Early Music Late: Les Muffatti

[doversoul1]

with Simon Heighes, featuring works by Vivaldi, Jiranek and Zelenka in a concert given by early music ensemble Les Muffatti during last year's Liege Festival in Belgium

Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto grosso in F, op. 8/3 ('Autumn' from 'The Four Seasons')
Frantisek Jiranek; Oboe Concerto in B flat; Flute Concerto in G
Jan Dismas Zelenka: Simphonie in A

Benoit Laurent (oboe)
Stefanie Troffaes (flute)
Les Muffatti
Peter van Heyghen (director).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06chyzm

First of the new series.

[french frank]

First signs are that the presenters will alternate, but there may be a bit of 'contexualisation' between the pieces (though no doubt many will still wish something else had been moved to the late slot and the early music concert left where it was). But the content looks to be the same (recorded by an EBU broadcaster and made available to other countries).

[Pegleg]

First signs are that the presenters will alternate, but there may be a bit of 'contexualisation' between the pieces (though no doubt many will still wish something else had been moved to the late slot and the early music concert left where it was). But the content looks to be the same (recorded by an EBU broadcaster and made available to other countries).

Simon Heighes is the presenter for the first two shows.

This 24 min musical portrait of "Les Muffati" is worth watching: https://youtu.be/x6LqOIY8XC8

Les Muffatti - Brussels Baroque Orchestra
Peter Van Heyghen, artistic director

Musical excerpts:
- 05:40 : Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Sinfonia in E minor (Wq.177), Allegro
- 10:58 : Johann Sebasitian Bach, Suite no.3 in D major (BWV 1068a), Gavotte
- 17:57 : Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Cello Concerto in B flat major (Wq.171), Allegretto (Marian Minnen, cello)

Musicians:
Direction: Peter Van Heyghen
Violins: Dmitry Badiarov (konzertmeister), Marie Haag, Laurent Hulsbosch, Marcin Lasia, Catherine Meeùs, Madoka Nakamaru, Benedicte Verbeek
Violas: Wendy Ruymen, Julie Vermeulen
Cellos: Marian Minnen (soloist), Corentin Dellicour, Magali Boyer
Double bass: Benoît Vanden Bemden
Harpsichord: Kris Verhelst
Archlute: Bernard Zonderman

speakers: Peter Van Heyghen (english), Marian Minnen (dutch) and Laurent Hulsbosch (french)

Location: Amuz (Antwerp)

[doversoul1]

Whilst it was rather frustrating to think how much more Simon Heighes could have talked about the music, I enjoyed the programme. A Mini Through the Night.

Vox Luminis and La Fenice next week.

[french frank]

Whilst it was rather frustrating to think how much more Simon Heighes could have talked about the music, I enjoyed the programme. A Mini Through the Night.

And it evidently wasn't intended to be a version of the Early Music Show, but of the concert.

[Pegleg]

Not content with the best, R3 is bringing us the very best of early music performances from around Europe again. But what I want to hear is the better than the best of the very best. On thing the most incredible and fantastic R3 is never short of is trumpet blowing superlatives.

We leant something about the music played, precious little about Les Muffati, and were given a faint impression of what the original concert concept might have been. Was it Vivaldi and his influence on Czech composers, perhaps?

Simon Heighs, sympathetic to the hard of hearing and the numerically challenged, let his audience know that the piece by Zelenka included bassons and was in six parts. Wow!

Just to emphasise that Zelenka marked the end of the concert, or least R3's reconstruction of it, we heard some audience applause. Nice!

So it's business as usual on the new EML show. Frankly, Simon Heighs is totally wasted on this programme. It seems to be a moveable feast: 10.30-11.30 last Sunday, 10.40-11.40 this Sunday and 10.50-11.50 the week after. Further confusion will ensue when the clocks change. I can't see myself staying awake to listen live to a programme of bits that were originally played live in concert somewhere across the Channel. I guess I'll just have to listen to the re-broadcast of the re-broadcasts.

Come on R3 you can do very very rmuch better than this. But, oh no, I see Ian Skelly has got in on the act too, with the new Sunday Live “bits from around Europe” in concert show, even booking ending his programme with pieces by Rameau. Was he trying tell us something?