The Early Music Show
Catherine Bott and Lucie Skeaping delve into the world of early music, exploring developments in the performance of early music both here and abroad.
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| 20040103 | Lucie Skeaping presents a concert given by the New York-based ensemble Rebel at the 2003 Boston Early Music Festival. The concert focuses on the music of Telemann, and in particular those works which are infused with the influence of Polish folk elements. With interviews from the group's founders Karen Marie Marmer and Jörg-Michael Schwarz. Telemann: Sonata Polonese à 3 in A, TWV42A8 Telemann: Sonata Discortato à 4 in A, TWV43A7 Telemann: Sonata Polonois à 4 in G, TWV43G7 Telemann: Sonata Polonois à 4 in B flat, TWV43B3 Telemann: Suite in E flat, TWV55Es2 Rebel Jörg-Michael Schwarz and Karen Marie Marmer (violins) Matthias Maute (traverso, recorder and flute pastorelle) Risa Browder (viola) John Moran (cello) Anne Trout (double bass) Dongsok Shin (harpsichord). | |||
| 01 | Art And Early Music Month, Art And Early Music | 20090221 | "Art and Early Music Month". In the first of the Early Music Show's eight-programme series exploring the links between Art and Early Music, Catherine Bott and Lucie Skeaping look forward to the next month of programmes. Catherine expores the subject by looking at some of the wider connections between the two subjects, whilst Lucie meets up with experts to discuss the Beverley Minstrels; why certain works of art are used to complement early music CD sleeves and examine how music is used in the art of Vermeer. PLAYLIST: HAYDN Symphony No.92 in G H.I:92 [Menuet] (excerpt) Catherine Bott and Lucie Skeaping begin a series on links between art and early music intermedi music from 1539: le force d’hercole; ballo di satiri et baccante telemann fantasia no.1 in c major zach sinfonia in g [1st movement – allegro non tanto] (excerpt) anonymous 14th century english dance nanino adoramus te, christi (excerpt) nicholas lanier love and i of late did part anonymous 15th century – ey ey aetas iam aurea anonymous mein hertz in freuden sich erquicket (excerpt) fayrfax gloria (from missa ‘regali ex progenie’) froberger gigue (excerpts) telemann fantasia no.7 in f major (excerpt) vivaldi final allegro from concerto in e minor op 4 no 2 sheppard the second service [magnificat] (excerpt) vaet missa ego flos campi [kyrie] (excerpt) picture: detail from "a young woman seated at a virginal" (about 1670-2) by Johannes Vermeer froberger courante (excerpt) haydn piano trio in d major hob. xv:24 [2nd movement] (excerpt) francois dufaut allemande (excerpt) | |
| 01 | Haydn And The Esterhazy Family | 20090627 | In a programme devoted to Haydn's 29-year tenure under the patronage of the Esterhazy family, Lucie Skeaping visits their Palace, at Esterhaza in northwestern Hungary. She is joined by musicologist and Haydn expert Balasz Mikusi, who guides her through the rooms of the house and through Haydn's life and music. Lucie also goes to the Vienna home of Michael Brussing - baryton player with the Esterhazy Ensemble, who have recently released their recordings of Haydn's complete baryton trios. Haydn entered the service of the Esterhazys in 1761, when he was hired as the vice-Kapellmeister by Prince Paul Anton, for their home in Eisenstadt. Initially, his main duties were to conduct the orchestra and to play the harpsichord and violin, but he was also required to act as librarian, supervisor of instruments, tutor and intermediary between the musicians and the Prince as well as composing on a daily basis. Officially, Haydn was supposedly subservient to the elderly Kapellmeister Gregor Werner, but it wasn't long before he became the main man, and when Prince Paul Anton died in 1762, Haydn became one of the most important servants at the court of the new Prince Nikolaus 'The Magnificent'. Just four years later, Prince Nikolaus designed and built his new palace, and it was during the ever-increasing 'summer' months there that Haydn began to flourish - composing most of his early symphonies as well as chamber music for the Prince's favourite instrument, the baryton. Haydn: Symphony No 1 in D (1st mvt) (excerpt) Academy of Ancient Music Christopher Hogwood (conductor) L'OISEAU LYRE 436 428-2, CD 1 Tr 1 Haydn: Symphony No 1 in D (3rd mvt) L'OISEAU LYRE 436 428-2, CD 1 Tr 3 Haydn: Symphony No 6 in D (Le matin) (1st mvt) L'OISEAU LYRE 433 661-2, CD 1 Tr 1 Haydn: Cello Concerto No 1 in C (3rd mvt) Pieter Wispelwey (cello) Florilegium CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS 7395 Tr 3 Haydn: Keyboard Sonata in C minor, H XVI 20 (2nd mvt: Andante con moto) Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) BIS 1731-33, CD 5 Tr 7 Haydn: Trio for baryton, viola and cello No 1 in A (1st mvt) (excerpt) Esterhazy Ensemble Brilliant Classics 93907, CD 1 Tr 1 Haydn: Duet for two barytons, H XII 3 (3rd mvt) (excerpt) Brilliant Classics 93907, CD 18 Tr 24 Haydn: Cassation for two barytons and violone, H XII 19 (1st mvt) Brilliant Classics 93907, CD 18 Track 1 Haydn: Trio for baryton, viola and cello No 124 in G (3rd mvt) (excerpt) Brilliant Classics 93907, CD 17 Track 18 Haydn: Octet (Divertimento) in A, H X III (1st mvt: Adagio) Ensemble Baroque de Limoges Christophe Coin (director) LABORIE LC 03 Tr 4 Haydn: Symphony No 45 in F sharp minor (Farewell) (4th mvt) (excerpt) L'OISEAU LYRE 443 477-2 Tr 4. Lucie Skeaping visits Esterhazy Palace in Hungary to chart Haydn's 29-year career there. | |
| 01 | Take The Risk, Orlando Consort, Stevie Wishart, Crawford Young | 20091031 | Catherine Bott explores early music improvisation and talks to Paula Chateauneuf curator of the Southbank Centre's Take the Risk weekend, which features a series of concerts exploring early music improvisation. Featuring highlights from the Orlando Consort concert exploring the birth of polyphony, with a brief taster of the concerts given by Stevie Wishart and Crawford Young and friends. Catherine Bott presents music from the Orlando Consort, Stevie Wishart and Crawford Young. | |
| 01 | Utrecht Early Music Festival 2008 | 20090124 | Lucie Skeaping presents a programme recorded at the Utrecht Festival of Early Music 2008. With highlights of a concert given by Le Poeme Harmonique, who perform villancicos and other genres on secular and semi-liturgical texts. Le Poeme Harmonique is an ensemble of seven instrumentalists with five singers, directed by Vincent Dumestre. Playlist: (All music performed by Le Poeme Harmonique, conducted by Vincent Dumestre) Juan del Encina: Triste Espania sin ventura! le poeme harmonique perform music from the iberian golden age | |
| 01 | Valentine's Music, Love Is A Many Splendoured Thing! | 20090214 | Lucie Skeaping presents a Valentine's programme exploring some of the complexities of love. The music reflects themes of longing, jealousy, and the influence of Cupid, by composers such as Machaut, Monteverdi, Campion and Vivaldi. Lucie Skeaping presents music on themes of longing, jealousy and the influence of Cupid. | |
| 02 | Art And Early Music Month, King's College, Cambridge Stained Glass | 20090222 | As part of Art and Early Music Month, Lucie Skeaping visits the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, and talks to writer and art historian Carola Hicks about the magnificent stained glass. They explore some of the background to stained glass, how it came to England from Flanders, why the chapel and glass took so long to complete, and how it symbolises the power of the Tudors and their era of great change and turbulence. These ideas are reflected in the music in the programme, which includes recordings of the Choir of King's College in repertoire by Tallis, and also sacred and secular music from the 15th and early 16th Centuries. Playlist: Leonin: Benedicamus Domino anon: this day daws (from fayrfax ms) picture: from the king's college chapel stained glass henry viii as solomon © king’s college, cambridge Lucie Skeaping looks at the stained glass in king's college chapel, cambridge tallis: dum transisset sabbatum philippe van wilder: fantasia a 4 (viols) anon: the hunt is up tallis: salvator mundi i william cornysh: blow thy horn hunter william cornysh: hoyda, jolly rutterkin alamire: t'andernacken anon: gloria: 'spiritus et alme' (from mass for the octave of the nativity of the blessed virgin mary | |
| 02 | Art And Early Music Month, King's College, Cambridge Stained Glass | 20090301 | Lucie Skeaping looks at the stained glass in King's College Chapel, Cambridge. As part of "Art and Early Music" month, Lucie Skeaping visits the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge and talks to the writer and art historian Carola Hicks about the magnificent stained glass. They explore some of the background to stained glass, how it came to England from Flanders, why the Chapel and the glass took so long to complete, and how the glass symbolises the power of the Tudors and their era of great change and turbulence; ideas that are reflected in the music in the programme, including recordings of the Choir of King's College, Cambridge in repertoire by Tallis, and also sacred and secular music from the 15th and early 16th centuries. Dr. Carola Hicks is the author of the book The King's Glass. PLAYLIST: LEONIN Benedicamus Domino anonymous this day daws (from fayrfax ms) tallis dum transisset sabbatum philippe van wilder fantasia à 4 (viols) anonymous the hunt is up william cornysh hoyda, jolly rutterkin alamire t’andernacken anonymous gloria: ‘spiritus et alme’ (from mass for the octave of the nativity of the blessed virgin mary tallis salvator mundi i Lucie Skeaping looks at the stained glass in king's college chapel, cambridge william cornysh blow thy horn hunter | |
| 02 LAST | Haydn And The Esterhazy Family | 20090628 | In a programme about Haydn's 29-year tenure under the patronage of the Esterhazy family, Lucie Skeaping continues her tour round their Palace in northwestern Hungary, in the company of musicologist and Haydn expert Balasz Mikusi. Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy 'The Magnificent' was very proud of his new 'summer residence', in which he spent more time each year. At any opportunity, he would welcome influential politicians, wealthy nobles and royalty to his beautiful palace, laying on lavish feasts and entertainments, for which Haydn composed most of his operas and burlettas, either for the main theatre or for the palace's marionettes. By now, the Prince had relaxed his initial stance on exclusivity, and permitted Haydn to fulfil commissions from external sources. This allowed his famous composer to write the Seven Last Words for Cadiz Cathedral, and a number of pieces for the King of Naples, who was a devotee of a rather bizarre instrument - the lira organizzata - apparently a hybrid of a chamber organ and a hurdy-gurdy. Lucie visits the workshop of the Austrian instrument-maker Wolfgang Weichselbaumer, who has built two lire organizzate, heard on a recording made by the Ensemble Baroque de Limoges and Christophe Coin. As the 1780s drew to a close, Haydn began to feel more and more isolated at Esterhazy, but could never quite bring himself to leave its security. In 1790, though, Prince Nikolaus died; his heir and successor, Prince Anton was not a musiclover, and immediately disbanded the orchestra. He granted Haydn his freedom, but asked him to retain his official title of Kapellmeister to Prince Esterhazy. Thus began a new chapter in Haydn's life and career, which took him to London and Vienna, enjoying his newly-discovered fame. Lucie Skeaping continues a tour of the Esterhazy Palace to chart Haydn's career there. | |
| 02 LAST | Take The Risk, The Division Lobby, Atalante | 20091101 | In a programme exploring early music improvisation, Catherine Bott talks to Paula Chateauneuf, lutenist and curator of the Southbank Centre's Take the Risk weekend, which features a series of concerts exploring early music improvisation. Featuring highlights from The Division Lobby's concert of 17th-century musical extemporisations, with a brief taster of the concert given by lirone player Erin Headley's new group Atalante. Catherine Bott presents improvised music from The Division Lobby and Atalante. | |
| 02 LAST | Valentine's Music | 20090215 | Lucie Skeaping hosts a Valentine's special, with music encompassing both the disappointments and the more joyful aspects of love, and includes vocal works by Blow, Monteverdi and Solage. Including vocal works by Blow, Monteverdi and Solage. | |
| 02 LAST | Valentine's Music, Aspects Of Love | 20090221 | 20090830 | Including vocal works by Blow, Monteverdi and Solage. Lucie Skeaping hosts a Valentine's special, with music encompassing both the disappointments and the more joyful aspects of love, and includes vocal works by Blow, Monteverdi and Solage. Playlist: Campion: A secret love or two Rachel Elliott, soprano Nigel North, lute Concordia Linn CKD 105 track 18 Charpentier: Medee (Act 1 Sc 3) Jason....Mark Padmore Arcas....Francois Bazola Les Arts Florissants William Christie (director) Erato 4509 96558-2 CD 1 Trs 12 and (part of) 13 Segue to: Anon: La Louison Le Poeme Harmonique Vincent Dumestre (director) Alpha 513 Tr 3 Anon: Pour vous servir Gothic Voices Christopher Page (conductor) Helios CDH 55295 Tr 1 Handel: Recit: Che sento? Oh Dio!; Aria: Se Pieta (Giulio Cesare in Egitto) Cleopatra....Sandrine Piau (soprano) Les Talens Lyriques Christophe Rousset (director) Naive E8894 Trs 3 and 4 Blow: Venus and Adonis (execerpt from Act 1) Venus....Emma Kirkby Adonis....Richard Wistreich The Consort of Musicke Anthony Rooley (conductor) Deutsche Harmonia Mundi GD 77117 CD 1 Tr 7 Solage: Joieux de cuer Avie 2089 Tr 7 Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie (Act 5 Sc 7; excerpt from Sc 8); Symphonie (Ou suis-je transporte?); Marche (Chantons sur la musette) Hippolyte....Mark Padmore Aricie....Anna-Maria Panzarella Diane....Eirain Jame William Christie (conductor) Erato 0630 155172 CD 3 Trs 17 and 18 Monteverdi: L'Incoronazione di Poppea (Pur ti miro) Poppea....Sylvia McNair Nero....Dana Hanchard The English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) Archiv 447 0882 CD 3 Tr 10. |
| 03 | Art And Early Music Month, The Passions Of Albrecht Durer | 20090228 | "Art and Early Music Month." Albrecht Dürer was one of the most influential artists in Germany. Living during the time of Martin Luther's Reformation; the establishment of the printing-press in the disemination of art and ideas; and the advent of new humanist thought, Dürer proved to be a true "Renaissance Man" - as steeped in the intellectual thinking of his day as he was the myriad of means of artistic expression. He lived the best part of his life in Nuremberg and played a significant role in establishing the medieval city as the "centre" of Europe in the 16th century - a city as important culturally as it was politically. Catherine Bott travels to Nuremberg, looks back on the significance of Nuremberg's contribution to culture, and visits the Dürerhaus which is now a Dürer museum. She meets the Director Jutta Tschoeke and considers the Dürer zeitgeist through his art and the music of his day. She also considers the Dürer legacy and how it is mirrored in aspects of German music in later years. PLAYLIST: ANONYMOUS “Mein herz in Freuden sich erquicket” js bach matthew passion (1727): “kommt, ihr töchter, helft mir klagen!” leonhard lechner st john passion of 1594 nuremberg: schutz st john passion (1665): “darnach als jesus wusste” martin luther: “durch adams fall”; josquin desprez “agnus dei” from missa la sol fa re mi senfl “nun wöllt ihr horen neue mär” adam von fulda “pange lingua gloriosi” the programme includes readings by Olwen May from ‘the history of the life of albrecht durer of nuremberg with a translation of his letters and journal and some account of his works’ by mrs charles w. heaton, published by www.kessinger.net Catherine Bott explores the influence of artist albrecht durer on early music | |
| 03 | Art And Early Music Month, The Passions Of Albrecht Durer | 20090308 | "Art and Early Music Month." Albrecht Dürer was one of the most influential artists in Germany. Living during the time of Martin Luther's Reformation; the establishment of the printing-press in the disemination of art and ideas; and the advent of new humanist thought, Dürer proved to be a true "Renaissance Man" - as steeped in the intellectual thinking of his day as he was the myriad of means of artistic expression. He lived the best part of his life in Nuremberg and played a significant role in establishing the medieval city as the "centre" of Europe in the 16th century - a city as important culturally as it was politically. Catherine Bott travels to Nuremberg, looks back on the significance of Nuremberg's contribution to culture, and visits the Dürerhaus which is now a Dürer museum. She meets the Director Jutta Tschoeke and considers the Dürer zeitgeist through his art and the music of his day. She also considers the Dürer legacy and how it is mirrored in aspects of German music in later years. PLAYLIST: ANONYMOUS “Mein herz in Freuden sich erquicket” js bach matthew passion (1727): “kommt, ihr töchter, helft mir klagen!” leonhard lechner st john passion of 1594 nuremberg: schutz st john passion (1665): “darnach als jesus wusste” martin luther: “durch adams fall”; josquin desprez “agnus dei” from missa la sol fa re mi senfl “nun wöllt ihr horen neue mär” adam von fulda “pange lingua gloriosi” the programme includes readings by Olwen May from ‘the history of the life of albrecht durer of nuremberg with a translation of his letters and journal and some account of his works’ by mrs charles w. heaton, published by www.kessinger.net Catherine Bott explores the influence of artist albrecht durer on early music | |
| 04 | Art And Early Music Month, Cesare Vecellio's Venetian Costumes | 20090301 | 20090315 | Lucie Skeaping explores traditional dress and customs in late 16th-century Venice. "Art and Early Music Month."Lucie Skeaping looks at the publishing sensation of the 1590s in Venice: Cesare Vecellio's guide to the dress and customs of the world, and she talks to the book's two translators, Margaret Rosenthal, Professor of Italian at the University of Southern California, and Ann Rosalind Jones, Professor of Comparative Literature at Smith College. The book is the first to depict world costume through history and in addition to the vivid illustrations, it includes a detailed and often amusing social commentary of the habits of people all over the world. Music in the programme includes Carnival music by Giovanni Croce, and works by both Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli. PLAYLIST: LODOVICO VIADANA La Veneziana (canzona) giovanni croce masquerade of the friulians andrea gabrieli vieni, vieni, himeneo Lucie Skeaping explores traditional dress and customs in late 16th-century venice giovanni gabrieli udite, chiari e generosi figli giovanni pacoloni salterello de zorzi (lute trio) baldassare donato ahi miserelle adrian willaert giovanni girolamo kapsberger kapsberger adrian willaert vecchio letrose – “old hags, you’re good for nothing” andrea gabrieli asia felice giovanni gabrieli sonata pian’ e forte a 8 giovanni bassano arosez vos violettes |
| 05 | Art And Early Music Month, The Bate Collection | 20090307 | 20090329 | Lucie Skeaping visits the Bate Collection of historical instruments in Oxford. As part of Art and Early Music Month, Lucie Skeaping presents a programme celebrating musical instruments as artistic objects in their own right. She visits the Bate Collection of historical instruments in Oxford and is shown some of the most interesting exhibits by the curator, Andy Lamb. The music features recordings of specific instruments found at the museum, including a 17th-Century recorder, played by Peter Holtslag, and a beautiful English harpsichord, on which Martin Souter plays music by Purcell. Playlist: Haydn: Symphony No 92 in G, H I 92 (Menuet) - excerpt bach: partita in a minor (after bwv 1004) - corrente telemann: fantasia no 7 in f purcell: ground in gamut telemann: concerto for two horns (tafelmusik - 1st mvt); concerto for two horns (tafelmusik - 4th mvt) handel: suite no 2 in f henry bishop: foresters, sound the cheerful horn Lucie Skeaping visits the bate collection of historical instruments in oxford vivaldi: concerto in d minor for viola d'amore in d minor rv 395 (4th mvt) corelli: sonata in e minor, op 5, no 11 (gavotte) lalande: concert de trompettes pour les festes sur le canal de versailles (1st air) |
| 06 | Art And Early Music Month, The Gardens Of The Villa D'este | 20090308 | As part of Art and Early Music Month, Catherine Bott travels to Tivoli to visit the fountains in the great baroque gardens of the Villa d'Este. She finds out about the music connected with gardens and the man who commissioned them - Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este, patron of many composers, including Palestrina. Playlist: Palestrina: Viri Galilaei nanino: adoramus te, christi dufay: magnanime gentis marenzio: s'io parto, i'moro e pur partir conviene nicola vicentino: l'aura che'l verde lauro Catherine Bott explores the gardens of cardinal ippolito ii's villa d'este palestrina: hodie christus natus est (for two four-part choirs) cristobal de morales: gaude et laetare francesco portinaro: ove, sacre sorelle cipriano de rore: o qui populos | |
| 07 | Art And Early Music Month, Gainsborough's Georgian England | 20090314 | 20090412 | Catherine Bott presents a series on the links between art and early music, exploring some of the portraits of musicians by Thomas Gainsborough. The painter had a deep love of music and many of his portraits include musical themes. He was himself a keen amateur player of the viola da gamba and had many musicians as friends, some of whom he used as subjects for his portraits. With the help of art historian and author of several books on the artist, Michael Rosenthal of Warwick University, Catherine explores what the Gainsborough portraits tell us about the role of music in the late 18th century. The programme includes comment about his depictions of Karl Friedrich Abel, Johann Christian Bach and the Linley Family, as well as paintings of some notable amateurs from the English gentry such as William Wollaston and Anne Ford. Playlist: John Hebden: Concerto No 3 in E for strings (3 - Gigue) jc bach: keyboard concerto in f minor (3 - prestissimo) thomas arne: honour, riches, marriage-blessing thomas linley, jr: cantata: in yonder grove; air: tune philomel geminiani: three scotch airs with variations (a treatise of good taste in the art of music - no 1 - auld bob morrice) carl friedrich abel: vivace for six string bass viol (abridged) Catherine Bott explores some of thomas gainsborough's portraits of musicians handel: overture (acis and galatea) joseph gibbs: violin sonata no 1 james oswald: divertimento no 9 for english guitar Catherine Bott explores some of thomas gainsborough's portraits of musicians |
| 08 LAST | Art And Early Music Month, The Baroque Theatre Of Cesky Krumlov | 20090315 | 20091108 | Lucie Skeaping presents a series on the links between art and early music, and visits the Baroque theatre at Cesky Krumlov castle in the southern Czech Republic with theatre historian Iain Mackintosh. Playlist: Tuma: Partita in A minor (2nd mvt - Andante - excerpt) Antiquarius Consort Praga ARTA F10093, Tr 9 Vivaldi: Armida al camp d'Egitto, RV699-A - Sinfonia (excerpt) Concerto Italiano Rinaldo Alessandrini (director) NAIVE OP 30415, Tr 1 Zach: Sinfonia in G (1st mvt - Allegro non tanto) Capella Sancta Caecilia ARTA F10033, Tr 12 Myslivicek: Quintet No 6 in B flat (2nd mvt - Largo) Pro Arte Antiqua Prague ARTA CLASSICS F1 0071-2, Tr 17 Zach: Sinfonia in G (3rd mvt - Menuett - excerpt) Forqueray: Le Leclair (2nd Divertissement - excerpt) Charivari Agreable Simfonie SIGNUM SIGCD 008, Tr 6 Rameau: Premier et Deuxieme airs des Matelots (Hippolyte et Aricie - excerpt) Les Arts Florissants William Christie (conductor) ERATO 3984-26129-2, Tr 27 Vivaldi: Aria: Dalle superne sfere lieto, Imeneo, discendi (Andromeda Liberata) Anna Bonitatibus (soprano) Venice Baroque Orchestra Andrea Marcon (director) ARCHIV 477 0982, CD 2 Tr 6 Mozart: Der Vogelfanger bin ich ja (Die Zauberflote) Gerald Finley (Papageno) English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) ARCHIV 449 166-2, CD 1 Tr 4 Scarlatti: Vorrestim si, vorresti (Scritte con falso inganno) Patrizia Ciofi (soprano) Il Complesso Barocco Alan Curtis (conductor) VIRGIN VERITAS 545 546-2, Tr 17 Porpora: Or che d'orrido Verno (Sinfonia) Auser Musici Carlo Ipata (director) HYPERION CDA 67621 Trs 15-16 Vivaldi: Overture (Argippo) Baroque Ensemble Hof-Musici Ondrej Macek (director) Live recording at Cesky Krumlov Baroque Theatre, Oct 2008 A Scarlatti: L'amor generoso (Closing scene) Cappella Accademica Live recording at Cesky Krumlov Baroque Theatre, June 2002. Lucie Skeaping visits the Baroque theatre at Cesky Krumlov castle in the Czech Republic. The castle is actually more like a city, with 30 or 40 buildings in a series of courtyards put up over several centuries, and all decorated with original trompe l'oeil paintwork. Like so much else in that part of the world, it's a product of Habsburg times - when, for three centuries up until the First World War, German-speaking princes ruled what we now know as The Czech Republic. |
