Moral image of an opulent era
"Baroque - mon amour" is now the motto for two weeks on Swiss radio and television, on the TV channels, online and on Radio SRF 2 Kultur. Music is also getting its turn.
How did the Baroque era shape us - and how Baroque are we today? The SRF focus in October explores these questions. Radio SRF 2 Kultur, for example, is showing a style guide of the era. The baroque kick-off magazine shows Handel's commercial skills in the crosshairs of art and commerce and looks for parallels between baroque self-presentation and the Facebook generation. And finally, it discovers the desire of today's DJs for the baroque sounds of yesteryear (Thursday, October 16, 2014, 9 a.m., Radio SRF 2 Kultur).
As part of the focus, television will show moments from the 2013 Christmas concert at the Stadttheater Olten with the Capella Gabetta (Sunday, October 19, 2014, 11:30 pm, SRF 1). In a "Sternstunde Musik", Australian musicologist Martin Jarvis also wants to prove that Anna Magdalena Bach was denied the honor she deserved as a composer because it did not fit in with the image of women of her time (Sunday, 26 October 2014, 23:25, SRF 1).
The whole program: www.srf.ch/kultur/barock-mon-amour
