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[Pegleg]

While EMS is off air, brighten your day with:

Händel: Arias with Sarah Connolly | Laurence Cummings - 2hrs 10 mins

https://youtu.be/jvv2Mx2th6o

Sarah Connolly: mezzosoprano
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Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Conducted by Laurence Cummings


If in a more reflective mood, then there's this:

Bach: The musical offering, BWV 1079 | Jordi Savall - 1 hr 11 mins

https://youtu.be/Z4lwV3IMHMQ

• Pierre Hantai: harpsichord
• Marc Hantai: transverse flute
• Manfredo Kraemer: violin
• Riccardo Minasi: violin
• Bálazs Máté: cello
• Xavier Puertas: violone

Le Concert des Nations
Conducted by Jordi Savall

Better than the BBC singers?

Bach: Magnificat & Christmas cantatas, BWV 110 & 151 | Philippe Pierlot - 1 hr 8 mins.

https://youtu.be/nVmOww70nQ8

• Maria Kehoane: soprano
• Anna Zander: soprano
• Carlos Mena: countertenor
• Hans-Jörg Mammel: tenor
• Stephan Macleod: bass

Musicians:

Sophie Gent • Mika Akiha • Annelles Decock
Sadrine Dupé • Gabriel Grosbard • Anne Pekkala
Maia Silberstein • Tuomo Suni • Michiyo Kondo
Rainer Zipperling • Julie Borsodi • Frank Coppleters
Marc Hantaï • Yefen Chen • Patrick Beaugirard
Rodrigo Gutierrez • Laura Duthuillé • Lisa Goldberg
Guy Ferber • Kristian Kovats • Emmanuel Alemany
Thomas Holzinger • François Guerrier • Francis Jacob
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Ricercar Consort
Conducted by Philippe Pierlot

[doversoul1]

Thank you Pegleg

Here is an early music performance (not sure if this can be called a concert)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11A4wqv8_wo

Machaut - Messe de Notre Dame

Two recent productions of Alcina (I have posted these elsewhere awhile ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMsH3Q4oraQ

http://www.lamonnaie.be/en/mymm/media/2235/Alcina---George-Frideric-Handel/

…and this is Tamerlano by the same production team as the second Alcina above.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKeTkR0LnWc

[Pegleg]

Thank you Pegleg

Here is an early music performance (not sure if this can be called a concert)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11A4wqv8_wo

Machaut - Messe de Notre Dame

Two recent productions of Alcina (I have posted these elsewhere awhile ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMsH3Q4oraQ

http://www.lamonnaie.be/en/mymm/media/2235/Alcina---George-Frideric-Handel/

…and this is Tamerlano by the same production team as the second Alcina above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKeTkR0LnWc

Many thanks for the additional llinks, DS.

Guillaume de Machaut - I'm not sure I've ever listened to this composer before, or "Ensemble Gilles Binchois". It's playing now, beautiful acoustic in the abbey.

I listened to the Aix-en-Provence Alcina production via the http://www.francemusique.fr/ webiste. Call me old-fashioned, but I find many to the modern settings of Handel operas far too distracting. The http://www.lamonnaie.be website is new to me, and that production of Alcina looks easy on the eye.

I meant to watch the Tamerlano sometime ago, but lost track of it, so I appreciate the reminder. There is this audio only alternative: https://youtu.be/QmQL5j4u-EM

Have you seen this? Haendel: Alcina (Live from the Vienna State Opera), part 1 - https://youtu.be/-VdHwrLgjxI

[Serial_Apologist]

Call me old-fashioned

What - for enjoying music of the 14th century???

Welcome back, Pegleg - we've missed you!

[doversoul1]

Call us old fashioned. It’s not just Handel but French Baroque operas are the same. Dancing in underpants and a slaughter house? Here is the same work set in as HIPP as a modern staging can be. Phardre and Theseus sung by the same performers makes the point (to me).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7WGkZcxDLc

Hippolyte et Aricie
Here are the details. I don’t think this video will be here very long. This is the third one on youtube in the last couple of years.

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Erato/2564622917

This is not exactly HIPP in the same sense but there is nothing whatsoever about the modern relevance nonsense. I think the performance/production is superb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3FUARvnau0

Atys with double subs Fr-Eng; William Christie conducts.

…and here is Stéphanie d'Oustrac’s solo recital

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwNNxzze9CU

…the track list.
Ferveur et Extase: Musique italienne du XVII siècle　

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Ambronay/AMY027

There may be better performances of these works on CDs but I think these are lovely performances to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfYuSz-NCBM

Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno Gabrieli Consort & Players

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbwyLlX__BU

Händel: La resurrezione, sacred oratorio in two parts | Collegium 1704

Vivaldi alive and kicking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZYNH05qBYI

Vivaldi: Giuliano Carmignola at the Enescu Festival | Venice Baroque Orquestra

And here is Alan Curtis’s Giulio Cesare. It sounds splendid..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUzP_liWx2g

pegleg
I watched a bit of the Vienna State Opera Alcina. I’m afraid I wasn’t too impressed. This Ruggiero looks (and even sounds to me) like a peasant youth in his Sunday best who was picked up by a (yet another) rich, bored woman. The La Monnaie production is, to me, perfect..

[Pegleg]

Call us old fashioned. It’s not just Handel but French Baroque operas are the same. Dancing in underpants and a slaughter house? Here is the same work set in as HIPP as a modern staging can be. Phardre and Theseus sung by the same performers makes the point (to me). ...

I'm in the same camp as you re: French Baroque operas. Hopefully you will find this production of Dardanus to your liking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVoW2wPaMHU

I have the seen the last three on your list, but now my viewing choices have increased thanks to your recommendations.

I'm not surprised you didn't like the Vienna State Opera Alcina. I had only watched 30mins out of curiosity, and that was enough. Glad to know it wasn't just me who thought this production was somewhat off the mark.

If your have a spare hour, I think these are worth watching:

http://concert.arte.tv/fr/jordi-sava...-de-versailles - 20mins

Georg Friedrich Händel - Jubilate Deo / O be joyful (HWV 279)

Finishes with a chorus you just want to be part of.

http://concert.arte.tv/fr/philippe-j...-au-chateau-de - 40 mins

Philippe Jaroussky
Nathalie Stutzmann
Orfeo 55
Château de Fontainebleau

Both take place in an underpants free zone, but there's plenty of musical drama.