Bach after the Bleep - EMS 20/6/2021

[AuntDaisy]

I'm puzzled by next week's Early Music Show "Bach after the Bleep".
Will it be a "Pied Piper"-esque / Michael Frayn's "Speak After the Beep" mash-up? Or more in the style of "The Little Chronicle of Magdalena Bach"?
Mark Seow also presented "On Bach's Farm" in February.

[Bryn]

I'm puzzled by next week's Early Music Show "Bach after the Bleep".
Will it be a "Pied Piper"-esque / Michael Frayn's "Speak After the Beep" mash-up? Or more in the style of "The Little Chronicle of Magdalena Bach"?
Mark Seow also presented "On Bach's Farm" in February.

With apologies to Susan of my ilk, "Confused? You won't be after this week's episode of . . . "

[vinteuil]

With apologies to Susan of my ilk, "Confused? You won't be after this week's episode of . . . "

... what ilk are you, Bryn?

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[Bryn]

... what ilk are you, Bryn?

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An Internet search for the incompletely quoted phrase will reveal all.

[AuntDaisy]

You are Lobby Lud, sorry Riley, Twig, Komodo, Lammer, Unctious, Harris, and I claim my five pounds

After Captain Povey's / Bach's farmyard impressions, I'm not sure what to expect.

[vinteuil]

An Internet search for the incompletely quoted phrase will reveal all.

... ah! Soap!!! one of the best. Is it available anywhere?


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[Richard Barrett]

Mark Seow also presented "On Bach's Farm" in February.

Coming up: Beethoven's Bureau de Change and Percy Grainger's Massage Parlour.

[AuntDaisy]

Coming up: Beethoven's Bureau de Change and Percy Grainger's Massage Parlour.

Looking forward to both of them.

Janacek's Intimate Letters Française?

[Bryn]

... ah! Soap!!! one of the best. Is it available anywhere?

I bought the boxed set of DVDs some years ago. I must watch it again. Such fine writing, casting, and, in the cases of Billy Crystal and Robert Guillaume, career-launching/boosting. The 'Excorcist' episodes, some of my favourites.

[ardcarp]

Bach after the Bleep

I'm not very good at moving posts around, but this one came from Heledenleben:

I trust everyone enjoyed the imaginary voicemails of CPE Bach to father JS as much as I did?

and this one from Aunt Daisy:

Only caught the end, but I enjoyed the music. The Voicemails I did hear didn't really add anything (gruesome eye-op. and all.)

Certainly a wacky idea. The shape of things to come? Not too often, I hope. I enjoyed the music too.

[AuntDaisy]

Bach after the Bleep

I'm not very good at moving posts around, but this one came from Heledenleben:



and this one from Aunt Daisy:



Certainly a wacky idea. The shape of things to come? Not too often, I hope. I enjoyed the music too.

Thanks ardcarp - spot on.
Unusually, it ran short & needed a filler (good choice). Perhaps they lost part of the programme & that bit made more sense?

Apologies for posting in the wrong thread

[Frances_iom]

...Perhaps they lost part of the programme & that bit made more sense?
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I thought the idea was carp and the telephonic interruptions destroyed the continuity as well as my enjoyment - switched off within 20mins - a right mess of a program that I usually look forward to.

[oddoneout]

I got off on the wrong foot for this, which didn't help, by missing the beginning and so being surprised at hearing a voice and words that didn't at first make much sense. Although the idea was an interesting one (linking life events and music events) like Frances I found the telephonic bits irritating and that they spoilt the music enjoyment; although I did leave the radio on, I ignored the voice bits and just "tuned in" when the music appeared. This particular idea I think might have worked better on TV; for radio I prefer "straight" readings from correspondence etc. It would be interesting to know how many of the regular EMS audience liked this, but sadly that information isn't available. Mind you even if it was, and wasn't favourable, it wouldn't make any difference as to whether the idea is tried again...

