...or rather NO MUSIC. BBC4????

[zola]

Now that we've had 3 consecutive weeks with serious music programmes on BBC4, I see that next (Good)Friday, there is nothing - mostly "Girls in Bands"! I guess that's it then, until the Proms start. At least there seems to be a fair smattering of Bach on Radio 3 for Easter week, both Passions, and a concert of 3 Cantatas on Thursday - that should be a feast.

In April there are programmes on Peter Maxwell Davies and Yehudi Menuhin. But it is still slim pickings and the chance of a performance concert broadcast of a living musician is virtually nil apart from the Proms. And even then, the novelty proms take up a sizeable chunk of the televised slots.

[Nick Armstrong]

For 50 years, BBC Two has been at the heart of popular music in the UK. So what is BBC Four now?

Just noticed that the programme I linked (which I confess had me thinking - that belongs on BBC Four ... ) is preceded by a Michael Jackson documentary http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/bbctwo .... Again, why isn't that on BBC Four?

Also, that in a similar graveyard slot to the Messiah programme, at 03:15 on Thursday, is a rerun of that Rattle documentary http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02h9fvl - and in the early hours of Saturday, two repeats, about Monteverdi and Mozart.

Is this so that someone high up at some point can say in a report 'oh there's been simply hours of classical music on BBC2, darlings'...?