Playing the wrong motet
Dec. 13th, 2015 08:38 amHaving woken up early, I turned on the radio and caught a trail for next week's EBU Christmas around Europe thing immediately followed by Something Understood. I was amused to find that both the trail and the program featured the same piece of music — Morton Lauridsen's beautifully tranquil O Magnum Mysterium — only for the program to introduce it as something else entirely: one of Francis Poulenc's four Christmas motets. Oops.
Fortunately the rest of the program proved so soporific, I managed to doze off again in next to no time...
Fortunately the rest of the program proved so soporific, I managed to doze off again in next to no time...