Early Music on Record Review

[doversoul1]

The playlist is up. An hour of this after Poppea. What a treat!! Apart from Jakob Lindberg, the performers are all new to me.

Jacobean Lute Music
DOWLAND: A Fancy; The Battle Galliard; Mr John Langton's Pavan
ROBINSON, T: Merry Melancholy; A Galliard; Walking in a Country Towne; A Gigue; Spanish Pavan; A Gigue; A Toy; Row Well you Mariners
JOHNSON: Pavin; Fantasia
BATCHELAR: Mounsiers Almaine; Prelude; La jeune fillette; Courante; Pavin
HELY: Fantasia; Saraband
GAULTIER: Courante; Cloches; Courante
Jakob Lindberg (lute)
BIS BIS2055 (Hybrid SACD)

Antonio Bertali – Sonatas
BERTALI: Sonata XII a 4; Sonata a due violini e gamba II; Chaconne; Sonata a due violini e gamba III; Sonata II a 4; Sonata a due violini; Sonata a due violini fagotto IV; Sonata I; Sonata in d a 4
William Dongois (cornett, cornettino, mute cornett and director), Le Concert Brise
ACCENT ACC24260 (CD)

BIBER: Fidicinium sacro-profanum, Sonatas I-XII (complete)
Gunar Letzbor (violin, direction), Ars Antiqua Austria
CHALLENGE CLASSICS CC72575 (Hybrid SACD)

Telemann: Double Concerti for Wind and Strings
TELEMANN: Concerto TWV 52:e2; Concerto TWV 52:G1 in G; Concerto TWV 53:D5 in D; Concerto TWV 52:e3 in E minor; Concerto TWV 52:G2 in G; Concerto TWV 52:e1 in E minor
Rebel, Jorg-Michael Schwarz
BRIDGE BRIDGE9421 (CD)

[doversoul1]

An hour of excellent music and talk. Thoroughly enjoyed it. (back to weekend chores now).

[Richard Tarleton]

Indeed, I've already ordered the Jakob Lindberg disc! The first piece up, the Dowland Fancy (Fantasia) P73, nicknamed the Tremolo Fantasia, is currently open on my music stand - I'm learning it (slowly) in the Karl Scheit transcription for guitar (same notes and fingering as the lute original, minus the ornamentation ). I've twice heard Jakob Lindberg play it on the lute featured on this disc, highly recommended. I too enjoyed the discussion, all their comments spot-on.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

a brilliant section of one of the best mornings ever on CD Review imho .... an extremely convivial display of effortless expertise and enthusiasm .... just brrrrrrrilliant!

[vinteuil]

An hour of excellent music and talk. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Yes indeed. Wasn't the Bertali glorious? I just love the cornett...

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes indeed. Wasn't the Bertali glorious? I just love the cornett...

Bit partial myself too... this segment stored on the bedside DAB radio, awaiting the next lie-in

[Richard Tarleton]

.... an extremely convivial display of effortless expertise and enthusiasm .... just brrrrrrrilliant!

ME certainly gave those unfortunate string players on the Telemann disc a pasting

[amateur51]

Indeed, I've already ordered the Jakob Lindberg disc! The first piece up, the Dowland Fancy (Fantasia) P73, nicknamed the Tremolo Fantasia ...

Sounds vaguely sordid ... put it down to my heightened sensitivity resulting from my having a hand tremor, but reading this title made me laugh out loud

Isn't humour a funny thing

[doversoul1]

I thought it was very tactful (convivial?) of Esfahani to praise the wind players of the Telemann disc as he did. It avoided the slot ending with somewhat negative mood. I hope to hear him on Radio 3 often in the future.

Has anyone heard his first (at last!!) CD of CPE Bach?

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/search.php?searchString=Esfahani

[ardcarp]

Can't wait to hear this glorious hour. Had to sign off after Poppea......

[Richard Tarleton]

Sounds vaguely sordid ... put it down to my heightened sensitivity resulting from my having a hand tremor, but reading this title made me laugh out loud

Isn't humour a funny thing

See this - refers to rapidly repeated note on one string struck successively by ring. middle and index finger on the right hand. Can't find a lute version with video on You Tube but here's somebody playing it on the guitar - the "tremolo" passage starts at 2:16, near the end. The most famous tremolo piece in the guitar repertoire is Recuerdos de la Alhambra, nicknamed the Tremolo Study, by er, Francisco Tárrega which is played rather a lot on R3, or not if you're Graham Dixon.

[MickyD]

I thought it was very tactful (convivial?) of Esfahani to praise the wind players of the Telemann disc as he did. It avoided the slot ending with somewhat negative mood. I hope to hear him on Radio 3 often in the future.

Has anyone heard his first (at last!!) CD of CPE Bach?
http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/sea...tring=Esfahani

I got the Wurttemburg and Prussian Sonatas on a Brilliant box recorded by Pieter Jan Belder recently...would like to hear the Esfahani to compare. Sometime in the distant LP era, I also had Van Asperen's version, but I've forgotten what they were like...

[doversoul1]

25 January

10.30am
Hilary Finch talks to Andrew about recent releases of song recital
I wonder if Hilary Finch has picked this up (probably not…)

Your Tuneful Voice: Iestyn Davies and The King’s Consort.

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Vivat/VIVAT105

Somebody ought to invent a new term for a voice like this. ‘Countertenor’ doesn’t seem to tell enough.

11.40am
Disc of the Week
Rameau: Le Grand Théâtre de l'Amour
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Erato/9341492

[Richard Tarleton]

The Jakob Lindberg CD has arrived - excellent, and at 81:12, generously filled. The Sixtus Rauwolf lute sounds lovely. Quite closely miked, you're very conscious of the player, but not in a bad way.

[Thropplenoggin]

10.30am
Hilary Finch talks to Andrew about recent releases of song recital
I wonder if Hilary Finch has picked this up (probably not…)

Your Tuneful Voice: Iestyn Davies and The King’s Consort.

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Vivat/VIVAT105

Somebody ought to invent a new term for a voice like this. ‘Countertenor’ doesn’t seem to tell enough.

I had assumed it would be more recent songs, perhaps Florian Boesch in Die Schone Mullerin, etc. I only say the latter as he's live from the Wigmore Hall on Monday lunchtime, and R3 does love its cross-promotion (Andrew McGregor being the voiceover artist du jour)