Early Music on Record Review

[MickyD]

I too am tempted by the AAM St John...funnily enough, James Gilchrist is also the Evangelist in my (up to now) favourite version by Higginbottom and New College Oxford. I wonder if his voice has changed much in the 12 years since.

When I heard the new AAM recording of the opening chorus, it struck me as far too fast, but now I have heard it several times, I do find it convincing.

[Ariosto]

Thought I'd post here rather than on the CD Review thread about one of the presenters...


... another high point - James Gilchrist's 'Evangelist' in the new AAM 'St John Passion'

Can't say I thought much of that rendition, but I'm too old to hear properly these days. What's that you said?

[Nick Armstrong]

Can't say I thought much of that rendition, but I'm too old to hear properly these days. What's that you said?

About half-past three.

[Ariosto]

About half-past three.

That's when the nurse takes me out in me barf chair and I look up the short skirts of all the young ladies in the park, throw the ball for me dog, and have an ice cream. Then its home for a rub down, a few injections, and an early nite on the drip, and then hooked up to the life support machine.

[Nick Armstrong]

That's when the nurse takes me out in me barf chair and I look up the short skirts of all the young ladies in the park, throw the ball for me dog, and have an ice cream. Then its home for a rub down, a few injections, and an early nite on the drip, and then hooked up to the life support machine.

Enjoy!

[Pegleg]

That's when the nurse takes me out in me barf chair and I look up the short skirts of all the young ladies in the park, throw the ball for me dog, and have an ice cream. Then its home for a rub down, a few injections, and an early nite on the drip, and then hooked up to the life support machine.

Barf chair? It makes you sick.

AAM St.John's Passion - Hmm, not sure if a tiny bit too theatrical.

[doversoul1]

17 May

Some interesting items at the beginning of the programme:

The Spanish humour for viol solo
Performers: Concerto Caledonia, David McGuinness
Composers: Tobias Hume (c1569 - 1645)
Album Title: Captain Tobias Hume – A Scottish Soldier, DELPHIAN : DCD-34140

Adolescentulus sum ego for 6 voices
Performers: Magnificat, Philip Cave
Composers: William Mundy (c1529 - 1591)
Album Title: The Tudors at Prayer, Linn : CKD-447

(I can’t quite work out what this is)
Hodie puer nascitur/Homo mortalis firmiter - motet for 4 voices [Early 15th-C Cypriot; MS. Torino Bibl. Nazionale J.11.9]
Performers: Huelgas Ensemble, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Composers: Anonymous Orch. MacMillan
Album Title: RCO LIVE : RCO-14001

This tells something about it.

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/RCO%2BLive/RCO14001

[Nick Armstrong]

Adolescentulus sum ego

... and I can't work out what this means

"I am a rather underdeveloped teenager"...?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... and I can't work out what this means

"I am a rather underdeveloped teenager"...?

- "I teach GSCE Maths"?


(Real text, translation and performance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IdlGFNqVN8

[Nick Armstrong]

Ah! "I am immature..."

[doversoul1]

Handel: Tamerlano: Disc of the Week: 24 May

10.30
Andrew talks to Harry Christophers, the acclaimed founder and conductor of The Sixteen, about repertoire ranging from the Eton Choirbook to Haydn Symphonies, forthcoming performances and recordings of Handel's Jephtha and Monteverdi's Vespers, and his perennial sense of delight in performing.

11.40
Disc of the Week
Handel: Tamerlano
Xavier Sabata (Tamerlano), Max Emanuel Cencic (Andronico), John Mark Ainsley (Bajazet), Karina Gauvin (Asteria), Ruxandra Donose (Irene), Pavel Kudinov (Leone)
Il Pomo d'Oro, Riccardo Minasi

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b043wj9h

By the way, I wonder where they (whoever they are) picked this up. This is no Radio3 talk
Handel at his darkest, and an indisputably great opera, in a thrilling performance from the kind of cast it needs but all too rarely gets.

Never mind. I thought Andrew would pick it up. Here are samples (and you can see what they really look like, too):

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Naive/V5373

[doversoul1]

14 June

9.00am slot includes:
Sonata in G minor Wq.70`6 for organ by CPE Bach
Ton Koopman (Amalia organ, Kirche zur frohen Botschaft, Berlin Karlshorst)

Air by Thomas Mace (1612/1613 - 1706)
Robert Smith (viola da gamba)

Building a Library
Rameau’s Pieces de clavecin

10.20 am
Te Deum Laudamus (excerpts) by Michel-richard De Lalande
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore

Ferma lascia ch'io parli (Il lamento di Maria di Scozia) for soprano and continuo by Giacomo Carissimi
Romina Basso (mezzo), Latinitas Nostra, Markellos Chryssicos

In dolce amore (Scipione Africano) by Antonio Caldara
Robin Johannsen (soprano), Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro de Marchi

Se i languidi miei sguardi (Lettera amorosa) for voice and continuo by Claudio Monteverdi
Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Hopkinson Smith (lute)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04697vy

[doversoul1]

28.June: Disk of the Week

11.50am
Disk of the Week
Vigilate!
BYRD: Civitas Sancti Tui; Turn our captivity; Nunc dimittis; Vigilate (from Cantiones sacrae 1589); Justorum animae
MORLEY: Nolo mortem peccatoris
PHILIPS, P: Ecce vicit Leo
TALLIS: Suscipe quaeso Domine; O nata lux de lumine 5vv
TOMKINS: Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom
WHITE, ROBERT: Christe qui lux es et dies; Manus tuae fecerunt me, Lamentations

Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

[Black Swan]

I missed this as I was out shopping. Any thoughts on it?

[Nick Armstrong]

I missed this as I was out shopping. Any thoughts on it?

It's only just started!