| 20040131 | Catherine Bott introduces motets and chansons by the 15th Century French composer, singer and poet Antoine Busnoys. He was one of the most celebrated musicians of the age, who is claimed as having started the tradition of setting the Mass using the popular tune L'homme arme. In this specially recorded sequence, the Orlando Consort feature some of his Latin motets with double text and a sequence of his French rondeaux and virelai. | |||
| 20040208 | Andrew Manze introduces motets and madrigals by the 16th Century Flemish composer Philippe de Monte. Overshadowed in recent times by his contemporaries Lassus and Palestrina, De Monte was their equal during his lifetime, especially as a writer of madrigals. This sequence includes a number of specialy made recordings in which Bo Holten conducts the BBC Singers. The musical connection between De Monte and William Byrd is also revealed in recordings from The Sixteen, conducted by Harry Christophers. | |||
| 20040221 | The Benda Family Andrew Manze delves into the musical world of the Benda family, three members of which, in particular, still hold a valuable place in today's repertoire. Active in the aristocratic courts of eighteenth century Prussia, these Bohemian brothers were perhaps best known for their flute works, all of which were commissioned by their flautist patron, Frederick the Great. In today's programme, however, Andrew seeks to prove that there's more to the Bendas than flutes! Frantisek Benda - Sonata for violin and basso continuo in A minor Simon Standage (violin) Jane Coe (cello) Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord) Frantisek Benda - Sonata for flute, cello and harpsichord Andreas Kröper (flute) Thomas Fritzsch (cello) Bernhard Gillitzer (harpsichord) Jan Jiri Benda - 'Grave' from Concerto for violin and strings in G major (version for cello and strings) Christian Benda (cello and director) Prague Chamber Orchestra Jiri Antonin Benda - Concerto for harpsichord in G major Josef Hála (harpsichord) Ars Redeviva Ensemble. | |||
| 20040228 | Ensemble Clement Janequin Catherine Bott introduces music from a concert given in Lucerne by the French group Ensemble Clement Janequin. Meanwhile, Lucie Skeaping explores one of the musical treasures contained in the Augsburg Art Cabinet, which, together with its contents, was said to reflect the entire known world. | |||
| 20040229 | The English Concert: Andrew Manze presents a concert from St George's, Bristol, given by his own group the English Concert. Featuring music by Muffat and Schmelzer. | |||
| 20040306 | Catherine Bott introduces a programme of music recorded at the National Centre for Early Music in York, performed by Concordia, interspersing instrumental pieces from the inner circle of court musicians to Charles I and II with Symphony Songs by Henry Purcell. | |||
| 20040307 | Lucie Skeaping presents highlights from a concert recorded at the Regensburg Festival of Early Music, in which the US-based Terra Nova Ensemble perform music from 14th Century Spain. Composers such as Alfonso Mudarra, Luis Milan and Juan del Encina nestle with traditional and anonymous songs from the Iberian peninsula, which display an obvious flavour of the Moorish occupation. | |||
| 20040313 | Scotia Crescat Music from the Scottish Enlightenment by Sir John Clerk of Penicuik. Lucie Skeaping talks to Ian McFarlane about this remarkable polymath and we hear three of his cantatas performed by Sonnerie with Mhairie Lawson and Lorna Anderson. | |||
| 20040314 | Concerto Caledonia The Early Music Show today comes from Scotland, live and interactive, maybe even hyperactive, with Concerto Caledonia performing music from 18th century Scotland and a few pieces that you might not expect from a period instrument ensemble. Catherine Bott will also be chatting to the group, so email your questions now. | |||
| Telemann And The Recorder | 20040320 | Lucie Skeaping presents a concert given by the virtuoso recorder player Dan Laurin with the outstanding young Polish ensemble, Arte dei Suonotori. Telemann's famous Suite in a minor will be preceded by concertos for recorder and strings by Telemann and Vivaldi, and the young British recorder player Emma Murphy will look at the role of the recorder in the Baroque ensemble. | ||
| 20040321 | Catherine Bott talks to harpsichordist, flautist and conductor, Nicholas McGegan about his career in Baroque Music. As musical director of the San Francisco-based Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and the International Handel Festival, to name but two, Nicholas McGegan has carved a unique niche in the field of historically-informed performance, and has well over 70 recordings to his name. The music in today's programme comes from just a handful of those recordings, and includes repertoire by Rameau, Scarlatti, Telemann, Bach and Arne, as well as his award-winning première recording of Handel's opera, Susanna. | |||
| 20040328 | Lawrence Cummings and Adrian Butterfield Lucie Skeaping presents a Live Early Music Show with chat and music from harpsichordist Laurence Cummings and violinist Adrian Butterfield, exploring the musical importance of the violin sonatas of C P E Bach. | |||
| 20040410 | In the first of two programmes marking the tercentenary of the death of Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Catherine Bott chooses a selection of music recorded in February from all over Europe. As part of the European Broadcasting Union's special Charpentier Day, the repertoire includes music by the great man himself, and by other composers who were active during the reign of Louis XIV of France. | |||
| 20040411 | Musicians of the King's Chamber The second of two programmes commemorating the 300th anniversary of the death of Charpentier, today focussing on some of Charpentier's contemporaries. Lucie Skeaping explores music by a generation of baroque composers employed by Louis XIV at Versailles as musicians of the King's Chamber, including Michel de La Barre, Robert de Visée, Jean-Henri D'Anglebert and Marin Marais. | |||
| 20040417 | Cristofori's Florentine Piano Around 1700 Bartolomeo Cristofori, Keeper of Instruments for the Medici family in Florence, had a brilliant idea - take a harpsichord, but instead of plucking the strings, hit them with a hammer instead. Catherine Bott joins instrument-maker Denzil Wraight who has recreated one of Cristofi's early pianos, and fortepianist Ella Sevskaya who has recorded a recital on it, especially for the programme. | |||
| 20040424 | Today's Early Music Show comes live from St George's in Belfast, as part of the BBC's Music Live festival. The BBC Singers are joined by conductor Peter Phillips to perform music from renaissance England and Italy. BBC Singers Peter Phillips (director) Tallis....Loquebantur variis linguis Tallis....Suscipe quaeso Byrd....Quomodo cantabimus de Monte....Super flumina Lassus....Te spectant Reginalde Poli Byrd....Tristitia et anxietas Lassus....Tui sunt caeli. | |||
| 20040425 | Early Music in Ireland: Continuing the 'BBC Music Live' weekend in Belfast, Lucie Skeaping takes a look at music in Ireland from Medieval times onwards. | |||
| 20040501 | Handel's London Catherine Bott talks to Handel expert Simon Heighes about Handel's impact on musical life in London at the beginning of the 18th Century, as they consider some of Handel's contemporaries including Croft and Eccles. Laurence Cummings also provides an insight into Handel improvising at home in London's Brook Street. | |||
| 20040509 | Lucie Skeaping explores the background behind one of the Baroque's most popular pieces - Johann Pachelbel's four minute Canon in D. Who was Pachelbel? What else did he compose? And were he a wedding guest today, could he put his hand on his heart, point to the organist and say "I wrote that!"? | |||
| 20040516 | Follow the Lieder From its emergence in the 14th Century through the Reformation, Lucie Skeaping studies the early stages of the German Lied, and some of the composers who helped to develop this important genre. With music by Oswald von Wolkenstein, Adam vond Fulda, Heinrich Isaac and Ludwig Senfl. Follow the Lieder From its emergence in the 14th Century through the Reformation, Lucie Skeaping studies the early stages of the German Lied, and some of the composers who helped to develop this important genre. With music by Oswald von Wolkenstein, Adam vond Fulda, Heinrich Isaac and Ludwig Senfl. | |||
| 20040522 | Andrew Manze presents a concert given by the premiere Danish Ensemble, Concerto Copenhagen. This all-Bach programme was recorded in Copenhagen's Garrison Church, and is directed by the group's founder, Lars-Ulrik Mortensen. Bach: Sinfonia from Cantata No 42, BWV 42 Concerto Copenhagen Lars Ulrik Mortensen (director) Bach: Oboe d'amore concerto in A, BWV 1055 Frank de Bruine (oboe) Bach: Triple concerto for flute, violin and harpsichord, BWV 1044 Maria Bania (flute) Peter Spissky (violin) Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord and director) Bach: Sinfonia from Cantata No 209. | |||
| 20040523 | Catherine Bott introduces this live and onteractive Early Music Show, and asks you to send in requests for your favouorite madrigal. You can make your request right up to the last minute, by e-mailing the production team at the usual address, or: Phone: The Radio 3 Audience Line 08700 100300 [national rates] Or write in to: The Early Music Show Room 1115 New Broadcasting House Oxford Road Manchester M60 1SJ. | |||
| 20040529 | Double Dutch - The Age of the Netherlanders By the early 16th Century, virtually every major musical centre in Europe was run by a musician from the Low Countries. In the first of the Early music Show's two Double Dutch programmes this weekend, Lucie Skeaping explores the incredible and unexplained golden age of Netherlanders. Music includes examples by such composers as Dufay, Binchois, Ockeghem and Josquin. Jacques Maassen, director of the Netherlands Carillon School in Amersfoort also guides us through the age-old tradition of carillon playing in the Low Countries. | |||
| 20040530 | Double Dutch: The Age of the Netherlanders In the second of this weekend's programmes devoted to the music of The Low Countries, Lucie Skeaping explores the continuing tradition of Dutch and Flemish musical excellence through the late 16th and early 17th Centuries. With music from Tielman Susato, Orlando de Lassus, Philippe de Monte and the great organ master Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck. Dr Haspels, of Utrecht's Speelklok Museum also takes us on a journey through the tradition of Dutch street and barrel organs. | |||
| 20040606 | Catherine Bott introduces motets and chansons by the 15th Century French composer, singer and poet Antoine Busnoys. He was one of the most celebrated musicians of the age, who is claimed to have started the tradition of setting the Mass using the popular tune L'homme arme. In this specially recorded sequence, the Orlando Consort feature some of his Latin motets with double text and a sequence of his French rondeaux and virelai. | |||
| Lufthansa Festival | 20040612 | Catherine Bott introduces a concert of French Baroque music given in London's Wallace Collection as part of this year's Lufthansa Festival. Meanwhile, Lucie Skeaping is in the collection's West Gallery to talk to the gallery's curator Jo Hedley about French artist Jean-Antoine Watteau's painting The Music Party. Paul Agnew (tenor) Beatrice Martin (harpsichord/organ) Anne-Marie Lasla (viol). | ||
| 20040613 | Lufthansa Festival Lucie Skeaping presents a concert recorded at the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music earlier this month, given by the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin directed by Georg Kallweit. | |||
| The Wallace Collection | 20040619 | Harpsichordist Mitzi Meyerson performs works by Couperin, d'Anglebert and Forqueray in the beautiful surroundings of The Wallace Collection's main gallery. Lucie Skeaping introduces this concert of music from the golden years of Versailles, and talks to curator Jo Headley about one of the paintings in the collection: Watteau's Harlequin and Columbine. | ||
| Red Priest | 20040620 | Lucie Skeaping is joined live in the Manchester studio by acclaimed early music group Red Priest. Including music from the group's inimitable new version of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. | ||
| 20040627 | Medea Lucie Skeaping studies the story of Medea in all its horrific glory, and illustrates the tale with musical examples from Baroque and Classical opera, cantata and melodrama. Jiri Antonin Benda: Medea (extract) Medea....Hertha Schell Prague Chamber Orchestra Christian Benda (conductor) Clérambault: Médée (extract) Julianne Baird (soprano) American Baroque Stephen Schultz (director) Caldara: Medea in Corinto Gérard Lesne (countertenor) Il Seminario musicale Charpentier: Medea Acts IV and V (extracts) Medea....Lorraine Hunt Jason....Mark Padmore Creusa....Monique Zanetti Cléone....Isabelle Desrochers. | |||
| 20040703 | Biber and the forgotten virtuosi Catherine Bott presents a live edition from the National Centre for Early Music, featuring the ensemble Ricordo with members of Het Caecilia Concert. The programmes celebrates the 300th anniversary of the death of the violin virtuoso and composer Heinrich Biber, with music by Biber and his contemporaries. Johan Schmelzer: La Carolietta Johann Jacob Froberger: Fantasia for harpsichord, FbWV 205 Buonaventura Viviani: Sonata in A minor for violin Schmelzer: Sonata for Violin and dulcian Biber: Passacaglia in C minor for lute Biber: Sonata No 3 in F for violin Matthias Weckmann: Sonata 2 in four parts. | |||
| 20040710 | In today's programme Lucie Skeaping charts the development of the forte piano-piano during Beethoven's life-time - a period when the instrument went through some of its biggest changes. What did the "piano" mean to the composer between 1770 and 1827? | |||
| 20040716 | Catherine Bott is joined today by fellow soprano Emma Kirkby to explore the intimate and expressive repertoire of the English lute song, which reached its peak in the first half of the seventeenth century with composers like Dowland, Ferrabosco and the Lawes brothers, Henry and William. Emma Kirkby (soprano) With Jacob Lindberg (lute) Alfonso Ferrabosco: So, so leave off this last lamenting kiss; Gentle Knights Robert Johnson: As I walked forth John Dowland: Go crystal tears; Lend your ears to my sorrow; Shall I sue, shall I seek for grace? Dowland: Prelude and Fantasia for lute Robert Jones: Ite, caldi sospiri Henry Lawes: Tavola: Or you or I Nature did wrong: Slide soft, you silver floods William Lawes: Why so pale and wan, fond lover Daniel Bachelor: Prelude - La Jeune Fillette for lute Alfonso Bales: Cloris sigh'd, and sang, and wept George Jeffreys: Have pity, grief, I cannot pay John Hilton: Hymne to God the Father. | |||
| 20040717 | Catherine Bott is joined today by fellow soprano Emma Kirkby to explore the intimate and expressive repertoire of the English lute song, which reached its peak in the first half of the seventeenth century with composers like Dowland, Ferrabosco and the Lawes brothers, Henry and William. Emma Kirkby (soprano) With Jacob Lindberg (lute) Alfonso Ferrabosco: So, so leave off this last lamenting kiss; Gentle Knights Robert Johnson: As I walked forth John Dowland: Go crystal tears; Lend your ears to my sorrow; Shall I sue, shall I seek for grace? Dowland: Prelude and Fantasia for lute Robert Jones: Ite, caldi sospiri Henry Lawes: Tavola: Or you or I Nature did wrong: Slide soft, you silver floods William Lawes: Why so pale and wan, fond lover Daniel Bachelor: Prelude - La Jeune Fillette for lute Alfonso Bales: Cloris sigh'd, and sang, and wept George Jeffreys: Have pity, grief, I cannot pay John Hilton: Hymne to God the Father. | |||
| 20040718 | Lucie Skeaping's guest on today's live programme is the acclaimed recorder player Pamela Thorby, who talks about life in the Palladian Ensemble and as a solo artist, with music from her new CD. | |||
| 20040724 | The Madrigal Comedy At the end of the 16th century, the Madrigal Comedy became the most advanced form of musical theatre. These madrigals, like opera that was to follow, were available to those few rich or grand enough to afford this kind of entertainment. Lucie Skeaping presents a programme which explores the Madrigal Comedies written by composers such as Vecchi and Banchieri, performed by Ensemble Clement Janequin. | |||
| 20040725 | Sacro-Profanum: Music for the altar and for the table Catherine Bott presents a concert recorded earlier this month at the York Early Music Festival, given by the Swiss-based Ensemble 415 (directed by Chiara Banchieri). The programme celebrates the tercentenary of the death of Heinrich Biber with a sequence of sacred and secular pieces composed for Archbishop Gandolph in Salzburg, by Biber and his contemporaries Schmelzer and Johann Meder. | |||
| 20040807 | Lucy Skeaping presents a concert recorded in York Minster during this summer's York Early Music Festival. The Dufay Collective perform dansas and estampies from the 13th-century troubadour tradition. | |||
| 20040808 | Catherine Bott joins the pilgrims in northwest Spain as she visits the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela. Spanish hymns and cantigas form the musical basis of the programme as we travel the way of St James. | |||
| Charivari Agréable | 20040815 | Andrew Manze presents a live and interactive programme with performances from the established early music ensemble Charivari Agréable. They will perform music marking the end of the Tudor period and the beginning of the Jacobean, by composers such as Thomas Morley, William Byrd and Richard Allison. | ||
| 20040822 | Andrew Manze introduces motets and madrigals by the 16th Century Flemish composer Philippe de Monte. Overshadowed in recent times by his contemporaries Lassus and Palestrina, De Monte was their equal during his lifetime, especially as a writer of madrigals. This sequence includes a number of specially made recordings in which Bo Holten conducts the BBC Singers. The musical connection between De Monte and William Byrd is also revealed in recordings from The Sixteen, conducted by Harry Christophers. | |||
| 20040828 | Andreas Scholl From humble beginnings in his father's greengrocer's store near Wiesbaden, Andreas Scholl has become one of the most successful musicians of his generation. Blessed with a unique clarity of tone and an undeniable warmth, Scholl certainly deserves the accolades he has earned as one of the best countertenors on the early music circuit. Catherine Bott looks at his extraordinary career and chooses music from his recordings, including performances of lutesongs by John Dowland and Thomas Campion, as recorded at this year's Bath International Festival. | |||
| 20040905 | Lucie Skeaping presents a concert from York Minster as part of The Sixteen's annual choral pilgrimage. This year, the choir's director Harry Christophers has chosen a programme of Portuguese and Italian music, including Lotti's divine Crucifixus and Scarlatti's Stabat Mater. | |||
| 20040912 | In this month's live and interactive Early Music Show, Catherine Bott's guest is baroque violinist Monica Huggett. | |||
| 20040918 | Catherine Bott presents the Italian ensemble Accordone with the remarkable singer Marco Beasley performing Frotolle from 16th-century Italy and instrumental dances of the period. | |||
| 20040919 | Early Music in Ireland Lucie Skeaping explores music in Ireland from medieval times onwards. | |||
| 20040925 | Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo Emilio de' Cavalieri's sacred opera the Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo, was the first ever to be published, and is the earliest opera for which all the music survives. Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a performance recorded at the Utrecht Early Music Festival last month, featuring the ensemble L'Arpeggiata, directed by Christina Pluhar. | |||
| 20040926 | Catherine Bott and friends perform a seductive selection of Spanish pieces from Ferdinand and Isabella's own musical collection, The Cancionas por los Reyes'. | |||
| Brighton Early Music Festival 1 | 20041003 | Catherine Bott introduces highlights from the first of two concerts recorded at this year's Brighton Early Music Festival including Consort Songs by William Byrd performed by Emma Kirkby and Fretwork. The programme also looks back on the life and influence of the great Elizabeth courtier and poet, Sir Philip Sidney. | ||
| 20041009 | The Empress of Magnificent Taste and Pleasure Teresa Cornelys arrived penniless in England in the autumn of 1759. Yet, little more than a year later, she was an international Opera star, and owned London's most successful entertainment business. Judith Summers, author of a biography of this incredible woman, talks to Lucie Skeaping about Teresa, who had a rumoured love affair with Gluck and was mother to Casanova's child. Featuring music by Gluck, Handel, Thomas Arne and JC Bach. | |||
| 20041010 | Lucie Skeaping presents the second of two programmes from this year's Brighton Early Music Festival. Musica Secreta perform erotic madrigals from Monteverdi's 4th book, which were miraculously transformed into sacred pieces by the substitution of Latin texts, for performances by nuns. These will be combined with music actually composed by and for nuns of Lombardy including the recently discovered music of Chiara Margarita Cozzolani. | |||
| 20041016 | Black Mozart On Christmas Day 1739 in Guadeloupe, a child was born to a rich colonist and his negress slave mistress. This child was Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint George, who rose through Eighteenth-century aristocratic circles to become one of the most fascinating and respected figures in the Paris musical scene. Lucie Skeaping looks at some of the music written by this mixed-race misfit, who came to become one of the most remarkable figures in the Age of Enlightenment. | |||
| 20041017 | Biber's Rosary Sonatas Andrew Manze introduces a selection from Biber's unique collection of fifteen violin sonatas. He explores the different ways in which they can be realised, and considers the symbolism behind the music. Biber: Sonata No 1 - The Annunciation Sonata No 4 - The Presentation in the Temple Andrew Manze (violin) Richard Eggar (organ) Sonata No 6 - The Agony in the Garden Sonata No 9 - The Carrying of the Cross Sonata No 10 - The Crucifixion Monica Huggett (violin) Emilia Benjamin (viola da gamba) Matthew Halls (organ) Richard Sweeney (theorbo) Sonata No 11 - The Resurrection Pavlo Besnoziuk (violin) David Roblou(organ) Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo) Richard Tunnicliffe (violone). | |||
| 20041023 | A Lute Evening at the Orangerie Andrew Manze introduces a concert of German and Spanish lute and guitar music given in the Orangerie of Schwetzinger Castle, Germany by Xavier Diaz-Latorre (theorbo and baroque guitar) and Pedro Estevan (percussion). | |||
| 20041024 | Barthold Kuijken Plays CPE Bach Barthold Kuijken, famous for his dedication to the rediscovery of the baroque flute, plays sonatas by CPE Bach with harpsichordist Ewald Demeyere. | |||
| 20041030 | Andrew Manze presents a performer portrait of David Munrow, of one of the most influential early music pioneers this country has ever seen. | |||
| 20041106 | In connection with last night's festivities, Catherine Bott and Andrew Carwood of the Cardinall's Musick today take the Early Music Show back to 1605 and look at the music which was written about the infamous plot of 1605. Featuring a short concert programme from the Cardinall's Musick from the Early Music Network Showcase in Warwick. | |||
