Bach on 3

[ardcarp]

There is a Bach Cantata every morning on Breakfast before 7am.
So far we've had:

Monday Collegiun Vocale Gent/BWV23
Tuesday Amsterdam Baroque/BWV159
(Can't find info about the rest of the week.)

On Good Friday we get both (major) Passions:

2pm Afternoon Concert/St John/BBCNOW with John Butt
7pm Berlin Phil/St Matthew/Rattle



I guess the reason for the early start with the cantatas is the BBC's idea that a complete work threatens the short excerpt/easy listening philosophy of Radio 3 mornings.

As for two Passions on one day...well rather the opposite! Luckily we can choose what and when we listen to anything. I must say it would have been more interesting to have one of the Passions done by a small specialist Baroque group. John Butt is usually associated with that genre, so it will be interesting to see how BBCNOW and Chorus match up to his ideas.

[subcontrabass]

There is also a perriod instruments performance of the St John Passion on Through the Night on Good Friday, starting at 12.31 a.m.

[Bryn]

There is a Bach Cantata every morning on Breakfast before 7am. . .

Thanks for that. Since I avoid R3's Breakfast, I would have missed out on them. 'Sounds' to the rescue.

[hmvman]

There's been 'Bach Before 7' every morning for some time, but not always complete works admittedly.

Thanks for the tip-off about the cantatas, ardcarp. Since the lockdown I haven't been awake before 7!