The Women of Renaissance Ferrara

[doversoul1]

It’s only Wednesday this week but this looks very exciting.

The Women of Renaissance Ferrara: Composer of the Week 6 – 10 March

Lust, murder, sex, intrigue - and a host of music written by, and for, virtuoso women. BBC Radio 3 lifts the lid on the secret world of the singing ladies of Renaissance Ferrara.
[…]
Donald and Laurie begin the week with a selection of gems from Ferrara's golden age - and hints of the dramatic story to come - before taking us right back to the mid-15th century and the first key figure in our story: composer, poet and mystic St Catherine of Bologna. Famed as a composer, poet, singer and violinist, musicians and poets from around Europe would come to the doors of the convent of Corpus Domini in Ferrara for an audience with Catherine, who - according to legend -would play for days at a time, and move between song and speech, music and chant.

Monday; St Catherine of Bologna
Tuesday; Lucrezia Borgia, Tromboncino and de Rore
Wednesday; Leonora d'Este and Raffaella Aleotti
Thursday; coming soon….
Friday;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08h0j1p

[Serial_Apologist]

It’s only Wednesday this week but this looks very exciting.

The Women of Renaissance Ferrara: Composer of the Week 6 – 10 March

Lust, murder, sex, intrigue - and a host of music written by, and for, virtuoso women. BBC Radio 3 lifts the lid on the secret world of the singing ladies of Renaissance Ferrara.
[…]
Donald and Laurie begin the week with a selection of gems from Ferrara's golden age - and hints of the dramatic story to come - before taking us right back to the mid-15th century and the first key figure in our story: composer, poet and mystic St Catherine of Bologna. Famed as a composer, poet, singer and violinist, musicians and poets from around Europe would come to the doors of the convent of Corpus Domini in Ferrara for an audience with Catherine, who - according to legend -would play for days at a time, and move between song and speech, music and chant.

Monday; St Catherine of Bologna
Tuesday; Lucrezia Borgia, Tromboncino and de Rore
Wednesday; Leonora d'Este and Raffaella Aleotti
Thursday; coming soon….
Friday;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08h0j1p

Is this a second time around? Something about the subjects rings a familiar bell...

[doversoul1]

Is this a second time around? Something about the subjects rings a familiar bell...

Not as far as I can find out. It may sound somewhat familiar because next week (Wednesday to be precise) is International Women’s Day and we probably had something similar last year. Also, Donald Macleod’s guest seems to be currently working on the subject.

[...] I am currently completing a monograph on the female musicians at the court and convents of 16th-century Ferrara, [...]http://www.southampton.ac.uk/music/a...f/lastras.page

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Not as far as I can find out. It may sound somewhat familiar because next week (Wednesday to be precise) is International Women’s Day and we probably had something similar last year.

We certainly did - the superb Barbara Strozzi week. If Ferrara is even half as good, it will be unmissable.

[doversoul1]

We certainly did - the superb Barbara Strozzi week. If Ferrara is even half as good, it will be unmissable.

We can do revision while we wait;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m9yyr

[Serial_Apologist]

We can do revision while we wait;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m9yyr

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

[Quarky]

We can do revision while we wait;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m9yyr

Another item of interest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1VpW284L08

[doversoul1]

Another item of interest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1VpW284L08

...and another

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvyNfD_g2JU

Coro Polifonico Algherese - Sancta et Immaculata - Raffaella Aleotti (1570 - 1646)

For Thursday
Giaches de Wert and the First Concerto

(not a concerto)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIOMlR1X1WA

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

6 - 10/3/17: The Women of Renaissance Ferrara

A reminder from doversoul's EMS Thread of this week's programmes - not a single composer, nor is all of the Music by women composers (as might be inferred from the title and the event): but it looks a very intriguing and enticing series of documentaries about a fascinating period in history.

[ardcarp]

A great first episode based around St Catherine of Bologna. Donald recorded the programme in Ferrara (makes good radio). All early stuff today (mid-15th C) beautifully performed with fine straight voices in a generous acoustic. Usual exceellent historical background.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08h0j1p

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A great first episode based around St Catherine of Bologna. Donald recorded the programme in Ferrara (makes good radio). All early stuff today (mid-15th C) beautifully performed with fine straight voices in a generous acoustic. Usual exceellent historical background.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08h0j1p

- excellent programme of Music and information.

[DracoM]

Yes, truly excellent programme.

[doversoul1]

Agree with all above. The programme with a title like this could have been academic and dry but this is most enjoyable and the music sounds very fresh. I shall look out for the guest’s book.

[doversoul1]

An article by the guest, Laurie Stras.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2017/mar/10/radical-motets-from-16th-century-nunnery-musica-secreta-lucrezia-borgia