Early Music on Record Review

[Chris Watson]

Very English!

[MickyD]

Talking of Sheppard, I'd like to make a recommendation for the sublime disc of his music recorded by Stile Antico...for those who don't know it, I urge you get hold of a copy.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sheppard-Media-Vita-Stile-Antico/dp/B002XG8KAG/ref=sr_1_4?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1393139480&sr=1-4&keywords=stile+antico

[DracoM]

CCCOx / Darlington for me in the Eton Choirbook repertoire.

[jean]

Sheppard's a bit later.

[ardcarp]

Very English!

Yeah, but Newcastle's nearly in Scotland....isn't it?

[doversoul1]

1 March

9.05 am
Purcell: Music for a While – Improvisations on Purcell: Raquel Andueza (soprano), Vincenzo Capezzuto (alto), Philippe Jaroussky and Dominique Visse (countertenors), Gianluigi Trovesi (clarinet), Wolfgang Muthspiel (acoustic guitar, electric guitar), L’Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar

Fantasy in Blue – Purcell and Gershwin: Jay Bernfeld (viola da gamba), Rinat Shaham (mezzo soprano), Fuoco e cenere

PURCELL, D: The Judgment of Paris: Rodolfus Choir, Spiritato!, Julian Perkins (director)

JS Bach: Easter Oratorio & Actus tragicus: Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

C P E Bach - Complete Keyboard Concertos, Volume 20 (Double Concerto): Cristiano Holtz (harpsichord), Tamas Szekendy (fortepiano), Miklos Spanyi (harpsichord), Concerto Armonico, Peter Szuts (conductor)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03wpdcd

Call me narrow-minded (and I am repeating myself) but I wish they wouldn’t’ do this (re: Purcell: Music for a While – Improvisations on Purcell)

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Erato/2564636203

[Black Swan]

I am listening to CD Review now. I have to say the first 2 discs didn't impress me and obviously not Andrew either. It makes one wonder why they were selected for CD Review.

[Nick Armstrong]

I am listening to CD Review now. I have to say the first 2 discs didn't impress me and obviously not Andrew either. It makes one wonder why they were selected for CD Review.

Bloody 'orrible, weren't they?!!

[doversoul1]

Music for a While
I don’t think Andrew could have left this out, as he mention it in last week’s CD Review. At least he played a less unbearable track. Try half way into the Video trial posted above . It is staggering (you have been warned). I have nothing against Purcell being played by Jazz musicians but just inviting a few in and jazzying up a bit doesn’t make it Jazz. Jaroussky’s singing could have been added afterward, or more likely, the other way round. His recent Pergolesi CD is superb. Why does he get dragged into this sort of pointless crossover, sophisticated it may be?

Purcell and Gershwin
This could be an interesting project at a live concert but I don’t see much point (i.e. I don't like this sort of project) as a CD. As for the performance, neither Purcell nor Gershwin sounded either (I’m been too harsh, I suppose but by this time I was feeling far from generous or open-minded).

I’m going to play the Pergolesi CD to calm my nerves down.

While I am here, my next bet for Andrew’s selection:
The Art of Melancholy: Iestyn Davies sings Dowland. Not a trace of crossover here. Release date 31 march.

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Hyperion/CDA68007

[MickyD]

Bloody 'orrible, weren't they?!!

Yes, in short, they were, Caliban. And I was very disappointed too, because up to now I have been a great fan of Christina Pluhar's discs...this one just didn't work for me.

[doversoul1]

8 March

10.15 am plus
[ed] I think this should be New Release at around 10.45 am
[ed 2] 11.20am

JS Bach Brandenburg concerto: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
*Giulio Caccini L' Euridice – opera: Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
**Johann Adolf Hasse Siroe, re di Persia - opera in 3 acts: Max Emanuel Cencic, Armonia Atenea, George Petrou

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03x160n

I am not going to ask, even think about who (or indeed what) is publishing playlists now.

* Silvia Frigato (Euridice, La Tragedia), Furio Zanasi (Orfeo), Giampaolo Fagotto (Arcetro), Luca Dordolo (Tirsi, Aminta), Sara Mingardo (Dafne, Proserpina), Monica Piccinini (Venere), Antonio Abete (Plutone), Matteo Bellotto (Radamanto) & Mauro Borgioni (Caronte)

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Naive/OP30552

**Rokoko: Hasse Opera Arias: Max Emanuel Cencic performs arias from the finest of Hasse’s dramatic works

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Decca/4786418

[doversoul1]

The New Purcell CD

Bloody 'orrible, weren't they?!!

We are not alone. At least the reviewer has the decency not to mention any individual artists’ names.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/mar/23/purcell-music-for-a-while-larpeggiata-pluhar-review

[doversoul1]

19 April

Pre-BaL slot includes:
Membra Jesu nostril by Buxtehude: Magdalen College Oxford Choir, Phantasm, Daniel Hyde
Lamentations for 5 voices by Tallis: Tenebrae, Nigel Short
The Seven last words of our Saviour on the Cross by Haydn: Cuarteto Casals

Somewhere between 10.20 and 11.15
Brandenburg concerto no. 4 in G major: Dunedin Consort, John Butt
Dardanus - tragedie en musique by Rameau: Gerard Souzay, English Chamber Orchestra., Raymond Leppard

11.15
Andrew talks to soprano Emma Kirkby and violinist Catherine Mackintosh about their iconic 1980 recording of Handel’s Messiah

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0414dkh

[doversoul1]

25 April

Just after 9.00 am
Corelli:: Trio sonata in F major Op.1`1 Avison Ensemble

10.15 am
Simon Heighes joins Andrew live in the studio to discuss (new release, I assume, by) CPE Bach

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b041vf8k

[Thropplenoggin]

10.15 am
Simon Heighes joins Andrew live in the studio to discuss (new release, I assume, by) CPE Bach
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b041vf8k

Surely this will get a mention - it's been and out of my virtual shopping basket for about a month now. Maybe this will nudge me into buying it.