Early Music on Record Review

[Nick Armstrong]

a Collegium Aureum/ Kurt Thomas LP

See #113 above.

Haven't heard it myself.

[MickyD]

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?

Yes, I know it very well, it was my first experience of the work. Now available on a CD reissue as part of a very attractive looking 10 CD set of CPE from Deutsche Harmonia Mundi box and a steal on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00GK7MQCW/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_7?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

I have never heard the Argo disc. But I do have another recording of the CPE Bach Magnificat coupled with one of J C Bach recorded a few years ago by La Stagione under Michael Schneider on a German label. That is pretty good.

[Vox Humana]

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?

Oh yes. Great fun. Haven't listened to it for many years. I must dig it out again.

[doversoul1]

8 February

Told you Andrew would pick this up
Your Tuneful Voice - Handel Oratorio Arias
Iestyn Davies (countertenor), The King’s Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Some more interesting CDs in the first half an hour.
9.05
PORTA, VIVALDI, PORPORA:, MARTINELLI, LATILLA, PEROTTI:, BERNASCONI: by Europa Galante and Fabio Biondi

The Proud Bassoon
FASCH:, COUPERIN:, Telemann and more by Peter Whelan (bassoon), Ensemble Marsyas

Your Tuneful Voice - Handel Oratorio Arias

GASPARINI, CALDARA, HANDEL, SCARLATTI (I guess it is the son) by Anna Dennis (soprano), Andrew Radley (countertenor), Sounds Baroque, Julian Perkins (harpsichord, organ and director)

PLUS
10.20
Christina Pluhar - The Complete Alpha Recordings
Various works with guest soloists
L’Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar (harp, theorbo and director

Bal-kan - Honey and Blood
Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall (conductor)
Various works

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03th2jw

[amateur51]

Told you Andrew would pick this up

Have you been hacking into Andrew's Blackberry, dovers?

Oh was it a night probing the chicken's entrails?

[teamsaint]

Missed the release of the Pluhar box set.

A must buy for those who only have bits and bobs of their stuff so far, surely?(I have only the Landi CD).

[Thropplenoggin]

Giovanni Battista PERGOLESI (1710 - 1736)
Stabat mater [36:13]
Laudate pueri Dominum [18:05]
Confitebor tibi Domine [16:39]
Julia Lezhneva (soprano), Philippe Jaroussky (alto)
Coro della Radiotelevisione svizzeria, Lugano; I Barocchisti/Diego Fasolis (Warner Erato)

Has anyone heard/bought this? Lezhneva sounds splendid, but I can hardly make Jaroussky out in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9ZET0kU9qs

[doversoul1]

Here is a longer video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaCPnMA8R9s#t=90

..and here is a five-star review

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/09/pergolesi-stabat-mater-confitebor-lezhneva-jaroussky-review

[Thropplenoggin]

Here is a longer video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaCPnMA8R9s#t=90

..and here is a five-star review
http://www.theguardian.com/music/201...roussky-review

Thanks, doversoul. It's had positive reviews in IRR and Gramophone, too. I shall give the longer video a go.

[doversoul1]

CD Review 15 February

9.05am
Music of Henry Purcell
BLOW: Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell
PURCELL: Dido and Aeneas; Hail! Bright Cecilia (Ode for St Cecilia's Day 1692), Z328; Welcome to all the pleasures (from Ode for St Cecilia's Day 1683), Z339; Come ye sons of art (Ode for Queen Mary's birthday, 1694), Z 323; My beloved spake, Z28; Rejoice in the Lord alway ('The Bell Anthem'), Z49
Various artists with The Deller Consort, Alfred Deller (conductor)
VANGUARD CLASSICS MC194 (6CD budget)

9.30 am Building a Library
Songs of Henry Purcell

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03vd0gt

[doversoul1]

22 February

9.05 am
The Voice of the Turtle Dove
SHEPPARD: The Sixteen, Harry Christophers

Sheppard - Sacred choral music
Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh, Duncan Ferguson

MONTEVERDI, MERULO, CIMA, MARINI, CASTELLO: Caroline Balding (violin), Roger Hamilton (harpsichord), Cambridge Taverner Choir, Owen Rees (conductor)

Madrigals of Love and Loss MONTEVERDI: Thomas Walker (tenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Katherine Watson (soprano), Anna Dennis (soprano), Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen (conductor)

[ardcarp]

Quite a feast of choral music on CD Review! (I've posted on The Choir about it.)
It was fascinating to hear two very different takes on Sheppard. The Sixteen gave it poise, polish and a tasteful expressiveness. Wonderful singing. St Mary's was more energetic, definitely faster..and I felt (especially in solo voice sections) a bit raw at times. But, hey, it's amazing that a cathedral choir with youngsters on the top line/s can cut it with the big boys. Can anyone remind me which Sheppard piece that Edinburgh sang had the reconstructed treble part? That was a local (Scottish) reconstruction, so another feather in their cap.

[Gabriel Jackson]

Quite a feast of choral music on CD Review! (I've posted on The Choir about it.)
It was fascinating to hear two very different takes on Sheppard. The Sixteen gave it poise, polish and a tasteful expressiveness. Wonderful singing. St Mary's was more energetic, definitely faster..and I felt (especially in solo voice sections) a bit raw at times. But, hey, it's amazing that a cathedral choir with youngsters on the top line/s can cut it with the big boys. Can anyone remind me which Sheppard piece that Edinburgh sang had the reconstructed treble part? That was a local (Scottish) reconstruction, so another feather in their cap.

Gaude virgo Christiphera. (I don't think Magnus Williamson is Scottish...)

[ardcarp]

Thanks. (Icelandic, maybe?)

[Gabriel Jackson]

Thanks. (Icelandic, maybe?)

English as far as I know