Early Music on Record Review

[MickyD]

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

Thanks for pointing out the new Rameau release, Doversoul....I am very much hoping that in this Rameau anniversary year, that there will be some exciting new releases and hopefully one or two which give us previously unrecorded and unheard works.

[doversoul1]

No Iestyn Davies (I hope Andrew will pick up this CD soon) but this looks good;

9.05am
Vivaldi – Concerti per archi II
VIVALDI: Concerti for strings RV 150, 134, 151, 119, 110, 160, 128, 164, 127, 166, 157
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini (director)

G. F. HANDEL: 8 ‘Great’ Suites for keyboard, HWV 426-433
Richard Egarr (harpsichord ) (Copy Ruckers, 1638)

GAETANO VENEZIANO: La Sanctissima Trinita (Oratorio, Naples, 1693)
Leslie Visco (Verginie), Cristina Grifone (Amore Divino), Filippo Mineccia (Sapienza), Rosario Totaro (Onnipotenza), Giuseppe Naviglio (Peccato), I Turchini, Antonio Florio (conductor)

J D ZELENKA: Missa Paschalis ZWV 7, Litaniae Omnium Sanctorum ZWV 153
Gabriela Eibenova (soprano), Terry Wey (counter tenor), Cyril Auvity
(tenor), Marian Krejcik (baritone), Ensemble Inegal, Prague Baroque Soloists, Adam Viktora (conductor)

[Old Grumpy]

Certainly was good. I have added the Zelanka to my "wishlist"

[doversoul1]

The Well-Tempered Clavier: 1st February

11.40am Disc of the Week

JS Bach
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2
Christophe Rousset (harpsichord).

Rousset's 'attempting Everest' as he puts it himself in the 2nd Book of Bach's 48, and on a very beautiful 1628 Ruckers harpsichord in the Chateau de Versailles

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03t0034

[Nick Armstrong]

And this segment looks fun too:

10.20am

CPE Bach - Solo Keyboard Music Volume 27
BACH, C P E: ‘Fortsetzung' Sonatas, Wq. 51 Nos. 4-6
Miklos Spanyi (clavichord)
BIS BIS2043 (CD)


BACH, C P E: Wurttemberg Sonatas Wq. 49 (H30-34, 36)
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
HYPERION CDA67995 (CD)


CPE Bach - Works for Violin and Pianoforte
BACH, C P E: Sonata in C minor H514 Wq78; Sonata in Bb H513 Wq77; Arioso in A H535 Wq. 79; Sonata in B minor H512 Wq 76
Albrecht Breuninger (violin), Piet Kuijken (fortepiano)
HANSSLER HAEN93312 (CD)


BACH, C P E: Hamburger Sinfonien Wq. 182 (H567-662)
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Wolfram Christ (conductor)
HANSSLER HAEN98637 (CD)


BACH, C P E: Magnificat Wq. 215*
BACH, J L: Missa brevis^
Arleen Auger* and Uta Spreckelsen^ (sopranos), Helen Watts* and Erika Schmidt-Valentin^ (altos), Kurt Equiluz* and Aldo Baldin^ (tenors), Wolfgang Schone* and Niklaus Tuller^ (basses), Gachinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Helmuth Rilling (conductor)
HANSSLER HAEN98024 (CD mid-price)


BACH, C P E: Magnificat Wq. 215: Heilig ist Gott Wq. 217; Symphony in D Wq 183/1
Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (alto), Lothar Odinius (tenor), Markus Eiche (bass), RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Hans-Christoph Rademann (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC902167 (CD)
Due for release on 10th February 2014

[Black Swan]

I am really interested in hearing this.

[Nick Armstrong]

I am really interested in hearing this.

I hope you did. I thought it was a great tour d'horizon of CPE's achievements, altering my view of his output - and costing me money: I have to have that exhilarating first movement of the Magnificat Wq. 215 by the RIAS Kammerchor/Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin/Rademann and want to explore the rest of that disc!

[MickyD]

I first became acquainted with the CPE Bach Magnificat in one of those pioneering Collegium Aureum discs...it is a wonderful work, well worth getting to know.

[Black Swan]

I hope you did. I thought it was a great tour d'horizon of CPE's achievements, altering my view of his output - and costing me money: I have to have that exhilarating first movement of the Magnificat Wq. 215 by the RIAS Kammerchor/Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin/Rademann and want to explore the rest of that disc!

Same here, ordered. I have also order the Rousett Disc of the week. I didn't have Book 2 of The Well Tempered Klavier performed on harpsichord.

[Nick Armstrong]

I first became acquainted with the CPE Bach Magnificat in one of those pioneering Collegium Aureum discs...it is a wonderful work, well worth getting to know.

By a feat of memory that surprised me, I suddenly recalled that I too already have a recording of CPEB's Magnificat - it's the coupling to JSB's Magnificat on Decca performed by King's Choir under Ledger with the Academy of St Martins. Lord knows when I last listened to it... not less than 20 years ago I guess. It's sitting out at home, waiting for a spin this evening...

[Roehre]

By a feat of memory that surprised me, I suddenly recalled that I too already have a recording of CPEB's Magnificat - it's the coupling to JSB's Magnificat on Decca performed by King's Choir under Ledger with the Academy of St Martins. Lord knows when I last listened to it... not less than 20 years ago I guess. It's sitting out at home, waiting for a spin this evening...

That was on Argo, Caliban? (I've got it on a late 1970s Argo LP, hence my question)

[Nick Armstrong]

That was on Argo, Caliban? (I've got it on a late 1970s Argo LP, hence my question)

Yes - it's from 1977 I think. I got it on a Decca 'Ovation' re-release (it was also on a 'Double Decca')

What do you think of it?

The LP cover is rather lovely, much nicer than any of the CD manifestations:

[Roehre]

Yes - it's from 1977 I think. I got it on a Decca 'Ovation' re-release (it was also on a 'Double Decca')

What do you think of it?

The LP cover is rather lovely, much nicer than any of the CD manifestations:

That's the one.
At that time I listened a couple of times as at the beginning I didn't like it at all. Too HIP (though that term didn't exist then
yet ; those days I admired Jochum in the Bach Passions with the Concertgebouw)
After 3 or 4 times the penny dropped.
It's two or three years now since I listened to the CPE the last time, I still like it (and think it's a good and forward looking piece), but I thought: mmmm, bit big sound .
Tempora mutantur et nos in illis

[Nick Armstrong]

Tempora mutantur et nos in illis

Oh quite.

Had a listen this evening... Nice bright choral movements, but I can't really abide the solo singing.

[LeMartinPecheur]

I've recently made 'first contact' with the CPE Bach Magnificat via a charity shop purchase of a Collegium Aureum/ Kurt Thomas LP with a good-looking line-up of soloists (Ameling, Lehane, Altmeyer and Herrman) from c1966. Does anyone know it? Have an opinion on how it shapes up against the KKC Argo disc?