L'Arpeggiata: EML 8 July

[doversoul1]

Simon Heighes introduces a concert of Handel arias given by soprano Celine Scheen with Christina Pluhar's ensemble L'Arpeggiata at the George Enescu International Festival in Romania.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b91tc5

The concert

https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/jaroussky_scheen_and_larpeggiata_perform_handel_in_bucharest/36363/

(I guess) the CD

https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/classical/products/8347903--handel-goes-wild

[doversoul1]

Two wonderful singers but I’m too old for this sort of thing.

[Quarky]

.....marmite .......

[doversoul1]

.....marmite .......

Which is; the singers or the programme?

[Nick Armstrong]

Caught a large part of this in the car. Personal taste no doubt: I just don't need what they do to this music, for me it does the opposite of improving it.

Odd, perhaps - I love what Jacques Loussier does with Bach...

[teamsaint]

.....marmite .......

Perhaps we would be better just trying some extracts.............

[doversoul1]

I think it might have been just OK or even quite good without the singers. Not that the singers were poor but they were just not part of this ‘wild-isation’. I found it almost painful to listen to the singers.

Once upon a time, L'arpeggiata and Jaroussky did a wild-up Monteverdi which was quite fun but I found no such sense of spontaneity in this Handel programme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCXHgGXrTC0

I love what Jacques Loussier does with Bach...

So do I.

[Quarky]

Which is; the singers or the programme?

If Christine Pluhar wants to let her hair down and party, then I'm tempted to suspend judgement and join in. But parties are wild affairs: either love or hate them.

[Old Grumpy]

Perhaps we would be better just trying some extracts.............

Very good!

Like marmite; don't like parties though

OG

[Old Grumpy]

Just caught up with this on iPlayer. Wasn't sure I had the right programme at first, until I remembered this thread. Quite enjoyed it really.

OG