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PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2007 8:37 am    Post subject: Sibelius on radio 2 Reply with quote

What a nice suprise, lovely to hear it, good choice Barralands!
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PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2007 8:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Finland's most famous export.
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PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2007 8:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Apart from the moomins
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PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2007 9:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It was wonderful Toggy, one of my favourite pieces.

As Alan Titch would say ' those of you of an age' would remember it as the theme to 'This Week', the long running current affairs TV programme.

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PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2007 10:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I should have asked which show Sibelius will be covering on Radio 2. Never mind, it will make a good change from Richard Allinson anyway. Laughing
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Wake up to Wagner could be in the pipeline Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2007 11:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ludwig van Beethoven in the Afternoon?

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PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2007 12:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Drivetime with Edward Elgar.
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PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2007 2:09 pm    Post subject: Sibelius on Radio 2 Reply with quote

Gary Davies once played part of the same piece on Radio 1 as part of a spot where they played short classical pieces. I recognised some of it as also being the source of the theme music for the Kevin Turvey (Rik Mayall) spot on A Kick Up The Eighties!

He also featured the classical piece (I forget which) that was adapted as the theme tune to Harry Enfield's Television Programme!
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PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2007 3:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some Rajar classical music news:

Classic FM saw a surge in the number of children listening to the station, with 474,000 youngsters under the age of 15 tuning in each week – this was an increase of 52% on the previous quarter.

Total listening figures including all adults and children peaked at 6.5 million people now. The station also saw an increase of 274, 000 adult listeners brining the total number of adults up to 6 million listeners.

Classic FM's morning presenter Simon Bates has added 195,000 listeners bringing the total to 3 million.

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PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2007 8:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I didn't realise calssic FM had such high listening figures. Very interesting that more young people like classical music now too.
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PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2007 8:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Toggy tea slurper wrote:
I didn't realise calssic FM had such high listening figures. Very interesting that more young people like classical music now too.


If they brought Henry Kelly back on weekdays they would probably gain another million.
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PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2007 8:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

3 million is pretty good though considering he has to compete with Wogan & Moyles.
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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2007 10:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another beautiful track this morning.

A classical piece after every PFT would be good, not that I'm greedy or anything Laughing
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