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Thread #90901   Message #1725955
Posted By: DMcG
24-Apr-06 - 11:02 AM
Thread Name: England In Ribbons BBC
Subject: RE: Folklore: England In Ribbons now on Listen again!
Well, if you get through all of that, and manage to listen to it ...

I tried to approach it as if I were a general Radio 3 listener, not someone interested in folk music, and overall I thought it worked well. The unusual version of "Jerusalem" struck me as eye catching (ear catching?) and I think it was a good idea to leave the Sam Larner/Walter Pardon stuff to quite late in the show to allow people to acclimatise a little. A lot of the earlier work was musically complex, which I think would appeal more to the general listener.

There was only one song, near the end, that I thought some might find too long and boring, and while I liked the idea of merging the traditional 'Lofty Tall Ship' with a modern interpretation, I don't it worked that well in practice.