Early Music on Record Review

[ardcarp]

TAVERNER: Missa Corona Spinea

The last part of CD Review in which this was played complete just transported me. This must be the best CD the Tallis Scholars have ever made. The widely spread and transparent textures must surely be the hardest to tune and sustain. I just boggled at the singers' skill. There was also some light and shade in dynamic and tempo. Listening through headphones, I felt I knew where each voice was; so some fantastic sound engineering too.

[DracoM]

Totally agree.
The stamina needed to sing at that level, and the musicianship...... awe-inspiring. And absolutely agree about the scrupulous engineering.

[doversoul1]

7 November

9.00am
Giovincello (Baroque Concerti)
BOCCHERINI, GRAZIANI,, HAYDN, PLATTI, VIVALDI,
Edgar Moreau (cello), Il Pomo d'Oro, Riccardo Minasi (conductor)

12.00pm Disc of the Week
Vivaldi: Il teatro alla moda
VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in D major, RV 228; Violin Concerto, RV 282; Violin Concerto, RV 313; Violin Concerto, RV 314; Violin Concerto, RV 316; Concerto for violin, strings and continuo in G minor, RV 322; Violin Concerto in G minor, RV 323; Violin Concerto, RV 372a; Concerto No. 12 in B minor RV 391
Amandine Beyer (violin), Gli incogniti

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06nr548

[doversoul1]

14 November

11.50am - Purcell / Disc of the Week

Purcell: Fantazias & In Nomines
Ensemble Sit Fast (viol consort)

PURCELL: Twelve Sonatas of three parts (1683)
The King’s Consort

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06p4jvj

[doversoul1]

21 November

10.20am
New Releases: Caroline Gill on baroque instrumental music
Caroline Gill joins Andrew to discuss new releases of instrumental music by two Bachs: Johann Sebastian and his son Carl Philipp Emanuel.

BACH, J S: The Art of Fugue, BWV1080; Goldberg Variations, BWV988: Fretwork
JS Bach: Organ Works Vol. III: Robert Quinney (Metzler Organ of Trinity College, Cambridge
JS Bach: Preludes & Fugues: Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)
BACH, C P E: Hamburg Symphonies (6) for Strings: The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06pv3gx

There’s a lot more to Baroque instrumental music than Bach. Ah well…

[ed.] Thank you Bryn. I knew I'd left out something.

[Bryn]

... There’s a lot more to Baroque instrumental music than Bach. Ah well…

Indeed, and some may well be featured between 11.10 and 11.45.

Andrew explores the Sun King’s musical library, courtesy of a box set of reissued recordings from Harmonia Mundi.



Louis XIV - Les menus plaisirs de Louis XIV de Paris a Versailles

CAMPRA: Messe de Requiem

CHARPENTIER, M-A: Te Deum, H146; Le Malade imaginaire; Acteon

COUPERIN, F: La Superbe; Concert royaux No. 1; Concert royaux No. 2; Concert royaux No. 4; Pieces de clavecin III: Ordre 18eme in F major: Le Tic-Toc-Choc ou Les Maillotins

GAUTHIER: Fantasie pour luth

LALANDE: Super flumina Babilonis (1687), Psaume 137; Symphonies pour les soupers du Roy: Suite No. 5; Symphonies pour les soupers du Roy: Suite No. 11; Concert de trompettes in D major

LAMBERT, M: Airs de cour

LULLY: Armide; Les Noces de Village; Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme; Miserere mei Deus, LWV25; Dies irae

MARAIS, M: Sonnerie de Sainte Genevieve du Mont de Paris; Suite in E minor

PHILIDOR, A: Le Mariage de la Grosse Cathos

ROVETTA: Vespro solenne

VISEE: Pieces in D minor

Veronique Gens (soprano), Guillemette Laurens (mezzo-soprano), Christophe Rousset (harpsichord/conductor), Jaap ter Linden (cello), Concerto Palatino, Ensemble Correspondances, London Oboe Band, Trio Sonnerie, La Chapelle Royale, Les Arts Florissants, Cantus Colln, La Simphonie du Marais, Gli Incogniti, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor), William Christie (conductor), Konrad Junghanel (conductor), Hugo Reyne (conductor), Amandine Beyer (director)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMX2908717/26 (10CD budget)

[ardcarp]

The extract from Les Baricades Misterieuses played by Christophe Rousset exemplified a trend I don't much like in some Baroque harpsichordists...that of excess rubato. The assumption is made that the listener knows what the rhythm which is deviated from should be. It's a sort of arrogance, I think, to produce a jumble of notes from which one's brain is tasked to make sense.

