Early Music in the Evening Concert

[Guest]

Coming Monday November 26th 2012:

Live from St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge

Presented by Catherine Bott

A mass and motets in honour of St Cecilia, patron saint of musicians, performed by the BBC Singers and Peter Phillips

Orlande de Lassus: Musica Dei donum optimi; Cantantibus organis
Ferdinand de Lassus: Caecilia virgo

Guillaume de Costeley: Allon, gays bergeres; Mignonne, allons voir

Orlande de Lassus: Domine Jesu Christe qui cognoscis
George de la Hèle: Nonne Deo subiecta evit anima mea

Francisco Guerrero: Dum aurora finem daret
Jean Maillard: Domine Jesu Christe, Pastor bone
G P Palestrina: Dum aurora finem daret

Peter Philips: Cecilia virgo; Cantantibus organis

G P da Palestrina:
Motet: Cantantibus organis

Palestrina and others: Missa cantantibus organis

Pierre de Manchicourt: Cantantibus organis
Luca Marenzio: Cantantibus organis

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nzpy7

[Flosshilde]

Looks like a really good concert. Tuesday night is also early music - a Handel programme -

Brittany's Ensemble Matheus join forces with Iestyn Davies for a Handel programme, including highlights from works he wrote for the London stage along with Splenda l'alba in oriente, a compact Italian cantata in praise of virtue.

Handel:
Eternal source of light divine
Israel in Egypt: Their land brought forth frogs
Joseph and his Brethren: The peasant tastes the sweets of life
Xerxes: Overture
Jephtha: Up the dreadful steep ascending
Semele: Your tuneful voice
Xerxes: Sinfonia
Semele: Despair no more shall wound me

8.15: Interval

8.35
Handel:
Cantata: Splenda l'alba in oriente

Telemann:
Concerto in E minor for flute and recorder

Handel:
Arias from Partenope:
Sento amor;
Ch'io partal;
Furibondo spira il vento

Iestyn Davies, countertenor
Neil Brough, trumpet
Alexis Kossenko, recorder, flute
Jean-Marc Goujon, flute
Ensemble Matheus
Jean-Christophe Spinosi, director

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p01xs

(I rather like the idea of a "compact Italian cantata", especially one praising virtue. Perhaps it's compact because Handel couldn't find much to praise in virtue?

[Roehre]

....I rather like the idea of a "compact Italian cantata", especially one praising virtue. Perhaps it's compact because Handel couldn't find much to praise in virtue?

Delirio amoroso (HWV 99) or Cruel Tiranno Amor (HWV 97), perhaps

[doversoul1]

Flosshilde
Thank you for this. Iestyn Davies and Jean-Christophe Spinosi?! This will be very interesting indeed. Rather like a meeting of North and South. And Alexis Kossenko’s pefromance should be a treat.

[BBMmk2]

Thank you Roehre and Flossy for these concerts. Both look very good mouth watering programmes too!

[aeolium]

Looks like a really good concert. Tuesday night is also early music - a Handel programme -

Brittany's Ensemble Matheus join forces with Iestyn Davies for a Handel programme, including highlights from works he wrote for the London stage along with Splenda l'alba in oriente, a compact Italian cantata in praise of virtue.

That concert should be worth hearing. I love some of those arias from Partenope, especially Furibondo spira il vento, a great showcase for the counter-tenor. Good to see some variation in the evening concerts from the traditional orchestral programme.

[doversoul1]

Looks like a really good concert. Tuesday night is also early music - a Handel programme -

Brittany's Ensemble Matheus join forces with Iestyn Davies for a Handel programme, including highlights from works he wrote for the London stage along with Splenda l'alba in oriente, a compact Italian cantata in praise of virtue.

Handel:
Eternal source of light divine
Israel in Egypt: Their land brought forth frogs
Joseph and his Brethren: The peasant tastes the sweets of life
Xerxes: Overture
Jephtha: Up the dreadful steep ascending
Semele: Your tuneful voice
Xerxes: Sinfonia
Semele: Despair no more shall wound me

8.15: Interval

8.35
Handel:
Cantata: Splenda l'alba in oriente

Telemann:
Concerto in E minor for flute and recorder

Handel:
Arias from Partenope:
Sento amor;
Ch'io partal;
Furibondo spira il vento

Iestyn Davies, countertenor
Neil Brough, trumpet
Alexis Kossenko, recorder, flute
Jean-Marc Goujon, flute
Ensemble Matheus
Jean-Christophe Spinosi, director

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p01xs

(I rather like the idea of a "compact Italian cantata", especially one praising virtue. Perhaps it's compact because Handel couldn't find much to praise in virtue?

Don’t forget. Tonight 7:30. This should be good.

[ardcarp]

Thanks for the heads-up folks. Am in the throes of glorious immersion in Iestyn and Matheus Ensemble. Acoustics at the old Wiggers sound pretty good too. As a frequenter of Brittany (something of a desert for classical music) it's great to know that in its Brest is harboured this excellent group.

[doversoul1]

Thanks for the heads-up folks. Am in the throes of glorious immersion in Iestyn and Matheus Ensemble. Acoustics at the old Wiggers sound pretty good too. As a frequenter of Brittany (something of a desert for classical music) it's great to know that in its Brest is harboured this excellent group.

Ah…. Glorious indeed. I wish it would never end.

[Old Grumpy]

Ah…. Glorious indeed. I wish it would never end.

It hasn't yet...


... and you can listen to it on iplayer for a whole week

Have also been greatly enjoying this concert.

OG

[Resurrection Man]

This was for me unmissable...glorious..I could listen and listen and listen.

[aeolium]

I agree. I enjoyed this concert more than any other evening concert at least since the Edinburgh Festival broadcasts. Lovely singing from Iestyn Davies in particular.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

not only was it a great concert, it generated that quiet sanity in the household as one listened to the radio and read one's book .... not turning on the tv is one of life's little secrets ...

[Nick Armstrong]

This was for me unmissable...glorious..I could listen and listen and listen.

This and all the other accolades mean I can't wait to hear this. Duly downloaded and on the iPod

Particularly glad to hear this band is from Brittany, an area close to my heart

[doversoul1]

I wonder what it was that made this concert so special. I mean, after all, it was only Handel and Telemann…

I had been hoping to see/hear Spinosi and Ensemble Matheus again in the UK since that late night Prom back in 2010. Then, they performed with the French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky and the contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux. So I was interested to hear how the ensemble would come together with Iestyn Davies whose voice was very different from Jaroussky’s (Spinosi and the ensemble made a number of memorable CDs with Jaroussky).

Well, we know the result. Davies’s voice has matured amazingly, and he is still only 32 according to Petroc who was presenting the programme. I think we can expect many a great performances from him, and I do hope Radio3 will not miss any opportunities for broadcasting or recording his performances. And I hope we’ll hear JCS and his wonderful ensemble more often on R3.