Byrd Weekend

[Catherine Bott]

Thanks all, glad you enjoyed them. Always a pleasure to talk to Andrew. I'm feeling quite proprietorial about next weekend's pair of programmes: the brief, to go with this British music season, was to discuss Purcell's influence on Britten, and I was allowed to devise the whole thing. Stand by for quite a lot of big beast harpsichord playing and Britten's own realisations.

[Nick Armstrong]

Thanks all, glad you enjoyed them. Always a pleasure to talk to Andrew. I'm feeling quite proprietorial about next weekend's pair of programmes: the brief, to go with this British music season, was to discuss Purcell's influence on Britten, and I was allowed to devise the whole thing. Stand by for quite a lot of big beast harpsichord playing and Britten's own realisations.

[ardcarp]

Stand by for quite a lot of big beast harpsichord playing

Would that be the players or the instruments?

[Catherine Bott]

Oops - definitely the instruments. Harpsichordists tend to be on the willowy side....

[BBMmk2]

Can't wait for that, Catherine!

[jean]

The marvellous words of Infelix ego, for anyone who hasn't LA'd yet, or might want to fit in a few more hearings!


Infelix ego, omnium auxilio destitutus, qui cœlum terramque offendi: Quo ibo? Quo me vertam? Ad quem confugiam? Quis mei miserebitur? Ad cœlum levare oculos non audeo. Quia ei graviter peccavi. In terra refugium non invenio. Quia ei scandalum fui.

Quid igitur faciam? Desperabo? Absit. Misericors est Deus, pius est salvator meus. Solus igitur Deus refugium meum: Ipse non despiciet opus suum, non repellet imaginem suam.

Ad te igitur, piissime Deus, tristis ac mœrens venio: Quoniam tu solus spes mea, tu solus refugium meum. Quid autem dicam tibi? Cum oculos levare non audeo, verba doloris effundam, misericordiam tuam implorabo, et dicam: Miserere mei Deus, secundum magnam misericordiam tuam.


Actually, my favourite bit of all the masses is the Agnus of the Mass for 3.

[jean]

Next weekend too!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02xxvcv

I thought Byrd himself was never arrested.

[ardcarp]

It might be dramatic licence, of course. I see Simon Russell Beale is to be Byrd; and is the writer the Mark Lawson?

[BBMmk2]

I had Byrd's lovely Ave Verum, sung by The Sixteen Choir/Harry Christophers last week, or before.