Early Music at Saturday Lunchtimes ...

[doversoul1]

Italian Baroque music for recorder, cello and harpsichord: 12 July

The Maurice Steger Trio perform Italian Baroque music for recorder, cello and harpsichord.

The programme includes highlights from a performance recorded last year Frick Collection in New York. Situated next to the iconic Central Park in Manhattan, The Frick Collection is an art gallery which is world famous for its distinguished Old Master paintings and outstanding examples of European sculpture and decorative arts. It's Music Room plays host to some of the world's top musicians and this concert featuring recorder music from the 17th and 18th centuries was part of its 75th anniversary season.

Music includes works by Uccellini, Corelli, Falconieri and Alessandro Scarlatti

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0495ml5

[doversoul1]

Baroque flute concertos: 19 July

Flautist Karl Kaiser joins La Stagione Frankfurt and director/recorder player Michael Schneider in a concert of baroque flute concertos, recorded last year at Weilberg Castle in Germany.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04b20px

[doversoul1]

Couperin Chamber Music: 28 July

Chamber music by Francois Couperin, including his Le Parnasse, ou l'apothéose de Corelli, performed by violinist Francois Fernandez and harpsichordist Elisabeth Joyé among others, recorded last year in the Capuchin Church, Fribourg.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04brf8j

[doversoul1]

Elin Manahan Thomas and Fretwork perform Dowland: 2 August

Welsh soprano Elin Manahan Thomas and the ensemble Fretwork with lute player Elizabeth Kenny in a recital of songs and instrumental works by the melancholic Elizabethan composer John Dowland.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04cb60w

[Richard Tarleton]

This looks lovely

[doversoul1]

Fabio Biondi & Europa Galante: 8 August

Violinist Fabio Biondi takes on the virtuoso role of Antonio Vivaldi with his exciting early music ensemble Europa Galante. This concert of Vivaldi Concertos - plus a sinfonia or two to give Biondi a breather - was given last September at the remarkable circular, domed concert hall of the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest, as part of the 2013 George Enescu Festival.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04d1jc2

…plus a sinfonia or two to give Biondi a breather –
This is Radio3, if you please…

[doversoul1]

French Music for Bass Viols: 15 August

Viola da gamba music by Sainte-Colombe, Forqueray and Marin Marais, played by Susie Napper, Margaret Little, Romina Lischka and Teodoro Bau. Recorded at the Music in Paradise Early Music Festival in the Polish town of Paradyz.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04dqbf6

Music played by four bass viols?

[doversoul1]

Italian madrigals： 23 Auguat

Profeti della Quinta sing Italian madrigals by Cipriano de Rore, Luca Marenzio, Gesualdo and Monteverdi. This concert from the 2013 Basel Early Music Festival was given in St Martin's Church, the oldest parish church in the city of Basel.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04f8d82

[doversoul1]

An hour of madrigals and lute music from the 16th century*. It doesn’t happen that often even on TTN. There are more tightly performed recordings but this is a programme definitely worth listening.

[ed.] * and early 17th

[ed. 2] at the end of the programme we were told that next week’s programme would be The Triumphs of Oriana performed by Vox Luminis. We had the Oriana performed by Vox Luminis twice recently on TTN (repeated). I hope this one will be a different concert.

[Richard Tarleton]

An hour of madrigals and lute music from the 16th century. It doesn’t happen that often even on TTN. There are more tightly performed recordings but this is a programme definitely worth listening.

I loved it. Those Gesualdo harmonies, send shivers down the spine. A super programme.

[doversoul1]

Bach and Handel 30 August

Music by JS Bach and Handel performed by Arcangelo and director Jonathan Cohen, recorded in the Zenkel Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York. Violinist Alina Ibragimova is the soloist in JS Bach's violin concerto in A minor BWV 1041 and then soprano Katharine Watson and bass-baritone Nikolay Borchev sing the solo roles in Handel's dramatic cantata Apollo e Dafne.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04fy972

The Triumphs of Oriana will be on next week.

[doversoul1]

The Triumphs of Oriana: 6 September

"The Triumphs of Oriana", a musical homage to Elizabeth I, with vocal group Vox Luminis and recorder consort Mezzaluna. A concert given at last year's Laus Polyphoniae festival in Antwerp.

Under the supervision of the composer Thomas Morley a very special music collection was published in 1601: The Triumphs of Oriana was a set of madrigals by many of the best composers of the day, each song ending with the line 'Long live fair Oriana', and intended to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth, now nearing the end of her life.
[…]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04gjz1q

23 June Through the Night
The Triumphs of Oriana, written for Queen Elizabeth I, with the Mezzaluna Recorder Consort directed by Peter van Heyghen and Vox Luminis directed by Lionel Meunier, recorded at the Laus Polyphoniae Festival in Antwerp in August 2013.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0477j5k

Let’s see if tomorrow's programme is presented by John Shea

[ed.] this was the first broadcast of the concert on Through the Night
24 March 2014

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03yqj56

..and here is the tread on this forum

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?10816-The-Triumphs-of-Oriana

[Black Swan]

Listening now to The Triumphs of Oriana, by Vox Luminus. I am enjoying it very much. I wonder if they have recorded this program?

J

[doversoul1]

This is an edited version of the concert broadcast, twice, on Through the Night with the same script although Jonathan Swain made it sound as if he’d just written it himself (as you expect he’d do).

I suspected that these lunchtime concerts were TTN surplus: there have been a number of concerts from the festivals that were on TTN. I don’t mind that in itself, and I don’t even mind the same concert repeated. All the same, I feel somewhat cheated. They could have added the information that this programme was an edited version of the concert broadcast on Through the Night on…. Do the people who plan the schedule think that nobody listen but just hear whatever comes on the radio and won’t notice anything very much?

I enjoyed the concert for third time (lucky me…)

[doversoul1]

Vivaldi’s cantatas and chamber music: 13 September

Dutch ensemble La Sfera Armoniosa, directed by Mike Fentross, perform chamber music and cantatas by Vivaldi at a concert recorded in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw last December.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04h82hk