Hildegard of Bingen and Telemann

[doversoul1]

Saturday
Catherine Bott chats to Fiona Maddocks about the remarkable life of the German abbess, visionary, poet and composer Hildegard of Bingen who died on 17th September 1179. […] Hildegard extensive musical settings of her own poetry dated back at least to the 1140's, and totals over 70 songs, antiphons, responses, sequences, and her 'Ordo virtutum', possibly the oldest surviving morality play. Catherine Bott and writer Fiona Maddocks discuss this fascinating character, whose Saint's Day falls on September 17th

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01msftl

Sunday
Lucie Skeaping presents a programme of music recorded earlier this year at the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music performed by Ensemble Meridiana. The five members of the group come from four different countries across Europe and have specialised in performing Telemann; their combination of instruments - recorder, bassoon, oboe, violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord - suiting Telemann's chamber works. In today's programme Lucie introduces chamber repertoire by Rebel, Prowo and Telemann

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01msgwn

CD Review: 9.05
A Requiem for Josquin
WILLAERT: Vespro Della Beata Vergine
Music from The Eton Choirbook

[Roehre]

Saturday
Catherine Bott chats to Fiona Maddocks about the remarkable life of the German abbess, visionary, poet and composer Hildegard of Bingen who died on 17th September 1179. […] Hildegard extensive musical settings of her own poetry dated back at least to the 1140's, and totals over 70 songs, antiphons, responses, sequences, and her 'Ordo virtutum', possibly the oldest surviving morality play. Catherine Bott and writer Fiona Maddocks discuss this fascinating character, whose Saint's Day falls on September 17th

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01msftl

Sunday
Lucie Skeaping presents a programme of music recorded earlier this year at the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music performed by Ensemble Meridiana. The five members of the group come from four different countries across Europe and have specialised in performing Telemann; their combination of instruments - recorder, bassoon, oboe, violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord - suiting Telemann's chamber works. In today's programme Lucie introduces chamber repertoire by Rebel, Prowo and Telemann

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01msgwn

CD Review: 9.05
A Requiem for Josquin
WILLAERT: Vespro Della Beata Vergine
Music from The Eton Choirbook

Please don't overlook the Evening concert on R3 coming Tuesday September 25th: The Sixteen with Flemish polyphonists: DesPrez, di Lasso and Brumel (two mvts from the latter's Missa Et ecce Terrae motus). Not to be missed IMO
(thank goodness; at last something more interesting than the umpteenth Beethoven cycle - despite all its qualities)

[doversoul1]

Please don't overlook the Evening concert on R3 coming Tuesday September 25th: The Sixteen with Flemish polyphonists: DesPrez, di Lasso and Brumel (two mvts from the latter's Missa Et ecce Terrae motus). Not to be missed IMO
(thank goodness; at last something more interesting than the umpteenth Beethoven cycle - despite all its qualities)

Thank you Roehre, and the Interval looks very interesting, too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mss9q

20.40: Music Interval
Keyboard music of the Renaissance played on two remarkable keyboard instruments made in Northern Italy in the sixteenth century. The intimate, private world of the earliest known ottavino - or miniature virginals - made in Modena in 1537 contrasts with the public tones of the the famous 1585 Antegnati organ in the Basilica of S. Barbara in Mantua.

[Old Grumpy]

Fascinating programme about Hildegard of Bingen.