EMS 6.12.20 - Czech music, Collegium 1704

[Nick Armstrong]

Especially good programme I thought, unfamiliar works with great choral and orchestral contributions:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000q38d

“Highlights of a concert given at the 2020 Smetana Litomysl Festival in Czechia by Collegium 1704 and their conductor Vaclav Luks. Music includes modern-day premieres of works by Antonio Caldara and Jan Dismas Zelenka, alongside an overture by Franz Xaver Richter and the Dixit Dominus by Baldassare Galuppi.”

[jayne lee wilson]

Wonderful partnership, they've just released Rameau's Les Boréades...acclaimed in the new Gramophone...

[Nick Armstrong]

Wonderful partnership, they've just released Rameau's Les Boréades...acclaimed in the new Gramophone...

I did not know that! A favourite work! Must hear....!

[Richard Barrett]

This is what sold me on Maestro Luks and his ensemble

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IWpwbw6-So

(a live performance of Biber's Missa Salisburgensis)

[MickyD]

Wonderful partnership, they've just released Rameau's Les Boréades...acclaimed in the new Gramophone...

Some French commentators over here have said that though Luks handles the dances nicely, his singers can't compete with the excellent cast in the original Gardiner release.

Nonetheless, I will be eager to hear it - any new Rameau release is eagerly snapped up in this household.

[Bryn]

Some French commentators over here have said that though Luks handles the dances nicely, his singers can't compete with the excellent cast in the original Gardiner release.

Nonetheless, I will be eager to hear it - any new Rameau release is eagerly snapped up in this household.

How ironic, on amazon.co.uk the JEG Les Boréades on its own costs more than the 27 disc Rameau opera collection that includes it.

[oddoneout]

Especially good programme I thought, unfamiliar works with great choral and orchestral contributions:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000q38d

“Highlights of a concert given at the 2020 Smetana Litomysl Festival in Czechia by Collegium 1704 and their conductor Vaclav Luks. Music includes modern-day premieres of works by Antonio Caldara and Jan Dismas Zelenka, alongside an overture by Franz Xaver Richter and the Dixit Dominus by Baldassare Galuppi.”

Yes I found this a good hour's listening. Familiar texts but the music just sufficiently different to pique my ear to listen properly. What came over to me was a sense of enjoyment in the music they were performing. It would be good in my view if some of this repertoire could become more widely known as an alternative/supplement to more familiar settings; I found myself thinking "I'd like to sing this".

[Richard Barrett]

Some French commentators over here have said that though Luks handles the dances nicely, his singers can't compete with the excellent cast in the original Gardiner release.

I've listened to it and I would agree. I don't think VL has (yet) acquired the sense of theatrical timing that people like JEG and William Christie have in this repertoire - and where Les Boréades is concerned the latter's staging as available on video would probably be my preferred way to experience the work at this point: neither the staging and the choreography have much to do with 18th century practice but the result is very beautiful and engaging I think.

[vinteuil]

Wonderful partnership, they've just released Rameau's Les Boréades...acclaimed in the new Gramophone...

... I'm looking forward to getting this.

John Eliot Gardiner was not able to get permission from STIL to publish the libretto - I hope perhaps those legal issues have been resolved and that we might get a libretto this time...

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[MickyD]

... I'm looking forward to getting this.

John Eliot Gardiner was not able to get permission from STIL to publish the libretto - I hope perhaps those legal issues have been resolved and that we might get a libretto this time...

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Yes, what a bizarre battle that was. STIL of course published the libretto of "Zais" in their own recording of the work!

[vinteuil]

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... re Vaclav Luks recording of Rameau les Boréades-

... I'm looking forward to getting this.
John Eliot Gardiner was not able to get permission from STIL to publish the libretto - I hope perhaps those legal issues have been resolved and that we might get a libretto this time...

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I'm pleased to see this comes with a libretto. Clearly the powers that be at the château de Versailles were able to come to some accommodation with the people at STIL...


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[MickyD]

I've been searching for details about the current status of STIL...all I can find is a Facebook page, with hardly anything on it!

[Bryn]

I've been searching for details about the current status of STIL...all I can find is a Facebook page, with hardly anything on it!

https://www.discogs.com/label/26833-Stil

[MickyD]

Thank you, Bryn...it's obviously still going!