No joy with Odes ...
Post categories: Denis McCaldin
| 11:21 UK time, Monday, 20 April 2009
Jane Anderson's section in Radio Times for 18-24 April is running a listeners' competition with Classic FM about which favourite 60 pieces of music are guaranteed to lift our spirits. The trouble is that she has asked six radio 'personalities' to kick-start the process!
There are six categories, some of which don't immediately connect with Haydn. Song from a musical, Aria from an opera, Film or TV soundtrack are categories that wouldn't be likely contenders. But more worrying is Jamie Crick's selection for Orchestral Music, which has none of the four composers being celebrated by Radio 3 this year.
At least Margherita Taylor's selection for Choral & Vocal music has two pieces of Handel - Zadok the Priest and Messiah and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Chamber music & Concertos has Mendelssohn's Octet and Handel's Harmonious Blacksmith variations.
The shame is that no works by either Purcell or Haydn are suggested by these presenters. Listeners and bloggers can surely do better than this! We are all invited to vote for our own favourites in each category online at classicfm.com/odestojoy. Nominations close on Monday May 11th. Let's do it!
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