Holy Week 2022

[DracoM]

A few highlights:

Sunday, 10th April:
1300: Bach St John Passion

1930: Choral Music from Latvia and Denmark

Monday, 11th April:
1300: Cardinall's Musick

Wed 13th April
19.30: Bach Matthew Passion

Thurs 14th April
1400: BBC Singers

Friday 15th April
1400 Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri
19.30 Easter at King's College, Cambridge

Easter Sunday:
1600 CE Canterbury Cathedral

[Finzi4ever]

Fancy someone deciding it was a sound idea to follow the ineffable John Passion this afternoon with Malcolm Williamson and Will Todd's 'Mass in Blue'! Small wonder Hannah French was so discombobulated by the culture clash, from the sublime to the 'cor blimey!', that she called the Williamson (loathed it since schooldays) 'Procession of Psalms' and then today, 'Psalm Sunday': poor thing! Still, I suppose it did set up the Chilcott introit from St Ann's, Manchester...(provocative, moi?)

[oddoneout]

Ah, so they did broadcast the St John. It's not clear from the online info which lists the Williamson et al under "Music Played", but omits the Passion. Shouldn't be surprised really it's only situation normal I suppose when it comes to the Beeb using its online capabilities to inform R3 listeners.
The 7-30 pm offering is also light on detail; considering the music is "specially recorded" it's difficult to see why we can't be allowed to know what is in the programme.

[oddoneout]

I've just seen what's happening with the Buxtehude on Good Friday - it's getting the Afternoon Concert lasagne treatment, with an LvB piano sonata, Stravinsky Petrushka and Faure Pelleas et Melisande between the sections. Words fail me.

[DracoM]

A series of own goals, IMO

[Nick Armstrong]

I've just seen what's happening with the Buxtehude on Good Friday - it's getting the Afternoon Concert lasagne treatment, with an LvB piano sonata, Stravinsky Petrushka and Faure Pelleas et Melisande between the sections. Words fail me.

Yes the idea of interspersing the Buxtehude with Petrushka in particular is so bizarre and cloth-eared it’s practically perverse

[DracoM]

[oddoneout]

Yes the idea of interspersing the Buxtehude with Petrushka in particular is so bizarre and cloth-eared it’s practically perverse

I sent an aggrieved email this morning asking what they had against Buxtehude, and this work in particular,since it's the second time this year that it has been dismembered so to speak. I suggested that today of all days they should either have broadcast it in a properly set out programme or not bothered at all, since neither the Buxtehude nor the intervening works are served by such juxtaposition.
It will get the automatic "We're too busy to reply to you" response (to which I also made reference), but at least I have made my views known.

[cloughie]

Good Friday - thinks - I haven’t played my bits of Parsifal today yet.

[Keraulophone]

Good Friday - thinks - I haven’t played my bits of Parsifal today yet.

No Wagner at your local cathedral, but favourites on offer included Byrd, Victoria, Lotti, Sanders (Reproaches)… available for a week on the cathedral’s YT channel.