Domenico Zipoli and Charles V

[doversoul1]

Saturday
Domenico Zipoli was thought to have disappeared from European musical life just as he made his mark with the publication of his first work, the Sonate d'intavolatura per organo e cimbalo. Did his early promise fade and leave him resigned to a life of obscurity? Well, no. Scholars had known for a while that there was another Domenico Zipoli, active just after this time in Paraguay, but it wasn't until the 1950s that it was realised that the two composers were in fact one and the same.
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Catherine Bott explores the life and music of this amazing man, wrongly thought to have disappeared from musical life as quickly as he had appeared.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dk8dg

Sunday
Charles V was undoubtedly the most powerful man in 16th Century Europe. He was also a notable patron of the arts, employing such musical luminaries as Pierre de la Rue, Thomas Crecquillon and Nicholas Gombert. In this programme, Catherine Bott traces his life through the music which he would have heard and with which he surrounded himself.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009y4hs

Both programmes are re-repeat.

CD Review
11.50am Disc of the Week
Bach: Keyboard Concertos
Retrospect Ensemble, Matthew Halls (harpsichord).

[Old Grumpy]

Greatly enjoyed the Zipoli programme. I remember, years ago, hearing on (ssshhhh) Classic FM a piece by Zipoli called Elevazione which was sublime. We did not hear so much of his instrumental music today - any recommendations for an introductory disc? If it included the Elevazione, that would be a bonus.

OG

[aeolium]

I don't know of a disc purely of Zipoli's music though some of his works are included on the CDs produced under Florilegium's Bolivian Baroque project - more info can be found on their website.

[Flosshilde]

Greatly enjoyed the Zipoli programme.

Ditto - It's not often I get to hear the EMS, but this one was a good one. But did I hear that it was a repeat from a few years ago? The better, less 'dumbed down' programmes like CotW & the EMS seem to be more repeats than new programmes.

[David-G]

I don't know of a disc purely of Zipoli's music though some of his works are included on the CDs produced under Florilegium's Bolivian Baroque project - more info can be found on their website.

In a similar vein, Zipoli's "Beatus Vir" and "Ave Maris Stella" (quite short pieces) can be found on "Moon, sun and all things, Baroque Music from Latin America -2". A fabulous disc, from Hyperion. Has anyone else fallen under the spell of "Hanac pachap cussicuinin"?

[doversoul1]

When it comes to South/Central/Latin American Baroque, Ex Cathedra usually ‘has done’ it, including the work David-G refers to.

http://www.excathedra.co.uk/index.php?submenuheader=99

I was rather surprised not to see their name on this programme but it is always good to hear new (to me) performers.

Flosshilde
According to the website, the programme was broadcast on 21 September 2008 and 20 September 2009 (the very much missed midnight repeat).