Early Music on Record Review

[doversoul1]

19 August

1041
Hannah French on Telemann anniversary box sets
(The world has gone Mad over Telemann. Does this mean we won’t see anything of him until next anniversary?)

GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN: Sacred Music 8 CD set
Hänssler CLASSIC HC17014 (8 CD)

GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN: A Portrait
RICERCAR RIC375 (8CD)

GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN : Telemann - The Collection
WARNER CLASSICS 90295860134 (13CD)

GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN :Telemann: Masterworks
SONY 88985433232 (30CD)

Plus
Ein Feste Burg ist Unser Gott – Luther and the Music of the Reformation

With music by Heinrich Scheidemann, Michael Altenburg, Andreas Hammerschmidt, Paul Siefert, Michael Praetorius, Samuel Scheidt, Johann Hermann Schein, Delphin Strungk, Caspar Othmayr, Thomas Selle, Bartholomaeus Gasius, Melchior Franck, Heinrich Schutz, Christoph Bernhard, Hieronymus Praetorius, Johann Steffens, Joachim a Burck, Martin Luther, Johann Walter, Balthasar Resinarius, Andreas Hammerschmidt
Bart Jacobs (organ)
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier (conductor)

RICERCAR RIC376 (2CD)

[MickyD]

The 30 CD Sony box seems like an excellent bargain to me with lots of complete recordings on offer. Star turn must be the Kuijkens/Leonhardt set of the Paris Quartets. I already have far too many Telemann CDs on my shelves, sadly no room for any more!

[doversoul1]

Before Hannah French joins Andrew;

GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN: Fantasias for Viola da Gamba, TWV 40:26-37
Robert Smith (viola da gamba)

GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN: Twelve Fantasias for Solo Flute
TELEMANN: Fantasias (12) for solo flute, TWV 40:2-13
Ashley Solomon (flute)

[vinteuil]

The 30 CD Sony box seems like an excellent bargain to me with lots of complete recordings on offer.

... even cheaper on amazon italy -

http://amzn.eu/4oq8Nxr

The 'Ein Feste Burg" discs from ricercar sounded absolutely gorgeous - but it's not cheap -

http://amzn.eu/4HgBYEr

,

[Quarky]

1041
Hannah French on Telemann anniversary box sets
(The world has gone Mad over Telemann. Does this mean we won’t see anything of him until next anniversary?)

GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN: Sacred Music 8 CD set
Hänssler CLASSIC HC17014 (8 CD)

GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN: A Portrait
RICERCAR RIC375 (8CD)

GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN : Telemann - The Collection
WARNER CLASSICS 90295860134 (13CD)

GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN :Telemann: Masterworks
SONY 88985433232 (30CD)

Plus
Ein Feste Burg ist Unser Gott – Luther and the Music of the Reformation

With music by Heinrich Scheidemann, Michael Altenburg, Andreas Hammerschmidt, Paul Siefert, Michael Praetorius, Samuel Scheidt, Johann Hermann Schein, Delphin Strungk, Caspar Othmayr, Thomas Selle, Bartholomaeus Gasius, Melchior Franck, Heinrich Schutz, Christoph Bernhard, Hieronymus Praetorius, Johann Steffens, Joachim a Burck, Martin Luther, Johann Walter, Balthasar Resinarius, Andreas Hammerschmidt
Bart Jacobs (organ)
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier (conductor)

RICERCAR RIC376 (2CD)

A highly entertaining episode. The subtleties know no bounds!

Will Alan Davey be tempted to play next year all ~~ 3000 compositions, I wonder?

[doversoul1]

2nd September

1030
Andrew talks to Simon Heighes about recent reissues on the Glossa label of Medieval, Renaissance and early baroque music including: madrigals by Giaches de Wert; Medieval pieces for fiddle and percussion; liturgical music from Baroque Naples; 17th-century music from Latin America and secular music from the Spanish Renaissance.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b090llwv

The schedule page tells us Music Played….

[doversoul1]

The Pre-Proms composer slot is a feast of Baroque music with an odd condiment or two. The website must be the Mess of the Year.

