What are you listening to now?

[Michael]

You think it's as good as mediocre? For me, music today is about as interesting and as palatable as a stale loaf of bread or a corrupt politician. A zero rating on my interest scale. I don't think I've heard more than 5 remotely interesting songs from any 'popular' band in over 20 years (and I'm still - just - in my 40s)....

I'm with you 100%, PDG. I suppose what I meant by mediocre is that it isn't even interestingly bad, if you follow me.
And what do you mean by a corrupt politician? The word "corrupt" isn't necessary any more!

[Peter]

Prokofiev: Symphony no.5, Piano concertos 1-3.

[Enrique]

Prokofiev, symphony no. 3.

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Villa-Lobos: String Quartet No. 13

[Quijote]

Tonight, during a pre-conference lecture, extracts from Franz Shrecker's Der ferne Klang (The Distant Sound). Totally new music to me (late Romantic slush, but nice slush...). Kind of like Bruckner might have done had he lived another 20 years or so and had been with a woman.

[Sorrano]

Tonight, during a pre-conference lecture, extracts from Franz Shrecker's Der ferne Klang (The Distant Sound). Totally new music to me (late Romantic slush, but nice slush...). Kind of like Bruckner might have done had he lived another 20 years or so and had been with a woman.

Do you refer to "The Distant Sound" in regards to Bruckner, had he been with a woman? (Grin!)

[Quijote]

Do you refer to "The Distant Sound" in regards to Bruckner, had he been with a woman? (Grin!)

Ooh! Whatever do you mean, Sorrano? Methinks you have a dirty mind! Unlike my own pure, unsullied one. Ahem.

[Enrique]

Prokofiev: symphony no.3

The 3rd mov seems Prokofiev plagiarizing himself, and its final chord, I cant hear the fifth! Ahh, no. Could somebody tell me what happens at the final bars (3rd mov)? It seems as if it's ending in E minor but, at the last moment, ends in C major. But I could convince myself, when listening, that the final chord establishes the tonality of E minor. May be the same happened to the Ninth listeners when the A goes down to F natural with the words vor Gott (ff). But here there is a voice that reaches the C.

[Megan]

Episode 5
Afternoon on 3, BBC National Orchestra of Wales Episode 5 of 5

Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes
First broadcast:Friday 19 October 2012On offer today more music from an undeservedly neglected Welsh composer, Daniel Jones in this his centenary year, conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes.
Daniel Jones: Symphony no. 11 (in memoriam George Froom Tyler)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Owain Arwel Hughes (conductor)
2.20pm
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Julian Lloyd Webber (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Owain Arwel Hughes (conductor)
2.50pm
Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Owain Arwel Hughes (conductor)
from 3.45pm
Litolff: Concerto Symphonique No.5 in C Minor Op.123
Peter Donohoe (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Litton (conductor).  Show less

On offer today more music from an undeservedly neglected Welsh composer, Daniel Jones in this his centenary year, conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes.

Daniel Jones: Symphony no. 11

[PDG]

Some Beethoven folksong arrangements.

[Michael]

Some Beethoven folksong arrangements.

(If you had listened to them all, you would have got several Os for the ongoing alphabetical thread!)

[PDG]

I don't like to cheat, Mike. All the folksongs should be covered by 'F'. And I won't say what the 'F' stands for...

(I hope I'm allowed to say that; after all, it is after the Watershed...)...

[Megan]

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No.1 in F major (Op.10)

[Enrique]

I have a recording of that work which I cherish.

[Megan]

I have a recording of that work which I cherish.

It's a great discovery for me, I am still listening to it on BBC Radio 3, through the night

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_radio_three