CPE Bach: 3-7 March

[doversoul1]

No disrespect to César Franck, this week’s Composer of the Week, but I am very much looking forward to next week’s CoW. Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010nttb

[aeolium]

I too, ds.

I also enjoyed last week's CotW of Rossini. No-one seems to care much for him these days but there is much in his work I like.

[Serial_Apologist]

I wonder if this is a repeat of the last time CPEB was COTW, which I think was a few years ago. If so, no problem as far as I'm concerned.

[doversoul1]

Yes, it is a repeat from 2011 (I’ve just checked). Well…. for the anniversary year, they could have made an effort to produce a new series, as there have been many excellent recording since then, including Mahan Esfahani’s first CD. Still, it is as good as new as far as I am concerned, so I shan’t complain. One good thing about being a repeat is that we have the playlist prior to the broadcast (this should be the norm, though).

[doversoul1]

Anybody listening? Magnificat in its entirety today, although the choice of the performance could have been updated.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011ckgz

[ed.] Plus a couple of wonderful clavichord sonatas.

[Serial_Apologist]

Anybody listening? Magnificat in its entirety today, although the choice of the performance could have been updated.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011ckgz

Yes indeed, DS - wonderful music in itself, but for me a fascination in the idiomatic change about to come, moving music from the contrapuntal to the symphonic era: one of 3 main occasions when such an aesthetic switch has taken place in the history of western music.

[doversoul1]

I have not listened to it but this appears to be the Friday’s programme on the original broadcast.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01tdk8l

[Bryn]

I have not listened to it but this appears to be the Friday’s programme on the original broadcast.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01tdk8l

Many thanks for that. It's certainly better than nothing, though unlike the 4 episodes re-broadcast last week in HD Sound (320kbps AAC_LC with a sample rate of 44.1kHz) that 5th episode is only 128kbps HE-AAC with a sample rate of 48kHz. Still, beggars can't be choosers.

[Dave2002]

Many thanks for that. It's certainly better than nothing, though unlike the 4 episodes re-broadcast last week in HD Sound (320kbps AAC_LC with a sample rate of 44.1kHz) that 5th episode is only 128kbps HE-AAC with a sample rate of 48kHz. Still, beggars can't be choosers.

Bryn

I couldn't find the 5th of the episodes for COTW CPE Bach in the iPlayer schedule, or indeed in the R3 schedule for last week. Was it broadcast?

Maybe I should download the podcast, in the hope of gleaning at least something from that episode.

[Bryn]

Bryn

I couldn't find the 5th of the episodes for COTW CPE Bach in the iPlayer schedule, or indeed in the R3 schedule for last week. Was it broadcast?

Maybe I should download the podcast, in the hope of gleaning at least something from that episode.

It was not re-broadcast last Friday, due to Ravel Day. However, the link provided by doversoul, and quoted on my recent message, was active at the times of posting. I see that it is no longer so. Look out for a PM from me.