[doversoul1]

9th September

9.00am
Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine (1610)
Dunedin Consort, His Majestys Sagbutts, Cornetts, John Butt (conductor)

JS Bach: Cantatas for Bass
Matthias Goerne (baritone), Katharina Arfken (baroque oboe), Gottfried von der Goltz (violin, director), Freiburger Barockorchester

0931 Gramophone Awards 2017…highlights
...includes:
JS Bach: Cantatas Nos 54, 82 & 170
Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen (conductor)

The Italian Job
ALBINONI: CALDARA: CORELLI: TARTINI: TORELLI: VIVALDI:
Gail Hennessy, Rachel Chaplin (oboes), Peter Whelan (bassoon), La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler (violin, director)

In War & Peace
HANDEL: JOMMELLI: LEO: MONTEVERDI: PURCELL:
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev (harpsichord, director)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b094hhty

[ardcarp]

Was I mistaken or did we get Ich Habe Genug twice in the programme (one Goene and one Iestyn)? Anyway I can't have genug of it personally. Moving on to Monteberdi's Vespers, I admire John Butt very much, and thought the solo bits we heard, especially tenor Nicholas Mulroy, were excellent. Not sure I would want to live with that very nearly OVPP chorus-work though, however 'authentic' it may be considered. It sounded like a lot of very English soloists to me, which of course it was.

[doversoul1]

16 September

9.00am
William Byrd: Virginal & Consorts
Skip Sempe and Capriccio Stravagante, Skip Sempe

1145 – Disc of the Week
Cleopatra - Baroque Arias
GRAUN, C H: Tra le procelle assorto (from Cleopatra e Cesare)
HANDEL: Che sento?...Se pieta di me non senti (from Giulio Cesare)
HASSE, J A: Morte, col fiero aspetto (from Antonio e cleopatra); Lascia, Antonio, deh lascia (from Antonio e cleopatra); Quel candido armellino (from Antonio e cleopatra)
LEGRENZI: Se tu sarai felice (from Antioco il Grande)
MATTHESON: Mein Leben ist hin (from Die ungluckselige Cleopatra); Ruhe sanft, geliebter Geist (from Die ungluckselige Cleopatra)
SARTORIO: Quando voglio (from Giulio Cesare in Egitto)
SCARLATTI, A: Antonio, e qual destino (from Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra); Vo goder senza contrasto (from Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra)
Regula Muhlemann (soprano), La Folia Barokorchester, Robin Peter Muller

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b094p6mp

[MickyD]

The complete recording of Graun's 'Cleopatra e Cesare' from René Jacobs is well worth tracking down.

[Nick Armstrong]

Regula Muhlemann (soprano), La Folia Barokorchester, Robin Peter Muller

WOW !!!!

WHAT a voice, what a performer - and fantastic accompaniment too. The Handel Se pietà as good as I've ever heard, the Graun great too.

Many moons since I've been so seduced and enthralled by a recorded voice

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

WOW !!!!

WHAT a voice, what a performer - and fantastic accompaniment too. The Handel Se pietà as good as I've ever heard, the Graun great too.

Many moons since I've been so seduced and enthralled by a recorded voice

And yet only ten moons since some of us here were enthusing about her previous, equally lovely, recording:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mozart-Arias-Regula-M%C3%BChlemann/dp/B01IWW1R86/

I've been an enthusiast since her Cardiff SotW appearance a couple of years ago (when the thick, dense, deaf, stupid, cretinous, cloth-eared bunch of philistine morons on the Judging panel chucked her out in Round Three-ish) - a great voice. If there is anything left in your soul to melt, then skip along to 38mins into this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqwCYUbS2Y4

[Nick Armstrong]

And yet only ten moons since some of us here were enthusing about her previous, equally lovely, recording:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mozart-Arias-Regula-M%C3%BChlemann/dp/B01IWW1R86/

And indeed I was one of you !

Crumbs yes! ...what a refreshing change from seemingly vast swathes of current young singers, to hear such pure and yet expressive singing. I've been streaming it on Qobuz - unlike me to go for a recording of Mozart arias, but this is special.

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At least I agree with myself - as well as you!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I was trying to remember who else had contributed besides pastoralguy (I remembered him, because I suggested he change his name to "Regulaguy").