| Beggars, Ballads And A Brouhaha!! | 20041107 | Lucie Skeaping looks at the inspiration, background and impact of John Gay's celebrated Beggar's Opera which appeared in London in 1728 as a reaction to the excesses and pretensions of fashionable Italian opera. Far from the exulted realms of the ancient heroes and the classical gods, the opera celebrates the worst of 18th century London street life, featuring beggars, cut-throats, thieves and prostitutes singing the popular ballads of the day. | ||
| 20041113 | Live From the Greenwich International Festival of Early Music The Early Music Show comes live from our stand amidst the glorious cacophony of Greenwich International Festival of Early Music in the Painted Hall of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Instrument makers and performers will be talking to Lucie Skeaping and demonstrating their wares, from viols to bagpipes. | |||
| 20041114 | Les Haulz et les Bas Lucie Skeaping presents a concert of 13th Century music for shawms and sackbuts recorded at Chethams School of Music in Manchester by Germany-based group, Les Haulz et les Bas. | |||
| 20041120 | Philippe de Vitry was a groundbreaking and innovative musician of his time. Lucie Skeaping takes a look at his works in the light of a new opera which uses his music. | |||
| 20041121 | In a special live and interactive edition, the much acclaimed ensemble London Baroque join Catherine Bott in the studio for performance and chat. | |||
| 20041127 | Catherine Bott presents the first of two programs about Boccherini's life and work in Madrid, and the secret behind all those cello quintets!. | |||
| 20041128 | Catherine Bott presents the second of two programs about Boccherini's sojourn in Madrid, and his unexpected connection with the King of Prussia. | |||
| 20041204 | The Burning Bush Traditional Jewish music presented and performed by Lucie Skeaping with her band The Burning Bush. Music from the Judeo-Spanish tradition rubs shoulders with Eastern European Klesmer in this lively concert from The Snape Maltings in Suffolk. | |||
| 20041211 | Catherine Bott explores eighteenth century Lisbon, the city that welcomed Domenico Scarlatti to its Royal Palace in 1719. King Joao V of Portugal had poached Scarlatti from the comfort and security of Rome to bring a little glamour and instruction to his court. For Scarlatti, this was an opportunity not to be missed, and one that diverted the course of his entire career. It was in Lisbon that Scarlatti began to compose his keyboard sonatas - 555 of them in total - many of which are dedicated to, or inspired by, the Princess Maria Barbara. | |||
| 20041212 | My Favourite Scarlatti! In a Live and Interactive show from Studio 3 in Manchester, Catherine Bott introduces the world to the joys of 'Scar-lotto' and offers listeners the opportunity to request a performance of their favourite piece of music by one of the Scarlatti Dynasty. | |||
| Orfeo And Arianna | 20041218 | Andrew Manze examines Claudio Monteverdi's first two Operas, which defined the genre, and ensured its survival. The programme also visits a performance of I Fagiolini's production, "The Full Monteverdi". | ||
| 20041225 | Lucie Skeaping presents a festive concert from London's Wigmore Hall. Florilegium with soprano Lorna Anderson perform a range of Baroque music from Germany and Italy, including Handel's Gloria, Vivaldi's Concerto for flute and organ, RV 541, and Scarlatti's cantata O di Betlemme altera poverta. | |||
| Food And Drink | 20041226 | Music for the jaded Boxing Day palate. Catherine Bott presents a programme of feasting and excess, from the monks of Carmina Burana, who only seemed to have had two things on their minds to George Philipp Telemann's rather more refined Musique de Table, and perhaps some coffee to finish. | ||
| Mad Music | 20050102 | Lucie Skeaping explores the mad songs of English composers of the 16th and 17th Centuries, including Byrd's song about the aged dame who falls down at the top of a hill, skulls rolling down the hillside all around and Dowland's "hellish jarring sounds which banish friendly sleep.". | ||
| 20050109 | Andrew Manze is joined live in Manchester by the members of The Het Caecilia Concert, one of the most intriguing and exciting young ensembles on the current Early Music scene. | |||
| 20050122 | Catherine Bott visits the bustling city of Lisbon to delve into the wealth of music written in Portugal in the 15th and 16th centuries. With music by Manuel Cardoso, Duarte Lobo, and Filipe de Magalhaes. | |||
| 20050123 | Catherine Bott presents the second of her two programmes devoted to the early music of Portugal. With music by the great keyboard master Carlos de Seixas, and contemporaries such as Antonio Teixeira and Joao de Sousa Carvalho, this programme highlights the patronage of the Braganca family in the lead-up to the great earthquake of 1755. | |||
| 20050129 | Andrew Manze introduces a concert he gave with the European Union Baroque Orchestra as part of the Spitalfields Festival in December. | |||
| 20050130 | Lucie Skeaping introduces a live and interactive request programme to celebrate the generally agreed 500th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Tallis. | |||
| 20050205 | Rameau and the Harpsichord: Lucie Skeaping looks at the background to some of the greatest keyboard music from 18th-century France - Jean-Phillipe Rameau's Pieces de Clavecin. | |||
| 20050206 | Another chance to hear a concert from last year's Lufthansa Festival given by Le Poeme Harmonique, which includes traditional carnival songs and commedia from Italy in the 17th century. Most of the works in the concert are attributed to a certain 'Il Fasolo' - 'The Bean' - whose identity remains shrouded in mystery, but who certainly played an important part in the emergence of a new genre that was opera. Presented by Lucie Skeaping | |||
| 20050213 | The Play of Daniel Andrew Manze introduces a rare performance of the 13th Century Ludus Danielis, The Play of Daniel, recorded last year in Liverpool Cathedral. | |||
| 20050220 | Another chance to hear a programme broadcast from the Music Live Festival in Belfast last year. The BBC Singers are joined by conductor Peter Phillips to perform music from Renaissance England and Italy. Tallis: Loquebantur variis linguis; Suscipe quaeso Byrd: Quomodo cantabimus de Monte: Super flumina Lassus: Te spectant Reginalde Poli Byrd: Tristitia et anxietas Lassus: Tui sunt caeli BBC Singers Peter Phillips (director). | |||
| 20050227 | Catherine Bott presents a live and interactive edition featuring early music ensemble Badinage, who perform wind sonatas by Bach, Handel and Telemann. | |||
| 20050313 | Andrew Manze presents the first of two programmes which focus on the music of The Mannheim School. Founded in the early 18th century by Joseph Stamitz, the Mannheim orchestra quickly became one of the most successful in Europe. Music literally poured from the castle walls and made household names of Stamitz, Christian Cannabich and Franz Xaver Richter. | |||
| 20050319 | John Dowland: The Man and the Myth John Dowland was one of the greatest musicians of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, and information about his life is quite plentiful. Why then, do so many inconsistencies about the man remain? Why is the truth about his life shrouded in mystery? Lucie Skeaping explores the life of the enigmatic composer. Meanwhile, Catherine Bott talks to Dr Helen Hackett about the life and poetry of one of the ladies of the time, Lady Mary Wroth. Dowland: Flow my tears Tell me true love Weep you no more, sad fountains O sweet words, the delight of solitarienesse Unquiet Thoughts I saw my lady weep Sweet Stay Awhile Go Crystal Tears. | |||
| 20050320 | Andrew Manze presents the second of his programmes about the music of the Mannheim School. After nearly 50 years of success at the Mannheim court, the orchestra eventually moved to Munich, taking most of is most important musicians with it. Some of the performers became so successful that they were able to tour Europe; Franz Danzi, clarinettist Franz Tausch and Carl Stamitz all made a living off the back of the Mannheim name. | |||
| 20050326 | Catherine Bott presents a programme devoted to the sacred music of Orlandus Lassus, performed by the BBC singers conducted by Jeffrey Skidmore. | |||
| The Empress Of Magnificent Taste And Pleasure | 20050327 | Teresa Cornelys arrived penniless in England in the autumn of 1759, yet, little more than a year later, she was an international Opera star, and owned London's most successful entertainment business. Judith Summers, author of a biography of this incredible woman, talks to Lucie Skeaping about Teresa, who had a rumoured love affair with Gluck and was mother to Casanova's child. Featuring music by Gluck, Handel, Thomas Arne and JC Bach. | ||
| 20050403 | Catherine Bott introduces a live and interactive edition with harpsichordist Sophie Yates, who performs keyboard works from 17th-century France and the Court of Louis XIV. | |||
| Before Bach | 20050409 | Lucie Skeaping looks back to some of the composers who most influenced the music of JS Bach. | ||
| Bach To The Future | 20050410 | Lucie Skeaping takes a look at the works of contemporary composers who have used Early Music pieces as their muse. | ||
| 20050417 | Lucie Skeaping talks to Ashley Solomon, the founder and director of Florilegium, about their recent recording project in South America. 17th Century vocal and instrumental music from the Jesuit missions in central Bolivia, including works by the Italian missionary, Domenico Zipoli, and by the indigenous Bolivian people themselves. Accomplished, lively and flamboyant music, some of which is written in the local Chiquitanos langauge. | |||
| 20050423 | Queen Christina of Sweden was one of the most important patrons of the arts in the 17th century, and during her brief reign as Swedish sovereign she introduced her country to the riches of European culture. Catherine Bott looks more closely at Christina's colourful and eventful life, and plays music that would have been heard by her and her entourage on their journey from Sweden to Italy. | |||
| 20050424 | Catherine Botts' guests on today's live programme are one of the most interesting and inventive Early Music ensembles around: The Dufay Collective. They'll be on hand to answer listeners' questions and to perform music written for Alfonso the Wise, a patron of the arts and King of Castile and Leon from 1252 to 1284, a time when those realms were an outpost of European culture on a peninsula under the domination of the Muslim Moors. | |||
| 20050430 | In conjunction with the From Sweden Festival, Andrew Manze travels to Stockholm to meet recorder player Dan Laurin. Music includes pieces by Van Eyck, Telemann, Vivaldi and John Eccles. | |||
| 20050501 | Begoña Olavide Lucie Skeaping talks to the virtuoso psaltery player Begoña Olavide about her revival of this almost extinct instrument, her fascination with the three cultures of medieval Andalusia and her playing and singing with her band Mudejar. | |||
| 20050508 | As part of The Early Music Shows from Sweden series, Andrew Manze visits Drottningholm Palace in Stockholm, home of the Swedish royal family. Music includes works by Düben, Roman and Zellbell. | |||
| London Handel Festival 2005 | 20050514 | Handel's English Circle Catherine Bott introduces a concert from Handel's own parish church, St George's Hanover Square, where Adrian Butterfield and the London Handel Players perform a programme featuring the music of Handel together with music by some of his English contemporaries. Handel: Flute Concerto in Gm, HWV 287; Passacaglia from No 4 trio sonata, Op 5; Ombre piante from Rodelinda; Il volo cosi fido from Riccardo Primo Festing: Concerto No 8 in D, Op 3 Stanley: Organ Concerto in G, Op 2, No 3 London Handel Players - Oliver Webber (violin) Stephen Bull (violin) William Thorp (violin) Rachel Stott (viola) Katherine Sharman (cello) Cecelia Bruggemeyer (double bass) Adrian Butterfield (director/violin) Joanne Lunn (soprano) Rachel Brown (flute) Laurence Cummings (organ/harpsichord). | ||
| 20050515 | Lucie Skeaping visits Germany for a live programme from the 85th Göttingen Handel Festival, featuring its director Nicholas McGegan and live music from the cast of this year's opera, Atalanta. | |||
| A - M | 20050521 | In a special weekend of programmes, the three presenters of the Early Music Show take us on a whistle-stop tour of the alphabet according to Early Music. Today, the letters A-M. | ||
| 20050522 | The Early Music Show concludes its journey through the musical alphabet with letters N-Z. Any ideas for X? | |||
| Biber's Rosary Sonatas | 20050529 | Andrew Manze introduces a selection from Biber's unique collection of 15 violin sonatas. He explores the different ways in which they can be realised, and considers the symbolism behind the music. Sonata No 1, The Annunciation Sonata No 4, The Presentation in the Temple Andrew Manze (violin) Richard Eggar (organ) Sonata No 6, The Agony in the Garden Sonata No 9, The Carrying of the Cross Sonata No 10, The Crucifixion Monica Huggett (violin) Emilia Benjamin (viola da gamba) Matthew Halls (organ) Richard Sweeney (theorbo) Sonata No 11, The Resurrection Pavlo Besnoziuk (violin) David Roblou (organ) Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo) Richard Tunnicliffe (violone). | ||
| Summer Festivals | 20050604 | Lucie Skeaping talks to Glyn Russ, director of The Early Music Network about the early music content of the forthcoming summer festivals in Leicester, Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Buxton, Lichfield and York. | ||
| Concerto Palatino | 20050611 | Lucie Skeaping is at St John's Smith Square for the first in a series of highlights from this year's Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music. She joins cornetto player Bruce Dickey and the members of Concerto Palatino who celebrate the impact that the music of Giovanni Gabrieli had on his European contemporaries. | ||
| Carissimi | 20050612 | Giocamo Carissimi was one of the most celebrated Italian composers of the 17th century, famous as a pioneer of the oratorio. Catherine Bott, a self-confessed Carissimi enthusiast, celebrates the 400th anniversary of the composer's birth. | ||
| 20050618 | Lucie Skeaping visits The George public house in Southwark to join a meeting of the Merrie Fellowes Catch Club. With the club's chairman, Patrick Johns, she traces its develoPMent. | |||
| 20050619 | Catherine Bott's guests on the show are the renowned Early Music choral specialists, The Clerks' Group. Featuring live performances of Obrecht and Robert Morton. | |||
| 20050626 | Lucie Skeaping presents a concert from last month's Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music. The RUSSIAn Patriarchate Choir of Moscow perform RUSSIAn orthodox chants and hymns by Dmitry Bortnyansky. | |||
| 20050702 | Andrew Manze visits Stockholm for the first of two programmes charting the development of early music in Sweden. With music by Andreas and Gustaf Düben, Johann Agrell and Johann Helmich Roman, including performances recorded at Wigmore Hall earlier this year as part of the From Sweden series. | |||
| 20050703 | Andrew Manze visits Stockholm for the second of two programmes charting the development of early music in Sweden. With music by Hinrich Johnsen, Johann Helmich Roman, and some delightful Swedish folk songs, including performances recorded earlier this year at Wigmore Hall as part of the From Sweden series. | |||
| Rameau And The Harpsichord | 20050710 | Lucie Skeaping looks at the background to some of the greatest keyboard music from 18th century France - the Pieces de Clavecin of Jean-Phillipe Rameau. | ||
| 20050716 | Lucie Skeaping introduces a concert from this year's Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music, given by Europa Galante. The concert includes music by little known composers such as Geminiani, Barsanti and d'Alai, who in the view of violinist/director Fabio Biondi deserve to be better known. These are framed by Telemann's Burlesque de Quixotte and a Concerto Grosso by Corelli. | |||
| 20050717 | Catherine Bott hosts a live edition of the show in which listeners can put questions to trumpeter Crispian Steele-Perkins. | |||
| 20050723 | Lucie Skeaping presents highlights from a concert given during a recent visit to London by the celebrated Concerto Koln, directed from the violin by Anton Steck. Included in the programme is music inspired by Italy, by Telemann, JS Bach and Vivaldi. | |||
| The Lives And Loves Of Henry's Six Wives | 20050724 | Henry VIII is one of Britain's most famous monarchs. Virtually every child in England has been taught the Divorced-Beheaded-Died, Divorced-Beheaded-Survived rhyme for remembering what fate eventually befell each of them. Andrew Manze traces their lives through the music which was written about them or which each of them would have heard. | ||
| 20050731 | Philippe de Vitry was the most ground breaking and innovative musician of his time. Lucie Skeaping takes a look at his works alongside pieces by some of his contemporaries. | |||
| 20050806 | Andrew Manze continues his journey through the music of Sweden with a focus on the so-called Swedish Troubadour tradition. With songs by Gustaf Düben and Carl Michael Bellman, Manze traces the development of the Swedish song, with performances by Mikael Samuelsson and Anna Emilsson. | |||
| 20050807 | John Dowland - The Man and the Myth John Dowland was one of the greatest musicians of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, and information about his life is quite plentiful. Why then, do so many inconsistencies about the man remain? Why is the truth about his life shrouded in mystery? Lucie Skeaping explores the life of the enigmatic composer. Meanwhile, Catherine Bott talks to Dr Helen Hackett about the life and poetry of one of the ladies of the time, Lady Mary Wroth. Dowland: Flow my tears; Tell me true love; Weep you no more, sad fountains; O sweet words, the delight of solitarienesse; Unquiet Thoughts; I saw my lady weep; Sweet Stay Awhile; Go Crystal Tears. | |||
| Trobairitz. The Medieval Femme Fatale | 20050813 | Catherine Bott introduces a concert recorded last month in All Saints' Church, York as part of the city's annual early music festival where the group Trobairitz performed a programme of music exploring the world of the Medieval Femme Fatale. | ||
| Musicians Of The Globe | 20050814 | Elizabeth I's summer progresses from London were widely feared among her nobles, as the burden of providing the lavish spectacle required could easily lead to bankruptcy. Phillip Pickett and The Musicians of the Globe recreate the music that would have been performed for her at Kenilworth and Elvetham in this concert from the York Early Music Festival. | ||
| 20050820 | Catherine Bott introduces coverage of the final of this year's Early Music Network International Young Artists' Competition, held at the York Early Music Festival. | |||
| 20050821 | Lucie Skeaping presents a live, interactive edition of The Early Music Show, and asks you to request your favourite Vivaldi Concerto. Call the Radio 3 Audience Line on 08700 100 300 [national rate] | |||
| Early Music Discoveries | 20050828 | You might not expect the world of Early Music to be revealing new and interesting finds after all these years, but take a look at these: Viol player takes up the longbow. 4000 year old harp found to roar like a bull. Set of squiggles may change the way we listen to Bach. Andrew Manze investigates. | ||
| 20050903 | Catherine Bott introduces a live show from this year's Utrecht Festival of Early Music. Guests include Festival Director Jan van den Bossche and Peter Phillips, director of the Tallis Scholars. | |||
| 20050904 | Andrew Manze introduces a concert of harpsichord music recorded at this year's York Early Music Festival, and featuring 17th-century French music by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre and her family circle, performed by a recognised champion of her music - Carole Cerasi. | |||
| 20050910 | Lucie Skeaping presents a concert recorded at St George's Church, Belfast earlier this year. Motets by Giaches de Wert and Carlo Gesualdo's Tenebrae Responses for Holy Saturday, performed by the BBC Singers conducted by Andrew Carwood. Wert, Giaches de: Egressus Jesus for seven voices, 1581b, 6:39 Gesualdo, Carlo: Tenebrae responses for Holy Saturday for six voices, 1611, 14:46; Sicut ovis 3:58; Jerusalem, surge 4:09; Plange quasi Virgo 6:18 Gesualdo, Carlo: Tenebrae responses for Holy Saturday for six voices, 1611, 13:02 Astiterunt reges 2:21 Aestimatus sum 4:34 Sepulto Domino 5:41 BBC Singers Andrew Carwood (director). | |||
| 20050911 | Zelenka Lucie Skeaping profiles the life, times and music of the Czech 17th and 18th Century composer Jan Dismas Zelenka who, despite being described as a Catholic bigot, won the admiration of many distinguished contemporaries, among them Johann Sebastian Bach. One of most neglected figures of the late baroque period, Zelenka composed some of the most sumptuous and glorious church music ever written. | |||
| 20050917 | Lucie Skeaping talks to Ashley Solomon, the founder and director of Florilegium, about their recording project in South America. The focus is on 17th Century vocal and instrumental music from the Jesuit missions in central Bolivia, including works by the Italian missionary Domenico Zipoli, and by the indigenous Bolivian people themselves. Accomplished, lively and flamboyant music, some of which is written in the local Chiquito language. | |||
| 20050918 | Lucie Skeaping presents a live Handelian edition of The Early Music Show, in which she is joined in the studio by The Brook Street Band. | |||
| 20050924 | Lucie Skeaping presents a concert of cello duos by Friedrich Kummer, performed by the American cellists Phoebe Carrai and Tanya Tomkins, recorded at Crear in Argyll and Bute. | |||
| 20050925 | Queen Christina of Sweden was one of the most important patrons of the arts in the 17th century, and during her brief reign as Swedish sovereign she introduced her country to the riches of European culture. Catherine Bott looks more closely at Christina's colourful and eventful life, and plays music that would have been heard by her and her entourage on their journey from Sweden to Italy. | |||
| 20051001 | From the atmospheric setting of Windsor Castle Dungeon, a profile of the group Café Mozart, who are about to release a CD of music connected with the Royal Borough. | |||
| 20051002 | Birds in Medieval Music The medieval world was laden with symbolism in both religious and secular life, much being made of the significance of nature. Lucie Skeaping takes a look at the ways that birds were symbolised and represented in medieval music. | |||
| The Musical Offering | 20051008 | Andrew Manze takes a look at JS Bach's visit to the court of Frederick the Great and the events which led to the composition of one of Bach's greatest works. | ||
| Through The Seasons | 20051009 | Lucie Skeaping looks at some of the many recordings of Vivaldi's Quattro Stagioni, and examines how performances of the piece have changed over the decades. From the weather on TV to the pop and classical music charts; from badly recorded lift music to anytime your telephone call gets put on hold, the archetypal music of the seasons seems to have crept into every facet of modern life. | ||
| 20051016 | Lucie Skeaping talks to conductor Harry Christophers about his work with the choir he founded, The Sixteen. | |||
| 20051022 | To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Trafalgar and as part of Nelson weekend, the music surrounding Admiral Lord Nelson's life is celebrated. 1/2. Lady Hamilton's Songbook Catherine Bott and David Owen Norris give a concert marking the life and musical aspirations of Nelson's true love, Lady Emma Hamilton. Featuring pieces taken from her songbook and stories about their relationship, which has been labelled as the biggest scandal of their age. | |||
| 20051023 | To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Trafalgar and as part of Nelson weekend, the music surrounding Admiral Lord Nelson's life is celebrated. 2/2. A Sailor's Life From the deck of the HMS Victory, Catherine Bott talks to Alan Knight, tour guide of the great ship, about life in Nelson's Navy, and the songs and shanties Nelson's men would have sung. | |||
