Early music on TTN

[Serial_Apologist]

There was also the interviewee on local telly news some years ago who said (about a - very minor - earthquake the night before) "We were woken up when the house started shuddering at about two o'clock in the morning, and my husband went downstairs to see if there were any intruders in his underpants."

[Bryn]

Jonathan Swain presents a concert of music by Telemann with the Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09yh3tq

...presents a concert of music by Telemann with the Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra.

It is obvious what this means but if someone presents a concert of music by a composer with someone/group, does it not mean something different from what is meant to mean here? Or is this one of those new uses?

More Telemann tonight, plus Bach's Musical Offering, and later a welcome return to the Beethoven Missa Solemnis under the baton of Sir Charles Mackerras, from the ABC.

[doversoul1]

Marais and Couperin: Thursday 3rd May
John Shea presents a concert from the Music in Paradise Festival of music by Marais and Couperin given by the Nevermind Ensemble

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b0x746

Telemann: Saturday 5th May
John Shea showcases Telemann's music in a concert given by the Kore Ensemble at the Music in Paradise Festival, 2017

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b0xkfp

[doversoul1]

Tuesday 8th May

Overtures, dances and airs from Rameau Operas. With Catriona Young.
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)

Followed by
1:51 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Violin Sonata No.3 in C (BWV.1005)
Vilde Frang (violin)
2:15 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Sonata per il Cembalo solo in G minor (Wq.65,17)
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)

A little later
3:43 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in C sharp (BWV 848)
Ivett Gyongyosii (Piano)
3:47 AM
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621)
Regina Coeli
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)

Much later if you are ready to wake up;
5:47 AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764)
La Poule - from Novelles suites de Clavecin
Andreas Borregaard (Accordion)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b1pthk

[doversoul1]

Wednesday 16 May

In the footsteps of castrato Caffarelli, Franco Fagioli with Il Pomo d'Oro. Catriona Young presents.

Porpora, Hasse, Vinci, Handel and more.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b2ly6g

I think this is a repeat.

[subcontrabass]

In the footsteps of castrato Caffarelli, Franco Fagioli with Il Pomo d'Oro. Catriona Young presents.

Porpora, Hasse, Vinci, Handel and more.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b2ly6g

I think this is a repeat.

17 January 2017 (see: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088jdrr )

[Pegleg]

Overtures, dances and airs from Rameau Operas. With Catriona Young.
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)

Followed by
1:51 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Violin Sonata No.3 in C (BWV.1005)
Vilde Frang (violin)
2:15 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Sonata per il Cembalo solo in G minor (Wq.65,17)
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)

A little later
3:43 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in C sharp (BWV 848)
Ivett Gyongyosii (Piano)
3:47 AM
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621)
Regina Coeli
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)

Much later if you are ready to wake up;
5:47 AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764)
La Poule - from Novelles suites de Clavecin
Andreas Borregaard (Accordion)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b1pthk

Still 20+ days left to listen to 90 mins of ravashing Rameau. But if you can only spare 5 mins, then listen to what was the stand-out track for me from last week.

At about 38 mins into the programme and not introduced by name by Catriona Young, we hear a single flute over a walking bass line and plucked strings which morphs into a flute duet. I couldn't place this at first but then the penny dropped, it was the "Air tendre pour le Muses" from Les Temple de la Gloire. The only recording I'd heard before was on Minkowski's Une Symphonie Imaginaire CD. Tender, but in a big-band sort of way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwnfauR87E4

In contrast, Alexis Kossenko and Les Ambassadeurs' performance has an intimacy which owes far more to Erato than Terpsichore. The sensuous embrace of the flutes is a dance to hold your partner ever closer, ever tighter, until your are one.

[doversoul1]

Tuesday 12 June

John Shea presents a concert of early Baroque and Renaissance Italian music from Polish Radio.
12:31 AM
Marini, Biagio (c.1594-1663); Landi, Stefano (1587-1639); Piccinini, Alessandro (1566-c.1638); d'India, Sigismondo (1580-1629); Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643); Trabaci, Giovanni Maria (c.1575-1647); Peri, Jacopo (1561-1633); Falconieri, Andrea (1585/6-1656)

1:05 AM
Rossi, Luigi (1597-1653); Landi, Stefano (1587-1639); Legrenzi, Giovanni (1626-1690); Trabaci, Giovanni Maria (c.1575-1647); Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643)

Stylus Phantasticus

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b5t5v9

[doversoul1]

I am listening to it now. This is a most enjoyable concert with an excellent Baroque (early) tenor.

