Early Music on Record Review

[doversoul1]

29 June

10.20am – New Releases
Cozzolani: Vespro della Beata Vergine
I Gemelli (ensemble)
Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (tenor & director)

10.45am – New Releases – Jeremy Summerly on Baroque Choral Releases
‘Sacred Music for Dresden Cathedral’ – Zelenka: Miserere in C & Confitebor tibi; Hasse: Miserere in C & Confitebor tibi
Accademia Barocca Lucernensis (ensemble)
Javier Ulises Illán (condcutor)

‘Messe du Roi Soleil’ – Sacred music by Philidor, Guilain, Lalande, Couperin & Lully
Ensemble Marguerite Louise
Gaétan Jarry (director and organist)

‘Histoire Sacrées’ – Sacred history works by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Ensemble Correspondances
Sébastian Daucé (director)

Handel: Brockes Passion, HWV 48
NDR Choir
Göttingen Festival Orchestra
Laurence Cummings (director)

Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel: Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld (Passion oratorio, 1731)
Purcell Choir
Orfeo Orchestra
György Vashegyi (conductor)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006ffh

[doversoul1]

I very much enjoyed the new release slot by Jeremy Summerly. The performers of the last item: Their performance of Vivaldi’s Gloria on Early Music Late awhile ago was amazing with an absolutely superb alto.

[Nick Armstrong]

I very much enjoyed the new release slot by Jeremy Summerly. The performers of the last item: Their performance of Vivaldi’s Gloria on Early Music Late awhile ago was amazing with an absolutely superb alto.

Caught the second half, and looking forward to hearing the whole thing .... The last two items both sounded terrific.

[MickyD]

I am seriously thinking of getting that Dresden Cathedral disc, I was spellbound by the excerpts.

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6 July

9.00am
‘Inauguration Cantatas for Hamburg and Altona’ – Telemann: Kommt, Lasset uns Anbeten & Geschlagene Pauken, Auf!
Barockwerk Hamburg (ensemble)
Ira Hochman (conductor)

10.20am – New Releases
Biber: Fidicinium Sacro-Profanum
Harmonie Universelle (ensemble)
Florian Deuter (violin)
Monica Waisman (directors)

‘Bach – The Lute Suites’ incl. BWV 995, BWV 997, BWV 1006 & BWV 996
Franz Halasz (guitar)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006lxd

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10.20am - New Releases

Salieri : Tarare
Les Talens Lyriques (orchestra)
Les Chantres du centre de musique baroque de Versailles (choir)
Christophe Rousset (conductor)

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[Richard Tarleton]

‘Bach – The Lute Suites’ incl. BWV 995, BWV 997, BWV 1006 & BWV 996
Franz Halasz (guitar)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006lxd

BWV 1006 must be one of Bach's most recycled pieces - the Prelude more than the rest of it....to be pedantic the Lute Suite is 1006A...my first guitar version on record was John Williams (1964). For info, there's a BIS double CD of all these works on lute, played by Jakob Lindberg.

I heard John Williams play BWV1006A in a recital at the Festival Hall in the mid 70s. He had people sitting behind him on stage. One had an alarm watch which went off just behind him during the Prelude (the concert was recorded for later broadcasting, they hadn't been able to get rid of the watch), JW didn't miss a beat.

[MickyD]

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10.20am - New Releases

Salieri : Tarare
Les Talens Lyriques (orchestra)
Les Chantres du centre de musique baroque de Versailles (choir)
Christophe Rousset (conductor)

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This has been getting rave reviews on France Musique for the last few weeks.

[Richard Tarleton]

BWV 1006 must be one of Bach's most recycled pieces - the Prelude more than the rest of it....to be pedantic the Lute Suite is 1006A...my first guitar version on record was John Williams (1964). For info, there's a BIS double CD of all these works on lute, played by Jakob Lindberg.

I heard John Williams play BWV1006A in a recital at the Festival Hall in the mid 70s. He had people sitting behind him on stage. One had an alarm watch which went off just behind him during the Prelude (the concert was recorded for later broadcasting, they hadn't been able to get rid of the watch), JW didn't miss a beat.

