FNiMN

[Pulcinella]

Looks like last night's extravaganza is going to be on TV on Sunday:


Inside Classical
BBC4, 8pm
The trick-or-treating sugar rush should have worn off by now, but it remains the perfect season for ghosts to hover at the edges of your vision. The broadcaster and drummer Owain Wyn Evans presents a concert that promises to delight everyone's inner goth as the BBC National Orchestra of Wales performs music from the dark side. Ellie Slorach will conduct a programme that includes Saint-Saëns's Danse Macabre, Rimsky-Korsakov's arrangement of Mussorgsky's A Night on the Bare Mountain, Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, and John Williams's deathless — or maybe undead — film scores for Harry Potter (Hedwig's Theme), ET and Jaws. A missed chance, maybe, to not include an arrangement of a track from Carcass's 1988 album Reek of Putrefaction, but there's always next Halloween.

[LMcD]

Looks like last night's extravaganza is going to be on TV on Sunday:


Inside Classical
BBC4, 8pm
The trick-or-treating sugar rush should have worn off by now, but it remains the perfect season for ghosts to hover at the edges of your vision. The broadcaster and drummer Owain Wyn Evans presents a concert that promises to delight everyone's inner goth as the BBC National Orchestra of Wales performs music from the dark side. Ellie Slorach will conduct a programme that includes Saint-Saëns's Danse Macabre, Rimsky-Korsakov's arrangement of Mussorgsky's A Night on the Bare Mountain, Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, and John Williams's deathless — or maybe undead — film scores for Harry Potter (Hedwig's Theme), ET and Jaws. A missed chance, maybe, to not include an arrangement of a track from Carcass's 1988 album Reek of Putrefaction, but there's always next Halloween.

Sunday Night Is Seriously Scary Night, eh?

[vinteuil]

A missed chance, maybe, to not include an arrangement of a track from Carcass's 1988 album Reek of Putrefaction, but there's always next Halloween.

... a missed chance indeed : and why could we not have had a selection from Throbbing Gristle -

United/Zyklon B Zombie,
Kreeme Horn In Praise Of The Grotesque,
Journey Through a Body,
Music from the Death Factory,
Dead Souls,
Guts on the Floor,
Mutant Throbbing Gristle ...






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[oddoneout]

Looks like last night's extravaganza is going to be on TV on Sunday:


Inside Classical
BBC4, 8pm
The trick-or-treating sugar rush should have worn off by now, but it remains the perfect season for ghosts to hover at the edges of your vision. The broadcaster and drummer Owain Wyn Evans presents a concert that promises to delight everyone's inner goth as the BBC National Orchestra of Wales performs music from the dark side. Ellie Slorach will conduct a programme that includes Saint-Saëns's Danse Macabre, Rimsky-Korsakov's arrangement of Mussorgsky's A Night on the Bare Mountain, Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, and John Williams's deathless — or maybe undead — film scores for Harry Potter (Hedwig's Theme), ET and Jaws. A missed chance, maybe, to not include an arrangement of a track from Carcass's 1988 album Reek of Putrefaction, but there's always next Halloween.

Has the presenter been chosen because he appears on Homes under the Hammer...

[LMcD]

Has the presenter been chosen because he appears on Homes under the Hammer...

[Roger Webb]

During my internet outage last Friday, I used my old DAB tuner to listen to FNiMN featuring British film music. Did anyone else notice Petroc explain that 'The First of The Few' with music by Walton celebrated RJ Mitchell designing the Submarine Spitfire?! ....glug, glug, glug.....useful against those U-boats.

[french frank]

Did anyone else notice Petroc explain that 'The First of The Few' with music by Walton celebrated RJ Mitchell designing the Submarine Spitfire?! ....glug, glug, glug.....useful against those U-boats.

Yes, it must have been an unedited repeat. LMcD noted it on 17/01/25 at 22.57; and it provoked comment

Meant to mention, RW, I just found an old price label that had fallen off a CD: Bristol Classical Discs, 0272 276536 - must have been pre April 1995 ...

[Roger Webb]

Yes, it must have been an unedited repeat. LMcD noted it on 17/01/25 at 22.57; and it provoked comment

Meant to mention, RW, I just found an old price label that had fallen off a CD: Bristol Classical Discs, 0272 276536 - must have been pre April 1995 ...

Actually, I had it in the back of my mind that I'd heard that one before!

Was the CD mid, or full price?........£11.99 or £8.99 back then probably.....or box set!

Oh, and thanks for your patronage!

[french frank]

Was the CD mid, or full price?........£11.99 or £8.99 back then probably.....or box set!

Oh, and thanks for your patronage!

It was £13.99 - and I know which one it had fallen from. I'd just been listening to them: Vol 1 of the Philips Brendel/ASMF Marriner Mozart The Great Piano Concertos (nos 19, 20, 21, 23, 24). I also have vol 2 (nos 9,15, 22, 25, 27) which still has the identical price label stuck on. I'd been trying to discover whether there was ever a vol 3 with the other 'great' ones (eg 17&18).

[Roger Webb]

It was £13.99 - and I know which one it had fallen from. I'd just been listening to them: Vol 1 of the Philips Brendel/ASMF Marriner Mozart The Great Piano Concertos (nos 19, 20, 21, 23, 24). I also have vol 2 (nos 9,15, 22, 25, 27) which still has the identical price label stuck on. I'd been trying to discover whether there was ever a vol 3 with the other 'great' ones (eg 17&18).

£13.99?!!! That's outrageous. I don't think there was a third 'twofer', but the whole set on 10 CDs can be had now for £15.

https://onlineshop.oxfam.org.uk/brendel-spielt-mozart-die-klavierkonzerta/product/HD_303295103

[french frank]

£13.99?!!! That's outrageous. I don't think there was a third 'twofer', but the whole set on 10 CDs can be had now for £15.

Can I have a refund please?

I saw that there was a later Decca reissue, with a vol 3 which had some of the concertos on the Philips set I already had.

[Roger Webb]

Can I have a refund please?

I saw that there was a later Decca reissue, with a vol 3 which had some of the concertos on the Philips set I already had.

I had to give remarkably few refunds - I think perhaps two in all!

It always seems strange to see Philips artists on Decca, doesn't it?........and EMI ones on Warner! I remember when Decca started re-packaging l'Oiseau Lyre and Florilegium in a very plain style with sans serif lettering, it never looked right.

[Ein Heldenleben]

Despite the lack of enthusiasm for this programme ( a few fellow fans excepted) I’m going to plug tonight’s as it features the opera star Ermonela Jaho who , unlike many on the series, can really sing. In fact in two roles Suor Angelica and Violetta she must be in the two or three top performers currently around. She also dazzled recently as Magda in La Rondine.

[LMcD]

Despite the lack of enthusiasm for this programme ( a few fellow fans excepted) I’m going to plug tonight’s as it features the opera star Ermonela Jaho who , unlike many on the series, can really sing. In fact in two roles Suor Angelica and Violetta she must be in the two or three top performers currently around. She also dazzled recently as Magda in La Rondine.

Recorded last July at West Green Opera Hampshire, but appears not to be a repeat.