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9.00am
17th-Century Playlist – including Landi's Passacali della vita, Lanier's Love's constancy, Boesset's Je voundrois bien o Cloris etc
Ed Lyon (tenor)
Theatre of the Ayre
10.20am – New Releases
Barbara Strozzi: Virtuosa of Venice – works by Barbara Strozzi as well as Nicolò Fontei, Benedetto Ferrari, Giovanni Girolamo Kasperger and Claudio Monteverdi.
Fieri Consort
Handel: Brockes-Passion
Ruby Hughes (soprano)
Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
Tim Mead (counter-tenor)
Gwilym Bowen (tenor)
Robert Murray (tenor)
Nicky Spence (tenor)
Cody Quattlebaum (bass-baritone)
Academy of Ancient Music Choir,, Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr (conductor)
Head-over-heels in love with this Bestion Vespro (and playing parts of it, especially the Magnificat, everyday) I wonder how it will be taken (depends on who does the taking of course...)
Got Savall playing now... the one throws light upon the other....
9.00am
Clerambault: Chamber Music From the Brossard Collection
The Bach Players
10.20am – New Releases
Vivaldi/Jupiter – Chamber music by Vivaldi performed by the Jupiter Ensemble
Lea Desandre (mezzo-soprano)
Bruno Philippe (cello)
Peter Whelan (bassoon)
Thomas Dunford (lute)
Jupiter
Handel: Samson
Sophie Bevan, Fflur Wyn, Mary Bevan, Jess Dandy, Hugo Hymas, Matthew Brook, Vitali Rozynko,
Tiffin Boys’ Choir
Dunedin Consort
John Butt (conductor)
Samson sounded great with a generous choir (unlike their last new release on the programme) filling the narrative solidly. The Vivaldi sounded good too.
Having finally sated my Monteverdian desires I'll try this Vivaldi later.... cunning, attention-grabbing title..."Vivaldi Jupiter".... you don't know what it might be till you peruse the detail...
9.00am
Routes du café: music by Nâyi Osman Dede, Bernier, Marais, Kajioka, Locke, Tanburi Cemil Bey and J. S. Bach
Hana Blažiková (soprano)
Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor)
Lisandro Abadie (bass)
Ensemble Masques
Olivier Fortin (director)
Josquin: Missa Mater Patris - Bauldeweyn: Missa Da pacem
The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips (director)
9.00am
Royal Fireworks: music by Bach, Handel, Purcell and Telemann
Alison Balsom (trumpet)
Balsom Ensemble
Facce d'Amore: arias by Cavalli, Boretti, Bononcini, Handel etc.
Jakub Józef Orliński (countertenor)
Il Pomo d’Oro
Maxim Emelyanychev (conductor)
10.20am – New Releases
Ouvertures for Orchestra: music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Bernhard Bach and Johann Ludwig Bach
Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)
In Nomine II
Fretwork
10.45am – New Releases – Anna Lapwood on new choral discs
Palestrina: Lamentations Book 2
Cinquecento
Palestrina Vol. 8: Missa fratres ego enim accepi etc.
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers (conductor)
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