Sara Mingardo Live from Wigmore Hall: 11 May 1.00pm

[doversoul1]

This should be good:

Claudio Monteverdi:
Quel sguardo sdegnosetto
Lamento d'Arianna (Lasciatemi morire)
Voglio di vita uscir, voglio che cadano

Andrea Falconieri:
Vezzosette e care pupillette
Non più d'amore

Alessandro Piccinini:
Toccata XX
Aria di sarabanda in varie partite
Giacomo Carissimi:
Deh memoria e che più chiedi?

Barbara Strozzi:
L'Eraclito amoroso
La, sol, fa, mi, re, do

Sara Mingardo, contralto
Ivano Zanenghi, theorbo
Giorgio Dal Monte, harpsichord.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tpryp

[gurnemanz]

I earmarked this a while ago and being a huge Mingardo fan I won't be missing this chance of seeing her live. Tickets are still available (but booked just in case) and I will be setting off about 9.30 am tomorrow morning on a slightly mad bus-train-bus trip from N. Wilts to Wigmore Street.

[Padraig]

Noted doversoul, thank you.
See you there gurnemanz. (ha ha) I wish I could.
I'll be lucky to HEAR the programme tomorrow if I'm back from hospital after cataract treatment in the morning.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Best Wishes with that, Padraig.

[doversoul1]

I hope all will go well, Padraig. If you miss it, there’s always eye-player….

[Padraig]

Go raibh míle maith agaibh, ferneyhoughgeliebte and doversoul ( that's eye-rish)

I see there's a song in the programme which mentions eyes. How thoughtful!

[doversoul1]

It was a great treat to hear a live concert of early Baroque songs and instrumental works.

The harpsichord sounded rather twangy but it was probably just the transmission and not the playing. Did the presenter (S M-P) tell us that contralto, especially natural contralto was a very rare thing? I don’t know about falsetto contralto but there are many excellent altos/contraltos if she just looks into the recent Baroque CD releases.

Never mind. It was a most enjoyable concert.

Padraig, I hope all went well with your i.

[Padraig]

Never mind. It was a most enjoyable concert.

Padraig, I hope all went well with your i.

I am happy to say, doversoul, that the surgery was successful. The improvement was immediately noticeable and I look forward to the second op soon - on the NHS and not Private Eye.

I caught most of the LTC and I was glad to reacquaint myself with the contralto Sara Mingardo in recital. I shall indeed be listening to the repeat. I loved those last three items.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

[doversoul1]

from me, too.

Yes, they (the last three items) were wonderful, weren’t they?

[gurnemanz]

Very glad I made the effort to go to Wigmore. Her purity of tone and unique vocal range made for a most rewarding experience.

PS I got there an hour early and wandered down to All Saints, Margaret Street, a marvellous example of exuberant Victorian Gothic which I've been mean to check out for years. Well worth a detour ...

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