[LMcD]

Bach after the Bleep

I'm not very good at moving posts around, but this one came from Heledenleben:



and this one from Aunt Daisy:



Certainly a wacky idea. The shape of things to come? Not too often, I hope. I enjoyed the music too.

Ah, bliss!

[AuntDaisy]

Just finished "Bach after the Bleep" - I'm afraid that the imagined phoned conversations grated more & more. (I'm tempted to make an edited version without them.)
Oh well, an interesting idea - but not for me.

The The Anna Magdalena Notebook EMS from 2004 was more to my taste, even though Esther Meynell's "The Little Chronicle of Magdalena Bach" wasn't exactly contemporary / accurate either. I wish they'd repeat it (I have asked).

The Anna Magdalena Notebook
Saturday 4 September 2004 13:00-14:00 (Radio 3)

A look at the life of Johann Sebastian Bach's second wife, Anna Magdalena Wilcke. She married Bach when she was 20 and the following year Bach compiled his celebrated Anna Magdalena Notebook for her. So, wonders Lucie Skeaping, what was it like to be Anna Magdalena?

JS BACH - French suite for keyboard no. 1 (BWV.812) in D minor: Sarabande; Nicholas McGegan - Harpsichord
JS BACH - Gib dich zufrieden und sei stille - chorale for 4 voices (BWV.315); John Potter, Emily van Evera, Harvey Brough, Richard Wistreich.
JS BACH - Menuett for keyboard (BWV.A.116) in G major [Anna Magdalena notebook, vol.2]; Gustav Leonhardt
JS BACH - Menuett (BWV.A.114) arr. C Pezold for harp and lute [orig. for keyboard]; Nicholas McGegan
JS BACH - Dir, dir, Jehova will ich singen - chorale for 4 voices (BWV.299); Andrew Lawrence-King
JS BACH - Menuett for keyboard (BWV.A.132) in D minor [Anna Magdalena Notenbuch, bk.2]; Stephen Stubbs; Andrew Lawrence-King
JS BACH - Willst du dein Herz mir schenken (Aria di Giovannini) for voice and continuo (BWV.518) [Anna Magdalena Notenbuch, vol.2, no.37]; John Potter; Andrew Lawrence-King
JS BACH - Cantata no. 82 (BWV.82) "Ich habe genug"; Ich habe genug! Mein Trost ist nur allein (Recitative); Schlummert ein (Aria); Gustav Leonhardt; Elly Ameling
JS BACH - Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme - chorale-prelude for organ (BWV.645) "Schubler chorale" no.1; John Potter; Stephen Stubbs; Andrew Lawrence-King
STOLZEL - Bist du bei mir - aria for voice and continuo [attrib. J S Bach as BWV.508]; Gustav Leonhardt; Elly Ameling
JS BACH - O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort - chorale for 4 voices (BWV.397); Stephen Stubbs; Lawrence-King
ANON - Musette No.22; Stephen Stubbs; Andrew Lawrence-King
COUPERIN - Pieces de clavecin - ordre no. 6; Les Bergeries; Stephen Stubbs; Andrew Lawrence-King
JS BACH - Gedenke doch, mein Geist, zuruck - aria for voice and continuo (BWV.509) attrib. Bach [from Anna Magdalena notebook, vol.2]; John Potter; Andrew Lawrence-King
GH BACH - So oft ich meine Tabackspfeife (Erbauliche Gedanken ...) attrib. [Anna Magdalena Notebook bk.2 (BWV.515)]; Andrew Lawrence-King
CPE BACH - Polonaise for keyboard in G minor attrib. J S Bach (as BWV.A.123) [Anna Magdalena Notebook, bk.2]; Nicholas McGegan
JS BACH - Goldberg variations (BWV.988); Aria [also in Anna Magdalena notebook, vol.2]; Gustav Leonhardt
JS BACH - Schlummert ein - aria vers. in G major for sop & bc [Anna Magdalena Notebook]; Nicholas McGegan; Lorraine Hunt Lieberson; David Bowles