Early Music on Record Review

[Black Swan]

Same here on Anacreon and already ordered....

[Nick Armstrong]

Haven't heard this 'segment' of the programme yet... Sounds expensive!

(Listening to the new Stile Antico recording on iTunes Music at the moment though. You get a 'bonus track' on iTunes in the shape of the Peter Cornelius 'Three Kings' - which I'm not sure is particularly 'bonus' ... ... or Renascent...)

[MickyD]

... this sounded gorgeous. And an important addition for any ramellian - the 1754 Anacreon is a totally different work from the 1757 Anacreon which Wm: Christie and Marc Minkowski have given us.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0127WVP3Y

God, I love Rameau...

So do I - any hitherto unrecorded Rameau is greedily snapped up in this house, so this disc will be at the top of my shopping list.

[doversoul1]

All this in 10 minutes: 16 January

(Would Host please change the title of the thread?)

10.20am
D. Scarlatti: Sonatas
SCARLATTI, D: Keyboard Sonata K380 in E major; Keyboard Sonata K96 in D major; Keyboard Sonata K109 in A minor; Keyboard Sonata K427 in G major; Keyboard Sonata K69 in F minor; Keyboard Sonata K141 in D minor; Keyboard Sonata K140 in D major; Keyboard Sonata K27 in B minor; Keyboard Sonata K13 in G major; Keyboard Sonata K8 in G minor; Keyboard Sonata K430 in D major; Keyboard Sonata K113 in A major; Keyboard Sonata K29 in D major; Keyboard Sonata K87 in B minor; Keyboard Sonata K159 in C major 'La caccia'; Keyboard Sonata K9 in D minor
Angela Hewitt (piano)
HYPERION CDA67613 (CD mid-price)

Avison: Concerti Grossi after Scarlatti
AVISON: Concerto grosso after Scarlatti, No. 3 in D minor; Concerto grosso after Scarlatti, No. 6 in D major; Concerto grosso after Scarlatti, No. 4 in A minor; Concerto grosso after Scarlatti, No. 5 in D minor; Concerto grosso after Scarlatti, No. 9 in C major; Concerto grosso after Scarlatti, No. 11 in G major
Concerto Koln
BERLIN CLASSICS 0300702BC (CD)

Las Ciudades de Oro
L'Harmonie des Saisons, Eric Milnes (conductor)
ATMA ACD22702 (CD)

Chaconne: Voices of Eternity
Ensemble Caprice, Matthias Maute
ANALEKTA AN29132 (CD)

Yo Soy La Locura 2
Raquel Andueza, La Galania
ANIMA E CORPO AEC005 (CD)

Brazilian Adventures
CYRO DE SOUZA: Ascendit Deus
LOBO DE MESQUITA: Tercio: Padre nosso; Tercio: Ave Maria; Tercio: Gloria
NUNES GARCIA: Missa pastoril para a noite de natalMissa pastoril para a noite de natal
PINTO, L A: Licao de solfejo No. 25; Divertimentos harmonicos: Oh! Pulchra es; Divertimentos harmonicos: Beata virgo
SILVA GOMES: Missa a 8 vozes e instrumentos
Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore (conductor)
HYPERION CDA68114 (CD mid-price)

10.30am – New Chamber Music Releases

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06vnbxl

[Nick Armstrong]

Las Ciudades de Oro
L'Harmonie des Saisons, Eric Milnes (conductor)
ATMA ACD22702 (CD)

Yo Soy La Locura 2
Raquel Andueza, La Galania
ANIMA E CORPO AEC005 (CD)

Oh dear... must be me... I find that syncopated, pre-jazzy Mexican etc choral music really boring...

[doversoul1]

Oh dear... must be me... I find that syncopated, pre-jazzy Mexican etc choral music really boring...

Oh, dear.... Must be me. I find that the grand, exuberant and dramatic Angela Hewitt’s Scarlatti really scary.

