Greenwich EMF and the Dutch Golden Age

[doversoul1]

Saturday
Lucie Skeaping live from the 2012 Greenwich Early Music Festival and Exhibition with music from His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts, and recorder-player Eva Fegers and her ensemble

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nt0y2

No playlist at 7.40am on Saturday!

Sunday
The Muiderkring or Muider Circle was a group of contributors to the arts and sciences in the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century, when Dutch trade, science and art was among the most important in the world. Chief among this group was the historian, poet and playwright Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, who was appointed as Sheriff and Bailiff for the Gooiland, the area around Hilversum, in 1609, and was given a medieval moated castle to live in, the Muiderslot.
[…]
Hooft seems to have had impeccable taste and his guestlist reads like a who's who of the Dutch cultural elite: with the poets Caspar Barlaeus and Hooft's great friend Joost van den Vondel, the wealthy merchant and poet Pieter Roemers Visscher and Constantijn Huygens among the castlist.
In today's Early Music Show, Catherine Bott investigates this mysterious cultural group

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fgztb

Roehre, where are you?

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[salymap]

Morning doversoul,

Where is this actually held, do you know? Idon't get to anything now but used to love events held in that wonderful hall at the Observatory - choral concerts mostly.

This looks rather badly advertised on the BBC. bestwishes, and off topic where are Roehre and gamba ?

[Old Grumpy]

Morning doversoul,

Where is this actually held, do you know? Idon't get to anything now but used to love events held in that wonderful hall at the Observatory - choral concerts mostly.

This looks rather badly advertised on the BBC.

Chapel of the Old Royal Naval College, I believe: http://www.ornc.org/events/detail/ro...xhibition-2012

[doversoul1]

Here is the Festival’s homepage.

http://www.earlymusicshop.com/More/Greenwich_International_Early_Music_Festival.aspx

Still no playlist at 20.55pm!!

Eva Fegers, winner of the 2011 Moeck/SRP Solo Recorder Competition returns to Greenwich for her winner’s recital.
She was very good. I hope we’ll hear her more on EMS in the future.

[ed] I am Listen Again-ing and there is a performance by the Young Musician of the Year finalist recorder player. She is very good too.
And all the rest of the performances, too. This is a splendidly LIVELY programme.
BUT WHERE IS THE PLAYLIST?!

[ardcarp]

Lovely programme of Dutch music today. My ears pricked up at mention of Huygens who was clearly something of a polymath. But it was his son who became the famous scientist...I dimly remember labouring ovre Huygens Construction in A-level physics. Something to do with light! Amazing how so many Enlightenment figures in Europe were versed in the arts as well as science and maths.