Early Music on Record Review

[jayne lee wilson]

The new Bach Overtures Double Album from Alessandrini is just glorious!
The Bernhard Bach and Ludwig Bach items are far more than curiosities.... JLB playing right now, really catchy pieces, reminding me of Telemann...

Real early-Chistmas-present-to-yourself about this one!
Weird cover art though.... remember the TV series Dexter...? Whoa...

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/bach-ouvertures-for-orchestra-rinaldo-alessandrini-concerto-italiano/bvmblha4qdghb

[Sir Velo]

You're up early this morning, jlw!

Think I need a pair of your shades to look at that album cover - not something to gaze on first thing (or at any other time for that matter).

Will give Alessandrini a listen later. Still auditioning Sato and IL POMO D'ORO (as per the album cover qv).

[jayne lee wilson]

You're up early this morning, jlw!

Think I need a pair of your shades to look at that album cover - not something to gaze on first thing (or at any other time for that matter).

Will give Alessandrini a listen later. Still auditioning Sato and IL POMO D'ORO (as per the album cover qv).

I'm a poor sleeper, usually back downstairs at 0600 onwards for hot chocolate, more high-dose Valerian, see to the cats, and play music until I feel like sleeping again... then, back to bed....(usually with at least one cat...and the papers....)
But it is a wonderful, joyful life-affirming Bach album!

(I could be more specific of why this cover reminds me of Dexter but, of a nervous disposition myself, I don't wish to upset the similarly afflicted....)

[doversoul1]

16 November

10.20am – New Releases
In Nomine II: works by Muhly, Bryars, Purcell, Tye, Parsons etc.
Fretwork

The Godfather - Masters of the German & Italian Baroque: concertos by Telemann, Pisendel, J. S. Bach, Brescianello, Vivaldi & Fasch
La Serenissima
Adrian Chandler (director/violin)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000bgzz

[doversoul1]

23 November

9.00am
Versailles - Alexandre Tharaud: music by Rameau, Visée, Royer, Anglebert, Couperin, Duphly, Lully & Balbastre
Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano)
Justin Taylor (piano)

11.15am – Record of the Week
JS Bach: Violin Concertos
Kati Debretzeni (violin)
The English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000bmgg

[Goon525]

Has anyone else listened to the Handel Brockes-Passion with AAM and Egarr? Really well worth your time - quite different to the Bach Passions but only a little inferior to them! I have a slight reservation about Elisabeth Watts above forte (she has a lot to do!) but it’s very well performed and sung. Amazingly neglected for a work of this quality.

[doversoul1]

Has anyone else listened to the Handel Brockes-Passion with AAM and Egarr? Really well worth your time - quite different to the Bach Passions but only a little inferior to them! I have a slight reservation about Elisabeth Watts above forte (she has a lot to do!) but it’s very well performed and sung. Amazingly neglected for a work of this quality.

You didn’t think you could get away with this, did you?

Not by the AAM but there was a broadcast of this work on R3 last month and I very much enjoyed it.

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?20834-Handel-Brockes-Passion-R3-in-Concert-Thursday-10-October

[doversoul1]

30 November

9.00am
Gesualdo: Madrigali, Libri primo & secondo
Les Arts Florissants
Paul Agnew (conductor)

10.20am – New Releases
Histoires d'un Ange: music by Marais, de Visée, François Couperin and Rameau
Johanna Rose (viola da gamba)
Josep Maria Martí Duran (theorbo)
Javier Núñez (harpsichord)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000bvpr

[ardcarp]

Gesualdo: Madrigali, Libri primo & secondo
Les Arts Florissants
Paul Agnew (conductor)

Based on the extract we heard, absolutely superb. The singers were able to be expressive without losing the art of blending. A must for the stocking.
I'll also be interested to hear what they'll do when they get to recording libri 5 & 6.

[doversoul1]

Based on the extract we heard, absolutely superb. The singers were able to be expressive without losing the art of blending. A must for the stocking.
I'll also be interested to hear what they'll do when they get to recording libri 5 & 6.

Yes, it’s great to see Paul Agnew developing a new (to me) repertoire within Les Arts Florissants. I thought his/their Monteverdi series was excellent too.

[doversoul1]

7 December
9.00am
Noëls Baroques à Versailles: Golden Age of French Organ Collection, vol. 3
Gaétan Jarry (organ and conductor)
Les Pages du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles

10.20am – New Releases
Lully: Isis
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset (conductor)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000c2rl

[doversoul1]

14 December

[ed.]
the last in the first slot
A Spanish Nativity: Christmas music by Lobo, Guerrero, Morales, Victoria, Flecha and Rimonte
Stile Antico

10.20am – Natasha Loges, Katy Hamilton and Kate Molleson with some of their favourite new releases from this year
Gesualdo: Madrigali
EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble
James Weeks (director)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000cbbw

[doversoul1]

21 December

9.00am
Schütz: The Christmas story & other works
Yale Schola Cantorum
David Hill (conductor)

Sei Solo - J S Bach: the Sonatas & Partitas For Violin Solo
Thomas Zehetmair (baroque violins)

10.20am – New Releases
JS Bach: Christmas Oratorio
Thomanerchor
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Gotthold Schwarz (conductor)

Magnificat - Christmas in Leipzig: music by Schelle, Kuhnau and J.S. Bach
Solomon's Knot
Jonathan Sells (director)

Cor Europae: Christmas in Medieval Prague
Hana Blažiková (soprano)
Daniela Čermáková (contralto)
Tiburtina Ensemble
Barbora Kabátková (director)

...plus a few more scattered through the programmes

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ck35