| The Brandenburg Concertos | 20051029 | Andrew Manze takes a look at this famous set of pieces, arguably the greatest concertos in the Baroque repertoire. He examines how Bach's own countrymen have chosen to perform the works over the past half century. | ||
| 20051030 | Lucie Skeaping presents a live and interactive edition of The Early Music Show, in which her guest is the Swedish lutenist, Jakob Lindberg. Lindberg has held a huge reputation as a solo artist, chamber musician and as an ensemble player for many years, and will be performing live in the studio. His choice of music will include works by Robert Johnson, Giovanni Kapsperger, Gregor Huwet and Michelangelo Galilei | |||
| The Powder Treason | 20051105 | Beginning a series of programmes dedicated to the music of Britain. The Early Music Show is dedicating its eight programmes over the month of November to the music of Britain. From Edinburgh to Wales, from Lindisfarne to Canterbury, we'll be celebrating both well-known and more obscure gems from the depths of our nation's history. There'll be music from Charles Avison's early 18th Century Newcastle; music from Westminster Abbey marking the 1000th anniversary of England's only Royal Saint, Edward the Confessor; and music from composers who were working during the Civil War. Plus, music of Exeter Cathedral, the Scottish early music ensemble Concerto Caledonia; music from Canterbury; and a history of Early Music in Wales, from the harp to the little known Crwth! Each of the following seven programmes also include a feature about a related place in Britain. On the anniversary of the Gunpowder plot, the programme explores the music which surrounded the plot and it's aftermath, while hearing the story of the Catholic treason from the viewpoint of William Byrd. Byrd understood the frustrations of the Catholics in England, and he was a composer who, though tolerated by the King for his musical talents, found that a man had been arrested for simply owning one of his own compositions. | ||
| 20051106 | Continuing a series of programmes dedicated to the music of Britain. Lucie Skeaping is joined by James O'Donnell, Susan Rankin and Richard Mortimer at Westminster Abbey to discuss the legacy of Saint Edward the Confessor, England's only Royal Saint, who was born 1000 years ago. There are performances - given by Ensemble Gilles Binchois - of Church music with connections to the Holy King. Andrew Gourlay also chats to James O'Donnell about some of the more recent musical traditions at the Abbey. | |||
| 20051112 | Made in Wales: Part of the series of programmes dedicated to the music of Britain. Sally Harper, in conversation with Catherine Bott, pieces together the fragments of a colourful musical history. | |||
| 20051119 | Part of the series of programmes dedicated to the music of Britain. Lucie Skeaping heads north east to study the music of two early 18th Century composers, William Shield and Charles Avison. Ashley Byrne heads in the same direction to the ancient settlement of Holy Island. | |||
| 20051120 | Continuing a series of programmes dedicated to the music of Britain, presented by Catherine Bott. Music and Canterbury As the pilgrims of Chaucer's tales made their way to Canterbury, music came up a great deal in their conversation. In fact, Chaucer's narrative gives us a fascinating insight into the place of music in society at that time. Their destination, the great cathedral at Canterbury, was itself a focus for music of a quite different kind. | |||
| 20051126 | Part of the series of programmes dedicated to the music of Britain. Lucie Skeaping focuses on the music of times leading up to the English Civil War, the interregnum and the Restoration. Featuring music from composers such as William Lawes, Thomas Tomkins, John Hingeston and John Playford. Plus, Andrew Carwood visits Stonyhurst College in Lancashire - a site used by Oliver Cromwell's army just before their victory at the Battle of Preston. | |||
| 20051127 | Last of the series of programmes dedicated to the music of Britain. Catherine Bott presents a programme of traditional Scottish music, performed live by Concerto Caledonia - including items from James Robertson's music book of 1800 as well as works by James Oswald and Alexander Reinagle. Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits St Cecilia's Hall in Edinburgh, which houses the Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments. | |||
| 20051203 | As a postscript to our Made in Britain month, Catherine Bott presents a concert from the Greenwich International Festival of Early Music. Timothy Travers-Brown and Jacob Herringman perform English lute songs in the Old Royal Navel College Chapel. Old favourites by Campion and Dowland can be heard alongside lesser known pieces in the English repertoire. | |||
| Handel And The Foundling Hospital - Part 2 | 20051211 | Handel's Messiah is one of the most celebrated of all choral works - but it took several years to take up its rightful place in this country. Lucie Skeaping looks back at the history of the Messiah during Handel's lifetime and finds out why London's Foundling Hospital played such a significant part in establishing the Messiah's popularity. | ||
| An Elizabethan Christmas At Lleweni Hall | 20051231 | Organizing a Christmas party always involves writing lists, normally thrown out with the dead crackers. But when a list of party tunes was scribbled in a book of Welsh poetry in the 1590s, a tantalizing glimpse into Tudor life was preserved. Catherine Bott talks to Sally Harper about this fascinating blend of ancient Welsh and modern Tudor culture. | ||
| 20060108 | Catherine Bott visits Santiago de Compostela in Spain. She follows the annual pilgrimage to the cathedral of St James and delves into the music from the Cantigas de Santa Maria. | |||
| 20060121 | Catherine Bott introduces a live concert of Early Music from the Recital Hall of the newly opened City Halls in Glasgow. | |||
| 20060122 | Lucie Skeaping presents a programme of music by the Slovenian composer Jacobus Handl, also known as Jacobus Gallus. He composed over 500 works, mostly sacred, some of which the BBC Singers under Robert Hollingworth perform here, in a recording specially made for the programme. Handl: Musica Musarum germana; Mirabile Mysterium; Benedic Domine; Lamentabatur Jacob. | |||
| 20060128 | Lucie Skeaping visits The George Inn in Southwark to join a meeting of the Merrie Fellowes Catch Club. She is joined by the club's chairman, Patrick Johns | |||
| 20060204 | Catherine Bott talks to the countertenor Michael Chance about the father of all modern day countertenors - Alfred Deller. This remarkable musician brought the countertenor back into the limelight, and was responsible for uncovering a great deal of previously unknown music. Includes music by Morley, Purcell, Handel and Bach. | |||
| 20060205 | Lucie Skeaping presents a concert recorded at St George's Church, Belfast. With motets by Giaches de Wert and Carlo Gesualdo's Tenebrae Responses for Holy Saturday - performed by the BBC Singers, conducted by Andrew Carwood. | |||
| 20060211 | Catherine Bott talks to harpsichordist Maggie Cole about two of the pioneering figures of the harpsichord world in the early 20th century; Wanda Landowska and Violet Gordon Woodhouse. These extraordinary women never met, but their enthusiasm and dedication to their instrument is remarkable. Music includes early recordings of both women, performing Scarlatti, Bach, Rameau and Mozart. | |||
| 20060218 | 3/4. Archive Month: Andrew Manze explores the work of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, a musician who has been at the forefront of the Early Music revolution for the last 50 years. | |||
| 20060219 | Lucie Skeaping introduces three of Bach's Weimar cantatas, as performed by The Purcell Quartet, with Emma Kirkby, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels and Peter Harvey. Recorded at All Saints Church in Hove as part of the 2005 Brighton Early Music Festival, the ensemble plays cantatas BWV 12, 18 and 61. | |||
| Archive Month 4 - The Kuijken Family | 20060225 | 4/4. Archive Month. The Kuijken Family: Lucie Skeaping looks at the careers of the three pioneering Kuijken brothers - Sigiswald, Wieland and Barthold, drawing on favourite moments from recordings. Lucie Skeaping looks at the careers of the three pioneering Kuijken brothers - Sigiswald, Wieland and Barthold, drawing on favourite moments from recordings. | ||
| 20060226 | The Hurdy Gurdy has played a significant part in European music since the middle ages. In Britain alone, paintings, prints and even carvings on cathedrals all point to the past popularity of this instrument. Yet how many people today even know what it sounds like? Lucie Skeaping puts this right in the company of Hurdy Gurdy experts Nigel Eaton and Steve Tyler. | |||
| Before Bach | 20060304 | Lucie Skeaping looks back to some of the composers who most influenced the music of JS Bach. Among composers featured are Telemann, Buxtehude, JC Bach, Schein, Bohm and Vivaldi. | ||
| Innsbruck Early Music Festival | 20060311 | Lucie Skeaping looks back at some of the highlights of the 2005 festival in the castles and churches of the Austrian Alps. | ||
| 20060312 | Palestrina and the Council of Trent The demand, by the Council of Trent, for simplicity in music in order that the words might be heard clearly, placed a serious stumbling block in the path of the development of polyphony in the mid 16th Century. Giovanni Palestrina's musical mastery and his skill at word setting greatly affected the outcome of this difficult situation. Andrew Carwood discusses these fascinating events with Catherine Bott | |||
| 20060318 | Lucie Skeaping presents Musica Antiqua London, directed by Philip Thorby. Music and conversation live from the Old Royal Naval College Chapel in Greenwich. | |||
| Studio Der Frühen Musik | 20060319 | Catherine Bott looks at the history and development of this influential and inspirational early music ensemble - from its formation in Munich through to the final years in Basel. | ||
| 20060325 | 1/2. Michelangelo Buonarroti was a defining genius of the Renaissance. On the opening weekend of the British Museum's new exhibition, Michelangelo Drawings, Catherine Bott talks to curator Hugo Chapman about the beginnings of the 60 stormy years of Michelangelo's life that are represented by his works in the exhibition. They look at the music that would have surrounded Michelangelo in late 15th and early 16th-century Italy. | |||
| 20060326 | 2/2. On the opening weekend of the British Museum's new exhibition called Michelangelo Drawings, Catherine Bott continues her discussion with curator Hugo Chapman about the Renaissance genius. They explore the second half of Michelangelo's life and work, and the programme includes the music of Michelangelo's Italian contemporaries. | |||
| 20060401 | Handel and the Orchestra What sort of ear did Handel have for orchestral colour? What sort of things dictated his choice of instruments in an aria? Looking back to a time when the orchestra was yet to be standardized, Catherine Bott considers the subject with music from Handel's operas and oratorios, including Giulio Cesare, Riccardo Primo and Saul. | |||
| 20060402 | Lucie Skeaping profiles the life, times and music of Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka, one of most neglected figures of the late baroque. Zelenka composed some of the most sumptuous and glorious church music ever written, and won the admiration of many distinguished contemporaries, among them Johann Sebastian Bach. | |||
| 20060408 | William Lawes, an Unmathematical Genius Composer to the court of Charles I, Lawes died young in the turmoil of the Civil War. His music is both exquisitely beautiful and unerringly experimental for its time. Criticised in his own age for failing to adhere to the mathematical rules of music, Lawes still managed to find favour with the King, who referred to him as the 'father of musik'. Andrew Manze explores the life and work of this neglected composer. | |||
| 20060409 | 1/2. Andrew Manze focuses on the music of The Mannheim School. Founded early in the 18th Century by Joseph Stamitz, the Mannheim orchestra quickly became one of the most successful in Europe. | |||
| 20060415 | Lucie Skeaping presents an Easter programme with the BBC Singers, directed by Harry Christophers. Music includes Domenico Scarlatti's Stabat Mater. | |||
| 20060416 | Andrew Manze focuses on the music of The Mannheim School. 2/2. After nearly 50 years of success at the Mannheim court, the orchestra eventually moved to Munich, taking most of its most important musicians with it. Some of the performers became so successful that they were able to tour Europe - Franz Danzi, clarinettist Franz Tausch and Carl Stamitz all made a living off the back of the Mannheim name. | |||
| 20060422 | Andrew Manze takes a parallel look at two masterpieces of 17th century English Opera: John Blow's Venus and Adonis, and Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, ahead of St George's Day. | |||
| Purcell Request Show | 20060423 | Catherine Bott and her guest Gary Cooper play CDs of your favourite Purcell requests and answer any questions you might have about the most famous of English composers. Gary has prepared a selection of Purcell's keyboard music and plays your choices live during the programme. If you'd like to request some Purcell, whether a CD or a piece for Gary to play live in the studio, or you have a question for Kate or Gary, please e-mail earlymusic@bbc.co.uk or contact the Radio Information Line on 08700 100 300 [national rate] | ||
| 20060430 | Andrew Manze is joined in the studio by harpsichordist and musical director Richard Egarr. Egarr, now based in Amsterdam, performs live, and answers questions from Radio 3 listeners. The repertoire includes Frescobaldi, Louis Couperin, Handel and Bach. If you have anything you'd like to ask Richard Egarr, please e-mail the programme at earlymusic@bbc.co.uk, send a text to 83111 [network rates apply], or telephone the Radio 3 Audience Line on 08700 100 300 [national rate] | |||
| 20060506 | Andrew Manze introduces a concert of recently discovered cantatas by JS Bach, given by The Bach Ensemble and soprano Susanne Rydén, directed by Joshua Rifkin. The two cantatas featured are the Köthen version of BWV 199, Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut; and BWV 210a, O! angenehme Melodei! - perhaps one of the most melodious of all of Bach's solo cantatas. | |||
| Il Canto Delle Dame | 20060513 | Lucie Skeaping introduces a concert of music performed by the Argentinian born soprano Maria Christina Kiehr and her group Concerto Soave celebrating Italian women composers of the 17th century. Included is music by Caterina Assandra, Isabella Leonarda and Barbara Strozzi. | ||
| ¡ Ay Mi Alhama! | 20060514 | Catherine Bott and David Miller perform Spanish Romances from the Reconquista. The Ballad was an important musical form at this time. Tess Knighton explores its place in the music of 15th century Spain. | ||
| 20060520 | Lucie Skeaping profiles the life and music of the Italian Baroque composer Tomaso Albinoni, whose output included not only a large number of oboe concertos, but also a vast amount of choral, orchestral and chamber music, and music for the Venetian theatre. Music includes performances by oboist Heinz Holliger, I Solisti Veneti, The Academy of Ancient Music, the Locatelli trio and Tafelmusik. | |||
| 20060521 | Catherine Bott is joined in the studio by the director of The Early Music Network - Glyn Russ, to look ahead to this year's summer festivals. Find out what treats are in store at the Lufthansa Festival of Early Music, the York Early Music Festival, the Brighton Early Music Festival and many more. | |||
| 20060527 | Lucie Skeaping visits the finals of the annual Handel Singing Competition. We'll hear from all the finalists, including a selection from the winner's recital. | |||
| 20060528 | Lucie Skeaping introduces highlights from a concert given at the 2006 Bath Festival by Fretwork, which explores music created by Jewish immigrants for the English Court during the 16th Century. | |||
| 20060603 | 1/2. A whistle-stop tour of the alphabet according to Early Music, starting with the letters A-M. | |||
| 20060604 | 2/2. A whistle-stop tour of the alphabet according to Early Music, ending with the letters N-Z. | |||
| 20060611 | Lucie Skeaping focuses on the baroque recorder, assisted by the group Passacaglia who perform music by Dornel, Marais and Handel. | |||
| 20060617 | Oxford University in the 16th and 17th Centuries had a very distinguished list of musical alumni - John Bull, Thomas Weekes, Morely and Tomkins among them. Andrew Manze investigates the importance of academe to the music of this period and in particular the patronage of William Heather, whose name is still linked to an Oxford professorship. | |||
| 20060618 | Andrew Manze explores the fascinating life of revered Baroque composer Vivaldi. Including music performed by the Venice Baroque Orchestra, the English Concert and the Academy of Ancient Music. | |||
| 20060624 | Lucie Skeaping features highlights from a concert of Italian madrigals by Monteverdi, D'India and Marenzio, given by La Venexiana at the Schwezingen Festivaland. | |||
| 20060625 | Lucie Skeaping looks at the history of the sackbut and its use as an ensemble instrument in Europe during the 16th and 17th Centuries. Music includes pieces by Monteverdi, Gabrieli, Lassus, Scheidt and Locke. Andrew Gourlay visits the home of trombonist and sackbut player Simon Wills for a potted history and demonstration of the instrument. | |||
| Princes And Ambassadors | 20060701 | The year 1524 saw a rather unusual arrival to these shores from the continent. Dr David Skinner reveals all to Andrew Manze, with music from Magdala. | ||
| 20060702 | Lucie Skeaping talks to conductor Harry Christophers about his work with the choir he founded, The Sixteen. | |||
| 20060708 | Catherine Bott presents a live programme from the York Early Music Festival, featuring performances from recorder player Pamela Thorby, the group Liber Unusualis and The York Waits. | |||
| The Brandenburg Concertos | 20060715 | Andrew Manze takes a look at this famous set of pieces, arguably the greatest concertos in the Baroque repertoire, and examines how Bach's own countrymen have chosen to perform the works over the past 50 years. | ||
| Samuel Scheidt | 20060722 | Andrew Manze presents a programme dedicated to the music of the 16th Century German composer, Samuel Scheidt. Music includes performances by Musica Fiata, the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Ensemble, organist Helmut Wacha, The London Sackbutt and Cornett Ensemble and Hesperion. | ||
| Il Canzoniere | 20060723 | The Huelgas Ensemble with their director Paul van Nevel perform Orlando di Lasso's settings of Francesco Petrarch's exquisite love poems. | ||
| 20060730 | Andrew Manze introduces music by Georg Philipp Telemann, in two recordings by Musica Antiqua Köln and The King's Consort. Robert King conducts extracts from Telemann's Wassermusik - Hamburger Ebb' und Fluth in the first part of the programme, and in the second part, soprano Barbara Schlick sings the title role in the dramatic cantata Ino. | |||
| 20060805 | Catherine Bott visits Lisbon to delve into the wealth of music written in Portugal in the 15th and 16th centuries. With music by Manuel Cardoso, Duarte Lobo, and Filipe de Magalhaes. | |||
| 20060806 | Catherine Bott presents the second of two programmes devoted to the early music of Portugal. With music by the great keyboard master Carlos de Seixas, and contemporaries such as Antonio Teixeira and Joao de Sousa Carvalho, this programme highlights the patronage of the Braganca family in the lead-up to the great earthquake of 1755. | |||
| 20060813 | Lucie Skeaping presents a concert recorded at this year's Ludlow Festival, as part of The Sixteen's annual choral pilgrimage. Beautiful Spanish polyphony, performed in the equally beautiful surroundings of the Parish Church of St Laurence in Ludlow. Music includes three of Tomas Luis de Victoria's best known motets and his Requiem of 1605. | |||
| A Musicall Banquet | 20060819 | Catherine Bott introduces a selection of music by John Dowland and his contemporaries taken from anthologies published by the composer's son Robert. Performed by tenor Mark Padmore with lutenist Elizabeth Kenny. | ||
| Double Dutch - 1 - The Age Of The Netherlanders | 20060826 | By the early 16th century, virtually every major musical centre in Europe was run by a musician from the Low Countries. Lucie Skeaping explores the incredible and unexplained golden age of Netherlanders. Composers such as Dufay, Binchois, Ockeghem and Josquin are featured. Jacques Maassen, director of the Netherlands Carillon School in Amersfoort, also guides us through the age-old tradition of carillon playing in the Low Countries. | ||
| 20060902 | Catherine Bott looks to 15th Century Naples, and the cultured and cosmopolitan House of Aragon, featuring music recorded at the York Early Music Festival from the Italian group Ensemble Micrologus. | |||
| Edward The Confessor And The Abbey | 20060903 | Lucie Skeaping is joined by James O'Donnell, Susan Rankin and Richard Mortimer at Westminster Abbey to discuss the legacy of Saint Edward the Confessor, England's only Royal Saint, who was born 1,000 years ago. There will be performances, given by Ensemble Gilles Binchois, of Church music with connections to this Holy King. Andrew Gourlay also chats to James about some of the more recent musical traditions at the Abbey. | ||
| 20060909 | Andrew Manze marks the 65th birthday of keyboard player and conductor Christopher Hogwood, with recordings taken from over 35 years. Including works by Arne, Geminiani, Vivaldi, Handel and Purcell. | |||
| 20060916 | Lucie Skeaping presents a concert of cello duos by Friedrich Kummer, performed by the American cellists Phoebe Carrai and Tanya Tomkins. Recorded at Crear in Argyll and Bute. | |||
| 20060917 | Lucie Skeaping takes a look at the music of the two Gabrielis - Andrea and his nephew Giovanni. They both lived in the stimulating musical climate of 16th-century Venice - and had a taste for rich sonorities, composing ceremonial music of huge expression and technical mastery. | |||
| 20060923 | Catherine Bott interviews four members of the vocal ensemble Gothic Voices, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. Featuring music from the group's extensive discography, including works by Machaut, Pierre de la Rue, Juan del Encina, Hildegard of Bingen - and excerpts from their new disc of works by Solage. | |||
| 20060924 | Accademia Bizantina from Sanssouci: Italian baroque string music from the sumptuous surroundings of the Orangery in the Palace at Potsdam, presented by Lucie Skeaping | |||
| 20061008 | Lucie Skeaping introduces a concert from St Luke's in London. Singer/songwriter Sting, lute player Edin Karamazov and singers Stile Antico explore the life and music of the Elizabethan John Dowland. | |||
| 20061014 | Catherine Bott visits the town of Elche in south eastern Spain to take in the spectacle of its annual Mystery Play. Written in a combination of Latin and the local Valencian dialect, this piece of religious theatre occurs every year on the feast of the Assumption of Mary. | |||
| 20061015 | Lucie Skeaping talks to Jeffrey Skidmore, director of the consort Ex Cathedra, and plays music recorded from their concert at this year's York Early Music Festival. The performance features pieces from the Bourbon dynasty across the world, including works from France by Le Jeune, Lully and Henri Dumont, and Juan de Araujo and Salazar from Spain. | |||
| Francois Couperin's Pieces De Clavecin | 20061021 | Lucie Skeaping is joined by author and harpsichordist Jane Clark for a focus on some of the greatest keyboard music of the French baroque. | ||
| 20061028 | Lucie Skeaping showcases the talents of gamba player Friederike Heumann. Music includes performances of suites by Marin Marais and a gamba duet by Marais's teacher Sainte-Colombe. | |||
| 20061029 | Catherine Bott visits Florence to sample the thriving musical activities of the Accademia San Felice, a cultural association that stages early music concerts and festivals in Tuscany. The academy's resident early music ensemble, under the direction of Federico Bardazzi, researches, performs and records music ranging from plainchant to the baroque. | |||
