We’re now rediscovering Radio 3’s Through the Night<\/i> 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 be interesting to find out whether the content has changed much. Is the most frequently occurring piece still the overture to Ruslan and Ludmila<\/i>? Are certain other other pieces such as Richard Strauss’ First Horn Concerto, which came round more often than you’d expect, still regularly played? Are a disproportionate number of the performers still Canadian? And what about the composers who used to turn up week after week but whom you rarely encountered elsewhere, such as Clérambault and Hellendaal? (A little unfair. I have performed music by Clérambault; as for Hellendaal, he is buried in the churchyard of the church I used to attend and where we got married! Their music doesn’t get broadcast except in the middle of the night though.) I will report back in a future contribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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