[doversoul1]

Thursday 21 June
Sacred vocal and instrumental music reflected through the bohemian reformation, presented by Catriona Young.

12:31 AM
Alessandro Orologio [c1550 - c1633]
Intrada II a 5 From Intradae, Helmstedt, 1597
12:33 AM
Luca Marenzio [c.1553/4-1599]
Dolorosi martir From Madrigali a 5, Libro Primo', Venice, 1580
12:37 AM
Kryštof Harant [1564 - 1621]
Kyrie and Gloria from 'Missa quinis vocibus super Dolorosi martir'

...and more
Capella Mariana (choir) Vojtĕch Semerád (conductor)
Sebastian Knebel (organ)
Capella Ornamentata (ensemble), Vojtĕch Semerád (conductor)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b6pdz5

Saturday 23 June
Buxtehude, Hammerschmidt and Rosenmüller
Catriona Young presents a concert of early music from Katowice in Poland.

Orkiestra Historyczna, Martyna Pastuszka (conductor)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b6phrs

[Serial_Apologist]

Thanks for keeping us informed, dovers. Now, were contemporary composers to be given this extensity of coverage on Radio 3......

[doversoul1]

27 June
Os Músicos do Tejo perform Portuguese music from the 18th century. Catriona Young presents.
12:31 AM
Francisco António de Almeida (c1702-1755)
Sinfonia in F: Staccato - Andante e piano sempre
12:38 AM
Francisco António de Almeida (c1702-1755)
Si cigna il perfido from 'Il trionfo d'amore'
12:43 AM
Francisco António de Almeida (c1702-1755)
Si sospendan le vittime e gl'incensi; Bel piacer è la vendetta, recit and aria from 'Il trionfo d'amore'
12:48 AM
José António Carlos de Seixas (1704-1742)
Sinfonia in B flat

...and many more

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b7hm4s

28 June
Andreas Staier plays Bach, d'Grigny, Couperin

Catriona Young presents a recital of music by Jean Henry d'Anglebert, Bach, Nicholas de Grigny and Couperin by harpsichordist Andreas Staier.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b7hsvw

[doversoul1]

Caccini's opera La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina

Wednesday 11 June

Jonathan Swain presents a performance of Caccini's opera La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina - the first opera to be written by a woman - from the Herne Early Music Festival.
12:31 AM
Francesca Caccini (1587-1640)
La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina
Concerto Soave, Jean-Marc Aymes (conductor), Maria Christina Kiehr (soprano - Alcina), Romain Bockler (baritone - Ruggiero, Nettuno), Sarah Breton (mezzo-soprano - Melissa), Lise Viricel (soprano - Sirena, Damigella), Axelle Verner (mezzo-soprano - Damigella, Dama Disincantata), Alice Duport-Percier (soprano - Damigella, Nunzia), Laurent David (tenor - Pastore, Pianta Incantata, Astolfo), Eric Chopin (bass - Vistola Fiume, Pianta Incantata)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b944qm

Soler and definiteky Haydn aren’t exactly come under ‘early music’ but it is good to hear Scarlatti on the harpsichord.

[ed.] this was excellent. I very much enjoyed it. Was it Brighton Festival that staged this work with Alcina being a fairground fortune teller and the cast holding up the translation of the libretto? I wish it had been filmed.

[doversoul1]

Tuesday 18 July

John Shea presents harpsichord sonatas by Scarlatti and Soler, performed by two of the today's best young players - Diego Ares and Jean Rondeau.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b9z2s0

Soler and definitely Haydn don't exactly come under ‘early music’ but it is good to hear Scarlatti on the harpsichord.

[Stanfordian]

John Shea presents harpsichord sonatas by Scarlatti and Soler, performed by two of the today's best young players - Diego Ares and Jean Rondeau.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b9z2s0

Soler and definitely Haydn don't exactly come under ‘early music’ but it is good to hear Scarlatti on the harpsichord.

An excellent programme! It's good to hear brief yet informative presentation from John Shea. It makes a change from presenters wanting to be yer mate and talking banalities! I wish R3 had this crisp format throughout the day!