Q re Radio 3

[SusanDoris]

During the last two weeks, Radio 3 have been broadcasting their evening concert starting at 7:30 p.m. as usual, but I have not heard anyone say that this is a recorded programme because of cancelled concerts, or words to that effect. Does anyone know what the situation is?

[Walter]

During the last two weeks, Radio 3 have been broadcasting their evening concert starting at 7:30 p.m. as usual, but I have not heard anyone say that this is a recorded programme because of cancelled concerts, or words to that effect. Does anyone know what the situation is?

SD

you've probably been listening to some cleaners i player for the last 5 years! 

[ProfessorDavey]

During the last two weeks, Radio 3 have been broadcasting their evening concert starting at 7:30 p.m. as usual, but I have not heard anyone say that this is a recorded programme because of cancelled concerts, or words to that effect. Does anyone know what the situation is?

They aren't live but recorded and previously broadcast.

Tonight's concert was first broadcast back in Dec 2018.

No idea whether this is mentioned during the broadcast, but it is clear from reading the radio 3 schedule on their web-site.

[SusanDoris]

They aren't live but recorded and previously broadcast.

Tonight's concert was first broadcast back in Dec 2018.

No idea whether this is mentioned during the broadcast, but it is clear from reading the radio 3 schedule on their web-site.

Thank you for answering the question. I thought that was probably the case but was not sure.

[ippy]

During the last two weeks, Radio 3 have been broadcasting their evening concert starting at 7:30 p.m. as usual, but I have not heard anyone say that this is a recorded programme because of cancelled concerts, or words to that effect. Does anyone know what the situation is?

Have you tried Classic FM Susan, I put it on during the day and they seem to have upped their game just lately and have been making a really good example of themselves, in my opinion of course.

I'd say about up until about a month ago it was something like about 30% where they just play the sounds of the musicians tuning up, the not music to my ears stuff, and whether it's me or not I don't know but they seem to have reduced this, the musicians tuning up time seems to have been reduced to somewhere between 15 to 20% of their output, I am luckily able to switch off the advertising inside my head somehow, I don't know how but I do manage that trick or whatever it is.

Kind regards Susan, ippy.

[SusanDoris]

Have you tried Classic FM Susan, I put it on during the day and they seem to have upped their game just lately and have been making a really good example of themselves, in my opinion of course.

I'd say about up until about a month ago it was something like about 30% where they just play the sounds of the musicians tuning up, the not music to my ears stuff, and whether it's me or not I don't know but they seem to have reduced this, the musicians tuning up time seems to have been reduced to somewhere between 15 to 20% of their output, I am luckily able to switch off the advertising inside my head somehow, I don't know how but I do manage that trick or whatever it is.

Kind regards Susan, ippy.

Thank you! No, I haven't tried Classic FM for a few years - I prefer to focus on the music I'm listening to and much prefer a quiet background to life instead of music; and that is because I cannot just leave it, i.e. music, in the background. If there's music playing, my brain sits up and pays attention, approves or disapproves and insists I listen more closely or turn off!

[Harrowby Hall]

I listen to Radio 3 several times a week. In the days before my gym closed, I always listened through my earphones while I was doing unspeakable things to my body in the vain hope that it was doing me good.    I often listen to the afternoon sequences of (usually) recordings of concerts given by the BBC's house orchestras. If the concert is a live relay, Ippy, you will hear the tuning session because it is the very last preparatory act the orchestra will do before the entry of the conductor.

I confess that I have not listened to Classic FM for a long time. Part of the reason was that - certainly in the station's early years - it was not particularly adventurous in its choice of repertoire and I frequently had the perception that I was stuck in an upmarket lift.  I found Radio 3 more challenging.

[ippy]

Thank you! No, I haven't tried Classic FM for a few years - I prefer to focus on the music I'm listening to and much prefer a quiet background to life instead of music; and that is because I cannot just leave it, i.e. music, in the background. If there's music playing, my brain sits up and pays attention, approves or disapproves and insists I listen more closely or turn off!

I'll try to somehow transmit my powers of being able to subconsciously edit out music that doesn't do anything for me to you.

I've invested over the years in a lot of high end Hi Fi sound, I sold my soul to the devil for speakers, equipment which enables me to hear the music as though I'm there at the place of performance, When I sit down to listen to a particular piece I like, it's good to hear it at the same volume it was recorded at and without any distortion of the sound but my wife wants to go to one of my virtual concerts and virtually sit outside the virtual hall to listen or as I prefer to describe it, it's like going to the Albert Hall for a concert and then siting outside in the bog to listen to it.

When I think of the expense I've gone to over the years collecting these speakers, amplifiers, record decks, c d players, FM tuners, the best I can do is wait until she goes out and then have a blast and listen as though I'm actually there listing to a live performance.

We do get along very well overall but this particular hobby of mine is only one of very few areas where were not fully in tune.

I have a small alter dedicated to Beethoven on high, what's your poison Susan?

