EBU Day’s of Christmas Music without Playlist

[DracoM]

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.

[Flosshilde]

This does rather contradict your earlier post?

[DracoM]

No, 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.

[mercia]

the playlist has appeared (yes I know, too late)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04vczff

[french frank]

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 ...?

[jean]

No, 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.

The Schreier was part of the Czech stuff - and of the tradition of turning the traditional rusticity into something a bit more liturgical. Which possibly puts a bit too much pressure on it, for those accustomed to a less folksy tradition of church music. It's not unlike the West Gallery tradition we've only recently rediscovered here.

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.

[DracoM]

Exactly.