| Trevor Pinnock At 60 | 20061202 | Catherine Bott is joined by Trevor Pinnock and John Butt to discuss the history, legacy and popularity of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos. The programme includes a feature about Pinnock's newly-formed European Brandenburg Ensemble, from their summer residency in Sheffield. | ||
| Trevor Pinnock At 60 | 20061203 | To celebrate the 60th birthday of one of Britain's best-loved musicians, Catherine Bott talks to Trevor about his career as a harpsichordist and director of The English Concert. The programme includes pieces by J C Bach, Handel, Haydn, Arne and Rameau. | ||
| 20070120 | Catherine Bott's guest is internationally renowned harpsichordist and conductor Emmanuelle Haim. She talks about her career and her work with her ensemble Le Concert d'Astree. Listeners can contact the programme at The Early Music Show, Room 1115, New Broadcasting House, Oxford Road, Manchester M60 1SJ, or call the Radio 3 Audience Line on 08700 100 300. | |||
| 20070121 | Lucie Skeaping talks to harpsichordist Robert Woolley and music editor Dr Richard Jones about Johann Froberger, whose influence is of great importance in the development of baroque keyboard music. His toccatas provided the model for Buxtehude and Bach. They also discuss a recently discovered manuscript, dating from Froberger's final years, that was sold in November at Sotheby's. | |||
| 20070127 | Andrew Manze visits Stockholm to meet recorder player Dan Laurin. Music includes pieces by Van Eyck, Telemann, Vivaldi and John Eccles. | |||
| 20070128 | Andrew Manze visits Drottningholm Palace, home of the Swedish royal family. Music includes works by Duben, Roman and Zellbell. | |||
| 20070203 | Catherine Bott looks at Cavalli's opera Calisto and how approaches to this work have developed since the pioneering recording and performances by Raymond Leppard | |||
| 20070204 | Lucie Skeaping presents highlights from two concerts given in last year's Regensburg Early Music Days Festival. One concert has a Chinese theme and features music by the Italian scientist and missionary Matteo Ricci, who spent the last 27 years of his life in China. | |||
| 20070217 | Andrew Manze charts the life and career of the 18th-century Italian violinist and composer Francesco Maria Veracini. Performers include Bergen Barokk, John Holloway, Capriccio Stravagante and Musica Antiqua Köln. | |||
| 20070218 | Catherine Bott looks at Cavalli's opera Calisto and how approaches to this work have developed since the pioneering recording and performances by Raymond Leppard | |||
| 20070219 | Lucie Skeaping talks to harpsichordist Robert Woolley and music editor Dr Richard Jones about Johann Froberger, whose influence is of great importance in the development of baroque keyboard music. His toccatas provided the model for Buxtehude and Bach. They also discuss a recently discovered manuscript, dating from Froberger's final years, that was sold in November at Sotheby's. | |||
| 20070318 | Andrew Manze presents a programme dedicated to the music of the 16th Century German composer, Samuel Scheidt. Music includes performances by Musica Fiata and Hesperion. | |||
| 20070325 | Lucie Skeaping profiles the life and music of the Italian Baroque composer Tomaso Albinoni, whose output included not only a large number of oboe concertos, but also a vast amount of choral, orchestral and chamber music plus music for the Venetian theatre. The programme includes performances by oboist Heinz Holliger, I Solisti Veneti, The Academy of Ancient Music, the Locatelli trio and Tafelmusik. | |||
| 20070326 | Instrumental music from the court of Dresden. 'Encourage the arts, Madame, nothing lends more posthumous fame to our lives' Friedrich II of Prussia once advised the Electress of Saxony. Saxony and its capital Dresden had long been the centre of European culture and many composers wrote for the Dresden orchestra. Catherine Bott presents a programme of music including works by Heinichen, Hasse and the virtuoso violinist Veracini. | |||
| 20070331 | Catherine Bott presents a live edition of the programme with guests Rogers Covey-Crump, Michael Chance and Mhairi Lawson. They discuss their thoughts and experiences of performing Bach's St Matthew and St John Passions, and play excerpts from recordings of these two great works. | |||
| 20070401 | Robert Hollingworth traces the development of the madrigal and the significance of the texts, with musical examples by Verdelot, Willaert, Marenzio and Monteverdi. | |||
| 20070408 | Catherine Bott traces the development of the violin concerto in Italy, with the violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch. Music includes works by Legrenzi, Torelli, Taglietti and Locatelli. | |||
| 20070414 | Catherine Bott plays music to illustrate the themes in George Herbert's short, meditative poem The Pulley. | |||
| 20070415 | Catherine Bott traces the development of the violin concerto in Italy and discusses this with violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch. Music includes works by Legrenzi, Torelli, Taglietti and Locatelli. | |||
| 20070416 | Robert Hollingworth traces the development of the madrigal and the significance of the texts. He illustrates with musical examples, including madrigals by Verdelot, Willaert, Marenzio and Monteverdi. | |||
| 20070422 | Catherine Bott presents a Latin-American amalgam of two concerts given during the 2006 Flanders Festival in Antwerp, featuring Argentinian group Musica Temprana and Rolf Lislevand's Ensemble Kapsberger. The music performed comes from the Iberian peninsula and South America, and includes songs and instrumental works by Juan de Araujo and Santiago de Murcia. | |||
| 20070423 | George Herbert's poem The Pulley is Catherine Bott's inspiration for this programme, and she plays music to illustrate the themes included within this short, but meditative, poem. | |||
| 20070526 | Lucie Skeaping features the music of the Lincolnshire-born composer and church musician John Taverner. Unequalled among English musicians of his time, he combined the florid writing of the late-medieval period with newer continental Renaissance influences. | |||
| 20070602 | To mark the 250th anniversary of the death of Domenico Scarlatti, Catherine Bott presents a programme of harpsichord works performed by Carole Cerasi at the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music. Plus a feature in which David Vickers examines Scarlatti's years in Spain. | |||
| 20070603 | Lucie Skeaping features the music of the Lincolnshire-born composer and church musician, John Taverner. Unequalled among English musicians of his time, he combined the florid writing of the late-medieval period with newer continental Renaissance influences. | |||
| 20070609 | Lucie Skeaping presents a concert given by the young French countertenor, Philippe Jaroussky. With his group, Ensemble Ataserse, Jaroussky performs, amongst other works, Scarlatti's Per un vago desire and Handel's Lungi da me pensier tiranno. | |||
| 20070610 | To mark the 250th anniversary of the death of Domenico Scarlatti, Catherine Bott presents a programme of harpsichord works performed by Carole Cerasi at the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music. David Vickers also focuses on Scarlatti's years in Spain. | |||
| 20070611 | It is now being repeated 8 days after the ordiginal broadcast. | |||
| 20070617 | Lucie Skeaping presents a concert given by the young French countertenor, Philippe Jaroussky. With his group, Ensemble Ataserse, Jaroussky performs works by Scarlatti and Handel, including the Handel cantatas Lungi da me pensier tiranno and Mi palpita il cor. | |||
| 20070623 | Lucie Skeaping presents two programmes devoted to the life and music of Dieterich Buxtehude, who died 300 years ago this year. Buxtehude is known as the leading German composer between Schutz and Bach, and many of his organ compositions were considered avant-garde in their day. 1/2. Lucie travels to Lubeck to find out more about the composer's life by visiting places connected to him, including St Mary's Church where he was the organist from 1668. | |||
| 20070624 | Lucie Skeaping presents two programmes devoted to the life and music of Dieterich Buxtehude, who died 300 years ago this year. 2/2. Lucie presents highlights of several concerts recorded in Lubeck and in Buxtehude's hometown of Helsingor. Music includes performances by countertenor Andreas Scholl, organist Bine Bryndorf and Cantus Colln directed by Konrad Jungahanel. | |||
| 20070701 | Andrew Manze introduces music by Telemann, in two recordings by Musica Antiqua Koln and The King's Consort. With excerpts from Telemann's Wassermusik followed by soprano Barbara Schlick singing the title role in the dramatic cantata Ino. | |||
| 20070702 | In the 16th and 17th centuries, Oxford University had a very distinguished list of musical alumni, John Bull, Thomas Weelkes, Morley and Tomkins among them. Andrew Manze investigates the importance of academe to the music of this period and in particular the patronage of William Heather, whose name is still linked to an Oxford professorship. | |||
| 20070709 | Lucie Skeaping presents two programmes devoted to the life and music of Dieterich Buxtehude, who died 300 years ago this year. 2/2. Lucie presents highlights of several concerts recorded in Lubeck and in Buxtehude's hometown of Helsingor. Music includes performances by countertenor Andreas Scholl, organist Bine Bryndorf and Cantus Colln directed by Konrad Jungahanel. | |||
| 20070805 | Lucie Skeaping presents a profile of Gluck's magnum opus, Orpheus ed Eurydice. The Age of Enlightenment was concerned with the natural, the rational and the human, and Gluck was very much part of that world, striving for what he called 'a beautiful simplicity'. First performed in Vienna in 1762, this work is one of the most influential operas of all time, and along with librettist Calzabigi and choreographer Angiolini, Gluck created a whole new world on the opera stage. Recordings include performances by Janet Baker, James Bowman, Derek Lee Ragin and Bernarda Fink. Catherine Bott talks to Michael Chance about the father of all modern day countertenors, Alfred Deller. This remarkable musician brought the countertenor back into the limelight, and was responsible for uncovering a great deal of previously unknown music. The programme includes music by Morley, Purcell, Handel and Bach. | |||
| 20070812 | Lucie Skeaping looks at the history of the sackbut and its use as an ensemble instrument in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries. Music includes pieces by Monteverdi, Gabrieli, Lassus, Scheidt and Locke. Andrew Gourlay visits the home of trombonist and sackbut player Simon Wills for a potted history and demonstration of the instrument. | |||
| 20070813 | Lucie Skeaping presents a profile of Gluck's magnum opus, Orpheus ed Eurydice. The Age of Enlightenment was concerned with the natural, the rational and the human, and Gluck was very much part of that world, striving for what he called 'a beautiful simplicity'. First performed in Vienna in 1762, this work is one of the most influential operas of all time, and along with librettist Calzabigi and choreographer Angiolini, Gluck created a whole new world on the opera stage. Recordings include performances by Janet Baker, James Bowman, Derek Lee Ragin and Bernarda Fink. | |||
| 20070818 | 20070826 | Lucie Skeaping visits Stirling Castle and talks to James Ross about the music that may have been heard there during the time of Mary Queen of Scots. Music includes excerpts from a mass by Robert Carver. Plus a feature about the work of French Huguenot composer Jean Servin. | ||
| 20070820 | Lucie Skeaping looks at the history of the sackbut and its use as an ensemble instrument in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries. Music includes pieces by Monteverdi, Gabrieli, Lassus, Scheidt and Locke. Andrew Gourlay visits the home of trombonist and sackbut player Simon Wills for a potted history and demonstration of the instrument. | |||
| 20070826 | In the first of the Early Music Show's programmes covering this year's Edinburgh International Festival, Catherine Bott presents highlights of a concert from Greyfriar's Kirk of madrigals from the sixth book by Monteverdi given by Concerto Italiano directed by Rinaldo Alessandrini. | |||
| 20070903 | Catherine Bott presents highlights of a concert of madrigals from the sixth book by Monteverdi, given by the Concerto Italiano directed by Rinaldo Alessandrini | |||
| 20070908 | 20070916 | Catherine Bott introduces highlights from a concert given at Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh as part of the 2007 Edinburgh Festival. The Tallis Scholars, conducted by Peter Phillips, perform sacred music from the Iberian peninsula, including beautiful Marian masses and motets by Victoria, Guerrero, Lobo and Padilla. | ||
| 20070909 | Ashley Solomon presents a programme of music from the Italian Renaissance, with sacred and secular vocal works by Gesualdo, Monteverdi, Luzzaschi and Strozzi. James Weeks conducts the vocal ensemble Exaudi in highlights from concerts given at the 2007 Aldeburgh Festival and the Brighton Soundworks Festival. | |||
| 20070916 | Lucie Skeaping introduces highlights from a concert given at the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, as part of the 2007 Edinburgh Festival. Violinist Chiara Banchini with Ensemble 415 make their Edinburgh debut with a programme of Italian chamber sonatas by Corelli, Vivaldi and the Paginini of his day, Pietro Antonio Locatelli. | |||
| 20070917 | Ashley Solomon presents a programme of music from the Italian Renaissance, with sacred and secular vocal works by Gesualdo, Monteverdi, Luzzaschi and Strozzi. James Weeks conducts the vocal ensemble Exaudi in highlights from concerts given at the 2007 Aldeburgh Festival and the Brighton Soundworks Festival. | |||
| 20070924 | Lucie Skeaping introduces highlights from a concert given at the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, as part of the 2007 Edinburgh Festival. Violinist Chiara Banchini with Ensemble 415 make their Edinburgh debut with a programme of Italian chamber sonatas by Corelli, Vivaldi and the Paginini of his day, Pietro Antonio Locatelli. | |||
| 20071006 | Children of the Revolution 1/2. Lucie Skeaping looks at the music of the French Revolution and some of the composers who lived and worked in Paris through the years of terror at the end of the 18th century. With music by Gretry, Gossec, Cherubini, Edelmann and Mehul. | |||
| 20071007 | Children of the Revolution 2/2. Lucie Skeaping looks at the music of the French Revolution and those who lived and worked in Paris through the years of terror at the end of the 18th century. Featured composers include Gossec, Cherubini, Mehul, Boieldieu and Dussek. The Sixteen, A Choral Pilgrimage: Music from the Sistine Chapel Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a concert given by The Sixteen under their director Harry Christophers at York Minster as part of the York Early Music Festival. The music all comes from the Vatican library and includes works by Anerio, Palestrina and Allegri. | |||
| 20071008 | David Munrow As part of Radio 3's 40th anniversary season, Andrew Manze presents a performer portrait of one of this country's most influential early music pioneers, David Munrow. Archive performances include Bach's Cantata No 54 and music by Telemann and Purcell. | |||
| 20071014 | Children of the Revolution 1/2. Lucie Skeaping looks at the music of the French Revolution and some of the composers who lived and worked in Paris through the years of terror at the end of the 18th century. With music by Gretry, Gossec, Cherubini, Edelmann and Mehul. | |||
| 20071021 | As part of Radio 3's 40th anniversary season, Catherine Bott hosts a discussion looking back at Radio 3's output of early music. Guests include Andrew Parrott and Graham Dixon, and together they delve into the BBC archives. | |||
| 20071027 | Robert Hollingworth traces the development of the madrigal and the significance of the texts, with musical examples by Verdelot, Willaert, Marenzio and Monteverdi. | |||
| 20071028 | Written in Their Spare Time: Lucie Skeaping examines music composed by the musicians of St Mark's in the 16th and 17th centuries to be performed outside the church. Battle Music Lucie Skeaping explores compositions with a battle theme. It is no wonder that 17th century composers were fascinated by warfare: the Thirty Years War is perhaps what fired the imagination of Biber in his Battalia. Including works by Schmelzer, Scheidt and Janequin. | |||
| 20071103 | Never the Twain Shall Meet 'East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet', so wrote Rudyard Kipling, but in the world of early music at least, the artistry of the Middle East exerted a huge influence on the instruments and compositions of Europe. From Greek music theory to wandering minstrels, and poetic song-forms to filigree melodies, Lucie Skeaping surveys the musical legacy of this lively contact, visiting medieval dance-music, Sephardic song and plainchant along the way. | |||
| 20071104 | Robert Hollingworth traces the development of the madrigal and the significance of the texts, with musical examples by Verdelot, Willaert, Marenzio and Monteverdi. | |||
| 20071110 | Catherine Bott presents highlights of a concert by Theatre of Voices and Ars Nova Copenhagen, in a programme including John Taverner's Western Wind Mass, given at this year's Edinburgh International Festival. | |||
| 20071111 | Lucie Skeaping talks to musicologist Ian Gammie about the life and travels of the inimitable Charles Burney The 18th century music-writer, teacher, organist and composer was well known for having opinions on just about everything and, during his extensive travels through Europe, he met some of the great musical luminaries of his day, including Padre Martini, Scarlatti and even the young Mozart. | |||
| 20071118 | Lucie Skeaping talks to Arni Ingolfsson about one of the most important surviving Icelandic music manuscripts, Melodia or Rask 98, which was written around 1660 by an unknown scribe. It contains 223 songs, more than virtually any other Icelandic collection, and many of them are unique to this source. Ingolfsson also founded the vocal ensemble Carmina, who specialise in renaissance polyphony, and the programme includes some of their recordings of music from this and other Icelandic manuscripts. Catherine Bott presents highlights of a concert by Theatre of Voices and Ars Nova Copenhagen, in a programme including John Taverner's Western Wind Mass, given at this year's Edinburgh International Festival. | |||
| 20071119 | Lucie Skeaping talks to musicologist Ian Gammie about the life and travels of the inimitable Charles Burney The 18th century music-writer, teacher, organist and composer was well known for having opinions on just about everything and, during his extensive travels through Europe, he met some of the great musical luminaries of his day, including Padre Martini, Scarlatti and even the young Mozart. | |||
| 20071124 | 20071202 | Harpsichordist and conductor Laurence Cummings explores the life and operas of Reinhard Keiser. Keiser was a prolific composer of opera in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, but his music was often neglected in favour Handel's work, who in fact was influenced by and borrowed musical ideas from Keiser. | ||
| 20071125 | Lucie Skeaping delves into the riddles which lie behind Bach's late great masterpiece, the Art of Fugue. Considered to be the definitive exploration of musical counterpoint, there are still many mysteries about the work which remain unsettled to this day. Mr and Mrs Hasse A profile of the German-born composer Hasse, who married the widely celebrated mezzo-soprano Faustina Bordoni. Hasse enjoyed great success both at home in Germany and in Italy, but this was short-lived. Lucie Skeaping plays chamber, vocal and orchestral music by Hasse, and recounts tales of his wife's behaviour in the opera house. | |||
| 20071126 | Lucie Skeaping talks to Arni Ingolfsson about one of the most important surviving Icelandic music manuscripts, Melodia or Rask 98, which was written around 1660 by an unknown scribe. It contains 223 songs, more than virtually any other Icelandic collection, and many of them are unique to this source. Ingolfsson also founded the vocal ensemble Carmina, who specialise in renaissance polyphony, and the programme includes some of their recordings of music from this and other Icelandic manuscripts. | |||
| 20071201 | Catherine Bott looks at Cavalli's opera La Calisto and how approaches to this work have developed since the pioneering recording and performances by Raymond Leppard. | |||
| 20071202 | 20071210 | The year 1685 is considered an annus mirabilis as it was the birth year of three great composers, Handel, JS Bach and Domenico Scarlatti. Catherine Bott presents a programme that puts this year into the context of the musical world these three were born into. Music includes works by Purcell, Corelli, Bononcini and Lully. | ||
| 20071203 | Lucie Skeaping delves into the riddles which lie behind Bach's late great masterpiece, the Art of Fugue. Considered to be the definitive exploration of musical counterpoint, there are still many mysteries about the work which remain unsettled to this day. | |||
| 20071209 | Catherine Bott looks at Cavalli's opera La Calisto and how approaches to this work have developed since the pioneering recording and performances by Raymond Leppard | |||
| 20071215 | Lucie Skeaping presents a programme devoted to the life and music of Dieterich Buxtehude, who died 300 years ago this year. Buxtehude is known as the leading German composer between Schutz and Bach, and many of his organ compositions were considered avant-garde in their day. Lucie travels to Lubeck to find out more about the composer's life by visiting places connected to him, including St Mary's Church where he was the organist from 1668. | |||
| 20071223 | Lucie Skeaping presents a programme devoted to the life and music of Dieterich Buxtehude, who died 300 years ago this year. Buxtehude is known as the leading German composer between Schutz and Bach, and many of his organ compositions were considered avant-garde in their day. Lucie travels to Lubeck to find out more about the composer's life by visiting places connected to him, including St Mary's Church where he was the organist from 1668. | |||
| 20071229 | Catherine Bott presents a portrait of the intriguing Spanish monk and composer Padre Antonio Soler. A disciple of Domenico Scarlatti, Soler entered the monastery at El Escorial, near Madrid, in 1752, where he remained for the last 31 years of his life, composing keyboard sonatas, chamber music and choral works. | |||
| 20071230 | Lucie Skeaping focuses on a fascinating collection of 17th century German instrumental music known as Das Partiturbuch Ludwig. Assembled by Jacob Ludwig as a birthday present for his patron Duke August of Gotha, the collection features composers from all over Germany, including Antonio Bertali, Johann Nicolai, Johann Schmelzer, Adam Drese, Samuel Capricornus and Nathanael Schnittelbach. | |||
| 20080106 | 20081220 | Lucie Skeaping presents a programme devoted to Euripides's great tragedy of Medea, and the setting by Charpentier. The French composer was over-shadowed to a certain extent by his contemporary Lully, and it is only in the last few decades that Charpentier's opera has been rediscovered. The music is considered some of Charpentier's finest, and this 17th-century work includes the use of stage machinery and fireworks. Lucie Skeaping presents a programme devoted to Euripides's great tragedy of Medea, and the setting by the French composer Charpentier. Charpentier was over-shadowed to a certain extent by his contemporary Lully, and it is really only in the last few decades that this opera has been rediscovered. The music is considered some of Charpentier's finest, and one can only imagine the spectacle the drama created through its use of stage machinery and fireworks in the 17th century!. | ||
| 20080107 | Lucie Skeaping focuses on a fascinating collection of 17th century German instrumental music known as Das Partiturbuch Ludwig. Assembled by Jacob Ludwig as a birthday present for his patron Duke August of Gotha, the collection features composers from all over Germany, including Antonio Bertali, Johann Nicolai, Johann Schmelzer, Adam Drese, Samuel Capricornus and Nathanael Schnittelbach. | |||
