King's Choir on BBC2/BBC HD on Holy Saturday, 17.05

[Nick Armstrong]

Really? I don't feel at all sorry for myself

I'm surprised too, Mary. I'd love to know what you don't like about the Duruflé. I couldn't imagine anyone not liking 'Ubi caritas' ! It's gorgeous!

[Mary Chambers]

I'm surprised too, Mary. I'd love to know what you don't like about the Duruflé. I couldn't imagine anyone not liking 'Ubi caritas' ! It's gorgeous!

I'm afraid I think of it as sentimental waffly French music. Sorry! I don't like the Requiem either - and I've sung both.

Chacun à son goût

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm afraid I think of it as sentimental waffly French music. Sorry! I don't like the Requiem either - and I've sung both.

Chacun à son goût

How true, Mary, how true! The one unarguable lesson this Forum teaches us!

[Y Mab Afradlon]

God so love the Whirl? What has happened to the KCC diction?

[Wolsey]

I apologise for the pedantry, but today is Holy Saturday, not Easter Saturday as the thread is headed. Easter Saturday is the Saturday following Easter, i.e. 14 April this year.

[jean]

I'm glad someone pointed that out.

[Nick Armstrong]

I apologise for the pedantry, but today is Holy Saturday, not Easter Saturday as the thread is headed. Easter Saturday is the Saturday following Easter, i.e. 14 April this year.

Call me a heathen.

Mea maxima culpa

If Frenchie should happen by, perhaps she could correct my solecism...

[Double Diapason]

I thought the diction was spot on. Not overdone but they conveyed the words and the meaning.
I have to say I am now tired of this format (Christmas and Easter now). The Christmas one can carry on forever but taking the same format and applying it to Easter is just too much. If Kings/BBC want to make money from this in the longer term they should find a new angle. I wonder how a new DoM will change things? Not long to find out if SC retires at 65 which is only 19 months away.
I thought the men were the best bit about this service. The boys were looking up at some of the notes rather than sitting on top of them too often and the very start of several pieces made me wince! Firsts chords need to be better than that at this level. I just wonder if this programme was a bit thrown together? Interesting that the producer wrote a descant!! Ads to the pay cheque I imagine..............
Organ underplayed as usual.

[jean]

Call me a heathen.

Mea maxima culpa

You're not alone.

Lucy Skeaping on the Early Music Show as I write is telling me that Gesualdo's Tenebrae responsories are 'Easter music'!

[DracoM]

I heard the same, jean. What on earth........who writes her scripts???

[jean]

The same person who writes Catherine Bott's...who did the same thing yesterday?

[amateur51]

I apologise for the pedantry, but today is Holy Saturday, not Easter Saturday as the thread is headed. Easter Saturday is the Saturday following Easter, i.e. 14 April this year.

In my house it's the Saturday after Good Friday which has the merit of being both descriptive and accurate

[mercia]

my diary has May 17th as Holy Thursday (he added helpfully)

[amateur51]

my diary has May 17th as Holy Thursday (he added helpfully)

In what sense would that be 'helpful', mercs?

[jean]

In my house it's the Saturday after Good Friday which has the merit of being both descriptive and accurate

It's certainly not accurate since Easter doesn't start until Easter Day.

It's only then that Lent is over and Easter begins.

(Interesting to note that whatever BBC presenters come up with, Radio Times always gets it right.)