Early Music on Record Review

[doversoul1]

CD Review 19 October
11.50am (I assume this is the Disc of the Week)

Handel: Serse
Anna Stephany (Serse)
David Daniels (Arsamene)
Hilary Summers (Amastre)
Rosemary Joshua (Romilda)
Early Opera Company

[Thropplenoggin]

I wonder if this disc has made it to CD Review yet. It was an Editor's Choice in the latest Gramophone and highly praised in IRR:

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One for Baroque lovers...



'This recording gathers together vocal gems from the Italian baroque and some of the most renowned artists in this repertoire: Il Giardino Armonico's co-founder Luca Pianca, Roberta Invernizzi (soprano) and contralto Sonia Prina. This intense and heart-stretching programme on love and sadness gathers a series of amazing duets by Monteverdi, Handel (when living in Italy), Marcello, Scarlatti, Lotti and Durante.'

The Monteverdi is especially alluring and deliciously chromatic. I was won over from the start ('Interrotte Speranze').

http://player.qobuz.com/#!/album/0709869023877

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[Cross-posted from 'New Releases']

[doversoul1]

This was the Disc of the Week on 14 September.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03b2fzr

Here are some samples. Wonderful.

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Naive/OP30549#listen

Don’t miss this week’s Disc of the Week:
Handel: Serse

[Thropplenoggin]

This was the Disc of the Week on 14 September.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03b2fzr

Here are some samples. Wonderful.

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Naive/OP30549#listen

Don’t miss this week’s Disc of the Week:
Handel: Serse

Thanks, Doversoul.

Another new release that may be of interest to the EM crowd:

Gesualdo: Responsoria 1611
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe (PHI)

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/PHI/LPH010 (samples)

Already available to stream on Qobuz: http://player.qobuz.com/#!/album/5400439000100

[doversoul1]

26 October

10.20am

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03f5z6f

STEFFANI: Stabat Mater: Cecilia Bartoli, Nuria Rial, Yetzabel Arias Fernandez, Franco Fagioli, Julian Pregardien, Daniel Behle, Salvo Vitale, I Barocchisti, Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Diego Fasolis

STEFFANI: Stabat Mater: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 50th Anniversary Edition

German Baroque Cantatas: Hana Blazikova (soprano), Markus Markl (organ), CordArte Ensemble

Guardian Angel: Rachel Podger

Bach Corrette Geminiani: Les Esprits Animaux

11.50am Disc of the Week
Bach - Cantatas Volume 55: Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki

[DracoM]

Terrific. Less is more.

[doversoul1]

STEFFANI: Stabat Mater:

It was extremely mean of Andrew to play Leonhardt’s Steffani Stabat Mater and telling us that it was currently unavailable, so (I suspect...) he didn’t have to say all he might have said about Bartoli’s version. This slot is for New Release!!

Incidentally, is this the same CD as the one that is part of the unavailable 50-CD box set?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Biber-Requiem-Steffani-Stabat-Mater/dp/B000001TYZ

[vinteuil]

Incidentally, is this the same CD as the one that is part of the unavailable 50-CD box set?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Biber-Requie.../dp/B000001TYZ

Doversoul : yes, that CD is the same as the one in the 50 CD set.

I don't know whether it features in the smaller DHM box (25 CDs?) out recently and discussed on these Boards...

EDIT : yes it is! -

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (25 CD Edition) La Discotheque Ideale - £21.48 from Amazon.uk.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Discotheque-Ltd-Various-Artists/dp/B00CA6Y7RO?SubscriptionId=AKIAIVGTH525N57WM2NQ&tag=galenicom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00CA6Y7RO

CD 1: Bach: Goldberg-Variations – Gustav Leonhardt
CD 2: Bach: Motets – Cantus Cölln
CD 3/4: Bach: Suites for solo cello – Hidemi Suzuki
CD 5: Biber: Requiem á 15 /Steffani: Stabat Mater – Gustav Leonhardt
CD 6: Boccherini: Concerti for violoncello / Sinfonias – Tafelmusik, Anner Bylsma
CD 7: Caccini: La nuove musiiche – Jordi Savall, Montserrat Figueras, Schola Cantorum
CD 8: Couperin: La sultane – Skip Sempé
CD 9: Frescobaldi: Messa della domenica – Canticum, Lorenzo Ghilemi
CD 10: Frescobaldi: Messa della Madonna – Canticum
CD 11: Purcell: Dioclesian suite /Handel: Concerto grosso, Il dulle amoroso – Freiburger Barockorchester
CD 12: Lassus: Requiem à 5 Magnificat – Pro Cantione Antiqua
CD 13: Lully: Divertissements – Capriccio Stravagante, Skip Sempé
CD 14: Marais: Fantaisie champêtre, Piece in trio – Ensemble Rebel
CD 15/16: Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine – Cantus Cölln
CD 17: Pergolesi: La Serva Padrona – Maddalena Bonifaccio, Siegmund Nimsgern, Collegium Aureum
CD 18: Rameau: Hippolyte et Acricie, orchestra Suite – La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken
CD 19: Sainte Colombe: Pièces pour viole de gambe – Hille Perl
CD 20: Scarlatti: St. John passion – René Jacobs, Schola Cantorum
CD 21: Telemann: Concertos for woodwind instruments – Camerata Köln
CD 22: Frescobaldi, Gbrielli, Jacchini, Antonii: The Violoncello in the 17Th Century – Anner Bylsma
CD 23: Vivaldi: Avanti l'Opera, Rare opera overtures – L'Arte dell'Arco, Christopher Hogwood
CD 24: Vivaldi: The Four Seasons – Freiburger Barockorchester, The Harp Consort
CD 25: Zelenka: Missa Dei Filii – Tafelmusik