| 20080112 | Catherine Bott presents selected highlights from the 2007 Stockholm Early Music Festival, with performances by young Swedish ensemble Gorg Baroque, and recorder player Kerstin Fr, cellist Chrichan Larson and harpsichordist Peter Lrberg. Music includes works with a Swedish connection by Franz Tunder, Christian Geist and Buxtehude. | |||
| 20080114 | Lucie Skeaping presents a programme devoted to Euripides's great tragedy of Medea, and the setting by the French composer Charpentier. Charpentier was over-shadowed to a certain extent by his contemporary Lully, and it is really only in the last few decades that this opera has been rediscovered. The music is considered some of Charpentier's finest, and one can only imagine the spectacle the drama created through its use of stage machinery and fireworks in the 17th century!. | |||
| 20080119 | Lucie Skeaping features the music of the Lincolnshire-born composer and church musician John Taverner. Unequalled among English musicians of his time, he combined the florid writing of the late Medieval period with newer continental Renaissance influences. | |||
| 20080120 | Catherine Bott presents a portrait of the intriguing Spanish monk and composer Padre Antonio Soler. A disciple of Domenico Scarlatti, Soler entered the monastery at El Escorial, near Madrid, in 1752, where he remained for the last 31 years of his life, composing keyboard sonatas, chamber music and choral works. | |||
| 20080121 | Catherine Bott plays music to illustrate the themes included in George Herbert's short but meditative poem The Pulley. | |||
| 20080127 | To lead into The Early Music Show's Versailles and Paris month, Lucie Skeaping presents a recital by Le Concert d'Astree under Emmanuelle Haim. Given in October 2007 at the Galerie des Batailles, Versailles as part of the Louis XV weekend, it includes works by Leclair, Rameau and Dauvergne. Lucie Skeaping features the music of the Lincolnshire-born composer and church musician John Taverner. Unequalled among English musicians of his time, he combined the florid writing of the late-medieval period with newer continental Renaissance influences. | |||
| 20080128 | Catherine Bott plays music to illustrate the themes included in George Herbert's short but meditative poem The Pulley. | |||
| 20080204 | Catherine Bott talks to Maggie Cole about two great harpsichordists of the early 20th century, Wanda Landowska and Violet Gordon Woodhouse. These extraordinary women never met, but their enthusiasm and dedication to their instrument was remarkable. Music includes early recordings of pieces by Scarlatti, Bach, Rameau and Mozart. | |||
| 20080316 | 2/2. Stabat Mater: Catherine Bott presents excerpts from settings of the Stabat mater dolorosa by Josquin Desprez, Pergolesi and Scarlatti. | |||
| 20080324 | 2/2. Stabat Mater: Catherine Bott presents excerpts from settings of the Stabat mater dolorosa by Josquin Desprez, Pergolesi and Scarlatti. | |||
| 20080519 | Andrew Manze charts the life and career of the 18th-century Italian violinist and composer Francesco Maria Veracini. Performers include Bergen Barokk, John Holloway, Capriccio Stravagante and Musica Antiqua Koln. | |||
| 20080608 | Catherine Bott introduces a programme of baroque music performed by violinist Jennifer Pike and the Manchester Camerata, under conductor Nicholas Kraemer. Vivaldi's The Four Seasons is the main work in a performance shaped by the text of Vivaldi's poems that prompted this famous set of concertos. | |||
| 20080609 | Catherine Bott traces the development of the violin concerto in Italy, with violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch. Music includes works by Legrenzi, Torelli, Taglietti and Locatelli. | |||
| 20080615 | Lucie Skeaping presents a programme which looks at the years Heinrich Schutz spent in Venice and Dresden. The music includes some of his earliest work and a set of madrigals as well as excerpts from the Psalmen David and the 1625 Cantiones Sacrae. | |||
| 20080616 | Catherine Bott introduces a programme of baroque music performed by violinist Jennifer Pike and the Manchester Camerata, under conductor Nicholas Kraemer. Vivaldi's The Four Seasons is the main work in a performance shaped by the text of Vivaldi's poems that prompted this famous set of concertos. | |||
| 20080621 | 20080629 | To celebrate the King's Singers' 40th anniversary, guest presenter Robert Hollingworth is joined by one of the founder baritones of the group, Simon Carrington, and two current members David Hurley and Christopher Gabbitas. They look back at the 16th and 17th century repertoire covered by the King's Singers since they formed in 1968, and talk about their approach to performing sacred and secular music from this time. | ||
| 20080623 | Lucie Skeaping presents a programme which looks at the years Heinrich Schutz spent in Venice and Dresden. The music includes some of his earliest work and a set of madrigals as well as excerpts from the Psalmen David and the 1625 Cantiones Sacrae. | |||
| 20080628 | Lucie Skeaping talks to musicologist Ian Gammie about the life and travels of Charles Burney, an 18th-century music-writer and teacher who knew the great musical figures of his day. | |||
| 20080629 | Lucie Skeaping interviews musician and publisher Ian Gammie about Dr Charles Burney's musical perambulations through Germany and The Netherlands in the 1770s, as he sought to gather information for his proposed publication of A History of Music on his second European journey. With music by some of the composers he met along the way, including Gluck, Hasse and Quantz. | |||
| 20080705 | Catherine Bott presents a look at some of the composers who worked at the court of the colourful Christian IV of Denmark. The music includes works by imports to the court including Dowland, Bertolusi and Schutz, but also homegrown composers such as Hans Nielsen, Mogens Pederson and Soren Terkelsen. | |||
| 20080706 | Lucie Skeaping focuses on a fascinating collection of 17th century German instrumental music known as Das Partiturbuch Ludwig. Assembled by Jacob Ludwig as a birthday present for his patron Duke August of Gotha, the collection features composers from all over Germany, including Antonio Bertali, Johann Nicolai, Johann Schmelzer, Adam Drese, Samuel Capricornus and Nathanael Schnittelbach. Lucie Skeaping presents a live edition of the programme from the National Centre for Early Music in York from this year's York Early Music Festival. Lucie welcomes some of the performers taking part in the Festival, including Rachel Podger, Robin Blaze and the winners of last year's Young Artists Competition, Le Jardin Secret. | |||
| 20080713 | Catherine Bott presents a look at some of the composers who worked at the court of the colourful Christian IV of Denmark. The music includes works by imports to the court including Dowland, Bertolusi and Schutz, but also homegrown composers such as Hans Nielsen, Mogens Pederson and Soren Terkelsen. | |||
| 20080720 | 20080728 | Lucie Skeaping traces the schoolboy years of one of England's greatest composers, Henry Purcell, looking at how he came under the influence of several different composers and church musicians, who were to shape his musical future. Purcell's birth coincided with a hugely turbulent time in English political history and while there are no baptismal records, it is likely that he was born in a house just a few hundred yards from Westminster Abbey, the place were he would eventually make much of his career and reputation. | ||
| 20080809 | Lucie Skeaping delves into the riddles that lie behind Bach's late great masterpiece the Art of Fugue. Considered to be the definitive exploration of musical counterpoint, there are still many mysteries about the work that remain unsettled to this day. Bach: Contrapunctus I (version for 2 harpsichords) (Art of Fugue) Ton Koopman ERATO 4509-96387-2 - Tr 1 Bach: Contrapunctus 3 and 4 (Art of Fugue) Joanna MacGregor COLLINS CLASSICS 70432 (2) - Trs 3 and 4 Bach: Contrapunctus 8 (Art of Fugue) Gustav Leonhardt DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI GD77013 - Disc 1 Tr 8 Bach: Contrapunctus 9 (Art of Fugue) Hesperion XX Jordi Savall (director) ASTREE E8522 - Tr 20 Bach: Contrapunctus 10 (Art of Fugue) Julliard String Quartet SONY CLASSICAL S2K45937 - Tr 10 Bach: Contrapunctus 13 a 3 inversus/ a 3 rectus (Art of Fugue) Charles Rosen SONY CLASSICAL SB2K63231 - Disc 2 Trs 12 and 13 Bach: Contrapunctus 14 (unfinished) (Art of Fugue) Glenn Gould SONY CLASSICAL SMK52595 - Tr 16 Bach: Organ Prelude Vor deinen Thron tret ich, BWV 686 Teldec 4509944592 - Disc 1, Tr 18. | |||
| 20080810 | Lucie Skeaping explores the troubled life of British composer Dr John Bull and his music. He had more than his fair share of difficulties throughout his life: he was blighted by poverty, dismissed from at least three jobs, a victim of highway robbery, robbed by pirates and involved in a scandal which led to a self-imposed exile from his homeland. Lucie Skeaping talks to musicologist Ian Gammie about the life and travels of the inimitable Charles Burney. The 18th century music-writer, teacher, organist and composer was well known for having opinions on just about everything and, during his extensive travels through Europe, he met some of the great musical luminaries of his day, including Padre Martini, Scarlatti and even the young Mozart. Gretry: Overture: L'amitie a l'epreuve Orchestre de Bretagne Stefan Sanderling (conductor) ASV CD DCA 1095 - Tr 12 Palestrina: Exsultate Deo Choir of St John's College, Cambridge George Guest (director) MERIDIAN CDA 84163 - Tr 3 Piccinni: Venga pur: che bel piacere (Le donne vindicate) Sylva Pozzer, Giuliana Castellani (soprano) Vincenzo di Donato (tenor) Mauro Buda (baritone) I Barocchisti Diego Fasolis (conductor) CHANDOS CHAN 0705 - Disc 2 Tr 15 Allegri: Miserere A Sei Voci Bernard Fabre-Garrus (director) ASTREE AUVIDIS E 8524 - Tr 1 Scarlatti: Il Nerone Elizabeth Scholl (soprano) Modo Antiquo Federico Maria Sardelli (director) CPO 777 141-2 - Trs 18-24 Girolamo Montesardo: Scherzo di Ninfe Mathieu Abelli (tenor) Fuoco e Cenere Jay Bernfeld (director) ARION ARN 68730 - Tr 5. | |||
| 20080811 | Lucie Skeaping interviews musician and publisher Ian Gammie about Dr Charles Burney's musical perambulations through Germany and The Netherlands in the 1770s, as he sought to gather information for his proposed publication of A History of Music on his second European journey. With music by some of the composers he met along the way, including Gluck, Hasse and Quantz. Handel: See The Conquering Hero Comes (excerpt) Adrian Gebruers (The Carillon of St John's Kirk, Perth) SAYDISC CD SDL 429 - Tr 15 Johann Stamitz: Concerto for viola and orchestra in G (1st mvt) Jan Peruska (viola) Prague Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) PANTON 81 1422-2 131 - Tr 4 Abel: Sonata in G for viola da gamba Susanne Heinrich (viola da gamba) HYPERION CDA 67628 - Trs 11-14 Gluck: Par un pere cruel (Iphigenie en Aulide) Ann Sophie von Otter (Clytemnestre) Orchestre de L'Opera de Lyon John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) ERATO 2292 45003-2 - CD2 Tr 5 Haydn: String Quartet in A minor, H III 36 (2nd mvt) Hagen Quartet DG 439 920-2 - CD 2 Track 10 Hasse: Digli che io son fedele (Cleofide) Emma Kirkby (Cleofide) Capella Coloniensis William Christie (conductor) CAPRICCIO 10 193 - CD3 Tr 2 Quantz: Concerto in A, No 256 (3rd mvt) Rachel Brown (flute) The Brandenburg Consort Roy Goodman (director) HYPERION CDA 66927 - Tr 3 CPE Bach: Keyboard Sonata in G, Wq 62 No 2 Miklos Spanyi (clavichord) BIS CD 963 - Trs 4-6. | |||
| 20080817 | Lucie Skeaping delves into the riddles that lie behind Bach's late great masterpiece the Art of Fugue. Considered to be the definitive exploration of musical counterpoint, there are still many mysteries about the work that remain unsettled to this day. Bach: Contrapunctus I (version for 2 harpsichords) (Art of Fugue) Ton Koopman ERATO 4509-96387-2 - Tr 1 Bach: Contrapunctus 3 and 4 (Art of Fugue) Joanna MacGregor COLLINS CLASSICS 70432 (2) - Trs 3 and 4 Bach: Contrapunctus 8 (Art of Fugue) Gustav Leonhardt DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI GD77013 - Disc 1 Tr 8 Bach: Contrapunctus 9 (Art of Fugue) Hesperion XX Jordi Savall (director) ASTREE E8522 - Tr 20 Bach: Contrapunctus 10 (Art of Fugue) Julliard String Quartet SONY CLASSICAL S2K45937 - Tr 10 Bach: Contrapunctus 13 a 3 inversus/ a 3 rectus (Art of Fugue) Charles Rosen SONY CLASSICAL SB2K63231 - Disc 2 Trs 12 and 13 Bach: Contrapunctus 14 (unfinished) (Art of Fugue) Glenn Gould SONY CLASSICAL SMK52595 - Tr 16 Bach: Organ Prelude Vor deinen Thron tret ich, BWV 686 Teldec 4509944592 - Disc 1, Tr 18 | |||
| 20080818 | Lucie Skeaping explores the troubled life of British composer Dr John Bull and his music. He had more than his fair share of difficulties throughout his life: he was blighted by poverty, dismissed from at least three jobs, a victim of highway robbery, robbed by pirates and involved in a scandal which led to a self-imposed exile from his homeland. | |||
| 20080830 | Curtals, Dulcians, Fagotts and Bassoons Lucie Skeaping looks at how the bassoon developed from its forerunner - the curtal, dulcian or bajon, with the help of experts Maggie Kilbey and Andrew Watts. The programme includes music by Schutz, Salazar, Bertoli, Padilla, Handel, Vivaldi and Telemann. | |||
| 20080831 | 20090405 | Catherine Bott explores Rameau's opera Hippolyte et Aricie. All music taken from a CD recording of Hippolyte et Aricie Label: Erato 063015517-2 Act I scenes 4-6 Princesse, ce grand jour; Bruit de Trompettes et choeur ‘Dieux vengeurs’; Ne vous alarmez pas d’un projet téméraire; Quoi! La terre et le ciel contre moi sont armés! Phèdre, Lorraine Hunt, soprano Aricia, Anna Maria Panzarella, soprano Diane, Eirian James, mezzo & Chorus Les Arts Florissants William Christie, director CD 1 Tracks 17 – 20 incl. Act II scene 1 Laisse-moi respirer Thesée, Laurent Naouri, bass Tisiphone, François Piolino, tenor CD 2 Track 1 Act II scene 3 Qu’ a server mon courroux Pluton, Nathan Berg, bass Chorus CD 2 Track 3 Act II scene 5 Vous, qui de l’avenir percez la nuit profonde Pluton, trio of 3 fates: Christopher Josey, tenor; Matthieu Lécroart, baritone; Bertand Bontoux, bass CD 2 Track 10 Act III scenes 3 – 5 Duo ‘Ma fureur va tout entreprendre’ Récitatif ‘Mais, pour l’objet de mon amour’; Que vois-je? ; Sur qui doit tomber ma colère? Phèdre, Lorraine Hunt Hippolyte, Mark Padmore Thésée, Laurent Naouri CD 2 Tracks 14 – 16 incl. Act III scene 9 Quels biens! CD 2 Track 22 Act IV from scenes 3 & 4 Bruit de la Mer et Vents ‘Quel bruit! quels vents!; Quelle plainte en ces lieux m’appelle? Choir Aricie, Anna_Marai Panzarella CD 3 Tracks 8 & 9 Act V scenes 1 & 2 Grands dieux! De quells remords je me sens déchiré; Arrête! ; Je ne te verrais plus. Neptune, Nathan Berg CD 3 Tracks 10 – 12 incl Act V from final scene: Rossignols amoureux Shepherdess aria Shepherdess: Patricia Petibon CD 3 Track 21 Act V from final scene (Extract): Que tout soit heureux CD 3 Track 23 Catherine Bott explores Rameau's opera Hippolyte et Aricie. When first in production in 1733, the opera was considered controversial and revolutionary, but is now thought to be one of the composer's finest achievements. | ||
| 20080907 | Lucie Skeaping introduces a programme of music written in celebration of Queen Elizabeth I, who was born 475 years ago. | |||
| 20080908 | Catherine Bott explores Rameau's opera Hippolyte et Aricie. When first in production in 1733, the opera was considered controversial and revolutionary, but is now thought to be one of the composer's finest achievements. | |||
| 20080913 | Lucie Skeaping explores the turbulent lives and music of three composers from the same 18th century family - the Stamitzes. Bohemian-born Joseph Stamitz made a name for himself as the music director at the Dresden court in Germany, and was famous for nurturing the Mannheim School, arguably the best, most stylish orchestra in Europe at that time. He died young, but left two equally talented sons, Carl and Anton, who both rose to stardom as performers and composers, taking pre-Revolutionary Paris by storm. The brothers were both plagued by poor financial acumen, so their success was relatively shortlived. Anton died in a Parisian asylum and Carl spent the most part of his life as a travelling virtuoso, trying his best to make ends meet. They left a legacy of compositions, including symphonies which are considered to be among the most influential of the time. | |||
| 20080914 | Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of the 2007 Flanders Festival, which focused on French music from the middle ages until 1600. The concerts feature works by Antoine Brumel, Robert Ballard, Jean de la Ceppede, Pierre Guedron, Giovanni Paladino and Johannes Prioris. Performers for these pieces incude Ensemble Clement Janequin, Capilla Flamenca, Oltremontano, Ensemble Faenza, Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse and lutenist Paul O'Dette. Ich bin ein Hamburger Catherine Bott presents music written by composers who lived in or were from the German city of Hamburg. Including works by Praetorius, Weckmann, Scheidemann, Conradi, Handel, Telemann and CPE Bach. | |||
| 20080915 | Lucie Skeaping introduces a programme of music written in celebration of Queen Elizabeth I, who was born 475 years ago. | |||
| 20080920 | Catherine Bott introduces a programme of Purcell anthems recorded at the Brinkburn Festival in Northumberland. Purcell wrote sacred music throughout his creative life and left a fantastic body of verse anthems for strings and voices, several of which were featured in a concert given by the Gabrieli Consort, directed by Paul McCreesh, at the 2008 Brinkburn Festival. Performed in the wonderful acoustic of Brinkburn Priory, the concert includes Purcell's popular O Sing Unto the Lord and Rejoice in the Lord Alway. | |||
| 20080921 | Catherine Bott explores the life and music of the composer Domenico Zipoli, a contemporary of Bach and Handel who seemed to disappear from European musical life just as he was making his mark. | |||
| 20081004 | To mark the Orlando Consort's 20th anniversary, founder members Angus Smith and Donald Grieg talk to Catherine Bott about the ensemble's projects and repertoire. | |||
| 20081005 | Catherine Bott examines the life and music of 17th-century composer Dr John Blow. Most famous as Henry Purcell's teacher, John Blow was a highly respected composer in his own right and is considered to be the finest composer of keyboard music from the Restoration period. Born in Newark on Trent, Blow was taken to London as a boy to sing in the newly reformed Royal Chapel Choir. When his voice broke, he turned his attention to the keyboard and soon gained a position at Westminster Abbey as well as a number of posts within the royal circle. Blow not only served King Charles II, but also wrote coronation anthems for James II, William and Mary, and Queen Anne. His output also included a great deal of organ music, church services, secular songs and what is widely considered to be the first true English opera - Venus and Adonis. | |||
| 20081011 | Lucie Skeaping considers the evidence concerning the inexplicable murder in October 1764 of Jean-Marie Leclair, one of the foremost French violinists and composers of his day. | |||
| 20081018 | Catherine Bott presents highlights of an all Vivaldi-concert by Fabio Biondi and his ensemble Europa Galante given earlier this year as part of the Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival and recorded by the European Broadcasting Union. The festival theme is Venice - musica serenissima, a survey of 500 years of musical life in the lagoon city. The programme includes a couple of arias sung by mezzo Marina de Liso and various concerti including the much-loved mandolin concerto played by Sonia Maurer. | |||
| 20081019 | Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a concert by the Choir of New College, Oxford, under its director Edward Higginbottom given earlier this year at the York Early Music Festival. Performed at St Michael le Belfry, a church near the Minster in York, the concert reflects the festival's theme of exile and includes works by Purcell, Matthew Locke and Francois Couperin. There is also a look at a group of Italian musicians led by Innocenzo Fede, who worked at King James II's court at Whitehall. | |||
| 20081025 | Catherine Bott presents the programme live from the Sallis Benney theatre at the University of Brighton, as part of this year's Brighton Early Music Festival, which focuses on early and traditional music from the British Isles and Ireland. With artistic director Deborah Roberts discussing the 2008 events calendar, plus live music from Welsh harpist Gwenan Gibbard, Irish singer Roisin Elsafty with celtic harpist Siobhan Armstrong, and Scottish fiddler Hilary Michael, as well as medieval English songs from Clare Norburn and Joy Smith. | |||
| 20081026 | Catherine Bott presents a live programme from the Sallis Benney Theatre at the University of Brighton, as part of this year's Brighton Early Music Festival. With celebrated countertenor James Bowman singing live, with harpsichordist David McGuinness, and in conversation about the highlights of his career and the changing face of the early music scene. | |||
| 20081101 | Lucie Skeaping visits Notre Dame where she meets Benjamin Bagby and Katarina Livljanic, both performers and directors of medieval music ensembles as well as lecturers in director of medieval music performance practice at the Sorbonne, Paris. They talk about some of the composers of the medieval period and how they influenced the development of Western music. Katerina and Benjamin also take Lucie to the Left Bank to discover how the Sorbonne evolved from the group of colleges, and into the Sorbonne itself, now a vibrant urban centre. The music includes works by Leonin and Perotin, and also examples of the earliest motets and the conductus form. | |||
| 20081108 | Catherine Bott visits the Renaissance Faces exhibition at the National Gallery, and with the guidance of Duncan Bull from the Rijksmuseum and David Fallows from Manchester University, examines the first known portrait of a professional musician. A diptych by Piero di Cosimo, it depicted the leading Florentine Renaissance architect Guiliano da Sangallo and his musician father Francesco Giamberti da Sangallo. They also discuss the parallel between architecture and music and illustrate their talk with music written in Florence by Dufay, Heinrich Isaac and Agricola. | |||
| 20081109 | Lucie Skeaping uncovers the origins of the symphony, encountering medieval hurdy-gurdies, spinets and virginals, a tale suggesting that the dulcimer is as old as the Bible, and a royal wedding as well as overtures, interludes, sonatas, canzonas and concertos. | |||
| 20081115 | Catherine Bott investigates the Muiderkring, a mysterious group consisting of the leading figures of cultural life in the Netherlands in the the 17th century, who supposedly met at the castle of Muiden near Amsterdam. Over four decades, its figurehead, the historian, poet and playwright Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, was said to have entertained distinguished friends from the worlds of art, music and philosophy for debates and discussions on current affairs as well as poetry readings and making music. | |||
| 20081116 | Lucie Skeaping presents a portrait of Italian composer Alessandro Stradella. Born in the 17th century into a noble family in Tuscany, he was a much-respected composer in his day and capitalised on his family connections with noble patrons. Although he seemed to have led a charmed life, it was also peppered with various scandals and ended tragically early at the age of 42 when he was stabbed by an assassin for reasons which are still not clear. The programme includes a selection of Stradella's music, including part of his oratorio San Giovanni Battista. | |||
| Dufay's Europe | 20081122 | Lucie Skeaping reflects on the career of Guillaume Dufay. One of the most famous and successful composers of the mid-15th century, he spent much of his career working in some of the most active European political centres of the day. | ||
