Early Music on Record Review

[ardcarp]

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.

That's one in my 'collection' and shortly to get its seasonal spin....or two. The Matthew might be more challenging, needing as it does an extra choir. And it wouldn't be the same without Higgers. (Now there's a challenge.....)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

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?)

Really? I knew (or thought I did) that Bach kept encouraging his employers to test new entrants to ensure that there were enough good singers to supply the needs of the main services in the churches he was responsible for, but he never needed/requested money for these. He frequently complained that funds for professional instrumentalists weren't available at the end of his tenure of employment as they had been earlier - but that's nothing to do with OVPP singing. (Joshua Rifkin - no "d" - did mention this - and the documents in which Bach made his requests and complaints are reproduced in the original German and an English translation are included in Andrew Parrott's The Essential Bach Choir. The German is included so that German speakers can check for themselves the validity of his interpretation that the request for more quality singers doesn't mean "so that we can have a bigger choir", but rather that he has a larger "pool" of singers from whom to use as soloists each week.)

[ardcarp]

I'm only going on what AMcG reported:

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

...2h36m from start. It happens to accord with my preferences.....

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It happens to accord with my preferences.....

[doversoul1]

26 March

Apologies for this double posting but just in case;

09.00
Biber: Imitatio
BIBER: Serenade in C major "Nightwatchman's Call"; Balletti Lamentabili; Sonata violino solo representativa in A; Sonata a viol. e viola; Serenata con altre arie a 5; Toccatina sopra la Ribellione di Hungheria; Sonata VI for violin and basso continuo; Sonata A. 3. ex G. B Moll; Battalia
Ricercar Consort
MIRARE MIR302 (CD)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07522w6

[doversoul1]

2nd April

10.15am - New Early and Baroque Releases

Dresden Treasures
ANON.: Six Concertos (from the Schranck II manuscript of Saxon State and University Library)
Ketil Haugsand, Les Amis de Philippe, Ludger Remy (Director)

Conversations: Quentin & Guillemain
Nevermind*
*TTN Thursday 17 March
Jonathan Swain presents a concert of early music from the 2014 Poznan Baroque Festival featuring the Nevermind ensemble.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0739vp2

(not the same concert)

Sonates et Suites
Dan Laurin (recorder), Domen Marincic (cello), Anna Paradiso (harpsichord)

A Tribute to Bach: Bach Flute Sonatas & Arias
Elizabeth Cragg (soprano), Charles Daniels (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass), Rachel Brown (flute), Katherine Sharman (piccolo cello), Laurence Cummings (organ)

Handel: Trio Sonatas for Two Violins and Basso Continuo
The Brook Street Band

Handel at Vauxhall, Volume 1
Eleanor Dennis (soprano), Greg Tassell (tenor), Benjamin Bevan (baritone), Kirsty Hopkins (soprano), Charles MacDougall (tenor), Sophie Bevan (soprano), Daniel Moult (organ), London Early Opera, Bridget Cunningham


Please Host, any chance of amending the thread title?

[doversoul1]

8 April
11.55am – Disc of the Week

Scarlatti: 18 Sonatas
Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0769hbd

[doversoul1]

30 April

11.45 - Disc of the Week

Lotti: Crucifixus
LOTTI: Dixit Dominus (Psalm 109); Miserere; Missa Sancti Christophori; Credo
The Syred Consort, Orchestra of St Paul’s, Ben Palmer
DELPHIAN DCD34182 (CD)

Here’s the CD

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/advsearch.php?composer=&work=&performer=Syred+Consort&medium=all&label=&cat=

[doversoul1]

4 June

10.25 Les Arts Florissants

CHARPENTIER, M-A: Les Arts Florissants (Idyle en musique) H.487

Monteclair: Cantates a une et trois voix avec symphonie
MONTECLAIR: La mort de Didon; Il Dispetto in Amore; Le Triomphe de l'Amour; La Morte di Lucretia; Pyrame et Thsibe

Rameau: Pygmalion & Nelee et Myrthis

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07dk7kk

[ed.] Plus
Chorus vel Organa
LUDFORD: Lady Mass Cycle; Missa Lapidaverunt Stephanum
CORNYSH: Magnificat; SHEPPARD, J: Sancte Dei pretiose
Magnus Williamson (organ), Choir of Gonville, Caius College Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber (conductor)

[ardcarp]

Chorus vel Organa
LUDFORD: Lady Mass Cycle; Missa Lapidaverunt Stephanum
CORNYSH: Magnificat; SHEPPARD, J: Sancte Dei pretiose
Magnus Williamson (organ), Choir of Gonville, Caius College Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber (conductor)

This may be of interest:

http://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/news/caiuschoirbookststephens

and here's the CD

http://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/recordings

[ardcarp]

Did anyone hear the music for Alfonso Xth ? The bit of 'anon' plainsong was very beautiful, but surely the accompanying vocal parts (mainly in organum-style fifths) were highly conjectural? I could not make out whether this was part of Hesperion XXI's disc [AliaVox AVSA9915] or something separate.

[doversoul1]

18 June

9.00am
John Blow: Symphony Anthems: Choir of New College Oxford, St James’ Baroque (on period instruments), Robert Quinney (conductor)

PURCELL, CORBETTA, DRAGHI, G B, SIMPSON, C,: Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Jonathan Manson (viol), Laurence Cummings (harpsichord)

10.30 am New Releases (Early and Baroque)
DOWLAND: Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares
Phantasm, Elizabeth Kenny (lute)

Legrenzi: Sonate & Balletti
Clematis

CORBETTA, LISLEVAND, VISEE,
Rolf Lislevand (baroque guitar and theorbo)

Telemann: The Grand Concertos for Mixed Instruments, Vol. 3
La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (conductor)

Telemann: Complete Suites & Concertos for Recorder
Erik Bosgraaf (recorder, direction), Ensemble Cordevento

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07gn38c

[Richard Tarleton]

Will listen with interest to this. Liz Kenny is busy these days! I have 2 or 3 versions of Lachrimae....Corbetta was widely travelled - Gaspar Sanz called him El mejor de todos.... He came to England with Charles ll at the Restoration, and is mentioned in Pepys's Diary (August 5, 1667) - "...I there spied Signor Francisco,tuning his guitar...."

[ardcarp]

John Blow: Symphony Anthems: Choir of New College Oxford, St James’ Baroque (on period instruments), Robert Quinney (conductor)

Tantalisingly, we only got about half a bar of the full choir as the verse section ended! But it is good to know that NCO are continuing to record on their Novum label.

[MickyD]

I've only just got round to listening to last Saturday's programme. It's not often that I order a CD directly after hearing a sample, but I simply had to buy the new disc from Rolf Lislevand playing Corbetta and Robert de Visée - it sounds superb.