'David Starkey's Music and Monarchy'

[Pabmusic]

Well... not really - if anything that would incline me to roughly equal emphasis on both syllables, à la française... which, thinking about it, is just about how I do pronounce the name - I've never said either per'SELL or PURR'sl...

And I suppose that's how I pronounce it, too. But how people would have pronounced kit in the 17th century...?

[Nick Armstrong]

And I suppose that's how I pronounce it, too. But how people would have pronounced kit in the 17th century...?

? is there a stray 'k' there...?

[Pabmusic]

? is there a stray 'k' there...?

Oh no! I was referring to the pronunciation of 'kit' (pay attention, please!).

Or perhaps not ...

[amateur51]

Oh no! I was referring to the pronunciation of 'kit' (pay attention, please!).

Or perhaps not ...

[Nick Armstrong]

Oh no! I was referring to the pronunciation of 'kit' (pay attention, please!).

Or perhaps not ...

An outbreak of Bbmitis in Capiz...?

[Pabmusic]

An outbreak of Bbmitis in Capiz...?

No - I couldn't possibly raise the same level of enthusiasm as Bbm. I'm afraid I've been on the Tanduay.

It's a rum go.

[Serial_Apologist]

Good to see this re-broadcast on BBC4 tonight and over forthcoming Sundays, having missed it first time around.

[ardcarp]

David Starkey's Music and Monarchs

I missed this the first time around, and have just watched the first episode on i-player. Great to see The Eton Choirbook being used ...as I have been lucky enough to see it... in the flesh. Of the choral items, I thought David Skinner's were really excellent. (I noticed our ubiquitous Chris Watson among them.)

[Lat-Literal]

I missed this the first time around, and have just watched the first episode on i-player. Great to see The Eton Choirbook being used ...as I have been lucky enough to see it... in the flesh. Of the choral items, I thought David Skinner's were really excellent. (I noticed our ubiquitous Chris Watson among them.)

I have just watched the episode on Purcell.

Excellent - I found it educational and enjoyable.

[BBMmk2]

What channel?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

What channel?

BBC4 telly, Bbm:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p018rffp/david-starkeys-music-and-monarchy-1-crown-and-choir

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b037x4sh/david-starkeys-music-and-monarchy-2-revolutions

[BBMmk2]

BBC4 telly, Bbm:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p018rffp/david-starkeys-music-and-monarchy-1-crown-and-choir

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...-2-revolutions

Thanks, Ferney! :)

[Chris Watson]

(I noticed our ubiquitous Chris Watson among them.)

Sorry! I do rather like If Ye Love Me at the low (ie printed) pitch!

[Richard Tarleton]

Just caught up with the first programme (saw the second the other day) - quite excellent I thought.

One of my favourite pluckers much in evidence, Andrew Lawrence-King - I have him on CD solo and in various combinations inc with Jordi Savall. Great website too

[ardcarp]

Having given the to this series, I am just wondering...having watched episode 3.....how sound the scholarship is? Starkey seems to have taken Charles Burney's view that everything in 18th Century England apart from Handel was effete and mediocre.. Westminster Abbey sang what was indeed a very feeble piece by Croft 'unpublished and receiving a rare performance'. However Croft wrote The Lord is a Sun and a Shield for the coronation of George I. It is scored for full forces including trumpets and drums. Handel was ever keen to copy this English ceremonial style, and his models were inevitably the 'public occasion' works of Purcell, Blow, Croft and other Chapel Royal musicians. The irony is that a brief extract from Croft's The Lord is a Sun was played in the background of the programme, but with no context or attribution. A casual listener might have supposed it to be by Handel!