Originally posted by kernelbogey
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Monteverdi in Mantua: The Genius of the Vespers
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Originally posted by doversoul View PostThere is one on the Early Music Show, too.
http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...of-the-Vespers
Well, it is early music, there is a choir involved and it was shown on television....
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Originally posted by DracoM View PostWoops - started a thread at EXACTLY the same time...... should have watched more carefully. apologies.
Recalling SRB's other frontings of music on the Beeb, I was a bit apprehensive about this one, particularly as the 1610 Vespers are among my favourite pieces. BUT, have to say, this was both illuminating and finely contextualised. Christophers / The Sixteen plus instrumentalists gave a fine account of extracts. We had letters, MS, part books, plenty of architecture to admire, but above all, we had the music.
Thanks to all.
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Originally posted by jean View PostIn their email to me, the Sixteen tell me that this is being broadcast on Easter Saturday...how could they make such a dreadful mistake?
Recorded this and am looking forward to watching it later (though the sexy references might grate here too); thought it best to take a break from viewing after chortling my way through Carry on Cleo, still my favourite of the series!
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it was a good prog and a good idea but like others i wondered about Italian artists performing early and baroque music, such a difference to the estimable but less earthy English ensembles imv .. and the prog did send me off to look for Nadia Boulanger and chums performing MonteverdiAccording to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.
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Now we've come to rest in the Early Music section - And why not? - further thoughts on the programme, some echoing others' previous comments.
What I most appreciated about the programme was its intelligent presentation. We had a professional actor, Simon Russell Beale, doing the walking about and disappearing through doors visual cliches of television documentaries, while somehow keeping those cues integrated into the story being told. It was lovely to see Mantua (which I don't know) with Claudio Monteverdi put into context. (BTW, I thought the sex-and-scandal stuff relevant because it must have been a factor, albeit not explained in the programme, in the way CM had been treated.)
Then we had The Sixteen and Harry Christophers explaining some of the musical and performance issues in a manner that was informative without talking down. The fact that the presenter, SRB, is musical, even having a go at singing, on camera, from a 16th century manuscipt was a key element in the programme's successful middle-of-the-road style: educative without grating patronising.
For me the programme brought Claudio Monteverdi the man alive; and, for a television programme on early music of that length, I think it couldn't be faulted.
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Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostFor me the programme brought Claudio Monteverdi the man alive; and, for a television programme on early music of that length, I think it couldn't be faulted.
Blimey, someone who actually LIKES the form of television.
I never thought I would find that in here
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Richard Tarleton
I enjoyed the programme - SRB and HC and the Sixteen a well-tried partnership (earlier outings on Palestrina and polyphony, Victoria, the story of Allegri's Miserere.....)
Simon Russell Beale was sporting his King Lear buzzcut.....
Re Easter Saturday, at least the Rev Lucy Winkett got it right on Private Passions (as one would hope). Saying she couldn't write her Easter Sunday sermon until after Good Friday because she wasn't in the groove.
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