn't he belong on Classic FM - with Einaudi?

[Brassbandmaestro]

R3 dumbing down again! Glad I missed it!

[MrGongGong]

R3dumbing down again! Glad I missed it!

hummm

I didn't think the gig I listened to was "dumbed down" at all