Category Archives: broadcasts

the Edington Festival: pleasure and sadness

Posted on August 28, 2009 by vhk10

Some friends regularly go to events at the Edington Festival nearby, but I’ve never managed it. This is because it usually clashes with the Cathedral Chamber Choir’s cathedral week and I’m away or not feeling like going to another service. … Continue reading →

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The Chopin Experience

Posted on May 21, 2008 by vhk10

I listened to bits of this all-Chopin weekend on Radio 3. (I used to listen to and indeed play Chopin’s music a lot, and though it has retreated a bit in my musical consciousness he is still a favourite of … Continue reading →

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Artist Focus

Posted on February 26, 2008 by vhk10

Like a lot of Radio 3 listeners, I scan the listings in Radio Times for the week ahead, looking for particular pieces of music I would like to hear. They can usually be picked out easily by composer because the … Continue reading →

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Medici Arts TV

Posted on October 28, 2007 by vhk10

I have been looking at – and listening to – their website here: http://www.medici-arts.tv/ At any given time there is one concert which you can both view and listen to. So far the calibre of performances (in the musical sense) … Continue reading →

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Listen Again

Posted on July 27, 2007 by vhk10

Been listening quite a lot to old Radio 3 broadcasts on this recently. I like Mahler 1 and Tchaikovsky symphonies, but I think the ‘archived online audio’ choices are looking a little old. Can we have some more recent ones? … Continue reading →

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Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky

Posted on February 23, 2007 by vhk10

In previous posts I dealt with the BBC’s airing of the complete works of Beethoven and Bach. This time it was the turn of Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky, done jointly. I rather dipped in and out of this, though I tried … Continue reading →

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minus 20 for Louise

Posted on February 3, 2006 by vhk10

Ever since the Metropolitan Opera began relaying its matinee broadcasts to us via the BBC, we’ve been keen listeners to the Opera Quiz in the interval. In fact, most years I send in a question, though to date they’ve never … Continue reading →

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evensong broadcast from Bath

Posted on January 16, 2006 by vhk10

This Wednesday’s Choral Evensong broadcast comes from Bath Abbey. Someone from the Abbey told me that there had been broadcasts from there before, but the last one was in 1984. Certainly I cannot remember ever hearing one. A number of … Continue reading →

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Mein Gott, Vorsprung durch Technik

Posted on January 7, 2006 by vhk10

This was the name of an imaginary cantata in Private Eye‘s version of the Radio 3 listings during the Bach Christmas, in which only J.S. Bach was broadcast on Radio 3 for ten days. When there was a similar exercise … Continue reading →

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Webern nights

Posted on September 25, 2005 by vhk10

I made a belated first visit to the Wiltshire Music Centre recently to hear the Doric String Quartet, the Centre’s quartet in residence. The Centre has a lovely clear acoustic, though the interior of the concert hall is very spartan. … Continue reading →

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a week of Beethoven

Posted on June 12, 2005 by vhk10

Even Choral Evensong had to make way for this! Radio 3 has just come to the end of its week of Beethoven, which broadcast the composer’s entire works and nothing else. Turning on in the middle of the night, as … Continue reading →

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through the night

Posted on March 31, 2005 by vhk10

We’re now rediscovering Radio 3’s Through the Night programming, now that we get woken in the small hours by Magnus (born Thursday March 24th). We listened to the programme regularly during the infancies of our older children so it will … Continue reading →

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