Why the glaring omission?

[Dave2002]

Blast and curses! Missed it!

Mario

Don't panic. I found it on iPlayer and doesn't sound too bad. Others, eg. Bryn, may be able to give advice about which audio stream to connect to to get the best results. That may depend which device you use for playback. I've still not really figured out the streams for my Squeezebox to get the best results - just haven't had time to deal with it all, but perhaps not a problem for me from last night as it should be recorded on to our PVR. You should be able to pick it up on an iPad or iPhone if you have one.

[Auferstehen2]

Hi Dave2002. Thanks for the advice.

You may not know that I do not live in the UK, so I can't tell whether the iPlayer works - I'll try it later on. Streams, Squuezebox and PVR all sound kinky, as I haven't the faintest.

Thanks

[Dave2002]

I don't know whether iPlayer will work at all outside the UK, but I am aware that some who visit here are outside the country. Not sure if they can get listen on demand or merely streaming (or occasionally downloads maybe), but it would seem that some do manage some of these things.

Perhaps they can help!?

[french frank]

You may not know that I do not live in the UK, so I can't tell whether the iPlayer works - I'll try it later on.

Unless there's been a recent change in the rules, the On Demand (Listen Again) radio programmes should be available outside the UK (no?), but not television.

The Bach concert is here.

[Auferstehen2]

Spot on french frank. Thanks both to you and Dave2002.

I can indeed listen again on iPlayer. Although of course I can listen to Radio 3, BBC TV is not possible (maybe something to do with licensing rights which I don't understand).

Mario

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

... that short, bleak period of musical history (1750-70) from which little or no music of lasting greatness has been passed on to us.

... an extraordinary statement....





At this time some were doing their greatest work - Handel, Geminiani, Telemann, Mattheson, Rameau, Porpora, Graupner, Pisendel, Fasch, Muffat, Tartini, Locatelli, Daquin, Sammartini, Quantz, Leclair, JG Graun, Hasse, KH Graun, Cannabich, Traetta, Nardini, Stamitz, Jomelli, Wagenseil, Mondonville, Krebs, Gluck, Boyce, Arne, Avison, Martini, Galuppi, Gossec...

There was also someone called Haydn doing some quite good stuff...

It is true, however, that JS Bach is in some way a summation of what has gone before; his offspring do wonderful things - I'm thinking of CPE, JC, WF, JCF - but they're very much plugged into the next wave which will lead to the classical movement...

So, go on, name me one great work that can stand up against St Matthew Passion, the B Minor Mass, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and other masterpieces of the 18th century - composed within the specified period. Handel had dried up; Haydn was in his early phase ( as was Mozart, of course). There was lots of fine music, but this was essentially a period of transition. The one work that stands out for me is Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice (1762).

[Dave2002]

Curious one this. The statement may well be judged correct. The only composers I can think of who might have been active during the period are Rameau, one or more of the Stamitzes, and Gluck who's already been mentioned.

[vinteuil]

to describe as "that short, bleak period of musical history (1750-70) from which little or no music of lasting greatness has been passed on to us" a period which gave us Handel's Theodora and Jephtha, Rameau's les Paladins and les Boréades, Gluck's le Cinesi, Orfeo ed Euridice, Alceste, and Paride ed Elena, as well as Haydn's first forty symphonies and his early keyboard works and piano trios...

[Flosshilde]

It is true, however, that JS Bach is in some way a summation of what has gone before; his offspring do wonderful things - I'm thinking of CPE, JC, WF, JCF - but they're very much plugged into the next wave which will lead to the classical movement...

I hope that you are all listening to Composer of the Week this week.

[Serial_Apologist]

Floss!

Having followed this thread under the implied assumption of the OP of its subject being JS Bach, I've just resuscitated the CPE Bach thread opened a few days ago by Doversoul.

S-A