Saturday
Catherine Bott tracks the amazing rise and fall of the one-time patron of Handel, James Brydges, who, in ten short years, amassed great wealth and a palatial mansion with a thirty piece orchestra, only to descend from these dizzy heights just as quickly. (R)
Sunday
[…] in 1683, King Louis XIV instituted an extraordinary competition to find four new composers suitable for his Chapelle Royal in Versailles. The successful applicants would each be given a season of the year to compose for the Chapel and the contest was advertised in a French gazette of the time […] Lucie Skeaping investigates the competition and the composers involved
CD Review
Andrew’s stop press
(the last of the first slot)
SCHUTZ: Musicalische Exequien; Trauer Motetten
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier (artistic director)
RICERCAR RIC 311 (CD)
11.45am Disc of the Week
MOUTON: Missa Tu es Petrus;
The Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice (conductor)
COMPERE: Dictes moy toutes voz pensees
MOUTON: Missa Dictes moy toutes voz pensee
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips (conductor)
Catherine Bott tracks the amazing rise and fall of the one-time patron of Handel, James Brydges, who, in ten short years, amassed great wealth and a palatial mansion with a thirty piece orchestra, only to descend from these dizzy heights just as quickly. (R)
Sunday
[…] in 1683, King Louis XIV instituted an extraordinary competition to find four new composers suitable for his Chapelle Royal in Versailles. The successful applicants would each be given a season of the year to compose for the Chapel and the contest was advertised in a French gazette of the time […] Lucie Skeaping investigates the competition and the composers involved
CD Review
Andrew’s stop press
(the last of the first slot)SCHUTZ: Musicalische Exequien; Trauer Motetten
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier (artistic director)
RICERCAR RIC 311 (CD)
11.45am Disc of the Week
MOUTON: Missa Tu es Petrus;
The Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice (conductor)
COMPERE: Dictes moy toutes voz pensees
MOUTON: Missa Dictes moy toutes voz pensee
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips (conductor)