Regards, ippy.

[Harrowby Hall]

I'm going to disturb you a little, Ippy, I hope you don't mind. 

I am just a little older than you. I visited an audiologist a month or so ago and was horrified to learn that I have a 60% hearing loss: age-related hearing loss, normal and to be expected. I was encouraged (by the audiologist) to give him a sum of money which would have paid off the national debt of a small African country and in return he gave me two very small gadgets he called "hearing aids".

When I inserted these into my ears my world changed. For years I had been complaining that modern farming techniques and our style of urban living had denuded our nation of much of its avian wildlife. Boy - was I surprised when I wore the aids on a country walk by the tweeting racket in my ears. I thought, at first, that perhaps the climax of a certain Alfred Hitchcock film was coming true. The birds had been there all the time - i could not hear them simply because of the ravages of time on my organs of Corti.

Well, what I'm saying, Ippy, is that if you haven't investigated the state of your hearing you might not benefit from your investment in hi-fi.

My hearing aids are provided with a number of programmes - one is for music when I am listening to it in a large room (such as a theatre or concert hall) when I tried the setting in Symphony Hall it was ... magic. Another benefit I can use is use my smart phone to listen to radio programmes via Bluetooth. I can wander round the countryside listening to both the birds and Beethoven 6.   

[SusanDoris]

I have a small alter dedicated to Beethoven on high, what's your poison Susan?

Regards, ippy.

If you're referring to composers and works, then Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3, but the deterioration in my hearing means that I cannot listen to it in the way I used to, so if it is on, then I'll wait to hear the Coda to check if it is being played the way I like it, but the version in my head is often preferable! Bach solo cello; Poulencs Stabat Mater and Gloria - but again it has to be a certain recording; Chopin Etudes; but the acute pleasure of listening is one that wil never return, but it is in my hedd.

[ippy]

I'm going to disturb you a little, Ippy, I hope you don't mind. 

I am just a little older than you. I visited an audiologist a month or so ago and was horrified to learn that I have a 60% hearing loss: age-related hearing loss, normal and to be expected. I was encouraged (by the audiologist) to give him a sum of money which would have paid off the national debt of a small African country and in return he gave me two very small gadgets he called "hearing aids".

When I inserted these into my ears my world changed. For years I had been complaining that modern farming techniques and our style of urban living had denuded our nation of much of its avian wildlife. Boy - was I surprised when I wore the aids on a country walk by the tweeting racket in my ears. I thought, at first, that perhaps the climax of a certain Alfred Hitchcock film was coming true. The birds had been there all the time - i could not hear them simply because of the ravages of time on my organs of Corti.

Well, what I'm saying, Ippy, is that if you haven't investigated the state of your hearing you might not benefit from your investment in hi-fi.

My hearing aids are provided with a number of programmes - one is for music when I am listening to it in a large room (such as a theatre or concert hall) when I tried the setting in Symphony Hall it was ... magic. Another benefit I can use is use my smart phone to listen to radio programmes via Bluetooth. I can wander round the countryside listening to both the birds and Beethoven 6.   

Thanks for the post H H, it looks like you've travelled a similar path to me with your hearing, it must have been some 15 years ago or more I no longer remember when exactly I first plugged in my hearing aids into both ears which according to a recent visit to the audiologist my hearing is still not showing any further loss of form, having said that NHS aids are perhaps not quiet a sophisticated as yours are, but I get on quiet well with them, they've recently been revised and these new ones do seem to perform very well.



My wife and I often frequent the Albert Hall the last one was for Carmina Burana with that expansive choir etc, the point being we are familiar with the general sound and volume of a large performance in a concert hall, the Barbican Hall is slightly different just a very slightly damped sound, emphasis on the slightly and of course this is how they seem to my 'challenged' hearing.

I'm afraid my hearing loss it due to a combination of hereditary and discos in the sixties combined, cant think why but there seemed to be something that drew me to those discos at that time?

When I play music at home it is loud when it's something I or my wife particularly like, the only trouble is where Music can be a bit of a mood thing.

Beethoven's third piano concerto is my most favourite piece, I like to hear differing performers play it they all seem to have their own ideas and, I suppose, differing ways/techniques of playing, always interesting.

O yes, we enjoy the proms in September onward, our TV is wired into the system so that the seeing and the hearing are both excellent, as is your Pastoral. 
 
Regards, ippy. 

[ProfessorDavey]

Thank you! No, I haven't tried Classic FM for a few years - I prefer to focus on the music I'm listening to and much prefer a quiet background to life instead of music; and that is because I cannot just leave it, i.e. music, in the background. If there's music playing, my brain sits up and pays attention, approves or disapproves and insists I listen more closely or turn off!

The quality of the silence on radio 3 is second to none

[ippy]

The quality of the silence on radio 3 is second to none

Horses for courses Proff, some people get music mixed up with that Country Western, noise?

Regards, ippy.