Elizabeth Kenny's Theatre of the Ayre: Radio 3 in Concert Thursday 5 April

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Recorded at Wigmore Hall, London on Tuesday 3 April 2018
Presented by Martin Handley.

Claudio Monteverdi: Chiome d'oro from Settimo libro de madrigali
Tarquinio Merula: Ciaconna
Giulio Caccini: O che felice giorno; Amarilli, mia bella
Giovanni Fontana: Trio Sonata No 8 in D minor
Sigismondo D'India: Cruda Amarilli; Ancidetemi pur (Lamento di Giasone)
Marco Uccellini: Sonata decima detta La Rinalda
Claudio Monteverdi: Chi vole aver felice e lieto il core

INTERVAL

Antonio Vivaldi: Trio Sonata in D minor Op 1 No 12 RV63 'La follia'
Sigismondo D'India: La mia Filli crudel; Voi bacciatrici; Langue al vostro languir
Francesca Caccini: Lasciatemi qui solo
Marco Uccellini: Sonata ottava detta La Torella
Sigismondo D'India: Se tu, Silvio crudel, mi saettasti

Theatre of the Ayre:
Elizabeth Kenny director, lute
Rodolfo Richter, violin
Jane Gordon, violin
Robert Howarth, harpsichord
Joanne Lunn, soprano
Anna Starushkevych, mezzo-soprano
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Nick Pritchard, tenor
Giles Underwood, bass-baritone

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09yx4yf

[doversoul1]

An excellent programme and the instrumental playing but the voices didn’t quite blend and the soprano sounded rather harsh in places which was a pity. I suppose Wigmore Hall was to be blamed for this. Still, it is very good to have a concert in this repertoire along the mainstream works.