Saturday 1 September 2007

I'm just home from hearing Cantus Cölln doing early Bach cantatas and the motet Jesu meine Freude in Edinburgh. What a relief to hear that music played and sung spectacularly well: it's the best live music I've heard for a very long time. Listen when it's on Radio 3 next Friday at lunchtime, and hopefully you'll hear what I mean. I also had a very interesting chat with Konrad Junghänel about how conscious the young Bach was of musical history, and the older Bach of his own musical past. An unequivocally good musical experience as an audient almost makes up for me losing my camera earlier in the day ...