Saturday
Catherine Bott presents highlights from six concerts recorded at the 2011 Boston Early Music Festival - arguably the most important and influential early music event in the world. The programme includes performances by lutenist Paul O'Dette, harpsichordists Kristian Bezuidenhout and Luca Guglielmi, and ensembles such as Quicksilver, Solamenti Naturale and Les Voix Baroques, in music by Aquila, Bach, Buxtehude, Castello and Louis Couperin alongside some lively traditional music from Hungary
Sunday
'One night I dreamed I had made a pact with the devil; he was my servant and anticipated my every wish. I had the idea of giving him my violin to see if he might play me some pretty tunes...'. Lucie Skeaping explores the life and works of Giuseppe Tartini, one of the great violin virtuosos of the 18th century and composer of one of its most celebrated and demonic instrumental works, yet also of some of its sweetest melodies.
I’m sure I head a programme about Tatini before but this must be a new version.
CD Review
9.05 am
CORELLI’s Concerto Grossi peformed by The Avison Ensemble, Pavlo Beznosiuk (director and violin)
Sound the Trumpet: Alison Balsom with The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, Lucy Crowe and Iestyn Davies
More Iestyn Davies
PURCELL and HUMFREY: with James Gilchrist (tenor), David Stout (baritone), Neal Davies (bass), Choir of St John’s College Cambridge, St John’s Sinfonia, Andrew Nethsingha (conductor)
Patricia Petibon with, La Cetra Vocal Ensemble, La Cetra Baroque Orchestra Basel, Andrea Marcon (conductor): HANDEL, CHARPENTIER and more
AND
10.20am Andrew reviews three rare French operas written for Paris at the turn of the 19th century
J.C. BACH, CATEL (Le Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet), and R. KREUTZER.
With all this, I shall forgive Andrew for choosing for the Disc of the Week The Well-Tempered Clavier on the piano (by the way, where is Cecilia Bartoli’s Agostino Steffani?
)
Catherine Bott presents highlights from six concerts recorded at the 2011 Boston Early Music Festival - arguably the most important and influential early music event in the world. The programme includes performances by lutenist Paul O'Dette, harpsichordists Kristian Bezuidenhout and Luca Guglielmi, and ensembles such as Quicksilver, Solamenti Naturale and Les Voix Baroques, in music by Aquila, Bach, Buxtehude, Castello and Louis Couperin alongside some lively traditional music from Hungary
Sunday
'One night I dreamed I had made a pact with the devil; he was my servant and anticipated my every wish. I had the idea of giving him my violin to see if he might play me some pretty tunes...'. Lucie Skeaping explores the life and works of Giuseppe Tartini, one of the great violin virtuosos of the 18th century and composer of one of its most celebrated and demonic instrumental works, yet also of some of its sweetest melodies.
I’m sure I head a programme about Tatini before but this must be a new version.
CD Review
9.05 am
CORELLI’s Concerto Grossi peformed by The Avison Ensemble, Pavlo Beznosiuk (director and violin)
Sound the Trumpet: Alison Balsom with The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, Lucy Crowe and Iestyn Davies
More Iestyn Davies
PURCELL and HUMFREY: with James Gilchrist (tenor), David Stout (baritone), Neal Davies (bass), Choir of St John’s College Cambridge, St John’s Sinfonia, Andrew Nethsingha (conductor)
Patricia Petibon with, La Cetra Vocal Ensemble, La Cetra Baroque Orchestra Basel, Andrea Marcon (conductor): HANDEL, CHARPENTIER and more
AND
10.20am Andrew reviews three rare French operas written for Paris at the turn of the 19th century
J.C. BACH, CATEL (Le Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet), and R. KREUTZER.
With all this, I shall forgive Andrew for choosing for the Disc of the Week The Well-Tempered Clavier on the piano (by the way, where is Cecilia Bartoli’s Agostino Steffani?
)
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