Emma Kirkby presents…

[doversoul1]

Sunday 29th

Early music stalwart, the soprano Dame Emma Kirkby is today's guest presenter of The Early Music Show, and chooses some of her favourite seasonal music from the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03lzsbm

No playlist.

[ardcarp]

Good! Must try and catch it. I do hope modesty will not prevent her from including her own recordings.

[french frank]

Good! Must try and catch it. I do hope modesty will not prevent her from including her own recordings.

One of my Christmas listens was a Purcell CD - with Emma Kirkby and Catherine Bott (and a Mr Bowman)

[gurnemanz]

Thanks for a reminder. I have enjoyed her performances since she first appeared on the scene and do have this Dowland box.
Three facts: I once glimpsed her at Heathrow Airport. I saw her performing Bach with the Thomanerchor in Bach's church in Leipzig. She is almost exactly the same age as me.

[cloughie]

Cloughie, I read that as hoping she does include some of her own recordings - with a compliment thrown in! How is that having a go? I must have missed something

I read it wrongly - unreserved apologies to ardcarp - I have deleted the offending item.

[MickyD]

I have a very old BBC TV drama recording of Sheridan's "The Critic" (early 80s I think), in which Emma Kirkby plays an eighteenth century singer in full wig, with C Hogwood also directing the AAM from the harpsichord, also in white wig! It looks as if they were all having a lot of fun.

[ardcarp]

cloughie. No apology needed, I can hardly work out from all the deleted posts what you said anyway!

[Richard Tarleton]

I read it wrongly - unreserved apologies to ardcarp - I have deleted the offending item.

[jean]

Richard, you really should delete your #4 too!

[Richard Tarleton]

Done! I was in a rush earlier.

[Frances_iom]

yet another bastion of the old R3 is down - nice sequence so far (even tho the carol was modern) and fine aural wallpaper pity about the scholarship that used to be audible in the old EMS - Wright strikes yet again - a show that easily have been on R2 or I suspect CFm

[doversoul1]

What on earth did they invite Emma Kirkby to present this programme for? Who was the intended audience? What a most complete wasted opportunity. Honestly, I feel cheated.

Needless to say that this is not a criticism to Emma Kirkby who was obviously given the script to read.

[jean]

...Emma Kirkby who was obviously given the script to read.

I don't think we need assume that! She is quite an intelligent and thoughtful person in her own right.

[LeMartinPecheur]

She isquite an intelligentand thoughtful person in her own right.

She has an Oxford Greats degree and there are rumours you need to be 'quite intelligent' to get one of those

[Richard Tarleton]

It struck me that this programme would have slotted equally well into the "Saturday Classics" spot. But yes it did strike me as personal rather than scripted, for example her reference to Montserrat Figueras.