Edinburgh International Festival: 5th August -

[doversoul1]

There are only three ‘episodes’ published so far but I think this will be a week (at least) series. Whatever may follow, the first day’s programme looks great.

Saturday 11.00am
Presented by Donald Macleod

Froberger: Toccata in G major
Monteverdi: Armato il cor
Monteverdi: Zefiro torna
Marini: Passacaglio à 4
Schütz: Güldne Haare, gleich Aurore
Buxtehude: Sonata in A major
Schütz: O süsser, o freundlicher
Schütz: Es steh Gott auf

Interval at around 11.50am

12.15pm
Rosenmüller: Sonata No. 7 à 4 in D minor
Monteverdi/Schütz: Combattimento

Sophie Bevan, soprano
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Dunedin Consort
director John Butt, harpsichord

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09023kl

[pastoralguy]

The full weeks details are listed in Radio Times including the Saturday morning concert from the Queens Hall.

[doversoul1]

Monteverdi/Schütz: Combattimento

A great start of the series.

11.00am today
The Dunedin Consort launch the 2017 Queen's Hall series live from Edinburgh with a programme featuring a recently rediscovered work by Monteverdi which was transcribed by Schütz into German. 'Combattimento', known in its original form as 'Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda'

The interview in the interval was about one of those discovery stories and how it had not yet been absolutely proved but this was ‘it just has to be’ sort of a discovery. As the performance, the German libretto sounded surprisingly good. Also, Sophie Bevan was very good here (I wasn’t terribly convinced by her in the first part).

Part one of the concert included some wonderful early Baroque works.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09023kl

[BBMmk2]

Heard this. Very good indeed. A very good find is the German version but not by Schutz!

[bluestateprommer]

FWIW, in addition to retro-archiving encores in the Forum Calendar for Proms concerts, I'll try to do the same for EIF concerts, e.g. Karen Cargill's and Simon Lepper's lieder recital, and Seong-Jin Cho's solo piano concert. Have been catching up with EIF on iPlayer, when not listening as much as possible to The Proms in real time (11 AM UK time is way before my wake up time here ). Good listening generally, and a solid chamber music counterpart to the main orchestral festivities that comprise The Proms, mostly.