Easter at King's

[DracoM]

Ah, but how many DIFFERENT Xmas services do KCC record?

[ardcarp]

Not according to this: http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/files/chapel/tv-2014.pdf. Recorded on December 14 right in the middle of that 'punishing schedule'.

You are quite right Petrushka...sorry...but see this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/easter/8469821/BBC-saves-money-by-filming-its-Easter-service-in-December.html

[Nick Armstrong]

You are quite right Petrushka...sorry...but see this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/ea...-December.html

Love the comment at the bottom from

Mrs Trellis

BONKERS!

[Petrushka]

You are quite right Petrushka...sorry...but see this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/ea...-December.html

If the BBC recorded Easter from Kings in the same way in 2014 as they did in 2011 (as per the DT report) then that is two major TV broadcasts AND the Nine Lessons and Carols on Christmas Eve plus whatever else was going on at the time then it's little wonder that the choir look tired and knackered.

Is there anyone from King's on here who is prepared to comment?

[mercia]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/ea...-December.html

and that is a photo of ..... where ?

[Nick Armstrong]

and that is a photo of ..... where ?

See Mrs Trellis's comment, referenced above!

[DracoM]

Yes, totally gobsmacked me as well.............photo deffo NOT KCC!!

[Mr Stoat]

I watched the broadcast. I thought the choir looked and sounded knackered. I gather from the grapevine that they recorded the programme back to back with the Christmas TV one. Perhaps that explained it. The Ireland (despite organ reservations expressed above) was quite good. The Blow OTOH was...and I'm sorry to say this....dreadful. All IMVHO of course.

I think I was listening to another broadcast. the Ireland moved me to tears, and what was wrong with the Blow....?

[DracoM]

Tuning.

[Mr Stoat]

Couldn't hear anything wrong with the tuning.... All the time or in specific places?

[DracoM]

Occasionally. Don't listen to me - Blow not a fave here!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Occasionally. Don't listen to me - Blow not a fave here!

You prefer Suk?

[Petrushka]

You prefer Suk?

[Nick Armstrong]

The Blow OTOH was...and I'm sorry to say this....dreadful. All IMVHO of course.

Couldn't hear anything wrong with the tuning.... All the time or in specific places?

Yes I'm with ardcarp, I thought it sounded a bit of a mess too - just watched / listened again, the complex sections with trebles up high were a bit ropey and tough to listen to - in fact, I stopped.

The pieces which fared best seemed to me to be the Faire is the Heaven, My Beloved Spake, Tantum Ergo - and the Tavener Lord's Prayer (the latter a revelation for me - not a JT fan as a rule, but this really got to me!)

You prefer Suk?

Better perhaps than the composer of Les effets de manches and Doppo il tormento...

(Look it up while I get my coat)

[ardcarp]

The opening of the Blow was robbed of its expressiveness (IMO) by a too-fast tempo and lack of shaping of those phrases leading to poignant suspensions. The singing was a bit 'rough' and as Draco says tuning a bit iffy.