If I heard him correctly Andrew was talking cobblers there - he said (I think) that lute players play the suite in F, and guitarists normally in D, but that Halasz plays it in the original key with the help of a capo in the first position. The first two statements were wrong - both guitarists and lutenists play the piece in the original E major. Reading Jakob Lindberg's CD notes (he plays a 13-course baroque lute) he explains how the original key is tricky but he gets round it with the help of a scordatura, for which he quotes a 17thC source. Bream, Williams and everyone else play the partita in E which is the most natural for the guitar (with top and bottom strings normally tuned to E). If you put a capo in the first position, as this bloke does, apparently, it would raise the key from E to F - ?????? - so that makes no sense either. (Lots of guitar music is in D, but for that it's normal to drop the bottom string to D...)

[doversoul1]

13 July

Handel’s Queens’ – Arias for Cuzzoni & Bordoni by Pollarolo, Handel, Hasse, Porpora, Orlandini, Vivaldi, Torri, Bononcini, Ariosti, Leo & Greene
Lucy Crowe (soprano / Cuzzoni)
Mary Bevan (soprano / Bordoni)
London Early Opera
Bridget Cunningham (director)

Mysliveček (1737-1781): Adamo ed Eva
Roberta Mameli (soprano)
Alice Rossi (soprano)
Luciana Mancini (mezzo-soprano)
Valerio Contaldo (tenor)
Il Gardellino (ensemble)
Peter van Heyghen (conductor)

The composer is not quite early music but the ensemble’s main repertoire seems to be.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006sbh

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20 July

9.00am
‘La Musique Secrète de Léonard de Vinci’ – Music by 15th- and 16th- century composers including Petrus, Cara, Desprez, Obrecht etc.
Doulce Mémoire (ensemble)
Denis Raisin Dadre (director)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006zjp

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27 July

9.00am
Handel: Concerti Grossi Op. 6 (1-6)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Bernhard Forck (conductor)

10.20am – New Releases
‘Voglio Cantar’ – Baroque vocal music by Strozzi, Cavalli, Cesti, Marini & Merula
Emöke Baráth (soprano)
Il Pomo d’Oro
Francesco Corti (conductor)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00075dm

Let’s hope Andrew McGregor will fit in a tribute to Anner Bylsma.

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3 August
9.00am
La Gracieuse: Pièces de Viole by Marin Marais
Robert Smith (viola da gamba)
Israel Golani (viola da gamba)
Joshua Cheatham (viola da gamba)
Olivier Fortin (harpsichord)

10.20am – New Releases
Musique Pour Notre-Dame de Paris
Ensemble Organum
Marcel Peres (conductor)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007c09

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9th August

9.00am
MA Charpentier: Les Plaisirs de Versailles & Les Arts Florissants
Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble,
Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble
Paul O'Dette (director)
Stephen Stubbs (director)

10.20am – New Releases
JS Bach: The Toccatas
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)

Ars longa: Old and new music for theorbo by Piccinini, Kasperger, Muhly etc
Elizabeth Kenny (theorbo)

11.25am – Proms BAL Recommendation
Bach: Orchestral Suites: Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C BWV1066
Reviewer: Mark Lowther, December 2014
Recommended recording:
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007jtv

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17 August

9.00
Folia: versions of the “Folia” by composers (including Vivaldi, Corbetta, Pandolfo and Falconieri) recorded over the years by artists belonging to the Note 1 group of labels
Masaaki Suzuki plays Bach Organ Works, Vol. 3
Masaaki Suzuki (Great Silbermann Organ of Freiberg Cathedral)

10.20am – New Releases
The 1690 Tuscan Stradivari: Violin Sonatas in 18th-Century Italy
Fabio Biondi (violin)
Antonio Fantinuoli (cello)
Giangiacomo Pinardi (theorbo)
Paola Poncet (harpsichord)

11.25am – Proms BAL Recommendation
Handel: Jephtha
Reviewer: Suzanne Aspden, January 2018
Recommended recording:
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007q3s