The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #135482   Message #3091125
Posted By: Steve Shaw
08-Feb-11 - 10:10 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Archers - time to turn off.
Subject: RE: BS: The Archers - time to turn off.
Ah, well, my main fix is Radio 3. But don't knock Classic FM too hard. Yes, they specialise in bleeding chunks and inane adverts but they do play complete works in the evening, and they're not always the old familiar stuff. If you're in your S-reg Ford Fiesta bombing down the A30 at 85, you've forgotten your CD case, Radio 3 is doing Stockhausen as Composer Of The Week and there's You and Yours on Radio 4, then Classic FM can occasionally come to the rescue. Apart from the bleeding chunks issue, I carry two grievances against Classic FM. First, they think Elgar's Cello Concerto is good music. Second, that awful, crude compression they apply which makes a flute sound as loud as the rest of the massed forces of the Berlin Phil put together. Mind you, at least you can hear that flute in the Fiesta.