This appears to be a scaled down version of the 50CD box '50th Anniversary Edition' released in 2008.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Deutsche-Har...I2IJXKAAEWKHLO

[Thropplenoggin]

It was extremely mean of Andrew to play Leonhardt’s Steffani Stabat Mater and telling us that it was currently unavailable, so (I suspect...) he didn’t have to say all he might have said about Bartoli’s version. This slot is for New Release!!

I thought it was played as a sort of tacit comment of the withering variety regarding the Bartoli version. A radio version of 'nudge nudge, wink wink', see how it should be done.

Bartoli seems to get a lot of coverage on CD Review. Her voice is not to my taste.

[doversoul1]

I’ve forgiven Andrew, now that I know the CD is available (but how come he didn’t know, considering the fact that this is a programme about CDs? No able assistant? )

Thank you vinteuil
I wasn’t too tempted by the 50 CD set but 25 for £21 seems un-ignore-ble, considering the Leonhardt’s CD is £14.

[ardcarp]

Bach - Cantatas Volume 55: Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki

Yes, and having got through all the cantatas, what are they going to do now? Start again???

[doversoul1]

One day Steffani-fest

Steffani Stabat Mater: an attentive
Conducted by Diego Fasolis. No singers named.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBze8HkrQ70

A couple of interesting Steffani Duetti recordings from 1980s and 1990s

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/advsearch.php?composer=Steffani&work=Duetti+da+Camera&performer=&medium=all&label=&cat=

Here is the link to the second CD

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/advsearch.php?composer=Steffani&work=Duetti+da+Camera&performer=&medium=all&label=&cat=

I think this is rather wonderful.

[doversoul1]

William Christie: 9 November

[Please Host, can you move this to the Early Music on CD Review thread?]

10.15am
Andrew talks to the acclaimed conductor and founder of Les Arts Florissants William Christie about his recording career to date and the launch of his own recording label
CHARPENTIER: David et Jonathas
Pascal Charbonneau (David), Ana Quintans (Jonathas), Neal Davies (Saul), Frederic Caton (Achis), Kresimir Spicer (Joabel), Dominique Visse (La Pythonisse), Pierre Bessiere (L’Ombre de Samuel), Orchestra, Chorus of Les Arts Florissants, William Christie (conductor) (conductor), Andreas Homoki (direction)
BEL AIR CLASSIQUES BAC093 (DVD)

HANDEL: Belshazzar
Allan Clayton (Belshazzar), Rosemary Joshua (Nitocris), Caitlin Hulcup (Cyrus), Iestyn Davies (Daniel), Jonathan Lemalu (Gobrias), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie (conductor)
LES ARTS FLORISSANTS AF001 (3CD mid-price)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03h37qw

[doversoul1]

Early Music Feast: 16 November

9.05am
HASSE: Dei di Roma ah perdonate (from Il Trionfo di Clelia), J. C. BACH: No che non ha la sorte (from Antaserse); Vo solcando (from Antaserse) and more…
Bejun Mehta (counter-tenor), Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Rene Jacobs

PERGOLESI: Stabat Mater and more
Julia Lezhneva (soprano), Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera, I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis
[I thought Andrew would pick this up ]

MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor K466; Piano Concerto No. 27 in Bb K59
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano), Die Kolner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens

10.45am New Release
Sir Nicholas Kenyon joins Andrew to discuss recently re-issued recordings from The Academy of Ancient Music and Il Giardino Armonico, taking us back over forty years of historically informed performance

ARNE
Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
Musique pour la Chambre du Roy
Vivaldi - Double and Triple Concertos
Viaggio musicale - Italian Music of the Seventeenth Century
ZELENKA: Fanfare in D
…and MORE

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03hk1y7

[MickyD]

I'll be interested to hear what Nick Kenyon has to say, but I confess to have already snapped up those AAM reissues from Decca Eloquence and have enjoyed a lot of nostalgic listening.