Astonishment at Breakfast

[ardcarp]

Going through my morning ritual (getting up) and listening to Breakfast with half an ear (as usual) I was stopped in my (admittedly slow) tracks at the sound of J.S. Bach (48 Preludes and Fugues Book II no. 12) played on a ....wait for it...harpsichord. Has the BBC lost its archive version featuring sitar and nose-flute?

Trevor Pinnock played it beautifully; nicely nuanced prelude and aptly metronomic fugue. In its entirety. Amazing.

[mercia]

archive version featuring sitar and nose-flute

[Paul Sherratt]

>>archive version featuring sitar and nose-flute?

I spotted a panpipes version in the window of Alsager's Age Concern shop.
Should I rush down to buy it and send it on to the producers ?

[DracoM]

Clearly too early for you, ardcarp, it was a kazoo ........ to flag up the Biggest Orchestra In The World, or some such other desperate ratings-grabbing tosh.

[Paul Sherratt]

The Bad-Tempered Kazoo ?

[Don Petter]

Clearly too early for you, ardcarp, it was a kazoo ........ to flag up the Biggest Orchestra In The World, or some such other desperate ratings-grabbing tosh.

I caught the start of that frenetic trail yesterday - It was switched off before the end.

Sounded completely out of place on R3 (or so I would have hoped), and more like those ear-splitting trails on Five Live which string together all the most noisy bits of commentary they can find in the hope it will attract, rather than repel, future listeners. They are wrong, as far as this one is concerned.

[Bryn]

Going through my morning ritual (getting up) and listening to Breakfast with half an ear (as usual) I was stopped in my (admittedly slow) tracks at the sound of J.S. Bach (48 Preludes and Fugues Book II no. 12) played on a ....wait for it...harpsichord. Has the BBC lost its archive version featuring sitar and nose-flute?

Trevor Pinnock played it beautifully; nicely nuanced prelude and aptly metronomic fugue. In its entirety. Amazing.

But does not Pinnock use an instrument tuned to equal, rather than well, temperament? Not so far from a version on sitar and nose-flute after all, eh? Now if they'd plumped for Edarr ... .

[Paul Sherratt]

Breakfast Complete Astonishment No. 2
Oum Kolthoum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5e7Fg46XOA&feature=related

[Norfolk Born]

it was a kazoo

Perhaps it was a trailer for 'I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue'.

[Paul Sherratt]