Seville Baroque: EML 12 August

[doversoul1]

Hannah French presents highlights of two concerts from Seville Baroque with sopranos Vivica Genaux & Ann Hallenberg, and from viola player Nils Monkemeyer with lutenist Andreas Arend.

Seville Baroque are joined by sopranos Vivica Genaux and Ann Halldenberg, who perform operatic arias by Handel and Vivaldi. Nils Monkemeyer and Adreas Arend put together a concert of Baroque pieces alongside contemporary music by Robbie Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix and Arend himself - we'll hear the pieces from the early end of the spectrum, by Bach, Marais and Robert de Visee.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bf1jg4

Two concerts!!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

"Robbie Coltrane"?! Mesuspecteth that the Beeb website writers are still at the seaside!

[Richard Tarleton]

"Robbie Coltrane"?! Mesuspecteth that the Beeb website writers are still at the seaside!

He did play a mean electric piano in the 1980s TV series Tutti Frutti (opposite Emma Thompson), about a Scottish rock group down on its luck.....but yes

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

And I'm sure it'll be a cracker of a programme!

But, seeing that they refer to Jimi Hendrix (died 1970) as "contemporary Music", i do wonder if they're meant to be referring to John or Ravi?

[Quarky]

Assume the concert will be approximating to this :

https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/monkemeyer_and_arend_play_marais_de_visee_coltrane_hendrix_and_bach_in_schwetzingen/41418/#nogo

[BBMmk2]

I was hoping to see more Spanish composers here.

[doversoul1]

Assume the concert will be approximating to this :

https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/...en/41418/#nogo

Thank you for the link.

It will be interesting to see how Hannah French or/and the producer deal with this. But really, does nobody at Radio 3 ever look at their own website to make sure that they aren’t made to look a fool (like the description about Sunday Morning (‘….music intersperse with intelligent comments’)?

[doversoul1]

[...pieces alongside contemporary music by John Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix ...

Somebody did look in. It’s been corrected.

[Richard Tarleton]

Somebody did look in. It’s been corrected.

Perhaps someone looked in here

[doversoul1]

I can’t remember hearing a concert where two fully matured singers in top form singing famous arias one after another for an hour and half. Talk about jaw-dropping! Real Baroque. It was a bit like eating too much Green and Blacks chocolate ice cream. Very nice but phew…

But surely Hannah French knows that Son nata a lagrimar is not a Cleopatra and Cesare’s duet? Was the script written by the same person who thought Farinelli was a famous countertenor? Did Hannah have no time to check before the recording?

I wasn’t too sure about Marin Marais on the viola.

[uncleboko]

Singing was absolutely hideous, that pompous tuneless style just grates. Ridiculous rolled rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rr s !!!!!

[Richard Tarleton]

I can’t remember hearing a concert where two fully matured singers in top form singing famous arias one after another for an hour and half. Talk about jaw-dropping! Real Baroque. It was a bit like eating too much Green and Blacks chocolate ice cream. Very nice but phew…

Amazing indeed. Haven't listened to it all, but thought I'd have a listen after the above comment taking exception to rolled r's ......

I wasn’t too sure about Marin Marais on the viola.

Me neither....

[uncleboko]

Singing was absolutely hideous, that pompous tuneless style just grates. Ridiculous rolled rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rr s !!!!!

I don't care what anyone says, they sing out of tune in that hideous style.

[doversoul1]

I don't care what anyone says, they sing out of tune in that hideous style.

Who is this ‘they’ you are referring to? You sound as if you are talking about something in general and not just this concert.

I suppose if you prefer young Emma Kirkby-type, I understand your reaction to this programme. I do (prefer EK type) in general but I think this concert was meant to be an over-the-top singing match as Hannah French mentioned a few times during the programme. You could have turned it off after the first two arias.

I have said this before but when I hear a performance like this, I can’t help but thinking that singing in early music has come a very long way. Days when Emma Kirkby sang Cleopatra!! It almost looks (sounds) as if it has come full circle but one spiral up.

[MickyD]

I thought this was terrific. Real red-blooded singing and playing in some of my favourite Handel and Vivaldi arias. Thanks for flagging it up, ds!