[doversoul1]

28 November

10.30am
Early/Baroque new releases

A long list of unfamiliar (to me) names. Looks good.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06qjf41

[Richard Tarleton]

10.30am
Early/Baroque new releases

A long list of unfamiliar (to me) names. Looks good.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06qjf41

I bought a previous Arianna Savall offering following a review on CDR - a selection of Catalan, English and Norwegian songs with sort of Celtic folky crossover arrangements/accompaniments. I recently bought her dad's Charpentier CD/DVD set (La Capella Real de Catalunya-Le Concert des Nations) following Gamba's recommendation in which she and fellow singers do a heart-stopping performance of the Stabat Mater. A musician with a wide range, looks touchingly like her late mother.

[usher]

10.30am
Early/Baroque new releases

A long list of unfamiliar (to me) names. Looks good.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06qjf41

Thank you for pointing this out. It is something I will definitely listen to.

[doversoul1]

5 December

…about 9.08
This is an amzing work,
REBEL, J-F: Les Elemens

from this CD
Les Elements: Tempetes, orages et fetes marines
LOCKE: Music from The Tempest
MARAIS, M: Suite No. 4 "Airs pour les Matelots & les Tritons"
RAMEAU: Air pour les Zephirs (from Les Indes Galantes); Orage et air pour Boree (from Les Indes galantes); Tonnerre (from Hippolyte Et Aricie); Zoroastre: Contredanse; Zoroastre: Contredanse tres vive
REBEL, J-F: Les Elemens
TELEMANN: Overture (Suite) TWV 55:C3 in C major for wind, strings & b.c. 'Hamburger Ebb und Fluth' ('Wassermusik')
VIVALDI: Flute Concerto Op. 10 No. 1 in F major, RV 433 'La tempesta di mare'
Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall (conductor)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06r41g8

[doversoul1]

12 December

Review of 2015
with Andrew McGregor who is joined in the studio by three guests, Helen Wallace, Hannah French and Flora Willson to discuss and debate which new releases they have enjoyed most this year.

This includes
10.20 am
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord), Concerto Koln: CPE Bach etc.
Elizabeth Watts and The English Concert, Laurence Cummings: A. Scarlatti
Phantasm, Elizabeth Kenny (theorbo), Daniel Hyde (organ): William Lawes
Rachel Podger (violin, director), Brecon Baroque: Vivaldi

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06rw50s

[doversoul1]

19 December Simon Heighes on Baroque Music

10.50am
Simon Heighes joins Andrew live to discuss recent releases of Baroque vocal music.

Cavalli: Heroines of the Venetian Baroque: Mariana Flores (soprano), Anna Reinhold (mezzo), Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo Garcia Alarcon (conductor)

Arie Napoletane: Max Emanuel Cencic (countertenor), Il Pomo D'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev

RAMEAU: Anacreon: Matthew Brook (Anacreon), Anna Dennis (Chloe), Agustin Prunell-Friend (Batile), The Choir of the Enlightenment, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Jonathan Williams

A Wondrous Mystery: Stile Antico

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06s75n3

[jean]

The Stile Antico disc looks wonderful, but I wouldn't call it Baroque!

[vinteuil]

RAMEAU: Anacreon: Matthew Brook (Anacreon), Anna Dennis (Chloe), Agustin Prunell-Friend (Batile), The Choir of the Enlightenment, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Jonathan Williams

... this sounded gorgeous. And an important addition for any ramellian - the 1754 Anacreon is a totally different work from the 1757 Anacreon which Wm: Christie and Marc Minkowski have given us.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0127WVP3Y

God, I love Rameau...