The Sixteen on Radio3 Live: 25 Tuesday

[doversoul1]

Note: it starts at 8.00pm

Originally posted by Roehre on the Hildegard of Bingen thread:

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).

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

Plus 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.

[Simon]

Thanks for the memo, DS.

[jean]

A marvellous concert, except for the strangely pedestrian account of the Josquin Praeter rerum seriem that opened the programme.

It seemed to me - as it did when I heard it live - that they sang it without understanding or conviction, almost as though they'd included it only because it was the source for the Lassus Magnificat they sang later.

The final Mater, ave should be shimmeringly magical, and it just wasn't.