Looks like there will be a tribute in Music Matters afterwards, ds, with interviews with Davitt Moroney and James Bowman. Quick work on R3s part...
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Enjoying this greatly, despite wishing Ms Gill would slow down and say "you know" fewer than about twice a sentence). I do continue to find Buxtehude dull, though. Does that make me a bad person?Originally posted by doversoul View Post
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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I loved the Bach Trio Sonatas "re-imagined" for chamber ensemble (another one for the 'arrangements' thread, this) - I've acquired album on lossless download. Wonderful sound and a new light on the music. (In CD Review, Ms Gill was a bit sniffy about it, but Mr Heighes was more positive). Apart from anything else, this will be wonderful driving music - so it's going straight on the car iPod!
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
O I so often feel like Toby Belch to your Malvolio...
Bring on the cakes and ale! 
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Virtuous Vinny strikes again !!Originally posted by Caliban View Post
O I so often feel like Toby Belch to your Malvolio...
Bring on the cakes and ale!
Doesn't listening to music whilst driving also incur a Black Maria Mark?I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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18 October
9.00 am
Amadis by Lully: Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
Filiae mestae - motet in C minor by Vivaldi: : Philippe Jaroussky & Ensemble Artaserse,
A gentill Jhesu for 4 voices by Sheryngham: Hilliard Ensemble
Saltarello by Alfonso X: Jordi Savall (rebec), Pedro Estevan (percussion)
10.40 (my guess)
Rameau Anniversary Recordings
The harpsichordist Sophie Yates talks to Andrew about recent releases of music by Jean-Philippe Rameau in this anniversary year including a box set from the man who arguably awoke the world to the genius of Rameau, William Christie, and conductors who cut their teeth in his ensemble Les Arts Florissants, Hervé Niquet and Hugo Reyne.
This sounds (looks) very good.Comment
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I to am looking forward to this BAL. I have the Hilliard Ensemble and Savall recordings and am very interested in the Rameau segment.Originally posted by doversoul View Post9.00 am
Amadis by Lully: Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
Filiae mestae - motet in C minor by Vivaldi: : Philippe Jaroussky & Ensemble Artaserse,
A gentill Jhesu for 4 voices by Sheryngham: Hilliard Ensemble
Saltarello by Alfonso X: Jordi Savall (rebec), Pedro Estevan (percussion)
10.40 (my guess)
Rameau Anniversary Recordings
The harpsichordist Sophie Yates talks to Andrew about recent releases of music by Jean-Philippe Rameau in this anniversary year including a box set from the man who arguably awoke the world to the genius of Rameau, William Christie, and conductors who cut their teeth in his ensemble Les Arts Florissants, Hervé Niquet and Hugo Reyne.
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... thanks for flagging this up, doversoul (but is this the right thread - might it be moved from the a-la-mi-re one?)
Looking forward especially to the Lully and Rameau. I think an order is in order....Comment
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I have asked the Host to move the relevant posts to the right place (brain not working
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Originally posted by doversoul View Post
I parachuted into the middle of this, just before 11am - I heard what was clearly the death scene from 'Hippolyte et Aricie'... but I assumed it was a historic (as opposed to HIP) recording, dredged perhaps from some radio archive in the '60s, perhaps the youthful Christie cutting his teeth in the US with a 'pre-authentic' chorus and soloist - warbly choir, fruity soloist. Interesting, perhaps, but basically unlistenable to. I was astonished to hear that it was the Glyndebourne production from last year... with Sarah Connolly...
And yet not that astonished. When Sophie Yates (with whose opinions I disagreed almost 100%) started taking about The Fridge - I realised with a start that I'd actually gone to that production. It provided 2 or 3 of the most annoying hours I've ever spent in an enclosed space - it was not only the design, which I found fatuous, but there was very little to enjoy musically (apart from some of Rameau's amazing inventivity).
It was covered in this thread: http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...t-Glyndebourne
I see I thought at the time that it was the insane production that impeded musical appreciation - I wonder now, having heard the sound-only excerpt this morning, if there was another reason....
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Ah - a different Christie.Originally posted by Caliban View Post[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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As well as the same one...Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Yes: I was surprized how much I disagreed with Sophie Yates today. She praised the opening piece - from the Skip Sempé Rameau's Funeral disc - which to me sounded irredeemably self-indulgent and shapeless; and she had far more regard than I thought was due for the Reyne Indes Galantes - even preferring it to the older but so much sharper Christie recording. Ah well; she knows far more abt Rameau than I do, but clearly our tastes here differ...Originally posted by Caliban View PostComment
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I missed this and after Cali and Vinteull comments, I am not sure if I should listen on the inlayer. I was interested in Les Fetes de l'Hymen et de l"amour, ou Les Dieux d'Egypte. Was it well reviewed? Comments?
I was very impressed with the selection form Amadis and am considering purchasing this one.Comment
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