| Dufay Weekend | 20081123 | Lucie Skeaping introduces La Reverdie performing music by Dufay. Dufay Weekend Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a concert given earlier this year at the Chapter House in York Minster as part of the York Early Music Festival. The concert was performed by La Reverdie, a five-piece vocal group founded by two pairs of Italian sisters, Claudia and Livia Caffagni and Elisabetta and Ella de Mirkovich, who specialise in bringing to life the vast and varied repertoire from the Middle Ages. Cornettist Doron David Sherwin is the fifth member of the group, who between them also play the lute, vielle, harp, rebec, percussion and recorder. The music traces Dufay's early Italian journeys as he visited some of Italy's cultural centres. | ||
| 20081129 | Lucie Skeaping explores the painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. To mark the 500th anniversary in 2008 of Michelangelo beginning his painting of the Sistine Chapel, Lucie Skeaping traces the lives of the artist and the chapel through music. | |||
| 20081130 | Catherine Bott talks to Adrian Chandler, violinist and director of the ensemble La Serenissima, about his recordings of some of Vivaldi's lesser-known concertos. Vivaldi wrote more than 500 of them, including many for his own instrument, the violin, along with some for larger and grander ensembles. Chandler has long been a champion of Vivaldi as a composer and is keen to demonstrate some of his less popular works in the concerto idiom. The programme includes complete performances of the Concerto for violin, two oboes, bassoon, two horns and timpani, RV 562a, and the Violin Concerto in F, RV 292. | |||
| The King's Singers | 20081214 | were founded in 1968, and so to celebrate their 40th anniversary, Robert Hollingworth guest presents a programme focussing on the large amount of 16th and 17th century repertoire covered by the group. Robert hosts a round the table chat and welcomes founder baritone Simon Carrington, who is now Professor of Choral Conducting at Yale University, and two current members of the group, the counter-tenor David Hurley and baritone Christopher Gabbitas. They chat about the early influences of the group in this repertoire and how approaches to this music have changed over the King's Singers 40 years. Music in the programme includes works by Lassus and Josquin, and an early recording from 1973 of Janequin's La Guerre, plus music from a recent recording of Tenebrae Responsories by Gesualdo. PLAYLIST: T. Morley: Now is the month of maying willaert: qual dolcezza giamai janequin: la guerre tallis: spem in alium (excerpt) gesualdo: tristis est anima mea from responsories from 1st nocturn josquin desprez: allegez moy lassus: la nuit froide et sombre sebastián de vivanco: versa est in luctum salamone rossi hebreo: psalm 128 senfl: ach elslein, liebes elselein | ||
| 06/01/2008 | 20081220 | Lucie Skeaping explores Charpentier's setting of Euripides's great tragedy of Medea. Lucie Skeaping presents a programme devoted to Euripedes' great tragedy of Medea, and the setting by the French composer Charpentier. Charpentier was very much over-shadowed by his famous contemporary Lully, and it is really only in the last few decades that this opera has been rediscovered; the music is considered some of Charpentier's most magnificent and colourful, and one can only imagine the spectacle the drama created through its use of stage machinery and fireworks in the 17th century! PLAYLIST: All music Médée by Charpentier from this recording: Les Arts Florissants act 1 sc i: médée & nerine act 2 sc ii: médée act 1 sc v: oronte, jason, créon act 1 sc iii: jason & arcas - jason confesses love for créuse act 2 sc v: jason & créuse - love scene act 4 sc ix: créon's mad scene act 3 sc iv: médée lamenting her fate. prepares poison…. chorus of demons act 5 sc iv: air funestre to end of opera | ||
| 15th-century English Composer Nicholas Ludford | 20081227 | Lucie Skeaping explores the music of the 15th-century English composer Nicholas Ludford. Lucie Skeaping talks to conductor Andrew Carwood about the music of the 15th-century English composer Nicholas Ludford. Often seen as bridging the gap between two more famous composers, Robert Fayrfax and John Taverner, he has been described by musicologist David Skinner as one of the last unsung geniuses of Tudor polyphony. Music featured is taken from some of Ludford's festal mass settings and includes a performance of his motet Domine Jesu Christe. The recordings were made especially for the programme by the BBC Singers conducted by Andrew Carwood. Ludford: Ave cuius conception (extract) ludford: agnus dei from lady mass (feria iii) ludford: gloria from missa videte miraculum ludford: kyrie from lady mass (feria iii) ludford: sanctus/benedictus from missa christi virgo segue to: ludford: credo from lady mass (feria iii) ludford: domine jesu christe | ||
| Highlights From The 2008 Gottingen Handel Festival | 20081228 | Lucie Skeaping presents highlights from the 2008 Gottingen Handel Festival in Germany. Lucie Skeaping presents highlights from the 2008 Gottingen Handel Festival in Germany, featuring music by John Dowland, William Lawes, John Jenkins, Giles Farnabye, William Byrd and Thomas Arne. Performances include countertenor Michael Chance with the ensemble Fretwork, English dances from Andrew Lawrence-King's Harp Consort and Emma Kirkby with London Baroque. Dowland: Mr Nicholas Griffiths' Gaillard arne: four shakespeare songs byrd: prelude and ground; rejoice unto the lord jenkins: fancy and ayre in g minor segue to: byrd: rejoice unto the lord farnabye: farnabye's humours lawes: pavan for the harp consort lawes: to pansies; on the lilies; to the sycamore morley: o grief, even on the bud | ||
| 20090104 | Catherine Bott ponders the question: What is Renaissance? Catherine Bott delves into her personal record collection as she tries to answer the weighty question: What is Renaissance with the aid of musical illustrations from Landini, Dufay, Josquin, Tallis and Gesualdo among others. Including: LANDINI Ecco la Primavera palestrina agnus dei ii from missa papae marcellae ockeghem ma maistresse claudin de sermisy changeons propos gesualdo dolcissima mia vita thomas morley it was a lover and his lass segue carlo verardi vive el gran re don fernando Thomas Tallis sancte deus josquin des pres kyrie from missa l’homme armé producer: Sam Phillips dowland flow my tears dufay vergene bella adrian willaert ricercar | |||
| Henry Viii | 20090104 | Music from Henry VIII's manuscript Henry VIII was one of the most remarkable and formidable English monarchs. The portrayal of Henry as a cantankerous despot has outshone the youthful Henry who was devoted to sports and arts. In his twenties and thirties, Henry penned several secular compositions, a variety of partsongs and consorts, 34 of which were compiled in the so-called "Henry VIII manuscript". This manuscript also included works by several other musicians who passed through Henry's court, such as William Cornysh and Robert Fayrfax, and in today's programme Lucie Skeaping presents a selection of secular music from this manuscript. PLAYLIST: Anon: Greensleeves henry viii: thow that men do call it dotage jacques barbireau: en frolyk weson henry viii: consort xvi anon: puzzle canon vi william cornysh (jnr): yow and i and amyas henry viii: pastyme with good companye henry viii: consort v (extract) william cornysh (jnr): trolly lolly anon: england be glad henry vii: helas madame robert fayrfax: somewhat musing producer: rebecca bean william cornysh (jnr): a robyn, gentyl robyn anon: time to pass with goodly sport / taunder naken henry viii: gentil prince de renom (extract) henry viii: o my heart anon: i am a jolly foster heinrich isaac: la my (extract) henry viii: consort xx (extract) richard pygott: quid petis, o fili | ||
| 20090110 | Lucie Skeaping talks to Lynda Sayce about her work with lute ensemble Chordophony. Lucie Skeaping talks to lutenist Lynda Sayce about her work with the new lute ensemble Chordophony. The ensemble play on a set of lutes, the only custom-built matched lute family in the world. Lynda's research work with the ensemble aims to recreate the sound and repertoire of the lute ensembles employed in Renaissance courts and much of the repertoire Chordophony plays has been reconstructed from documented traditions. The music in this programme was recorded at the 2008 York Early Music Festival and includes works by Castaldi, Nicolas Vallet and John Dowland. Chordophony: nicolas vallet: ballet; ballet; est-ce mars; courante de mars; un jour de la semaine; allons aux noces; gaillarde Peter Phillips: pavan 1580; galliard to phillips' pavan bellerofonte castaldi: quagliotta canzona; capriccio detto hermafrodito John Bull: fantasia in the sixth mode on la leona john dowland: the king of denmark's galliard; lachrymae; the earl of essex his galliard giovanni coperario (also known as john cooper): lullaby | |||
| 20090111 | Andreas Scholl and Accademia Bizantina perform arias written for the castrato Senesino. Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a concert given at the 2008 Dresden Festival of Music in Germany. Countertenor Andreas Scholl, with Accademia Bizantina under the direction of Ottavio Dantone, performs arias which were originally composed for the great 18th century castrato, Senesino. This Italian-born star spent a great deal of his career working with Handel's Royal Academy of Music in London, and premiered many of Handel's great leading roles, including Giulio Cesare and Admeto. Plus music from Tomaso Albinoni's opera Engelberta, Nicola Porpora's Il Trionfo di Camilla and Antonio Lotti's less well-known Teofane, as well as orchestral works by Vivaldi and Francesco Geminiani. All music recorded at the 2008 Dresden Festival, performed by Accademia Bizantina conducted by Ottavio Dantone. Handel: Al lampo dell'armi (Giulio Cesare) albinoni: selvagge amenita (engelberta) geminiani: concerto grosso no 12 in d minor (arrangement of corelli's violin sonata op 5 no 12 - la folia) handel: chiudetevi, miei lumi (admeto) lotti: discordi pensieri (teofane) vivaldi: concerto in a minor for two violins, op 3 no 8 porpora: va per le vene il sangue (il trionfo di camilla) | |||
| Orpheus | 20090111 | The myth of Orpheus is the inspiration for operas, ballets and other musical works. The myth of Orpheus has provided the inspiration for operas, ballets, tone poems and other musical works throughout the ages. Catherine Bott looks at settings of this story, and plays music from works by Stradella, Luigi Rossi, D'India and Alessandro Scarlatti. Including: Monteverdi: Rosa del ciel (L'Orfeo) stradella: fuor della stigia sponda (orfeo) alessandro scarlatti: poi che riseppe orfeo - cantata luigi rossi: lasciate averno (orfeo) stefano landi: instrumental suite from la morte d'orfeo sigismondo d'india: lamento d'orfeo (che veggio ohime) luigi rossi: passacgalia per arpa | ||
| 20090117 | Catherine Bott talks to distinguished conductor, keyboardist and musicologist Christopher Hogwood about his career as one of the major proponents of the early music movement. Included in their discussion is Christopher's early work with David Munrow in the Early Music Consort of London as well as the orchestra he founded in 1973, the Academy of Ancient Music, of which he is Emeritus Director. The music featured is from his celebrated collection of recordings, including a work from Byrd's My Ladye Nevell's Booke, vocal music by Purcell, a keyboard fantasia by CPE Bach and part of Handel's opera Rinaldo. Catherine Bott talks to conductor, keyboardist and musicologist Christopher Hogwood. | |||
| 20090118 | Organist Simon Lole explores the Mulliner Book, one of the most important collections of Tudor keyboard music. It was compiled in the 1560s by Thomas Mulliner, an organist at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and it now resides in the British Library. Assumed by some to have been used for training choirboys, the book contains 121 keyboard works, of which over half are based on liturgical chants. The collection contains works by Thomas Tallis, John Redford, William Blitheman, John Taverner and Christopher Tye as well as several anonymous works. Simon Lole explores the Mulliner Book, a collection of Tudor keyboard music. | |||
| 02/12/2007 | 20090118 | Catherine Bott explores 1685, the year in which Handel, Bach and Scarlatti were all born. The year 1685 is considered an annus mirabilis as it was the birth year of three great composers, Handel, JS Bach and Domenico Scarlatti. Catherine Bott presents a programme that puts this year into the context of the musical world these three were born into. Music includes works by Purcell, Corelli, Bononcini and Lully. | ||
| The Duke Of Chandos | 20090131 | Catherine Bott charts the rise and fall of the one-time patron of Handel, James Brydges, who in 10 years amassed great wealth and a palatial mansion with a 30-piece orchestra, only to lose it just as quickly. Playlist: Daniel Purcell: Sonata in D minor handel: chandos anthem no. 4: o sing unto the lord a new song handel: alla hornpipe from water music suite in f major handel: o ruddier than the cherry from acis and galatea pepusch: cantata v: corydon (1710) handel: fugue in b flat from six fugues francesco scarlatti: kyrie from messa Catherine Bott charts the rise and fall of james brydges, a former patron of handel | ||
| Music Of The Black Death | 20090207 | Catherine Bott explores one of the deadliest pandemics in human history - the Black Death in the 14th Century - via the music of the composers who lived through the time. They include Guillaume de Machaut, who wrote of the plague in his poem The Judgement of the King of Navarre. Playlist: Guillaume de Machaut: Introitus: Gaudeamus omnes in Domino from Messe de Nostre Dame giovanni da firenze: quand'amor philippe de vitry: apta caro/ flos virginum Guillaume De Machaut: sanctus et benedictus from messe de nostre dame Catherine Bott explores the 14th-century black death through the music of the time anon: lamento di tristano/la rotta Guillaume De Machaut: quand je sui mis au retour gherardello de florentia: de poni amor a me segue to: j de porta: alma polis religio/axe poli cum artica landini: abbonda di virtue p des molins: amis tout dous vis (rondeau) | ||
| Countertenor David Daniels | 20090208 | Catherine Bott interviews American countertenor David Daniels about his stage and recording career, and chooses music from some of his discs, including works by Francisco de la Torre, Alessandro Scarlatti, Antonio Vivaldi as well as arias from Handel's operas Tamerlano and Tolomeo. There are also two tracks from his most recent recording with The English Concert under Harry Bicket - of arias by Bach. Playlist: Francisco de la Torre: Pampano verde Catherine Bott talks to countertenor david daniels about his career and recordings bach: qui sedes (b minor mass bwv.232) bach: schlummert ein, ihr matten augen (ich habe genug bwv.82) handel: a dispetto (tamerlano) handel: inumano fratel...stille amare (tolomeo) a scarlatti: il genio di mitilde vivaldi: descende, o coeli vox (longe mala, umbrae, terrores) rv.629 | ||
| Padre Antonio Soler | 20090215 | Catherine Bott presents a portrait of Spanish monk and composer Padre Antonio Soler. Catherine Bott presents a portrait of the intriguing Spanish monk and composer Padre Antonio Soler. A disciple of Domenico Scarlatti, Soler entered the monastery at El Escorial, near Madrid, in 1752, where he remained for the last 31 years of his life, composing keyboard sonatas, chamber music and choral works. | ||
| Melodia | 20090222 | Lucie Skeaping talks to Arni Ingolfsson about Rask 98, an Icelandic manuscript from 1660. Lucie Skeaping talks to Arni Ingolfsson about one of the most important surviving Icelandic music manuscripts, Melodia or Rask 98, which was written around 1660 by an unknown scribe. It contains 223 songs, more than any other Icelandic collection, and many of them are unique to this source. Ingolfsson also founded the vocal ensemble Carmina, who specialise in Renaissance polyphony. The programme includes some of their recordings of music from Rask 98 and other Icelandic manuscripts. Playlist: Master of Heaven's host hildigunnur runarsdottir: god supreme, the three and one meliora sunt hildigunnur runarsdottir: the new year unworthy though i should revere when in the hour of utmost need Lucie Skeaping talks to arni ingolfsson about rask 98, an icelandic manuscript from 1660 o trinity of blessed light once i crossed the rhine blessed is friendship's bond we pray, lord jesus christ heyr pu oss himnuma sing my soul, in merriment our lord, one living god out of the depths mist porkelsdottir: in thee my spirit takes joy, o god susannah, you felt god's true judgement well ave regina caelorum gaily it cheers my heart patience is said to be a plant the heavens that we scan mist porkelsdottir: o wretch that i am | ||
| Purcell Weekend - Purcell Keyboard Suites | 20090321 | As part of Radio 3's Purcell celebrations, Lucie Skeaping presents a programme of the composer's keyboard suites performed by BBC New Generation Artist Mahan Esfahani. Purcell's eight keyboard suites were published posthumously by his widow Frances in A Choice Collection of Lessons for the harpsichord and Spinnet. Esfahani plays a selection of these suites and other dance movements on an English bentside spinet made by Miles Hellon, based on an anonymous instrument dating from the 1690s. Mahan Esfahani performs keyboard suites by Purcell. | ||
| Purcell Weekend | 20090322 | Lucie Skeaping joins a meeting of the Merrie Fellowes Catch Club in Southwark. Lucie Skeaping visits the George Inn in Southwark to join a meeting of the Merrie Fellowes Catch Club. With club chairman Patrick Johns, she traces the rise and fall of the catch and the glee and their demise since the 18th century. After the publication of Thomas Ravenscroft's collection of songs, Pammelia, in 1609, the singing of rounds and catches became immensely popular. One of the most famous composers to indulge in these often licentious verses was Henry Purcell, but there are also other composers represented in this programme, such as William Byrd, Henry Lawes, Lord Mornington, John Isham, Thomas Lant, Maurice Greene and Simon Webbe. But not all catches or glees were based on the age-old triumvirate of Wine, Women and Song - some are settings of religious texts, with attractive harmonies and gentle lilting rhythms. | ||
| Purcell Weekend - Settings Of Poets And Texts | 20090322 | Catherine Bott is joined by author Jonathan Keates to discuss the poets and texts Purcell set, showing the great range and versatility in his use of words. Catherine Bott looks at some of the poets and texts set by Purcell. | ||
| Phantasm Profile | 20090328 | Lucie Skeaping talks to Laurence Dreyfuss, founder/director of the viol consort Phantasm. They discuss, among other things, the group's distinctive sound, and some of their arrangements of keyboard works by Bach and sacred music by Byrd. Featuring a selection from Phantasm's recordings, including works by Jenkins, Lawes, Gibbons and Purcell. Lucie Skeaping talks to Laurence Dreyfuss, founder/director of viol consort Phantasm. | ||
| Nicola Porpora | 20090329 | 20090809 | Lucie Skeaping looks at the life and works of composer and teacher Nicola Porpora. Lucie Skeaping looks at the life and works of composer and teacher Nicola Porpora, whose early career was overshadowed by the success of Alessandro Scarlatti in his native Naples. Playlist: Porpora: Cello Concerto in G (3rd mvt) Giovanni Sollima (cello) The European Community Chamber Orchestra Eivind Aadland (conductor) HELIOS CDH 88025, Tr 14 Porpora: Dall'amor piu sventurato (Orfeo) Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano) Akadmie fur Alte Musik Berlin Rene Jacobs (director) HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901778, Tr 1 Porpora: Dorindo, dormi ancor? Alessandro Stradella Consort Estevan Velardi (director) Bongiovanni GB 2181, Disc 1 Trs 1-3 Porpora: Un altro oggetto puo (Arianna in Nasso) Teseo....Anna Maria di Micci Orchestra Sinfonica di Savona Massimiliano Carraro (director) Bongiovanni GB 2152, Disc 2 Tr 3 Porpora: Or si m'avveggio, oh Amore Elena Cecchi Fedi (soprano) Auser Musici Daniele Boccaccio (director) HYPERION CDA 67621, Trs 1-4 Porpora: Salve Regina in F (1st mvt) Michele Andalo (countertenor) Capella Teantina Saverio Villa (director) SOMM CD 232, Tr 1 Porpora: Violin Sonata No 2 in G Anton Steck (violin) Christian Rieger (pedal harpsichord) MDG 620 1034-2, Trs 17-20 Porpora: Notturno per I defunti No 3 (Lezione III) Romina Basso (alto) Dolce & Tempesta Stefano Demicheli (directo) FUGA 526, Tr 25. | |
| Handel Week - Eight Great Suites | 20090412 | 20090419 | Catherine Bott and Laurence Cummings explore Handel's Eight Great Keyboard Suites. Catherine Bott talks to harpsichordist Laurence Cummings about Handel as both a virtuoso keyboard player and composer for the keyboard. Much of Handel's keyboard music was occasional or improvised, so it is now lost. But soon after he settled in London, a collection called the Eight Great Suites was issued. Laurence has recorded these works in the Handel House Museum in Brook Street, London, and discusses them and plays excerpts. Playlist: Handel: Prelude (Suite in D minor, HWV428 - 1720 No 3) Catherine Bott and laurence cummings explore handel's eight great keyboard suites handel: allemande (suite in a, hwv426 - 1720 no 1) handel: courante (suite in f minor, hwv433 - 1720 no 8) handel: courante suite in a, hwv426 - 1720 no 1) handel: gigue (suite in g minor, hwv 432 - 1720 no 7) handel: passacaglia (suite in g minor, hwv432 - 1720 no 7) handel: sarabande (suite in e minor, hwv429 - 1720 no 4) handel: theme and variations (harmonious blacksmith) - suite in e, hwv430 - 1720 no 5) handel: three minuets in a, hwv545, 547 and 546 zachow: fuga finalis (suite in b minor) handel: prelude (suite in f sharp minor, hwv431 - 1720 no 6) handel: fugue (suite in f, hwv 427 - 1720 no 2) handel: fugue in c minor, hwv610 | |
| Handel Week - Handel's Chamber Music | 20090418 | 20090913 | As part of BBC Radio 3's Handel celebrations, Catherine Bott talks with keyboard player and Academy of Ancient Music director Richard Egarr about Handel's chamber works and the relationship between the composer and his publisher John Walsh. Playlist: Handel: Flute Sonata in E minor, Op 1 No 1 (1st mvt) Rachel Brown (flute) Academy of Ancient Music Richard Egarr (conductor) Harmonia Mundi HMU 907465.66 (to be released in 2009) CD 1, Tr 1 Handel: Violin Sonata in E, Op 1 No 12 (Roger earlier print) Harmonia Mundi HMU 907465.66 (to be released in 2009) CD 2, Trs 29-32 Handel: Oboe Sonata, Op 1 No 6 (3rd and 4th mvts) Harmonia Mundi HMU 907465.66 (to be released in 2009) CD 1, Trs 24, 25 Handel: Trio sonata in G minor, Op 2 No 2 (1st and 2nd mvts) L'Ecole d'Orphee CRD CRD 3375, Tr 2 (excerpt) Handel: Trio Sonata in D, Op 5 No 2 Harmonia Mundi HMU 907467/68 (to be released in 2009) Handel: Violin Sonata in E, Op 1 No 12 (later version) - 1st mvt Harmonia Mundi HMU 907465.66 (to be released in 2009) CD 2, Tr 16. Catherine Bott talks with Richard Egarr about Handel's chamber music. | |
| Henry Viii And Philip The Handsome | 20090425 | Catherine Bott explores the musical meeting between Henry VIII and Philip the Handsome, which took place in 1505, when Philip set sail from the Netherlands to claim the Spanish throne, only to be shipwrecked on the English coast. On the 500th anniversary in 2009 of Henry VIII's accession to the throne, Catherine describes this chance meeting and examines the prestigious musical entourage that accompanied Philip on his trip. Playlist: Antonius Divitis: O desolatorum consolator william cornysh: woefully arrayed alexander agricola: dictes moi toutes edmund turges: from stormy windes fayrfax: (henry's court music) i love unloved alexander agricola: in mijnen sin marbrianus de orto: dulces exuciae Catherine Bott explores the musical meeting in 1505 of henry viii and philip the handsome segue: de la rue: fors seulement avery burton: agnus dei (hexachord mass - commissioned by henry in 1494) | ||
