JS BACH 323 today, he doesn't look a day over 250 though.

Need some candles on that cake mind.

If you ever go for a meal with Howard dont have the Salmon mousse.
You will have Mr Grim round about the Reaping

With it being Good Friday I expect he is getting good royality payments today.

A family portrtait of Bach in his 60s by one of his sons...



Bach will not get a penny for any of his works, of course as there was never any copyright in his time, and even now the limit for the estate of a dead composer is 50 or 75 years after their death.

I actually wonder why copyright should exist at all after a composer has died.

George

The Saint John Passion is being broadcast on BBC Radio Three in twenty minutes, at 18:30 hours GMT.

George

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Originally posted by GFFJ:
The Saint John Passion is being broadcast on BBC Radio Three in twenty minutes, at 18:30 hours GMT.

George

Who is doing it George?
And is the Marantz on record?
Munch

Well, I have no idea who the performers were, but London still is alive to great music making! It was so grand that I forgot to change the disc at 79 minutes, being totally absorbed by matters more elemental than concentrating on a recording! I was listening via the Monitor and it stopped without warning. Disc two was started some three minutes later at the appropriate moment and is flawless, but I spoiled to process in general!

Never mind, as it is still more compelling than any gramophone record I have encountered. I hope the BBC issue it on discs!

George

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Originally posted by BigH47:
JS BACH 323 today, he doesn't look a day over 250 though.

Gian the stuff you have in your out house

Dear Gianluigi!

What gets me about the music of old Bach, is that it still speaks to us today, as if it were music written in our time! It so far has remained without historical context, but speaks as a Universal musical truth as directly as a conversation!

What was great about the BBC relay of the Saint John Passion was that it took 150 years of accumulated re-examination of the style and completely melded it into a performance for today, as if the music were new minted. Nothing rushed or forced, its emotional weight spoke as if it were inevitable and without clever underlinings of the obvious.

I so want to have the chance to listen once again to the performence without my failed missed section in the broadcast in my own recording. I guess it was too fine for the BBC not to rebroadcast it!

Happy Easter, dear Gianluigi! George

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Originally posted by GFFJ:
Well, I have no idea who the performers were, but London still is alive to great music making! It was so grand that I forgot to change the disc at 79 minutes, being totally absorbed by matters more elemental than concentrating on a recording! I was listening via the Monitor and it stopped without warning. Disc two was started some three minutes later at the appropriate moment and is flawless, but I spoiled to process in general!

Never mind, as it is still more compelling than any gramophone record I have encountered. I hope the BBC issue it on discs!

George

Hello George,

this evening my local radio station WDR3 transmitted a live performance of the St Matthew Passion from the Thomaskirche in Leipzig.

It was an impressive experience for me to listen to this work, knowing that JSB presented this masterpiece at the same location a long time ago.

Best wishes and happy easter

Manfred

Dear Manfred,

Exactly this time last year I attended a concert in Hereford Cathedral of the Saint Matthew Passion, and it is an overwhelming experience in a great performance. I have heard it there three times, and the last was a truly great performance. I was convusling at the end so sad is that messgage. My favourite aria from it is "Mache Dich ...," but the piece, overall, has no absolute consolation, as the Saint John does, which is certain as to the certain redemption of the sinner who repents. The Saint Matthew actually ends enigmatically.

One day I shall have to find myself in Saint Thomas's for the Saint Matthew!

Happy Easter from George

George what was that gig you went to a few months back in that big Church thing?
Stuart.

Hereford Cathdral Chior and fine baroque orchestra in the Bach Christams Oratorio, last month.

Same people as the Saint Matthew last Easter. The Organist and general music director is a Bach fanatic, and knows what he is doing. Apparently the Saint John they did on Wednesday was Ho hum, according to my one friend in the Choir. I could not afford to go, and am glad of the review. Easter is a very busy time, and the boy trebles need to learn the music from scratch, so the time was not possible with such an early Easter. Life is like that.

Another month and it would have been great. But daily services, and more than you can believe at Easter meant the Bach was starved of enough rehearsal time ...

ATB from George

PS: Seems hard to believe that rural Herefordshire hosts a phenomenal Bach tradition though ...

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Originally posted by GFFJ:
Happy Easter, dear Gianluigi! George

To you as well George!

Heads up Wagner fans,

Tristan is being relayed live from the Met in NY at 16:30 GMT on BBC Radio Three. Deborah Voigt as Isolde.

George

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If you ever go for a meal with Howard dont have the Salmon mousse.
You will have Mr Grim round about the Reaping

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Rotf,
Nice one, My fave Python film.

Thanks ROTF now I know what munch meant, by that comment.