Music, mayhem and murder

[AuntDaisy]

....did I hear the refrain of Arthur Neagus' Going for a Song in one of the last works (almost said 'number' in Alan Freeman manner)....

One for the birds?

[AuntDaisy]

It's interesting to compare the listed pieces for this Stradella EMS with Lucie Skeaping's 2008 one.

• San Giovanni Battista: Sinfonia; Concerto Italiano & Rinaldo Alessandrini.
• Time, grant me a fugitive instant (La Forza dell'amor paterno, Act II); Galina Averina, Musical and Amicable Society & Andrew Kirkman.
• Sinfonia No. 6 for 2 Violins and Continuo in F Major; Ensemble Arte Musica & Francesco Cera.
• Disperata rimembranza, lascia omai; Rosita Frisani, Alessandro Stradella Consort & Estévan Velardi.
• See Jove on that hillock (La Forza del amor paterno, Act II); Lara Marie Müller, Musical and Amicable Society & Andrew Kirkman.
• O love, how they wail and cry (La Forza del amor paterno, Act I); Andy Shen Liu, Musical and Amicable Society & Andrew Kirkman.
• Hopeless, abandoned, alone (La Forza del amor paterno , Act I); Francis Gush, Musical and Amicable Society & Andrew Kirkman.
• Sinfonia No. 1 for 2 Violins and Continuo in C Major: I. Grave - Allegro; Ensemble Arte Musica & Francesco Cera.
• Moro per amore: III. Furie terribili (Eurinda); Chantal Santon Jeffery, Galilei Consort & Benjamin Chénier.
• Così Va (La Susanna); Barbara Zanichelli, Ensemble Aurora & Enrico Gatti.
• Deh, che più tardi (San Giovanni Battista); Alicia Amo, Le Banquet Céleste & Damien Guillon.
• Sù, coronatemi (San Giovanni Battista); Alicia Amo, Le Banquet Céleste & Damien Guillon.
• Sonata a 8 viole con una tromba in D Major; Concerto Italiano & Rinaldo Alessandrini.

&

• Opening Sinfonia from Oratorio San Giovanni Battista; Academia Montis Regalis & Alessandro de Marchi
• Sacred cantata: Crocifissione e morte di N.S Giesu Christo; Gérard Lesne & Il Seminario Musicale
• Sinfonia no 12; Ingrid Matthews, Mary Springfels & Barbara Weiss
• Duet: Fulmini quanto sa; Emma Kirkby, David Thomas, Alan Wilson, Jakob Lindberg & Anthony Rooley
• Sinfonia in D major from Serenata Il barcheggio (1681); Crispian Steele-Perkins & The Parley of Instruments
• Extract from Part II San Giovanni Battista - Recit Deh, che piu tardi a consolar - Sinfonia a 3 (Lelio Colista); Anke Hermann, Martin Oro, Antonio Abete, Academia Montis Regalis & Alessandro de Marchi

(I wonder if the older listing is complete?)

[eighthobstruction]

....thankyou....

[AuntDaisy]

A repeat of "Alessandro Stradella: Music, mayhem and murder" on 6/4/2025.
Early Music News was included in the original broadcast - I wonder what will replace it?

Alessandro Stradella: Music, mayhem and murder
The Early Music Show

Alessandro Stradella's star burned brightly but briefly. His music was glorious; his lifestyle was dissolute: embezzlement, sexual imprudence and political intrigue - Stradella fell foul of his misdemeanours in 1682 when he was murdered by a hitman at the age of just 38.

Hannah French is joined in the studio by the University of Birmingham's Professor Andrew Kirkman, who conducted a recent performance of Stradella's opera "La forza dell'amor paterno" with Barber Opera. Together they'll explore Stradella's colourful life and wonderful music, including extracts from the Birmingham performance, alongside recordings of Stradella's other operas, oratorios and orchestral works.

Programme also includes your weekly bulletin of Early Music News, with Mark Seow.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001mtt7

[LMcD]

One for the birds?

Yes - one of Respighi's Uccelli.
(It's Negus, by the way. )

[AuntDaisy]

Yes - one of Respighi's Uccelli.
(It's Negus, by the way. )

[cloughie]

Yes - one of Respighi's Uccelli.
(It's Negus, by the way. )

Said with no Gli!

[oddoneout]

A repeat of "Alessandro Stradella: Music, mayhem and murder" on 6/4/2025.
Early Music News was included in the original broadcast - I wonder what will replace it?


https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001mtt7

We might get an extra bit of music, but also Hannah in some recent programmes has been including some brief bits of info, of the type that MS used to do, but without all the faff.

[oddoneout]

Yes - one of Respighi's Uccelli.
(It's Negus, by the way. )

A welcome tipple on a chilly evening?