The Beeb’s Bach Christmas
Readers may recall the extraordinary public response last June to BBC Radio 3’s Beethoven Experience, about which I posted a piece here. Since that post I seem to recall one or two glowing tributes in our threads to the incomparable JS Bach. So this post is by way of a “heads up” for the forthcoming baroque bonanza, A Bach Christmas:-
BBC Radio 3 will be celebrating Christmas 2005 by broadcasting continuously over ten days the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
The composer’s entire surviving body of work will be performed by some of the world’s greatest musicians including specially recorded performances by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Yo-Yo Ma, Angela Hewitt, Philippe Herreweghe and Ton Koopman.
The round-the-clock broadcast will begin on December 16th, and is available in your home through the priceless agency of the internet. No doubt, after the closing programme on Christmas Day an MP3 download page will appear once again on the Radio 3 website.
All this and not a single commercial break. Who says state-run industries can’t be cool?
Posted by John J Ray on Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:35 | #
I could forgive the Beeb a lot for that