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Assorted items / Coming broadcasts and listen-later links / Re: Listening/recording from the BBC
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on: May 12, 2014, 04:32:54 am
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A very useful site. I am now set up to record from the BBC, but so far haven't done anything except a couple of test runs. (I want to record, not because of a compulsive desire to acquire, but to share non-copyright recordings of interersting pieces of this forum).
However, looking at the BBC 3 schedule all in one document show what a painfully thin schedule it is, all presenters and special guests and themes and Xs of the week.* What's the problem with hosting a couple of powrful symphonies and a coupel of powerful string quartets each day, and filling in with shorter, but still worthy pieces?
Oh, and hosting broadcasts of neglected, but worthy works.
* Not quite as bad as Australian Classic FM, but getting that way.
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Assorted items / Coming broadcasts and listen-later links / Re: Listening/recording from the BBC
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on: May 06, 2014, 09:40:09 pm
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I remember Radio 3 in the late 70s and early 80s and what amused me was a piece would end and then after a pause the announcer would say 'That was....' in a sepulchral voice.
However, jump forward to now when occasionally I turn on to Australian Classics FM and after two minutes I'm screaming "shut up, play the music", "I'm not two years old", "No, a serpent isn't a woodwind instrument!" and so on, and my wife puts her head round the door and says I shouldn't be listening if it upsets me.
I've been ploughing through the Radio 3 schedules, and back in the 70s I used to think, looking at the schedule full of avant-garde pieces, "I'll never be clever enough to listen to this music". There was one program I listened to where they played the first Beethoven Razumovsky Quartet, followed by Simpson's Quartet No.4 (based on the same plan), would they do that now? Now I'm thinking the schedule is a bit light weight and I don't think there's much I really do want to listen to. Appalled that they seem to play extracts from works sometimes, ie a movement from a Mozart piano concerto.
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Assorted items / Coming broadcasts and listen-later links / Re: Listening/recording from the BBC
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on: May 05, 2014, 11:38:17 pm
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Re recording, if you are streaming the radio program on to your PC and the connection speed is good enough so there aren't jumps and interruptions, then it's possible to record the stream as an MP3. I had a little app for that once but I think it was on a 30 day trial and expired so I'll have to hunt around. I don't know about free ones but there should be apps for PC or Mac available relatively cheaply.
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Assorted items / Coming broadcasts and listen-later links / Re: Listening/recording from the BBC
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on: May 05, 2014, 07:45:18 am
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Thanks to Shamus (offline) and Jolly Roger, I've answered the question, though the daily schedule is very clunky (having to click on each segment) and you have to listen to that chunk, you can't go to the individual pieces.
However, I think if something rare did come up I could listen and capture it. The only difficulty would be getting notice of it, as I'm unlikely to have the time to go through the schedule consistently.
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Assorted items / Coming broadcasts and listen-later links / Listening/recording from the BBC
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on: May 04, 2014, 11:38:10 pm
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I've been clicking fruitlessly around the Radio 3 website for about half an hour without being able to answer the following questions:
1. Can I, in Australia, listen over the internet to streaming Radio 3 programs? (Because if I can I can probably find an app to record the inhouse performances that are non copyright) 2. Is there anywhere on the Radio 3 site that actually lists the pieces that are going to be played (ie, not "XY explores pieces by Bach, Barber and Ginastera" but "Bach: Violin Concerto in A minor, played by &c").
In the old days (70s and 80s) you bought the Radio Times and all the playlists for the week were printed.
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Assorted items / Individual composers / Composers we wish had written more
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on: April 22, 2014, 02:47:44 am
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I was just listening to two composers today, neither of whom died young, and yet for various reasons didn't publish much music.
Both Paul Dukas and Howard Ferguson wrote very powerful music, and the few pieces they did publish are very high quality. Dukas was a perfectionist and simply didn't publish much (he also had teaching duties), and later in life seemingly gave up composition. Ferguson was doing all sorts of useful things in his life: performing, arranging concerts, musicological work and helping other composers (especially Gerald Finzi). He published a few works such as a Piano Sonata (actually No.2), ditto ditto a Violin Sonata, an Octet, a Piano Concerto and few other works. However in the late 1950s he simply decided he had nothing more to say musically and stopped composing.
What other composers do you know who published little, didn't die young, and you wish they had written more.
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Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: Remarkable Symphonies by REALLY Lesser-Known Composers
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on: April 01, 2014, 12:59:11 am
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Came late to this discussion and am awed by the knowledge on display.
If I could add my 2 cents' worth (and I hope these aren't too well known);
Harold Truscott Symphony in E minor (available on Marco Polo) Grace Williams Symphony No.1 (in addition to the 2nd symphony recommended above) (1 is available from Albion's archive) Wilhelm Georg Berger, Symphonies 6, 10, 13, 18 Sulek, as well as 8, I like all his symphonies, Mahler on steriods Buttner, love his folky Bruckner inspired symphonies. 1-3 are available in fairly awful recordings on YT, No. 4 is commercially recorded.
The Sulek and the Berger were available at UC, and may be here.
One symphony I wish we could hear is R O Morris's. It was rumored to be about to be recorded a few years ago, but nothing seems to have happened.
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Assorted items / Individual composers / Re: Justinas Basinskas 1923-, Lithuanian composer
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on: March 30, 2014, 09:38:01 pm
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Ok, these are two single movement works not in any traditional form, but in different sections of contrasting moods and tempi.
I liked them, they are modern tonal, not too dissonant, but not neo-Romantic. They have a good sense of movement, interesting instrumentation and some memorable melodic lines. The only thing I couldn't get was their programmes: "Life" wasn't a birth-to-death piece like Tippett's 4th, or about growth, like Simpson's 6th, and "Laments" didn't seem particularly lamenting.
I'll just enjoy them as pure music.
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Downloads by surname / Downloads: discussion without links / Re: Latvian music
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on: March 27, 2014, 10:55:01 pm
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Thanks for the link to the Vasks Symphony No.3. I enjoyed it greatly, as I do all of Vasks works.
This one seems to have a very strange structure, it is composed in a series of blocks, each about 1-2 minutes long, as the symphony progresses we get a preludial series of blocks (sounding like a choral prelude, like the opeining section of Simpson's Symphony No. 9), scherzo type sections, a funeral march, and other sections of differing moods, ending quietly with an alto flute solo. However, the blocks treat the same thematic material which is varied and eveloped throughout,, so the danger of a stop-start sort of music, and lack of momentum is avaoided.
I was amused by the evil harpsichord in some of the scherzo sections, but I though the piano glissandi about 3 minutes from the end were a mistake (as are all glissandi IMHO ;D).
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