Classic F.M

[Odds]

You can't beat a good cuppa capriccio of a morning...

Conducted by Nikolaj Znaider; The Hallé knock the Italien Op. 45 outta the park.

 

[noseall]

You can't beat a good cuppa capriccio of a morning...

Conducted by Nikolaj Znaider; The Hallé knock the Italien Op. 45 outta the park.

Class that.

 

[Odds]

Physicists at Loughborough University have created what they believe may actually be ‘the world’s smallest violin’, which is small enough to fit within the width of a human hair, using cutting-edge nanotechnology. The violin is 35 microns long and 13 microns wide. To understand just how tiny this is, one micron is one millionth of a metre: a human hair typically ranges from 17 to 180 microns in diameter.

The team at Loughborough chose to create the tiny violin in reference to the phrase, ‘Can you hear the world’s smallest violin playing just for you?’ which they said is used to “mock exaggerated complaints or overly dramatic reactions”, and is often someone mimicking playing a tiny violin between their thumb and forefinger. Classic FM did a deep-dive into the phrase in 2018, and discovered its origin in the TV show M*A*S*H. In a 1978 episode, Major Margaret Houlihan rubs her thumb and forefinger together and says: “It’s the world’s smallest violin, and it’s playing just for you.”

 

[Odds]

A Royal Opera House performer unfurled a Palestine flag on stage during the curtain call for Il trovatore's closing night on Saturday (19 July).A brief scuffle ensued as an official appeared to try and stop the protest, and the cast member continued to hold up the flag at the London performance.A spokesperson for the Royal Ballet and Opera said: “The display of the flag was an unauthorised action by the artist. It was not approved by the Royal Ballet and Opera and is a wholly inappropriate act."

 

[Scally-Ho]

Not my religion, but I do like the way he sings this because it is obvious it is special to him.

.. .. again, he gives it his absolute best. He has the hair on my back standing up.

 

[Scally-Ho]

This music is special to me from Avo Part because it was a theme to the series Holocaust. I lost relatives to that bastard Nazi dross who gassed them first with Zyklon B and then cremated the poor souls in the ovens .. Hashem yikom damo/dama

 

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Karl Friedrich Schinkel was a painter by trade, his Gothic Cathedral by a River painted in 1814, inspired the Prussian King to order work to recommence on the cathedral in Cologne...although it took them another sixty-odd years to finish the job; the city had waited 600 years already so i guess that was pdq by cathedral builder standards. When he wasn't busy painting he moonlighted as a set designer for the Berlin Royal Theatre and came up with the Hall of Stars of the Queen of the Night for Mozart's new opera, The Magic Flute.

All of witch leads nicely into the news that the movie Amadeus is due for a national release in cinema. Go see. You won't regret it.

You can see Schinkel's original design in the movie and how stunning it must've been to an 18-th century audience.

 

[Odds]

Looking forward to those 'unpatriotic Lefties' making their way to the Hall of Albert to vent their spleen against all things British this year...

 

[Odds]

And now for something completely different:

 

[Scally-Ho]

I'll stick with my preferred Medieval Byzantine Chants

 

[Odds]

I'll stick with my preferred Medieval Byzantine Chants

The Byazantines were a great band back in the day, til Belisarius tried it on with the manager's daughter, the drummer was trampled by a herd of deranged camels and the horn section caught syphilis from a wanton groupie from Persia. Good times.

 

[Odds]

An unorthodox version of Brahms' "Hungarian Dance No. 5" to pass the time.

 

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If you missed this BBCFour programme of Vivaldi's Gloria, performed by an all-female orchestra and choir in the Pieta in Venice, now's your chance to catch up - just leave it on in the background if y'all diy-ing or doing summat different with your day. Enjoy.

 

[SPLINE]

Benjamin Britten's 'Playful Pizzicato'. Spot the Archers theme tune within it.

 

[Odds]

With news that Greggs customers pay more while listening to classical music i give you a sausage barcarolle by Offenbach.

I'll get my coat.