EMS "Live from the York Early Music Festival" 7/7/2024

[AuntDaisy]

A live edition of The Early Music Show that looks very interesting.

Live from the York Early Music Festival - The Early Music Show
Hannah French is joined by a live audience to celebrate the opening weekend of the 2024 York International Festival of Early Music. There's music from the ensemble Florilegium, and tenor Nicholas Mulroy, lutenists Elizabeth Kenny and Toby Carr perform music from Baroque Cuba.

And, unlike other R3 "Live" programmes, this does look to be almost-live live. NCEM webpage here and brochure.

THE EARLY MUSIC SHOW
York Early Music Festival 2024: Event 6
Sunday 7 July July 2.00pm – 3.00pm (Sold Out)
Admission is free but please book in advance
Venue: NCEM
Presented by Hannah French
Join us for our annual broadcast of this popular Radio 3 show and meet selected guests from the Festival.

The brochure gives more details...

FLORILEGIUM
York Early Music Festival 2024: Event 5
Sunday 7 July July 10.30am – 11.30m
Ashley Solomon flute, Reiko Ichise viola da gamba, Siobhan Armstrong harp
Le Roi s’amuse: music for a king’s pleasure
Florilegium explore the intimate and elegant sound-world of France in the decades around 1700 and perform music by composers known to both Louis XIV and Louis XV, including works by some of the titans of this period in France – viol virtuoso Marin Marais and flute pioneer Jacques-Martin Hotteterre – as well as lesser-known names such as Jacques Morel, Jean-Baptiste Barriére and Michel de la Barre.

CUBAROQUE
York Early Music Festival 2024: Event 8
Sunday 7 July 7.30pm – 8.40pm
Nicolas Mulroy tenor, Elizabeth Kenny, Toby Carr lutes,
Songs from two golden ages
An unusual, possibly unique, pairing of two glorious songwriting traditions, bringing together perennial favourites Purcell and Monteverdi with more modern songs from across South America.
Though separated by time and distance, they have in common a concern with love, loss, longing and the eternal elements of what it is to be alive, proving that what unites is more interesting than that which divides.

[AuntDaisy]

Announced as "... and time now for this week's edition of the Early Music Show which was recorded earlier this afternoon."
Well done Les Pratt for some pretty nifty editing (NCEM photo of him welcoming the audience here).

A very enjoyable EMS with Hannah French & co. at their best - everyone sounded as if they were really having fun. Also good to have longer pieces.

I missed the 5pm start, yet again!

Not sure if the Twitter photos show up on the forum, so here are a few (cropped & resized):





Photo from Elizabeth Kenny

[AuntDaisy]

NCEM added another Twitter photo of the EMS team...

NCEM @yorkearlymusic
What a weekend at #YEMF2024! @TheSixteen joined us in @York_Minster on Saturday night. Sunday kicked off bright and early with @FlorilegiumUK followed by our annual @BBCRadio3 Early Music Show broadcast list on @BBCSounds. Great to see the BBC team in action again!
11:05 AM · Jul 8, 2024

Here's a cropped version:

[oddoneout]

It was a very enjoyable programme - the sense of enjoyment of the musicians came across very well - not least because of Hannah French's own infectious pleasure. So good to have the South American contribution - but, as always, why do we not hear this repertoire on R3 - I suppose the combination of early music and a land far far away is too much of a barrier? When it does make rare appearance it is on the likes of TTN or the annual EBU Christmas broadcast, not mainstream output.