Bach's Magnificat: Saturday, 18:00

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  • doversoul1
    Ex Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 7132

    Bach's Magnificat: Saturday, 18:00

    There’s life outside The Proms. Some compensation for the absence of the Early Music Show on Sunday but this Discovering Music is on Saturday at 6.00pm. I wish they’d leave things alone. Ah well, at least it’s still on Radio3

    Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Richard Egarr examine the music and background to Bach's Magnificat.


    ... Sara Mohr-Pietsch, in conversation with the AAM's Music Director, Richard Egarr, examines the better known version, in D major, and looks at the way in which Bach adheres to the traditions of the 18th Century Baroque in his compositional approach …
  • Gordon
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 1424

    #2
    Marvellous piece!! Will be a must listen on Saturday.

    Re: Proms So far the ones I've heard have been disappointing, somehow routine. Underwhelmed by Norrington's Mahler and turned off!! Oh for Bernstein live! Love him or hate, I will never forget his Mahler 5 with the VPO at the Proms, recorded for DG later in the tour at Frankfurt. In the Hall that evening the intensity was electric!

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