(Sorry to have jumped on the bandwagon. I’m feeling a bit lazy)

[doversoul1]

5 March

9.00 am
The Secret Lover
CACCINI, FRESCOBALDI, INDIA and more
TENET, Jolle Greenleaf, Molly Quinn (soprano), Virginia Warnken Kelsey (mezzo-soprano)

10.20am – New Releases: Vivaldi
Vivaldi: Complete Concertos & Sonatas Opp. 1-12
Federico Guglielmo (solo violin, concert master), L’Arte dell’Arco

La stravaganza - 12 concerti Op. 4
Rachel Podger (violin), Arte Dei Suonatori Baroque Orchestra

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b072hc90

[MickyD]

Thanks DS...I'll be keen to see how the big box of Vivaldi measures up - I have all those pieces, mostly in AAM/Hogwood versions, but L'Arte dell'Arco are pretty good.

[Richard Tarleton]

La stravaganza - 12 concerti Op. 4
Rachel Podger (violin), Arte Dei Suonatori Baroque Orchestra
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b072hc90

This came out in 2003, I have it, unless they've re-recorded it? Going to see Rachel next week, in Swansea

[richardfinegold]

This came out in 2003, I have it, unless they've re-recorded it? Going to see Rachel next week, in Swansea

Channel Classics has been rereleasing these in multichannel SACD

[MickyD]

I have to say that when Andrew McGregor compared two extracts from the Guglielmo and Podger sets, the latter was superior - to my ears, anyway.

[doversoul1]

12 March

10.20am – New Baroque Releases

Comedie et Tragedie, Vol. 2
CHARPENTIER, M-A: Le Malade imaginaire: Suite
LECLAIR, J-M: Suite from Scylla et Glaucus
RAMEAU: Les Fetes de Polymnie: Suite
Tempesta di Mare, Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra

Ariosti: London – aris for alto
Filippo Mineccia (countertenor), Ensemble Odyssee, Andrea Friggi

Zelenka: Missa Divi Zaveri & Litaniae de Sancto Xaverio
Collegium 1704, Collegium Vocale 1704, Vaclav Luks

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0739mtm

[doversoul1]

19 March

Plenty of goodies.

10.20am - New Easter Releases
BERTALI: La Maddalena (Vienna 1663) and works for La Maddalena in Mantua 1617 (by Monteverdi, Guivizzani, Effrem and Rossi): Scherzi Musicali, Nicolas Achten (director)
Alessandro della Ciaia: Lamentationi: Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Laboratorio ’600
Gaetano Veneziano: Passio: Ghislieri Choir, Cappella Neapolitana, Antonio Florio (conductor)
Dresden Passion: Cappella Sagittariana Dresden, Norbert Schuster (conductor)
Haec dies: Music for Easter: Choir of Clare College Cambridge, Matthew Jorysz (organ), Graham Ross

10.40am - Hannah French on New Baroque Releases
Hannah French joins Andrew to discuss recent releases of Baroque repertoire including Handel's Israel in Egypt, bassoon concertos by Vivaldi and violin concertos by Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar.

11.40am - Disc of the Week
BACH, J S: St John Passion, BWV245 (1749 version plus appendices from 1725)
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor, Staats-& Domchor Berlin, Rene Jacobs (conductor)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0742l1q

[ardcarp]

I enjoyed Rene Jacobs' St John Part 1. A lovely choral sound. He gave portions of the opening chorus to solo voices. Does this have any historical validity? Not that I'm complaining....it worked well. In his sleeve notes, Rene Jacobs apparently supported using a choir (rather than OVPP) saying that Bach was known to have wanted to have more money to pay for more singers. (Did Rifkind mention that?) The four soloists (not the Evangelist) all sang in the chorus, and I was amused that Jacobs had said they had to learn some humility in that role, whereas the dozen boy choristers had to be prepared to give it more wellie. (I am paraphrasing, of course.)

The only criticism I have is that the Soprano and Alto arias felt ever-so-slightly rushed along by an unforgiving tempo. Not so the Tenor, who gave an admirable account of that rather tricky little number, Ach mein Sinn.

As the St John Passion is somewhat over represented among the CDs on our shelves, I'm not sure I can justify buying this one, but I'd recommend it for anyone who wants a recent version that avoids the extremes of HIPP. It also includes some of the alternative numbers which Bach wrote over the years.

[MickyD]

I still love the all-male voice version of the St John Passion by Edward Higginbottom on Naxos, a great bargain. Just wish the same forces would tackle the St Matthew.