Originally posted by doversoul1
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Thanks for flagging this ds1. I thought the Bononcini aria played a little while ago (9.15ish) was lovely, and beautifully sung - definitely a disc to look out for. -
Only just caught up with the bedside recording of this segment from April.Originally posted by doversoul1 View Post1050 New Releases: Elin Manahan Thomas on Couperin and Bach
SPECULATION ON JS BACH: RECONSTRUCTED CHAMBER MUSIC & CHORALS
Michael Form (recorder), Marie Rouquié (violin), Étienne Floutier (viol), Dirk Borner (harpsichord)
C P E BACH - SOLO KEYBOARD MUSIC VOLUME 35
Miklos Spanyi (tangent piano*)
COUPERIN: PIÈCES DE CLAVECIN, TROISIÈME LIVRE
FRANÇOIS COUPERIN
Blandine Verlet (Harpsichord)
LOUIS COUPERIN: DANCES FROM THE BAUYN MANUSCRIPT
Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)
*my emphasis
Some lovely music-making on interesting instruments.... My only cavil would be that Elin Manahan Thomas (and AMcG) didn't really add any insights beyond repeating some things in the various recordings' booklets.
Having Mahan Esfahani conducting this survey would have been much more enlightening, I suspect. I also suspect he's got far too busy a career to make that possible."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Oh,these sound very good. I don’t know where to turn these days!Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
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18 August
9.00am
Bailar Cantando: Fiesta Mestiza en el Peru (Codex Trujillo ca.1780)
Tembembe Ensamble Continuo
Hesperion XXI
La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Jordi Savall
Calling The Muse: Old & New Pieces for Theorbo
Bruno Helstroffer
10.20am – New Releases
Telemann: Das seliges Erwägen
Freiburger Barockorchester
Gottfried von der Goltz
11.50: New Releases
Lalande: Majesté: Grands Motets for the Sun King
Ensemble Aedes
Le Poème Harmonique
Vincent Dumestre
Not sure about the timing of Lalande, as 11.45am is for BAL Proms Choice.Comment
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1st September
9.00
Louis Couperin: Suites for Harpsichord
Christophe Rousset (harpsichord Ioannes Couchet du Musée des Instruments)
9.30am – Proms Composer: Simon Heighes on Handel
Handel: Carmelite Vespers (1707)
Taverner Choir and Players
Andrew Parrott
Handel: Athalia
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Joan Sutherland (soprano)
Aled Jones (treble)
David Thomas (bass)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
James Bowman (counter-tenor)
The Academy of Ancient Music
Choir of New College, Oxford
Christopher Hogwood
Handel: Concerti grossi Op. 6 Nos. 1-12 HWV319-330
Academy of Ancient Music
Andrew Manze
Handel: Alcina
Arleen Augér (soprano)
Eiddwen Harrhy (soprano)
Patrizia Kwella (soprano)
Della Jones (mezzo-soprano)
Kathleen Kuhlmann (mezzo-soprano)
Maldwyn Davies (tenor)
John Tomlinson (bass)
Opera Stage Chorus & City of London Baroque Sinfonia
Richard Hickox
Handel: Concerti a Due Cori
Freiburger Barockorchester
Petra Müllejans
Gottfried von der Goltz
Some interesting historical recordingsComment
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I had no idea this recording (and pairing) existed - what a combination. A couple of interesting reviews on Amazon. My having looked, Amazon will be bombarding me with prompts to buy it.....I'll have to check later what S Heighes says, as I'll be out.Originally posted by doversoul1 View PostComment
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The "Athalia" recording caused quite a sensation when it first came out, Richard. To see Dame Joan Sutherland in a HIP recording broke all the boundaries, and was called 'a brilliant stroke of casting'.
I must say that Simon Heighes' selection is pretty much what I'd have on my wish list, too...that Hickox 'Alcina' is superb.Comment
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Christopher Rousset’s new double cd of Louis Couperin is out as from yesterday!Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
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Yes, it sounded wonderful. And I have thoroughly enjoyed Simon Heighes’s Handel selection. No one writes music like Handel did and no one talks about Handel like Simon Heighes doesOriginally posted by BBMmk2 View Post
Last edited by doversoul1; 01-09-18, 15:29.Comment
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The Louis Couperin discography is steadily growing. I already have the vintage complete Davitt Moroney set, then there was Christopher Hogwood's selection. Later came Richard Egarr's complete survey. After that came Christophe Rousset on Aparté and now here he is again on another splendid set for Harmonia Mundi. We are spoilt for choice...Originally posted by BBMmk2 View PostComment
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8 September
9.00
JS Bach: Secular Cantatas, Vol. 10: Angenehmes Wiederau BWV 30ª; Cantata BWV204 'Ich bin in mir vergnügt'
Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
Robin Blaze (counter-tenor)
Makoto Sakurada (tenor)
Dominik Wörner (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan Chorus
Masaaki Suzuki
11.45am – BAL Proms Choice Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D BWV1050 as chosen by Sara Mohr-Pietsch on 23rd December 2017
Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6 BWV1046-1051 (complete)
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner
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This forum can be very naughty!Originally posted by MickyD View PostDon’t cry for me
I go where music was born
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Don't forget the Sophie Yates CD - such joy. I wish someone would commission her to record all the Scarlatti sonatas.Originally posted by MickyD View PostComment
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I agree, her discs are wonderful. But I don't believe she has recorded any Louis Couperin, only a disc of one of his descendants, Armand-Louis...and that is indeed very fine.Originally posted by Beresford View PostComment
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