Early music on TTN

[kernelbogey]

Bach / Philippe Herreweghe :Monday 17th
12:31 AM (shouldn’t it be 00.31am?)[...]

Also Pieter Hellendaal, who I'd never heard of before I found TTN: always worth a listen IMV.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/93817ea8-b48b-44db-9171-f9fd40ecd345

[doversoul1]

Palestrina, Handel, and Gluck

A good week for early music

Monday : 24th
Palestrina's Missa Nigra sum and Canticum Canticorum with Alamire Chamber Chorus directed by David Skinner

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04prmql

Tuesday: 25th
Sara Mingardo and Roberta Invernizzi with Il Giardino Armonico in Handel's Trionfo del Tempo e Disinganno

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04prnxp

Wednesday: 26th
(not exactly early music but still one foot, or a toe, in it)
Gluck's Opera Iphigénie en Tauride performed by Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04prnxr

[doversoul1]

Schutz and Biber

Monday 8 December
12.30
Schutz's Musikalische Exequien performed by Vox Luminis.

Along with Schutz, Vox Luminis performs Johann Michael, Johann Christoph, and Johann Ludwig Bach.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04t97vx

Tuesday 9 December
12.30
Biber's Rosary Sonatas performed by Daniel Sepec (violin), Hille Perl (viola da gamba), Michael Behringer (harpsichord and organ)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04t9h3p

[doversoul1]

Historical Guitars: Boxing Day

Catriona Young presents music performed on historical guitars from the Museu de la Musica, Barcelona

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04vd5cm

Music by Antonio de Cabezon, Gaspar Sanz, and many more.

[Roehre]

Tonight Sun 28 > Mon 29/12 a lot of really "early" music:

12:31 AM
Anonymous
Sancta Trinitas
Psallentes Plainchant Ensemble, Hendrik Vandeen Abeele (director)

12:39 AM
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)
O vis aeternitatis (Responsorium) - for voice, female chorus, 2 fiddles, organistrum
Sequentia: Laurie Monahan (solo voice), Barbara Thornton, Gundula Anders, Pamela Dellal, Elizabeth Glen, Heather Knutson, Susanne Norin, Janet Youngdahl (chorus), Elizabeth Gaver & Elisabetta de Mircovich (fiddles), Benjamin Bagby (organistrum)

12:47 AM
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)
Instrumental piece
Sequentia

12:52 AM
Anonymous
Mulieres religiosae
Psallentes Plainchant Ensemble, Hendrik Vandeen Abeele (director)

1:21 AM
Hollander, Christian (1510/15-1569)
Ave Maria
Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet

1:22 AM
Willaert, Adrian (c.1490-1562)
A la fontaine du prez
Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet

1:28 AM
Anonymous
Fundatrix begginarum
Psallentes Plainchant Ensemble, Hendrik Vandeen Abeele (director)

1:37 AM
Folquet de Marseille (c 1155-1231)
Flores sur 'Tant m'abellis l'amoros pessamens'
Ensemble Lucidarium

1:41 AM
Gautier d'Espinal (c.1215-c.1272)
Puis que en moi a recouvré seignorie
Ensemble Lucidarium: Annemieke Cantor (voice) (with instrumental introduction played by Francis Biggi)

1:47 AM
Thibault IV de Navarre (1201-1253)
Robert veez de Perron (instrumental)
Ensemble Lucidarium

1:50 AM
Anonymous
Corpus et sanguis Christi; Summe Trinitatis, responsory, from 'Sancta Trinitas'
Psallentes Plainchant Ensemble, Hendrik Vandeen Abeele (director)

2:10 AM
Anonymous
Ave verum corpus
Psallentes Plainchant Ensemble, Hendrik Vandeen Abeele (director)

2:13 AM

[Black Swan]

This week Catriona played a Gesualdo Miserere. Do any of the members know anymore about the recording or the work?

j

[Roehre]

This week Catriona played a Gesualdo Miserere. Do any of the members know anymore about the recording or the work?

I haven't heard and on paper don't know this particular recording.
Psalm 51 is one of the late works of Gesualdo's.
I suspect his depressions at that time plus the text of the Miserere together are the base of this for Gesualdo's works unusually deep tessitura (the constant use of low voices).
Remarkable too are the plain chant like periods alternating with the polyphonic ones, which are chromatic to an extent which is unusual even by Gesualdo's own standards.

A deeply unsettling and haunted piece IMVHO.

[Black Swan]

Roehre,

I knew you would have an answer. I totally agree with you that it was an unsettling and haunted piece. I could not find the recording on any of the usual sites. I don't have many recordings of Gesualdo in my collection and was thinking of adding a disc or so, currently Madrigals Books 1 & 5 by Delitiae Musicae and The Hilliard Ensemble respectively. I may add the Tenebrae responses but not sure. Thanks for the information on the TTN.

