Baroque Vocal Releases

**Pegleg** · 08-06-12, 08:03

Originally posted by doversoul View Post

CD Review tomorrow (8th)

Check your plan for the morning.

1030
Andrew talks to Simon Heighes about recent baroque vocal releases.
Looking forward to seeing the detail.

Maybe these?

Iestyn Davies: Arias for Guadagni – review

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jun/07/iestyn-davies-arias-guadagni-review

Davies includes some of the showstoppers written for Guadagni by Handel and Arne, delivering them with wonderful finesse and flawless tone, writes Tim Ashley

Sandrine Piau: Le Triomphe de l'Amour – review

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jun/07/triomphe-de-lamour-cd-review

A whistle-stop tour through a colossal and at times unfamiliar repertory, writes Tim Ashley

or this?
World premiere recordings of Vivaldi scores recently discovered in Europe (the singer is unfamiliar to me but the flutist (flautist?) is fabulous
http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/N...25AFve/OP30534

Thanks for the notice.

Is it just me, or is there an increasing tendency for details to be absent from R3 web pages until very late in the day? I'm beginning to think that every time they re-vamp their website things are just as likely to be worse rather than better.

Seriously, your not familiar with mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg? There are plenty of clips of her on youtube singing works by Purcell, Handel and Vivaldi.

For example:Ann Hallenberg - Handel - Solomon - "Will the sun forget to streak" http://youtu.be/7XzzZ0oEjJo or

Judith Triomphante de Vivaldi au festival de Beaune (Sardelli at the helm) http://youtu.be/jMC8VJQmwa

Just listening to extracts of the Iestyn Davies release at http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc...CDA67924&vw=dc Wow, the first four tracks are amongst my favourite English language Handel pieces. But have they included the harp solo at the end of track1.

Sandrine Piau samples at: http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Naive/OP30532#listen

**VodkaDilc** · 08-06-12, 08:23

Simon Heighes - sounds promising!

"Andrew talks to" - aarghhh!

**doversoul1** · 08-06-12, 08:29

Pegleg
(Re: website) This is surely one of the worst. The page was only corrected late last night (I think). Disgrace.

The Early Music Show - Shurely Shome Mishtake? - The Radio 3 Forum

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?5494-The-Early-Music-Show-Shurely-Shome-Mish

The Early Music Show, Early Music Late; Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and HIPP on Radio 3 and elsewhere

(Re: Ann Hallenberg) I began to appreciate vocal music only very recently and have still much to learn. Thank you for the links. Thank you for the links.

**Pegleg** · 08-06-12, 10:27

Originally posted by doversoul View Post

Pegleg
(Re: website) This is surely one of the worst. The page was only corrected late last night (I think). Disgrace.

The Early Music Show - Shurely Shome Mishtake? - The Radio 3 Forum

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?5494-The-Early-Music-Show-Shurely-Shome-Mish

The Early Music Show, Early Music Late; Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and HIPP on Radio 3 and elsewhere

(Re: Ann Hallenberg) I began to appreciate vocal music only very recently and have still much to learn. Thank you for the links. Thank you for the links.

Apologies if I sounded harsh. I'm no expert, but if baroque music and the mezzo voice is of interest to you, some of names from the current crop of singers are Alice Coote, Sarah Connolly, Joyce DiDonato, Cecila Bartoli and Delpine Galou. Plenty to explore, compare and contrast on youtube.

**doversoul1** · 08-06-12, 13:54

Originally posted by Pegleg View Post

Apologies if I sounded harsh. I'm no expert, but if baroque music and the mezzo voice is of interest to you, some of names from the current crop of singers are Alice Coote, Sarah Connolly, Joyce DiDonato, Cecila Bartoli and Delpine Galou. Plenty to explore, compare and contrast on youtube.

Harsh? Not in the least. I have always liked vocal ensembles but solo singing is new territory to me (apart from Emma Kirkby), so any information is very welcome. Chris used to send me a pm from time to time, pointing to a programme or a video of a concert and an opera. It is hard to believe that he is no longer with us.

Still no details (re: CD Review).

**doversoul1** · 08-06-12, 15:11

At last!!

10.45am New Releases

GABRIELI and G. GABRIELI: A New Venetian Coronation 1595
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh (conductor)

MONTEVERDI: Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria
La Venexiana, Claudio Cavina (conductor)

PURCELL: Harmonia Sacra
Rosemary Joshua (soprano), Laurence Dreyfus (viola da gamba), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset (harpsichord, organ and director)
APARTE AP027 (CD)

HANDEL: Esther (First Reconstructable Version – Cannons 1720)
Dunedin Consort, John Butt (conductor) with Robin Blaze

Marianna Martines - Il Primo Amore
Nuria Rial (soprano), La Floriadiana, Nicoleta Paraschivescu (conductor)

BBC Radio 3 - CD Review, Building a Library: Dvorak: Cello Concerto

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jqj14

With Andrew McGregor. Including: Building a Library: Dvorak: Cello Concerto.

I was completely off the mark. Not that I am complaining. But how about those new CDs, Simon and Andrew?

**Pegleg** · 08-06-12, 17:14

PURCELL: Harmonia Sacra
Rosemary Joshua (soprano), Laurence Dreyfus (viola da gamba), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset (harpsichord, organ and director)
APARTE AP027 (CD)

Some sound samples here: http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/A...5C3%25A9/AP027 But I found them mostly too brief to get a real sense of each track.

HANDEL: Esther (First Reconstructable Version – Cannons 1720)
Dunedin Consort, John Butt (conductor) with Robin Blaze

Sound samples here: http://www.linnrecords.com/recording...ion-1720-.aspx

I enjoyed this version of Esther on SOMM: http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Somm/SOMM238%252F9
The Dunedin version seems a bit sparse in comparison.

Marianna Martines - Il Primo Amore
Nuria Rial (soprano), La Floriadiana, Nicoleta Paraschivescu (conductor)

Well I wouldn't think this is baroque music.

Hopefully in the 60mins they will fit in a couple tracks from each release, or will they jump around with extracts.

**doversoul1** · 08-06-12, 20:27

Pegleg

Marianna Martines - Il Primo Amore
Nuria Rial (soprano), La Floriadiana, Nicoleta Paraschivescu (conductor)

Well I wouldn't think this is baroque music.

Nor would I from what this says.It will be interesting to hear SH’s rationale for the selection.

Marianna Martines was one of the most accomplished and highly honoured female musicians of the eighteenth century. She studied with the young Joseph Haydn and was known in Vienna to be a gifted singer and keyboard player, who performed duets with Mozart himself.http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/sea...anna+Martines+

Come to think of it, do we think JC Bach as a Baroque composer?

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