Bach-Abel Concerts: EMS 27 August

[doversoul1]

The Bach-Abel Concerts. Lucie Skeaping talks to the music historian, Simon Heighes about a famous concert series which began two hundred and fifty years ago this year and which lit up London's concert life following the death of Handel. The Bach-Abel series continued for thirty years and with it J.C Bach and his compatriot, Carl Friedrich Abel introduced their opera and concert arias, symphonies and keyboard works to Georgian London. (R)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05qyjsj

This is a repeat but more than worth listening again.

No Early Music Late

[MickyD]

Many years ago (probably late seventies), R3 recorded a whole evening of Bach-Abel concerts with the orchestra and soloists of The Academy of Ancient Music. It was a wonderful programme and I transferred the tapes to mini disc, which in turn were very kindly transferred to CD for me by someone on here. Proving once again how gratifying it is to belong to this group of like-minded souls!