Early Music on Record Review

[jean]

Whose are the Lamentations at the start? They sound like White, but they're not the ones I know!

Not sure about the sopranos.

[ostuni]

The soft bits were indeed lovely, but as ever (to my taste) JEG pushed the louder bits way too aggressively. Over the top, I think - or am I being too wishy-washy?

[jean]

I didn't care for the solo soprano(s).

It was White - he wrote two settings, I see:

http://www.cantiones.co.uk/catalogue/0035/index.shtml

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

11.50am
Disk of the Week

Are we in America?

[doversoul1]

Are we in America?

Blame my spell check

[Nick Armstrong]

The soft bits were indeed lovely, but as ever (to my taste) JEG pushed the louder bits way too aggressively. Over the top, I think - or am I being too wishy-washy?

You're not; or else I am as well. Agree with jean too. Wasn't inclined to 'trust' JEG in this music, and am no more so now.

[DracoM]

Cosy, Mrs Dale's Diary JEG + Monteverdi team ironing out all the edges and sorrows in the Whyte Lamentations. Nice comforting sadness. Don;t let's frighten the horses. He's got a nerve.
What an appalling recording.

[doversoul1]

So, maybe BBC Singers are as good as Monteverdi Choir?

I can't say I was too impressed. The singing sounded drive-less. and the soprano didn't sound quite right (by my taste, that is) for this music.

[doversoul1]

18 July: French Baroque

9.05am
REBEL: Les Elemens (Suite)
RAMEAU: Castor et Pollux (Suite)
L’Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg (conductor)

Le Grand Theatre de l’amour:
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)

A French Baroque Diva
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore (conductor)

RAMEAU: Les Surprises de l’Amour
Les Nouveaux Caracteres, Sebastien d’Herin (harpsichord/director)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04b1wj9

[doversoul1]

L'Oiseau-Lyre 50-CD box set

2. August
10.15am
Caroline Gill joins Andrew live to discuss a 50-CD box set dedicated to L'Oiseau-Lyre's founding commitment - the music of the Baroque. It contains a range of acclaimed, pioneering recordings that span a fascinating range of repertoire and performing styles.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04cb5rn

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Decca/4786753

[ed.] This CD Review web page has the link to the box set in DG website. Does it not count as an advertisement?

[aeolium]

Thanks for the alert, ds - it looks interesting. A pity that Corelli is only represented on that box by one work, considering the influence he had on his contemporaries and pupils, and on the history of composing for the violin (his pupil Geminiani represented by six works by contrast).

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A pity that Corelli is only represented on that box by one work, considering the influence he had on his contemporaries and pupils, and on the history of composing for the violin (his pupil Geminiani represented by six works by contrast).

That is an odd imbalance, isn't it? Has Hogwood only recorded this Corelli? Mind you, the wonderful 30 CD boxed set Music of the Enlightenment from Harmonia Mundi (about one fifth of the price of the L'Oiseau Lyre box) contains ne'ersomuch as a semiquaver of Corelli - nor does the SONY Vivarte box. Corelliphobia?


(And aren't Arne and Bach's sons "Early Classical" rather than "Baroque"?)

[aeolium]

Corelliphobia?

Could be. I must say I thought R3's commemoration of the tercentenary of Corelli's death last year was half-hearted (Suffolkcoastal will have the actual stats of works broadcast but it can't have been very different from a normal year, i.e. few, and those the well-known ones). It's true that he was not the most prolific - his entire oeuvre fits on 10 CDs in the Brilliant Classics complete edition. And yet for me he is such an inventive and lyrical composer, every work that I know full of such grace and style - and surely the greatest influence on Handel.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... for me he is such an inventive and lyrical composer, every work that I know full of such grace and style - and surely the greatest influence on Handel.

I agree totally.

[doversoul1]

Monteverdi Vespers：23Ａｕｇｕｓｔ

11.15am
Monteverdi Vespers (extract)
Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04f8d80