Saturday
A programme of Baroque chamber music from Austria and South Germany by Biber, Muffat and others performed by the acclaimed German group, NeoBarock. Presented by Lucie Skeaping.
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NeoBarock specialises in the music of the 16th and early 17th Century, combining informed ideas about period performance with contemporary aesthetics. As a result they undertake a lot of work with artists and writers from other disciplines.
Here, though, is a chance to hear them in a more traditional setting, performing music by Muffat, Biber, Marini, Fontana and Kerll - highlights from a concert recorded in Bremen
Lucie Skeaping seems to be doing less of those ‘digging up the corner of musical history’ programmes these days. I expect playing recorded concerts is cheaper than research based programmes and I do enjoy listening to the concerts broadcast. All the same it is a pity that we can’t have more of those programmes that you cannot hear (not very often) anywhere other than on EMS.
Sunday
Catherine Bott explores the life and musical settings of the work of the Italian poet Torquato Tasso, who was one of the most widely read writers in 16th Century Europe. His words were set by the great composers of the day and for many centuries after his death, but he was a troubled man who suffered from mental illness and died just days before he was due to be crowned as the king of poets by the Pope. Featuring Tasso settings from Monteverdi, Gesualdo and Handel among others.
Compose of the Week (next week)
Delalande and Marais (1657-1726 and 1656-1728)
Can we have the details of the music played on the programme rather than half a page of wiki-ish information about the composers?
A programme of Baroque chamber music from Austria and South Germany by Biber, Muffat and others performed by the acclaimed German group, NeoBarock. Presented by Lucie Skeaping.
[…]
NeoBarock specialises in the music of the 16th and early 17th Century, combining informed ideas about period performance with contemporary aesthetics. As a result they undertake a lot of work with artists and writers from other disciplines.
Here, though, is a chance to hear them in a more traditional setting, performing music by Muffat, Biber, Marini, Fontana and Kerll - highlights from a concert recorded in Bremen
Lucie Skeaping seems to be doing less of those ‘digging up the corner of musical history’ programmes these days. I expect playing recorded concerts is cheaper than research based programmes and I do enjoy listening to the concerts broadcast. All the same it is a pity that we can’t have more of those programmes that you cannot hear (not very often) anywhere other than on EMS.
Sunday
Catherine Bott explores the life and musical settings of the work of the Italian poet Torquato Tasso, who was one of the most widely read writers in 16th Century Europe. His words were set by the great composers of the day and for many centuries after his death, but he was a troubled man who suffered from mental illness and died just days before he was due to be crowned as the king of poets by the Pope. Featuring Tasso settings from Monteverdi, Gesualdo and Handel among others.
Compose of the Week (next week)
Delalande and Marais (1657-1726 and 1656-1728)
Can we have the details of the music played on the programme rather than half a page of wiki-ish information about the composers?
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