Early music on TTN

[doversoul1]

21 April: Taverner and Gesualdo

12 31am
BBC Proms 2013. Taverner and Gesualdo with the Tallis Scholars and Peter Phillips

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0414z8s

[doversoul1]

Opera by Ariosti and Oratorio by Fesch

Wednesday 30 April
12.30
La fede ne' tradimenti (Fathfulness amid Betrayal)
By Attilio Ariosti (1666-1729])

No libretto and hardly any reference seem to be available but the setting of the opera, two sets of siblings in warring kingdom, is just about enough to make out the story. Excellent singing led by Roberta Invernizzi and orchastra playing by Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante

2 days left to listen. Do try catch up.

Monday 5th
12:31 AM
Joseph - oratorio by Willem de Fesch, (1687-1757)
Joseph ..... Claron McFadden (soprano)
Potiphar's Wife ..... Roberta Alexander (soprano)
Reuben ..... Susanna Moncayo von Hase (alto)
Potiphar, Ishmaelite ..... Nico van der Meel (tenor)
Simeon ..... Henk Vonk (tenor)
Jacob, General ..... Tom Sol (bass)
Benjamin, stranger ..... Susanna ten Wolde (soprano)
Gaoler ..... Jasper Schwepper (baritone)
Nationaal Kinderkoor, Viri Cantores, Musica ad Rhenum, Jed Wentz (conductor)

[David-G]

I rather enjoyed "Joseph". Definitely worth listening to.

[doversoul1]

Biber, Rossi, Kapsberger and More

Very enjoyable concerts of early Baroque

Saturday 10 May
Biber's Rosary Sonatas

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b042bqw9

Sunday 11th May
Schmelzer, Rossi, Kapsberger, Pandolfi, Bertali, and Biber. And Bach’s Magnificat

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b042zk75

(When the programme reached Bach’s Magnificat, I had a distinct feeling of arriving at an ordered civilisation of a city (and rather regretted it) after a pleasant wandering through hills and woods. )

Plus
Monday 12th May
From BBC Proms 2012: Bach's B Minor Mass, performed by the English Concert, conducted by Harry Bicket.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04357lh

[Roehre]

Very enjoyable concerts of early Baroque...

Sunday 11th May
Schmelzer, Rossi, Kapsberger, Pandolfi, Bertali, and Biber. And Bach’s Magnificat

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b042zk75

(When the programme reached Bach’s Magnificat, I had a distinct feeling of arriving at an ordered civilisation of a city (and rather regretted it) after a pleasant wandering through hills and woods. )....

[doversoul1]

Palestrina' and Bach

Monday 9th
12.31
Palestrina's Missa Nigra sum and Canticum Canticorum with Alamire Chamber Chorus directed by David Skinner. Presented by Jonathan Swain

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b045xj7p

Saturday 14th
1.01
Jonathan Swain presents Bach (cantatas) performed by Les Ambassadeurs

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b045xws6

It has been rather thin on more TTN-special like early music concerts. I hope things will pick up.

[jean]

I happened on the Palestrina by chance - a treat. But did you notice how oddly it was announced? JS seemed to think the first half of the concert was the Mass, and the second, motets from the Canticum Canticorum, whereas of course the motets were interspersed between movements of the Mass.

He made a break when people started clapping after the Amen at the end of the Credo as they so often do, even in Germany. But surely he could hear the words, and recognise the difference in style between the Mass and the motets?

Even more hopelessly signalled (on the playlist) was the next item, the 25 Variations and fugue on a theme by G F Handel for piano (Op.24) by the hitherto little-known composer Hinko Haas. Haas was was of course the pianist, and the composer was Brahms.

(Can't find the right thread for that. Can someone direct me?)

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[Roehre]

I happened on the Palestrina by chance - a treat. But did you notice how oddly it was announced? JS seemed to think the first half of the concert was the Mass, and the second, motets from the Canticum Canticorum, whereas of course the motets were interspersed between movements of the Mass.

He made a break when people started clapping after the Amen at the end of the Credo as they so often do, even in Germany. But surely he could hear the words, and recognise the difference in style between the Mass and the motets?

Even more hopelessly signalled was the next item, the 25 Variations and fugue on a theme by G F Handel for piano (Op.24) by the hitherto little-known composer Hinko Haas. Haas was was of course the pianist, and the composer was Brahms.

(Can't find the right thread for that. Can someone direct me?)

JS only read out what was presented to him: here is the listing.
Most of the time the presenters are not present in person at the time TtN is broadcast -the announcements made earlier- and are not able or willing to listen to the music.

[jean]

Really? then R3 don't need presenters who know anything at all about music, do they?

But if all JS had to do was read out the playlist without hearing the music, how did he manage to get the composer of the next item right?

[subcontrabass]

Really? then R3 don't need presenters who know anything at all about music, do they?

But if all JS had to do was read out the playlist without hearing the music, how did he manage to get the composer of the next item right?

The presenters' scripts are based on information provided by whichever broadcasting company has supplied the recordings for each two-hour slot. From previous correspondence with TTN producers the quality of this information is somewhat variable, and there is not always sufficient time available to check everything in detail.

[jean]

So not only JS, but R3 too are on this occasion entirely blameless?

[Roehre]

So not only JS, but R3 too are on this occasion entirely blameless?

for the Palestrina: yes.
for the Brahms: no, as the small print listing (hidden under the "show more" link) gives composer and performer correctly.

[doversoul1]

Gabrieli and Schutz: Monday 16

12.31
John Shea presents a concert of musical Vespers for Dresden Cathedral, with music by Gabrieli and Schutz.
Kölner Kammerchor, Collegium Cartusianum, Peter Neumann (conductor)

Some of the soloists are rather underpowered but wonderful music all the same.

[jean]

Just caught the last piece this morning (Sunday 22), John Browne's O Maria, salvatoris mater -BBC singers, Cleobury

[french frank]

So not only JS, but R3 too are on this occasion entirely blameless?

You have to remember the system operating. The presenter records the links timed to fit between the pieces of music which are recorded separately with gaps for the various countries to add their links in their own languages. It would take 6 hours every day to listen to all the music and read out the links. I know one presenter who said some years back that he went to Birmingham and recorded the links for six separate programmes (not TTN) in one go, and these were edited into the programme later. There was also a time when they used to give time checks sometimes on TTN, and if that had been miscalculated they would all be wrong by the time the editing was finished.