J

[doversoul1]

Zelenka, Rameau, and Mazovia Goes Baroque

Friday 9
This is a repeat from not long ago but is quite spectacular.
Zelenka
Sub olea pacis et palma virtutis - melodrama de S. Wenceslao ZWV.175 (Under the Olive Tree of Peace and the Palm Tree of Virtue the Crown of Bohemia Splendidly Shines Before the Whole World: Melodrama to Saint Wenceslaus)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04wmr8w

Nest week:
Monday 12
Les Arts Florissants and William Christie perform the composer's Grand Motets at the 2014 BBC Proms.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04xrskt

Wednesday 14
A concert from the 2012 Mazovia Goes Baroque festival, featuring the United Continuo Ensemble and tenor Jan Kobow

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04xrssk

(why are the two links identical?)

What is it about this Mazovia Goes Baroque? Not a week seems to go by without TTN playing a work or a concert from this festival. Not that I have any complaints whatsoever.

[doversoul1]

From 17th century Romania

Saturday 31 January
1.00am
Musica Profana and their director Zsolt Szabo perform music from the 17th century Romanian Caioni Codex.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0506pk1

Wonderful music and an excellent performance.

[ed.] including, at 0.40
A fairly genuine sounding gypsy song and a hurdy-gurdy dance music.

[aeolium]

On the later boundary of early music, but I enjoyed listening to a Bohemian curiosity from this morning's TtN, Leopold Kozeluch's Sinfonia Concertante in E flat for piano, mandolin, trumpet, double bass and orchestra, which I think is likely to be one of the few works for that precise combination of instruments Kozeluch seems to have been well regarded in Vienna (he was offered but declined the post serving the Archbishop at Salzburg following Mozart's unceremonious exit) and was a very prolific composer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b050xkzz

[Roehre]

On the later boundary of early music, but I enjoyed listening to a Bohemian curiosity from this morning's TtN, Leopold Kozeluch's Sinfonia Concertante in E flat for piano, mandolin, trumpet, double bass and orchestra, which I think is likely to be one of the few works for that precise combination of instruments Kozeluch seems to have been well regarded in Vienna (he was offered but declined the post serving the Archbishop at Salzburg following Mozart's unceremonious exit) and was a very prolific composer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b050xkzz

Has been recorded by ASMIF/Brown in the late 1970s on EMI with 5 other rather weirdly orchestrated Sinfonias concertantes.

Lovely pieces, not earth shaking music, but nevertheless recommendable.

[doversoul1]

Rameau and Puecell: 4 Wednesday

Kozeluch
20 hits on Presto Classical. He must have been one of many excellent ‘jobbing composers’ (I rather like the concept).

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/advsearch.php?composer=Kozeluch&work=&performer=&medium=all&label=&cat=

Rameau and Puecell:
Catriona Young presents performances of Rameau's Pygmalion and Purcell's The Fairy Queen
12:31 AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe [1683-1764]
Pygmalion - acte de ballet
Elodie Fonnard (soprano), Rachel Redmond (soprano), Reinoud van Mechelen (tenor), Yannis François (bass baritone), European Union Baroque Orchestra, Paul Agnew (director)
1:15 AM
Purcell, Henry [1659-1695]
The Fairy Queen - opera Z.629 (abridged version for EUBO by Simon Heighes)
Elodie Fonnard (soprano), Rachel Redmond (soprano), Reinoud van Mechelen (tenor), Yannis François (bass baritone), European Union Baroque Orchestra, Paul Agnew (director)
2:02 AM
Purcell, Henry [1659-1695]
Now the Night is chased away (from The Fairy Queen)
Elodie Fonnard (soprano), Rachel Redmond (soprano), Reinoud van Mechelen (tenor), Yannis François (bass baritone), European Union Baroque Orchestra, Paul Agnew (director)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b050xl01

[aeolium]

Yes, that ASMF/Consortium Classicum set of unfamiliar Sinfonias Concertantes looks interesting, and also the disc called Baroque Bohemia and Beyond vol 3 which includes symphonies by Brixi, Linek, Kozeluch and Anton Reicha (the last another good-while-not-great composer). I wonder if Suffolkcoastal has covered Kozeluch in one of his composer surveys.

[doversoul1]

CPE Bach: Die Israeliten in der Wüste

Monday 9 February
12:31 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Oratorio: Die Israeliten in der Wüste (Wq238)
Barbara Schlick, Lena Lootens (sopranos), Hein Meens (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Corona Coloniensis, Cappella Coloniensis, William Christie (director)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b051cg9m

(I think this may have been posted somewhere on the Forum)