Early Music on Record Review

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Just seen on the R3 website for this Saturday's programme:

Buxtehude: Membra Jesu nostril

....presumably for those who find baroque music gets right up their nose.

Wasn't there once a staged production by Graham Vicks?

[doversoul1]

20 April

9.00am
J.S. Bach: Markus Passion (Reconstructed by J. Savall)
Veus – Cor Infantil Amics de la Unió (choir)
La Capella Reial de Catalunya (choir)
Le Concert des Nations (ensemble)
Jordi Savall (direction)

10.20am – New Releases – Easter highlights

Buxtehude: Membra Jesu nostril
The Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Orpheus Britannicus (ensemble)
Newe Vialles (viol consort)
Andrew Arthur (director)

10.20am – New Releases – Sarah Lenton on opera DVDs
Cavalli: Il Giasone
Capella Mediterranea (orchestra)
Leonardo García Alarcón (conductor)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004dnm

Wasn't there once a staged production by Graham Vicks?

There is this though not quite staged and not by GV.

http://englishtouringopera.org.uk/productions/membra-jesu-nostri

[MickyD]

Wasn't there once a staged production by Graham Vicks?

Critics were rather sniffy about it.

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27 April

10.20am – New Releases

Buxtehude: Membra Jesu nostri
Ricercar Consort
Philippe Pierlot (direction)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004n5s

[ardcarp]

Lovely piece for Holy Week! Straightforward early Baroque, and ideal for a small consort of singers doing 'step out' solos. A taster here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWbBK2poJlE

[MickyD]

My favourite version is still that of Ton Koopman and the Hanover Boys Choir from the 80s...happily now available on a budget twofer from Virgin.

[doversoul1]

4th May

9.00am
‘Mr Handel’s Dinner’ – Concertos etc. by Handel, Geminiani, Finger & Babell
Maurice Steger (recorder & direction)
La Cetra (ensemble)

‘Leonardo: Shaping the Invisible’ – Choral music by Tallis, Howells, Monteverdi, Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, Victoria, Rubbra, Monteverdi, Vecchi, JS Bach, Janequin, Desprez, de Rore, Janequin + Adrian Williams
I Fagiolini (choir)
Robert Hollingworth (director)

10.20am – New Release
Boccherini: Cello Concerto Nos2, 6 & 9, Symphony No.6, String Quintet in C major & Stabat Mater
Ophélie Gaillard (cello)
Sandrine Piau (soprano)
Pulcinella Orchestra

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004s3k

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11 May

9.00am
‘Il cembalo transalpino’ – Keyboard music from the Fitzwilliam Collection by Sabbatini, Corelli, Arresti, Frescobaldi etc.
Sophie Yates (early 17th century harpsichord by G. B. Boni)

10.20am – New Releases – Jeremy Summerly on Choral Releases
Zelenka: Missa omnium sanctorum
Lukas Zeman (bass)
LaBarocca (ensemble)
Ruben Jais (conductor)

‘Music for Saint Katherine of Alexandria’ – Sacred choral music by Frye, Byttering, Dunstaple & Driffelde + Anonymous works
The Binchois Consort (choir)
Andrew Kirkman (director)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00051c7

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18 May

9.00
‘Cantiones sacrae’ - Sacred choral music by Heinrich Schütz
Magnificat (choir)
Philip Cave (director)

10.20am – New Releases
Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 1-6
Alban Gerhardt (cello)

Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 1-6 (Transcribed by R. Podger)
Rachel Podger (violin)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00057fs

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25 May

9.00am
‘Supersize Polyphony’ – Striggio: Mass in 40 & 60 parts & Missa sopra Ecco si Beato Giorno; Tallis: Spem in Alium & O Nata Lux + sacred choral works by von Bingen
Armonico Consort (ensemble)
Christopher Monks (director)
Choir of Gonville & Caius College Cambridge (choir)
Geoffrey Webber (director)

‘La morta della ragione’ – Music by Mainerio, Desprez, Agricola, Dunstable, G. Gabrieli, Gombert etc.
Il Giardino Armonico (ensemble)
Giovanni Antonini (recorder & direction)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005gtm

[jayne lee wilson]

The senses reign and Reason now is dead...(Petrarch)...

I've had the dance/sonata sequence La Morte della Ragione playing quite often in the house recently - dazzlingly inventive and intense often surprisingly dark and always stunningly intricate, with many unusual wind/string combos (great trombone solo!). Wonderfully surprising music! Antonini and co at their best.

Interestingly it streams on Qobuz at 24/176.4, and you don't see that every day...

That Supersize Polyphony looks good too, will seek out, thanks for the mention....

I'm instinctively drawn to music like this more and more...

[doversoul1]

1st June

9.00am
The Paris Album: The trio sonata in France before 1700
Campra, Clérambault, Brossard, Jacquet de la Guerre, Couperin
Ensemble Diderot
Johannes Pramsohler (director)

Hieronymus Praetorius: Motets in 8, 10, 12, 16 & 20 Parts
Alamire
His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts
Stephen Farr (organ)
David Skinner (director)

10.20am – New Releases
Bach – Goldberg Variations
Trio Zimmermann

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005nnm

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8 June

9.00am
‘Regina Bastarda: The Virtuoso Viola da gamba in Italy c.1600’ – Works by Bassani, Palestrina, Ortiz, Virgiliano, Sandrin, Bonizzi, Lasso, Willaert etc.
Paolo Pandolfo (viola bastarda)
La Pedrina (vocal ensemble)
Thomas Boysen (theorbo)
Chiara Granata (arpa doppia)
Amélie Chemin (Lira da gamba)
Francesco Saverio Pedrini (harpsichord & organ)

10.45 am – New Releases – Katy Hamilton on Young Artists new recordings
‘Opus 1’ – Dandrieu: Op. 1 sonatas; Corelli: Sonatas Op. 4 No. 1 & Op. 2 Nos. 8 & 12
Le Consort (ensemble)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005sh2

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15 June

11.20am – Record of the Week
Cantatas of the Bach Family
Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00061h2

I thought this has been around for sometime. We've heard the concert more than once on TTN

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22 June

9.00am
Bach & Co – Music by J S Bach, Graun, Telemann etc
Les Accents
Thibault Noally (violin and direction)

Arne: The Judgment of Paris
Mary Bevan (Venus)
Susanna Fairbairn (Pallas)
Gillian Ramm (Juno)
Ed Lyon (Paris)
Anthony Gregory (Mercury)
Andrew Mahon (bass)
The Brook Street Band
John Andrews

BaL
Handel's Israel in Egypt

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00066ls