Rachel Podger land Brecon Baroque R3 in Concert Tuesday 31 October

[doversoul1]

Rachel Podger leads Brecon Baroque in "Harmony and Invention", a programme of Italian music, including Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

Recorded at Theatr Brecheiniog on 28th October
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas

Giovanni Gabrieli, Legrenzi, and Vivaldi's

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09c0jd5

The Guardian reviewed

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/oct/29/brecon-baroque-festival-review-vibrant-vivaldi-mesmerising-monteverdi

[ardcarp]

She gave the Brecon Baroque Festival a mighty good plug when she was presenting (for the first time) Saturday Classics at the weekend!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09bwvd0

(near the end)

[BBMmk2]

Thanks for the thumbs up, DS! Will be listening!

[doversoul1]

Very much enjoying this concert on iPlayer. I was looking forward to hearing this:

Vivaldi’s concerto The Four Seasons is such obviously familiar territory that it might seem best avoided. But Rachel Podger – director of the Brecon Baroque festival and her ensemble of the same name – has the knack of breathing new life into the repertoire. She did precisely that by prefacing each of the concertos with the descriptive sonnets Vivaldi had originally matched to the music. The words were read first in Italian by lutenist Daniele Caminiti – earlier the expressive soloist in Vivaldi’s lute concerto (RV230) – and then in English by Podger, and this approach permitted the musical embodiment of the personae and meteorological phenomena to emerge in fresh lighthttps://www.theguardian.com/music/20...ing-monteverdi

...but it seems to have been edited off.

[MickyD]

I wouldn't be surprised if those in control thought that the sonnets might be too highbrow and that listeners may be lost because of them. Good grief!

[Old Grumpy]

Really enjoyed this on iplayer. Have also enjoyed RP's stint on Saturday Classics - she seems to be enjoying herself immensely!

The concept in the thread title of Rachel Podger_land is intriguing - A Baroque Stravaganza, perhaps, somewhere just outside Brecon?

OG

[Quarky]

Really enjoyed this on iplayer. Have also enjoyed RP's stint on Saturday Classics - she seems to be enjoying herself immensely!

The concept in the thread title of Rachel Podger_land is intriguing - A Baroque Stravaganza, perhaps, somewhere just outside Brecon?

OG

Rachel can do no wrong, as far as I am concerned.

If Schubert's symphony was a formative influence, then I guess I ought to try harder with it!!