Apparently below the radar of this board, in the middle of the Barogue fest unleashed on Radio 3 this week, New College's Tuesday Lunchtime concert of French baroque music, broadcast live, appears to have gone unnoticed. An interesting mixture of composers including Etienne Moulinie, (of whom I know nothing) and finishing with a setting of De Profundis by Charpentier, when the choir were joined by the strings of Collegium Novum.
An excellent concert, with the choir and its astoundingly confident and capable treble soloists in good voice (the men were pretty good too), marred only by a couple of strange (and very loud) sonic glitches early on, of the sort that often spoiled relays of choral evensong last year. Its available on the Iplayer until next week. If you have the volume turned well up, as I did
, you may well leap out of your chair.
There's also an interesting piece on the New College Choir website by Edward Hiigginbottom here http://www.newcollegechoir.com/1/pos...h-mustard.html
on the problems of teaching his choristers French vernacular pronunciation of Latin, to say nothing of Italianate pronunciation and Lateinisch.
An excellent concert, with the choir and its astoundingly confident and capable treble soloists in good voice (the men were pretty good too), marred only by a couple of strange (and very loud) sonic glitches early on, of the sort that often spoiled relays of choral evensong last year. Its available on the Iplayer until next week. If you have the volume turned well up, as I did
, you may well leap out of your chair.There's also an interesting piece on the New College Choir website by Edward Hiigginbottom here http://www.newcollegechoir.com/1/pos...h-mustard.html
on the problems of teaching his choristers French vernacular pronunciation of Latin, to say nothing of Italianate pronunciation and Lateinisch.
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