Early Music on Record Review

[ardcarp]

Enjoyed the Dowland piece from Stile Antico. Nice idea to make an 'In a Strange Land' CD. I find their voices more rounded and warmer than in their earlier years.
Maybe 'maturity' setting in...in a good way! I love Robert White's lamentations (which we didn't hear) so this may be a CD for me.

Looking forward very shortly to King Arthur...another CD I might buy with a Chrissy token. I like pretty much everything Vox Luminis do...but did I just hear Andrew McG describe them as a French group? Er, Belgian I think.

[ardcarp]

Looking forward very shortly to King Arthur...another CD I might buy

...

...though probably not. All very beautifully played and sung, but I missed a certain lightness of touch.

[doversoul1]

19 January

9.00
Couperin: Les Nations
Les Talens Lyriques (ensemble)
Christophe Rousset (director)

and
9.30am – Building a Library – Roger Parker on Handel’s Ariodante

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00022js

[Nick Armstrong]

9.00
Couperin: Les Nations
Les Talens Lyriques (ensemble)
Christophe Rousset (director)

The extract played this morning sounded brilliant (unsurprisingly)

[ardcarp]

9.30am – Building a Library – Roger Parker on Handel’s Ariodante

.....and discussed (of course) on the BAL thread.

[BBMmk2]

9.00
Couperin: Les Nations
Les Talens Lyriques (ensemble)
Christophe Rousset (director)

and
9.30am – Building a Library – Roger Parker on Handel’s Ariodante
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00022js

Looks like I missed something here.

[doversoul1]

26 January

10.15 - New Releases
L’Opéra des Opéras (devised by Benoit Dratwicki) – composers including Rameau, Campra, Leclair Marais

Katherine Watson (soprano)
Karine Deshayes (mezzo soprano)
Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor)
Le Concert Spirituel
Hervé Niquet (conductor)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00027c3

[Bryn]

10.15 - New Releases
L’Opéra des Opéras (devised by Benoit Dratwicki) – composers including Rameau, Campra, Leclair Marais

Katherine Watson (soprano)
Karine Deshayes (mezzo soprano)
Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor)
Le Concert Spirituel
Hervé Niquet (conductor)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00027c3

A Bewitching prospect, indeed.

[MickyD]

I heard extracts of this disc on France Musique last week...some good things for we barockers.

[doversoul1]

A Bewitching prospect, indeed.

Well, of course! Thank you Bryn.

[doversoul1]

2nd February

9.00am
‘Marais Meets Corelli’ – works for viola da gamba, violin and ensemble by Hume, Forqueray, Marais, Corelli, Biber & Morel
Jakob Rattinger (viola da gamba)
Lina Tur Bonet (violin)
Ensemble Musica Narrans

‘Amor, Fortuna Et Morte’ – Madrigals by de Rore, Luzzaschi, Gesualdo, Kapsberger & Monteverdi
Profeti della Quinta (choir)
Elam Rotem (director)

10.20am – New Releases
‘IBN BATTUTA – The Travller of Islam 1304-1377’ – 14th century music from Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Europe
Hesperion XXI (ensemble)
Various guest musicians
Jordi Savall (director)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002c7q

[doversoul1]

9 February

9.00am
‘Extravagantes Seicento: Sonatas for violin and viola da gamba at the Habsburg Court’ including works by Albertini, Mealli, Kerll, Schmelzer, Biber & Capricornus
Girandole Armoniche (ensemble)
Esther Crazzolara (violin)
Teodoro Bau (viola da gamba)
Federica Bianchi (harpsichord)

‘Jeremy Denk c.1300-c.2000’ including works for piano by Machaut, Binchois, Gesualdo, Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Debussy Stockhausen, Ligeti, Philip Glass etc.
Jeremy Denk (piano)

Works for piano by Machaut and Gesualdo???

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002h72

[ardcarp]

Well we got a bit of Binchois. My initial thought was Why? But on reflection, why not? The CDs in question are a sort of Jeremy's Journey. I find the cover picture rather amusing:




A long-lived fellow.

[doversoul1]

23 February

9.00am
‘Baroque Journey’ – Music for recorders by Handel, Bach, Sammartini, Marais, Couperin, Purcell etc.
Lucie Horsch (recorders)
Charlotte Barbour-Condini (recorder)
Thomas Dunford (lute)
Academy of Ancient Music (ensemble)
Radio3 in Concert next Tuesday

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002s3z

10.20am – New Releases
Inamorato: Trilogia Italiana’ – Italian vocal music from the Renaissance to the 18th Century including works by Marco Cara, Monteverdi, Frescobaldi etc.
Marco Beasley (vocalist)
Accordone (ensemble)
Guido Morini (conductor)

Cavalli: Missa 1660
Galilei Consort (ensemble)
Benjamin Chénier (director)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002rtt

[doversoul1]

2nd March

10.20am – New Releases
‘London (Circa 1700)’ – Instsrumental music by Purcell, Godfrey Finger, Giovanni Draghi, John Blow & William Croft
La Rêveuse (ensemble)
Benjamin Perrot (theorbo)
Florence Bolton (viola da gamba)

‘The Cares of Lovers’ – Songs by Purcell
Rowan Pierce (soprano)
William Carter (lute/theorbo)
Richard Egarr (harpsichord)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002zkh