I'm afraid I have to agree with ardcarp: a lot of that felt like polyfilla, and not a very good advertisement for EBU's taste or the material being produced in the region for Christmas.
EBU Day’s of Christmas Music without Playlist
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It was presumably a programme for a very general audience, rather than one used to the finer points of the Anglican tradition of choral singing/choirs?
Were the 'traditional Icelandic music for Christmas' similarly tedious, and the traditional carols from Stockholm? The choice of the Mozart clarinet concerto and Tchaikovsky also give a clue that this is not for an audience that can claim to have heard them 500 times ...?It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by DracoM View PostNo, it doesn't, it tells you how long and concentratedly I wanted to and then made myself listen - i.e. down as far as the Czech stuff closely, liked the Czech rusticity - closer to a community-based celebration - and then lost interest as the rest of what I felt was a bit tedious came on.
I loved the Czech carols which reminded me of the Polish ones I grew fond of when I was in Poland. And the Romanian ones, too.
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