Howard Goodall's Story of Music

[dylanesque]

Anyone else watch this series on BBC 2? I enjoyed the series but felt more detail about Composers and each era could have been explored more thoroughly. 20 mins for Beethoven and 5 for Schubert is hardly doing them justice. I guess at least it made a reasonable overview of music. I do think Sky Arts do a better job than the BBC on this type of tv.

[mahler10th]

Anyone else watch this series on BBC 2? I enjoyed the series but felt more detail about Composers and each era could have been explored more thoroughly. 20 mins for Beethoven and 5 for Schubert is hardly doing them justice. I guess at least it made a reasonable overview of music. I do think Sky Arts do a better job than the BBC on this type of tv.

Yes, I followed that series too Darren.  The thing about it, it was a 'broad' story of music, from the roots up, for folks interested or new to understanding music and its growth from origins.  Given the sort of 'mission' statement at the beginning of each episode, I do not think it was necessary for it to expound too deeply on any composer for any length of time, so I disagree with you a wee bit there.     I do think though, that Howard did a brilliant job giving us a tour de force overview of the growth and development of music for 'interested' people. 
Since the era of broadcasting, the BBC has always led the way in the UK, even unto regional orchestras, regular performances, proms, educational programmes and series like the one we're talking about, and a whole radio channel devoted to Classical Music.
Sky will always be second, methinks.   

[dylanesque]

Yes, I followed that series too dylan.  The thing about it, it was a 'broad' story of music, from the roots up, for folks interested or new to understanding music and its growth from origins.  Given the sort of 'mission' statement at the beginning of each episode, I do not think it was necessary for it to expound too deeply on any composer for any length of time, so I disagree with you a wee bit there.     I do think though, that Howard did a brilliant job giving us a tour de force overview of the growth and development of music for 'interested' people. 
Since the era of broadcasting, the BBC has always led the way in the UK, even unto regional orchestras, regular performances, proms, educational programmes and series like the one we're talking about, and a whole radio channel devoted to Classical Music.
Sky will always be second, methinks.   

I agree in a way with your first point . I think the BBC have done well representing CM in the past ( tv ) but now SKY has the Arts channel which is obviously more focused on Classical Works !