EBU Day Music for Holy Week: 29 March

[doversoul1]

No EMS this Sunday.

Part One 13.00
Ian Skelly presents the European Broadcasting Union's annual day of music to mark Holy Week, with live and pre-recorded concerts from the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Britain, Poland, the USA and Germany. We begin with Bach's St John Passion live from Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, starring (!!) Michael Schade and Andrew Foster-Williams and conducted by Richard Egarr.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05ns85c

Part Two 17.00

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05ns97y

Part Three 23.00

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05nyb0t

(not quite early music but still)

With the playlist.

[Nick Armstrong]

Some interesting stuff

I had an amusing mishearing this evening, when Ian Skelly (I think) perpetrated a most uncharacteristic bit of indistinct pronunciation which had me thinking that after Leicester Cathedral choir at the Richard III ceremonies, we were going to have some more exposure for a Midlands choral foundation.

In a trailer for this event, I could have sworn he said "13th century choral music from Walsall"... ah! interesting, I thought.

In fact, it's this segment:

7.30pm - POLAND: Witold Lutoslawski Concert Studio, Polish Radio, Warsaw - LIVE


ANONYMOUS
Breves dies hominis - Rondellus (Paris, 13th century)
Christus factus est. V. Propter quod et Deus - Graduale
Quis tibi Christe meritas - Conductus (Paris, 13th century)

[doversoul1]

[COLOR="#0000FF"]Some interesting stuff

Starts at 1.30pm today. The playlist provided.

[Flosshilde]

Ian Skelly's trailer for this said something about 'getting away from it all'. I wouldn't have said that Bach's St Matthew PAssion was exactly 'getting away from it all' music.

[DracoM]

And 'beautiful music for Holy Week'????
Who on earth writes his inept scripts? Holy Week music is celebrating a 'beautiful' week of festivities, is it?



Pah and Grrrr.

[Cockney Sparrow]

Listening to a very fleet of foot, eloquent performance of the St John Passion (or St Johannes etc). Great!

Two years ago I listened to the St Matthew from Amsterdam on Good Friday, short sleeved, in blazing sunshine, whilst (light) gardening in the Scottish Borders. On Easter Monday, we were looking out at sleet driven by the wind at 45 degrees......

[Nick Armstrong]

Ian Skelly's trailer for this said something about 'getting away from it all'. I wouldn't have said that Bach's St Matthew PAssion was exactly 'getting away from it all' music.

Indeed and nor was it consistent with a transmission from Walsall. Silly me!

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Apologies to any Walsallians here

[MrGongGong]

Indeed and nor was it consistent with a transmission from Walsall. Silly me!

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Apologies to any Walsallians here

What no Rob Halford ?
or Goldie?

A missed opportunity IMV

[mercia]

Listening to a very fleet of foot, eloquent performance of the St John Passion (or St Johannes etc). Great!

yes, when one thinks how turgidly slow performances used to be years ago, you wonder people weren't put off listening to Bach

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

yes, when one thinks how turgidly slow performances used to be years ago, you wonder people weren't put off listening to Bach

I was - by a lot of them, anyway (the singing of Janet Baker, Ferrier, Schreier, DF-D and one-or-two others was always worth waiting for - and still is). As a teenager, I adored reading Bach's scores, but had to wait until my mid-twenties before the performances I heard made me love what I heard even more.

[mangerton]

yes, when one thinks how turgidly slow performances used to be years ago, you wonder people weren't put off listening to Bach

Indeed. I listened, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I sang in a performance in the Maltings, Good Friday 1982, (cond. Boettcher) and I was surprised at how short today's performance was in comparison.

[doversoul1]

I enjoyed Ensemble Peregrina’s performance from Poland but can’t say I am terribly impressed by Bach from New York. Is this how they sing Bach in the US?

[Flosshilde]

Quite - a contrast to the Passion earlier. Very plodding.

[subcontrabass]

I enjoyed Ensemble Peregrina’s performance from Poland but can’t say I am terribly impressed by Bach from New York. Is this how they sing Bach in the US?

Agreed. All was wonderful until that Cantata. Not for Holy Week. Not a good performance. And why in English?

[David-G]

I greatly enjoyed Jan Jakub Ryba's "Stabat mater" from Plzen.