Early Music on Record Review

[ardcarp]

I waved goodbye to the funnel and a wisp of smoke disappearing over the horizon long ago. But I am informed by younger members of the household that there is no limit to the size of a download, whereas a single CD can only store a finite amount of digital information.

Did I really write that?

[ardcarp]

Purcell's Hail Bright Cecilia is the work being reviewed on CD Review tomorrow (Saturday). It is a 'proper' review by Simon Heighes...not a chat show...so should be rather good.

[doversoul1]

No, you haven’t missed it

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?12317-BaL-22-11-14-Purcell-Hail!-Bright-Cecilia

I am very much looking forward to it.

[doversoul1]

22 November

Apart from the Purcell BaL, This looks intriguing.

9.00am
Acqua Alta
GABRIELI: Canzon X a 8; Canzon II a 4; Omnes gentes plaudit minibus a 16
MERULO: Sanctus a 16
CAMPKIN: Colour Blinds the Eye
WILLAERT: De profundis
STROZZI: Salve Regina
CASTELLO: Sonata duodecima, Libro II
ROVETTA: Domine Deus noster
SANDSTROM: Acqua Alta
ANDREA GABRIELI: Domine ne in furore (Psalm 6)
Serikon, Daniel Stighall (artistic director), Erik Westberg (conductor)

This is what the group says about the CD

http://www.acquaalta.org/Acqua_Alta.html

…and this is how it sounds

http://www.serikon.org/Acqua_Alta_-_New_CD.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04prjsf

[Nick Armstrong]

Apart from the Purcell BaL, This looks intriguing.....

As does this, to end the programme - one of the two () Discs of the Week:

MOZART: Cosi fan tutte, K588
Simone Kermes (Fiordiligi), Malena Ernman (Dorabella), Anna Kasyan (Despina), Kenneth Tarver (Ferrando), Christopher Maltman (Guglielmo), Konstantin Wolff (Don Alfonso)

MusicAeterna, Teodor Currentzis (conductor)

SONY 88765466162 (3CD mid-price)

[Despina dello Stagno]

Apart from the Purcell BaL, This looks intriguing.

9.00am
Acqua Alta
GABRIELI:.......... Omnes gentes plaudit minibus a 16

Yes indeed. It is nice to hear any polychoral music relating to this subject on Radio 3 (one thinks inevitably of "dum transit Sabbatum" or the Monteverdi Vespas). But wouldn't it be more appropriate on Radio 2's "Truckers' Hour"?

[Nick Armstrong]

... transit

....more appropriate on Radio 2's "Truckers' Hour"?

Neat, Des, very neat!

[MickyD]

Timely programming for Emily Thornberry's listening pleasure.

[Nick Armstrong]

Timely programming for Emily Thornberry's listening pleasure.

[Despina dello Stagno]

Evidence of dumbing down, were it needed.

In the old days of the third programme no secretary, be she never so humble, would have contemplated rendering "Omnes gentes plaudite manibus" as "O.g. plaudit minibus".
Sic transit Gloria mundi

[Nick Armstrong]

I thought it was very clearly articulated.

[teamsaint]

I thought it was very clearly articulated.

I always expect the stage to have a Lute on, when early music is performed.

[Despina dello Stagno]

I always expect the stage to have a Lute on

Hertz van Rentl gives this expectation the status of a fiat, except where the stage is too small (typically 4 x 4)

[french frank]

In the old days of the third programme no secretary, be she never so humble, would have contemplated rendering "Omnes gentes plaudite manibus" as "O.g. plaudit minibus".

I'm not quite certain it shouldn't be 'plaudite minibum' ...

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm not quite certain it shouldn't be 'plaudite minibum' ...