How wonderful that a whole week is being devoted to her. I think she was the subject of an EMS a little while ago.
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How time flies. …’a little while ago’ is exactly a year.Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
Composer of the Week on this week last year was Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre.
Since then, I have noticed that her music is being heard more often (at least I have become more aware of it) on R3. Let’s hope this will be the same for Barbara Strozzi. -
Sorry, me again. I’ve just listened to the first programme. This is an absolute feast, a dream come true; starts with Philippe Jaroussky, ends with Maria Cristina Kiehr, and Emma Kirkby in the middle. All the other singers are excellent. I am so pleased that can hardly sit still while I type
I find these solo and duet cantatas very interesting. Is there a modern equivalent? If not, when and why did it disappear?Comment
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Originally posted by doversoul View Post
The change in domestic and public performance conventions rather displaced it for a time - lieder/chanson/melodie in the Nineteenth Century replacing it in the home, large-scale Oratorio in the concert hall. Britten's Canticles and Phaedra, Stravinsky's Abraham & Isaac, Birtwistle's Nenia are some late-twentieth Century near-equivalents.I find these solo and duet cantatas very interesting. Is there a modern equivalent? If not, when and why did it disappear?[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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...indeed, in response to dovers' post, I thought of Britten's A & I, a most affecting piece.Britten's CanticlesComment
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Nore delights from Barbara Strozzi today. I was particularly taken by her sacred work:
Nascente Maria, Op 5 No 12
Maria Cristina Kiehr, soprano
Concerto Soave
What a fantastic soprano...about 23mins 20 sec into the programme.
It is most intriguing to learn of Strozzi's social position, mixing it with a sort of 'camerata' of men. It's very difficult for us to appreciate the customs, conventions and mores concerning a talented female musician in that milieu.Comment
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Barbara Strozzi on the EM forum
Just to note that Barbara Strozzi is being discussed on the Early Music forum. Amazing woman, amazing music, amazing performances and a pretty darn good CotW programme so far.Comment
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yup. got me hooked today as well.Originally posted by DracoM View PostI will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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I can't remember when I last got so engrossed in a CotW. I was LA-ing at all hours. Thanks BBC for this and other civilised programmes of this ilk.Comment
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Last year’s Composer of the Week for IWD was Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, which I found was most interesting. Maybe because male composers’ stories are (broadly speakingOriginally posted by ardcarp View Post
) much the same but lives of women composers were/are all very different. Plus great and so terribly under-played music.
Thank you Radio 3 from me, too.
[ed.] Come to think of it, do we ever hear songs from the 17th century on R3 apart from odd Purcell and Monteverdi? As if songs were a rare thing from this period.Last edited by doversoul1; 11-03-16, 19:06.Comment
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A wonderful week's programmes.
(At rather a tangent...I was surprised that DM spoke of the Mantegna frescoes in the Church of the Eremitani in Padova, where Strozzi is buried, as though they still existed instead of having been blown to smithereens by us during WW II.)Comment
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Jean, I found this about the bombed frescos:
...not a lot of comfort, I'm afraid.
However, back to Strozzi. This, towards the end of today's programme......
Salve sancta caro, Op 5 No 4
Maria Cristina Kiehr, soprano
Concerto Soave
...was especially beautiful, an opinion obviously shared by DM.
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