| Henry Viii Choirbook | 20090426 | To celebrate the 500th anniversary of the accession of Henry VIII, Lucie Skeaping looks at the manuscript of a choirbook, containing six motets, that was gifted to Henry and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. Lucie talks to David Skinner who has recorded these motets for the first time with his vocal ensemble Alamire. This manuscript is one shown in the exhibition at the British Library celebrating this anniversary. Although Henry is perhaps now remembered for his ill-temper and succession of failed marriages, the early years of his reign were a time of great musical activity; he was passionate about music, composing accomplished pieces himself. This programme is being broadcast as part of BBc Radio 3's Henry VIII anniversary commemorations. PLAYLIST: All music from a CD entitled “Henry’s Music: Motets from a Royal Choirbook – Songs by Henry VIII”. HENRY VIII: Consort XIII anon: hec est preclarum taverner: o christe jesu, pastor bone sampson: salve radix philippe verdelot: nil majus superi vident fayrfax: lauda vivi alpha et oo henry viii: o my heart music from a choirbook gifted to henry viii sampson: psallite felices sampson: quam pulchra est | ||
| Ensemble Tourbillon And Noemi Kiss | 20090502 | Lucie Skeaping introduces highlights of a concert by Ensemble Tourbillon and soprano Noemi Kiss, directed by viol player Petr Wagner. The concert was given in 2009 in the Rozmberk Palace in Prague Castle and includes arias and sonatas by Fux, Porsile and Abel. Playlist: All music performed by the Tourbillon Ensemble, directed by Petr Wagner, with soprano Noemi Kiss. Johann Joseph Fux: So che piace (Il fonte della salute) Fux: Sonata Canon for two violas da gamba Petr Wagner, Hana Flekova (violas da gamba) Fux: Arpeggio and Fugue in G for solo harpsichord Alena Honigova (harpsichord) Giuseppe Porsile: La bella ragione (L'anima immortale) Mauritius Vogt: Perfida mundi pax Fux: Sento nel core (La decima fatica d'Ecole) Attilio Ariosti: Prole tenera (La profezia d'Eliseo) Carl Friedrich Abel: Frena le belle lagrime (Sifari). Arias and sonatas played by Ensemble Tourbillon and soprano Noemi Kiss. Fux: Sonata Canon for two violas da gamba arias and sonatas played by ensemble tourbillon and soprano noemi kiss | ||
| Viktoria Mullova Interview | 20090503 | Lucie Skeaping talks to celebrated Russian virtuoso violinist Viktoria Mullova about her reinvigorated passion for Bach and partitas and sonatas for solo violin. Mullova explains that her approach to Bach is now very different from the one she took 15 or 20 years before. Her style is much more free and allows the pieces to breathe and rest, instead of being constrained by what has previously been thought of as the Baroque fashion. Playlist: Bach: Partita No 3 in E, BWV1006 (Gigue) Viktoria Mullova (violin) ONYX 4040 CD2, Tr 16 Bach: Sonata No 1 in G minor, BWV1001 (Adagio) CD1, Tr 1 Bach: Partita No 1 in B minor, BWV1002 (Double: Presto) CD1, Tr 8 Bach: Partita No 1 in B minor, BWV1002 (Tempo di Borea; Double) CD1, Trs 11-12 Bach: Sonata No 2 in A minor, BWV1003 (Andante) CD1, Tr 15 Bach: Partita No 2 in D minor, BWV1004 (Sarabande and Giga) CD2, Trs 3, 4 Bach: Sonata No 3 in C, BWV1005 (Fuga) CD2, Tr 7 Bach: Partita No 3 in E, BWV1006 (Bourree) CD2, Tr 15. Lucie Skeaping talks to Viktoria Mullova about her passion for Bach solo violin music. Bach: Partita No 3 in E, BWV1006 (Gigue) bach: partita no 2 in d minor, bwv1004 (sarabande and giga) bach: partita no 1 in b minor, bwv1002 (double: presto) bach: partita no 1 in b minor, bwv1002 (tempo di borea; double) bach: sonata no 2 in a minor, bwv1003 (andante) Lucie Skeaping talks to viktoria mullova about her passion for bach solo violin music bach: sonata no 1 in g minor, bwv1001 (adagio) bach: partita no 3 in e, bwv1006 (bourree) bach: sonata no 3 in c, bwv1005 (fuga) | ||
| Mendelssohn Weekend | 20090509 | Catherine Bott talks to Christoph Wolff about Mendelssohn's love of the music of the Bachs and the links between these two families. Mendelssohn's great aunt, Sara Levy, studied with JS Bach's son, Wilhelm Friedemann, and she also owned a very extensive collection of music, among which were many works by Johann Sebastian and his four sons. Madame Levy also commissioned new works and became a patron for the two elder Bach brothers. The programme includes excerpts from Mendelssohn's arrangement of JS Bach's St Matthew Passion and works by two of his sons, WF and CPE Bach. Playlist: Bach: Wir setzen uns mit Tranen nieder (St Matthew Passion - final chorus) - arr Mendelssohn 1841 Das Neue Orchester Chorus Musicus Christoph Spering (conductor) OPUS 111 OPS 30-72/73 CD2, Tr 31 Bach: Keyboard concerto in D minor, BWV1052 (2nd mvt) Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord) Collegium Aureum DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 05472 77412-2, Tr 8 CPE Bach: Symphony No 1 in D (final mvt) The English Concert Andrew Manze (director) HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907403, Tr 3 CPE Bach: La Borchward (Polonaise); La Pott (Minuet) (23 Pieces caracteristiques) Christine Schornsheim (plays on Hammerflugel by Matthias Heilmann, 1780) CAPRICCIO 10 424, Trs 15 and 16 Bach: Chorale: Was mein Gott will (St Matthew Passion) CD1, Tr 20 WF Bach: Adagio and Fugue in D minor Florilegium CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS 9096, Trs 5-6 CPE Bach: Double concerto for harpsichord and fortepiano W47 (3rd mvt) Anneke Uittenbosch (harpsichord) Jean Antonietti (fortepiano) Concentus Musicus Wien Leonhardt Consort TELDEC 0630 12326 2, Tr 3 Mendelssohn: Motet: Tu es Petrus, Op 111 Stuttgart Chamber Choir German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen Frieder Bernius (conductor) CARUS 83216, Tr 9. Catherine Bott traces the links between Mendelssohn and the Bach family. | ||
| 13/09/2008 | 20090516 | Lucie Skeaping presents a programme which focuses on the turbulent lives and the music of three composers from the same 18th century family - the Stamitzes. Bohemian-born Joseph Stamitz made a name for himself as the music director at the Dresden court in Germany, and was famous for nurturing what was arguably the best, most stylish orchestra in Europe at that time. He died, tragically young, but left two equally talented sons, Carl and Anton, who both rose to stardom as performers and composers, taking pre-Revolutionary Paris by storm. The brothers were both plagued by poor financial acumen, so their success was relatively shortlived. Anton died in a Parisian asylum, and Carl spent the most part of his life as a travelling virtuoso, trying his best to make ends meet. There's a wonderful legacy of compositions, though, including some excellent symphonies which are among the most influential of the time. Playlist: Johann Stamitz: Concerto for organ and orchestra no. 1 in C major: Allegro assai Alena Vesela (organ) Dvorak Chamber Orchestra Vladimir Valek, conductor SUPRAPHON SU 3094 2 011 Track 3 Johann Stamitz: Concerto for flute and orchestra in C major: Prestissimo Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute) Chamber Orchestra of Jean-Francois Paillard Jean-Francois Paillard PANTON 81 1422 2 131 Track 9 Carl Stamitz: Octet for no. 2 in B flat major Consortium Classicum CPO 999 081 2 Tracks 17-19 Anton Stamitz: Concerto for viola and orchestra in B minor: Romance Jan Peruska (viola) Prague Chamber Orchestra Jiri Belohlavek, conductor Track 8 Carl Stamitz: Symphony in D major "La Chasse" London Mozart Players Matthias Bamert, conductor CHANDOS 93 58 Tracks 10-12 Lucie Skeaping chooses music by three members of the Stamitz family. | ||
| Thomas Campion | 20090517 | 20100124 | Catherine Bott reflects on the life, poetry and music of the Elizabethan/Jacobean London-based physician Thomas Campion. He was as celebrated for his poems as for his many songs, and his most famous piece is considered to be Never Weather-Beaten Saile, which was familiar as a hymn for many years after his death. Campion's legacy of love songs and a large collection of poetry and pamphlets on music and literature, as well as his many masques, have made him an important figure in the history of Renaissance art, even if he is perhaps less well-known than his contemporary John Dowland. The programme includes a wide selection of recordings of Campion's music alongside readings from his poetry and his masques. Playlist: Thomas Campion: Never weather-beaten saile Drew Minter (countertenor) Paul O'Dette (lute) Harmonia Mundi HMU 907023 Track: 22 Thomas Campion: Come cheerful day Rachel Elliott (soprano) Mark Padmore (tenor) Peter Harvey (baritone) Nigel North (lute) Linn CKD 105 Track: 1 Thomas Campion: Turn back you wanton flyer; It fell on a summers day Michael Chance (countertenor) Tracks: 3 and 4 Reading: Canto Primo by Thomas Campion (narrated by Malcolm Raeburn) Thomas Campion: I care not for these ladies Robin Blaze (countertenor) Elizabth Kenny (lute) HYPERION CDA 67268 Track: 2 Segue Thomas Campion: Come let us sound with melody Steven Rickards (countertenor) Dorthoy Linell (lute) NAXOS 8.553380 Reading: Rose Cheekt Lawra, Come by Thomas Campion Thomas Campion: My love hath vowd Track: 7 Thomas Campion: Now hath Flora robbed her bowers Elizabeth Kenny (lute) David Miller (theorbo, lute) Joanna Levine (consort bass viol) Mark Levy (lyra bass) Reading (excerpt from Lord Hay's Masque by Thomas Campion) Thomas Campion: Mr Confess's Coranto Track: 8 Thomas Campion: Lord Hayes Masque Track: 10 Thomas Campion: Move now with measured sound Track: 9 Thomas Campion: The cypress curtain of the night Track: 23 Thomas Campion: The peacefull westerne winde Concordia Thomas Campion: Author of Light (4th Book) Catherine Bott on the life, poetry and music of Elizabethan physician Thomas Campion. | |
| Valentina Varriale | 20090523 | Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a concert given in the Italian city of Palestrina, just east of Rome, by soprano Valentina Varriale with musicians of the Capella della Pieta de Turchini. Three of the four featured pieces are all settings of the same Latin text Salve Regina - a prayer to the Virgin Mary, performed in church since the Middle Ages, during the months between Pentecost and Advent, and traditionally sung after the final prayers or the Compline. Legend has it that the author might have been the French Bishop of Podium, who wrote the words as a type of war-anthem as he set off for the Crusades. The settings in this concert are by Giovanni Pergolesi and two lesser-known Italian contemporaries- Orazio Benevoli and Leonardo Leo. The programme also includes a sinfonia by Nicola Fiorenza. Playlist: Orazio Benevoli: Salve Regina Valentina Varriale (soprano) Cappella della Pieta de Turchini Pergolesi: Salve Regina Fiorenza: Sinfonia in A minor Leonardo Leo: Salve Regina Lucie Skeaping with highlights of a concert from the city of Palestrina. | ||
| Palestrina | 20090524 | 20091018 | Catherine Bott travels to Italy to try and discover more about the composer Palestrina. Catherine Bott travels high into the Apennines to the ancient Italian city of Palestrina to try to discover more about the city's most famous son, the famed 16th-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Was he really born in this sleepy Italian mountain-side town? Playlist: Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli (excerpt) Tallis Scholars Peter Phillips (conductor) GIMELL GIMSE401, Tr 5 Palestrina: Salve Regina Ensemble Vocal Regional de Champagne-Ardenne Francoise Lasserre PIERRE VERANY PV794041, Tr 2 Vinders: O mors inevitabilis Obsidienne Emmanuel Bonnardot (conductor) CALLIOPE CAL9305, Tr 16 Dufay: Ut Queant Laxis (a hymn revised by de Orto in Rome and still used in services it seems at the time that Palestrina was there) This recording is preceded by the Antiphona: Puer qui natus est Schola Hungarica Janka Szendrei (conductor) HUNGAROTON HCD12951, Tr 13 Palestrina: Motet: Exsultate Deo Westminster Cathedral Choir Stephen Cleobury (conductor) ARGO 410 0052, Tr 1 Palestrina: Madrigal: la ver l'aurora Andrea Damiani (lute) Concerto Italiano Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor) TACTUS TC521601, Tr 8 Segue to: Palestrina: Virgine, tal e terra The Hilliard Ensemble Paul Hillier (conductor) EMI CDS 7490108 CD2, Tr 19 Palestrina: Magnificat The Choir of New College, Oxford Edward Higginbottom (conductor) COLLINS CLASSICS 15092, Tr 2 Palestrina: Hymn: veni creator spiritus Martin Baker (conductor) HYPERION CDA 67353, Tr 11. | |
| German Organ Mass | 20090530 | Organist Simon Lole explores Bach's so-called German Organ Mass, an acknowledged masterwork of the repertoire, and part of the composer's collection of four great keyboard works, Clavierubung. Simon presents a selection of high-profile recordings and illustrates some of the ideas in the music from the organ of Jesus College, Cambridge. The wealth of musical styles and musical invention in the collection is notable in itself, but Bach had another motivation for creating this Clavierubung. By unpicking some of its musical codes and symbols, Simon explains its raison d'etre and the meaning of the work's moniker. Simon Lole looks at the background to Bach's third Clavierubung - his German Organ Mass. | ||
| Sonnerie At 2009 Lufthansa Festival | 20090606 | Radio 3 at the Summer Festivals Lucie Skeaping introduces highlights of a concert given by Sonnerie, with countertenor Robin Blaze, at the 2009 Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music, featuring songs and instrumental music by Purcell and Handel. Playlist: All music performed by Sonnerie directed by Monica Huggett, with Robin Blaze (countertenor). Emilia Benjamin (violin) Joseph Crouch (cello) Elizabeth Kenny (lute) James Johnstone (harpsichord/chamber organ) Robin Blaze (countertenor) Sonnerie Monica Huggett (violin/director) Purcell: Trio Sonata No 8 in G minor (Ten Sonatas of IV Parts, 1697) Pucell: Fairest isle (King Arthur) Segue to: Purcell: The Plaint (The Fairy Queen) Purcell: Trio Sonata No 6 in G minor (Chacony) (Ten Sonatas of IV Parts, 1697) Handel: What tho' I trace each herb and flow'r (Solomon) Handel: Trio Sonata in G minor, Op 2 No 2 Handel: Carco sempre di gloria (Cantata, HWV87). Lucie Skeaping introduces highlights of a concert given by Sonnerie. | ||
| Charivari Agreable | 20090607 | Radio 3 at the Summer Festivals. Lucie Skeaping introduces highlights of a concert given by Charivari Agreable at the 2009 Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music, featuring sacred songs and anthems connected with the city of Oxford. Playlist: All music performed by Charivari Agreable. William Lawes: Psalm 6: Lord, in thy wrath reprove me not Segue to: William Lawes: Psalm 18/1: O God, my strength and fortitude William Child: Psalm 9: I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord William Child: Psalm 11: In the Lord put I my trust John Blow: Psalm 137: As on Euphrates' shady banks Christopher Simpson: Division in D Purcell: Since God so tender a regard (written c. 1678, age 20) Purcell: Blessed is he that considereth the poor William Lawes: Psalm 51/2 Cast me not Lord, out from thy face William Lawes: Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto Matthew Locke: In the beginning, the very end. Lucie Skeaping presents Charivari Agreable at the 2009 Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music | ||
| Le Balet Comique De La Royne | 20090613 | 20100103 | Lucie Skeaping explores the 'balet comique de la royne'. Lucie Skeaping explores the origins of classical ballet, which can be found in the lavish 'balet comique de la royne', an ambitious and influential stage entertainment that was given in Paris, on 15 October 1581 in the court of Catherine de Medici, to celebrate the marriage of the Duc de Joyeuse and Mlle de Vaudemont. It was conceived and directed by Catherine's director of court festivals, Balthasar de Beaujoyeux, who sought to bring together all the art forms - including for the first time, dramatic dance - for a huge allegorical spectacle in the spirit of the ancient Greeks. The verse was by the Sieur de la Chesnaye, the scenery by Patin, and the music by the bass singer Lambert de Beaulieu, Jacques Salmon, and others. Catherine was so pleased with the event that she had all its details meticulously recorded, published and circulated, which is how we have come to know so much about it. In recent years the Swiss-based group Ensemble Elyma and their director Gabriel Garrido have researched and recorded the music of the entertainment, and it is this recording that is featured in the programme. Lucie looks back on the history of the piece, how it was performed, what it looked like and what it meant. Playlist: All music taken from the CD: Lambert de Beaulieu: Le balet Comique de la Royne Ensemble Elyma Gabriel Garrido (director) K617 K617 080 Excerpts played: Track 1 - Entree Track 2 - Chanson des Sereines Track 5 - Le son du premier ballet Track 6 - Chanson de Mercure Track 10 - Chanson des Vertus Tracks 12 and 13 - Choeur de la descente and Chant de Jupiter Track 15 - Battaille (music by Claude Le Jeune 'La Guerre') Track 16 - La petite entree du grand balet Track 17 - Terpsichore (music by Pierre Francisque Caroubel). | |
| 05/07/2008 | 20090614 | Catherine Bott talks about some of the composers who worked at the court of the colourful Christian IV of Denmark. The music includes works by imports to the court including Dowland, Bertolusi and Schutz, but also homegrown composers such as Hans Nielsen, Mogens Pederson and Soren Terkelsen. Playlist: Dowland: The King of Denmark's Galiard Fretwork Virgin Classics VC5450052, Tr 11 Morgens Pederson: La mia cruda Brunetta Segue: Hans Nielsen: T'amo, mia vita Melchior Borchgrevinck: Baci amorosi e cari The Consort of Musicke Anthony Rooley (director) BIS CD 392, Trs 1, 8, 14, 17 Vincenzo Bertolusi: Ego flos campi The Hilliard Ensemble Paul Hillier (director) BIS CD 389, Tr 9 Johann Lorentz: Praeludium in D minor Gustav Leonhardt Played on Raphaelis organ in Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark Sony Classical SK 53371, Tr 1 Dowland: Lachrimae Antiqua Virgin Classics VC5450052, Tr 1 Melchior Schildt: Paduana Lachrymae Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord) BIS CD 391, Tr 12 Pederson: Kyrie and Gloria from Mass (Pratum Spirituale) BIS CD 389, Trs 1, 2 Hume: The Kings of Denmark's Health Consortium Hafniense Danacord DACOCD 307, Tr 17 Robinson: The Spanish Pavan Christopher Wilson (lute) Virgin Classics VC7912162, Tr 17 Dowland: A shepherd in a shade Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor) Jakob Lindberg (lute) Voigtlander: Al ser guten Bescheid von seiner Damen empfangen Terkelsen: Druckenskabs oc Vinens saelsomme Virckelse (drinking song) Ulrik Cold Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor) BIS CD 391, Trs 8, 5, 18 Schutz: Freuet euch Herren a 5, SWV367 (Symphoniae Sacrae) Musica Fiata La Capella Ducale Roland Wilson (conductor) Sony Classical S2K68261 CD 1, Tr 1. Catherine Bott looks at composers who worked at the court of Christian IV of Denmark. | ||
| The Great Schism | 20090620 | 20100307 | Catherine Bott explores the music of the Great Schism of Western Christianity. Catherine Bott explores the music of the Great Schism of Western Christianity, which divided the Catholic Church between 1378 and 1417. By its end, three men simultaneously claimed to be the true Pope. Playlist: Anon: Pictagor per dogmatae/O terra Sancta/Rosa Vernans (addressed to Gregory XI - transfer the Holy See to Rome...) Orlando Consort METRONOME METCD1008, Tr 2 De Vitry: Petre Clemens, tam re quam nimine/Lugentium siccentur occuli plaundant sense (written for Clement VI) Sequentia DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI RD77095, Tr 13 Phillipus da Caserta (composer who served under Clement VII in Avignon): En remirant (written for Clement VII) New London Consort Philip Pickett (conductor) LINN CKD039, Tr 10 Segue to: Phillipus da Caserta: Par les bons Gedeon METRONOME METCD1008, Tr 5 (Ars Subtilior) Goschalch: En nul estate PAN NEW ALBION NA021CD, Tr 6 (Trecento) Antonio Zachara de Teramo: Ciaramella Les Haulz et Les Bas CHRISTOPHORUS CHR77194, Tr 11 Pisa music - Cicionia: O Petre Christi discupule (probably written to honour the new Pope) METRONOME METCD1008, Tr 6 Anon: Degentis Vita (denounces Simony - practice of selling ecclesiastical positions to highest bidder) Gothic Voices Christopher Page (conductor) HYPERION CDA66463, Tr 10 Richard de Loqueville: Sanctus (Used in a chant mass sung at Cambrai to pray for the end of the Schism) Syntagma Musicum Kees Otten (conductor) TELEFUNKEN 6.35257/A, Side 1 Band 8 Ciconia: Gloria Suscipe Trinitas METRONOME METCD1008, Tr 9. | |
| 09/11/2008 | 20090621 | We all know what is now called a Symphony, but the term has had many varied uses. Lucie Skeaping tracks down the origins of the Symphonie and encounters medieval Hurdy-Gurdys, Spinets and Virginals, a tale that the Dulcimer is as old as the bible and a royal wedding, not to mention a whole host of overtures, interludes, sonatas, canzonas and concertos. With Lucie Skeaping. Including: Wagenseil: Symphony in C major, WV351 L'Orfeo Baroque Orchestra Michi Gaigg (conductor) CPO 999 450-2 Track 7-9 Edi be thu, heven-queenë Sequentia (with Symphonia: Hurdy Gurdy (12th C)) Deutsche Harmonia Mundi GD 77019 Track 3 Farnaby: The old Spagnoletta Martha Gmunder (Spinet) EMI CDM7631442 Track 13 Segue Bull: Galliard [d] Gary Cooper (Virginals) Dervorguilla DRVCD106 Track 20 Devil’s Dream (tune from Playford’s Dancing Master) Jim Couza (Dulcimer) SAYDISC CDSDL335 Track 8 Malvezzi: Sinfonia a 5 from Intermedio II for La Pelegrina Taverner Consort/ Andrew Parrott EMI CDC7479982 Track 7 Gabrieli: Surrexit Christus a 11 from Symphonie Sacrae II The Taverner Choir/ London Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble/ Andrew Parrott OISEAU LYRE 4368602 Viadana: La Romana from Sinfonia Musicali, Op 18 Symposium Musicum Pragense KOCH 3-1620-2 Track 1 Scarlatti: Sinfonia from Griselda Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin/ René Jacobs Harmonia Mundi HMC 801805.07 Torelli: Sinfonia Sandro Verzari/ Ensemble Seicentonovecento (dir. Flavio Colusso) BONGIOVANNI GB1000082 Tracks 14-16 Stamitz: Sinfonia Pastorale in D, Op.4 No.2 Northern Chamber Orchestra/ Nicholas Ward NAXOS 8.554447 Tracks 9-12 Haydn: Symphony 18 (3rd movement) The Hanover Band/ Roy Goodman Hyperion CDA 66533 Track 6 Exploring the history of the Symphonie | ||
| L'homme Arme Melody | 20090705 | 20100117 | Catherine Bott talks to Edward Wickham about the L'homme arme melody. Catherine Bott talks to Edward Wickham, director of the vocal ensemble The Clerks, about the tradition and use of the L'homme arme melody in many 15th and 16th-century mass settings. They discuss the history and career of this tune, why it was so popular and the various composers who might have been the first to employ this melody. Music in the programme includes movements of mass settings by Busnois, Regis, Palestrina and the six-part setting by Josquin. Anon chanson: L'homme arme The Tallis Scholars Gimell CDGIM 019 track 1 Robert Morton: Il sera pour vous/L'homme arme The Clerks/Edward Wickham ASV CDGAU 204 Dufay: Kyrie (from setting of Missa L'homme arme) The Hilliard Ensemble EMI CDC 7476282 Ockeghem: Gloria (from setting of Missa L'homme arme) track 3 Regis: Credo (from setting of Missa L'homme arme) Musique en Wallonie MEW 0848-0849 CD 2 track 4 Busnois: Sanctus (from setting of Missa L'homme arme) The Binchois Consort Hyperion CDA 67319 track 4 Morales: Benedictus (from setting of Missa L'homme arme) Chapelle du Roi/Alastair Dixon Signum SIGCD 019 track 9 Josquin: Agnus Dei from Missa L'homme arme sexti toni (6 part) A Sei Voci/Bernard Fabre-Garrus Astree Naive E8809 track 6 Gabriel Jackson: The armed man (from CD due for future release) Palestrina: Agnus Dei from Missa L'homme arme Pro Cantione Antiqua/Mark Brown Allegro PCD1111 track 21. | |
| Unquiet Thoughts: Melancholic Music Of Elizabethan England | 20090711 | Lucie Skeaping introduces highlights of a concert entitled Unquiet Thoughts given by Mark Padmore and Elizabeth Kenny at this year's Aldeburgh Festival. The concert explores the melancholic music of Elizabethan England, focusing on the songs of perhaps the most famous exponent of Elizabethan melancholy - John Dowland. Playlist: All music performed by Mark Padmore (tenor) and Elizabeth Kenny (lute), recorded at the Aldeburgh Festival 2009. Dowland: Unquiet thoughts; Say, love if ever thou didst find; Sorrow, Stay; Away with these self-loving lads Robert Johnson: Pavan John Danyel: Mrs ME Her Funerall Tears: Part I: Grief, keep within; Part II: Drop not, myne eyes; Part III: Have all our passions Anon: The Flying Horse Dowland: Now o now I needs must part; In darkness let me dwell; Flow my tears. Melancholic music from Elizabethan England, focusing on the songs of John Dowland. | ||
| 20090712 | Catherine Bott explores the themes of the 2009 York Early Music Festival from the National Centre for Early Music. The UK's largest festival of early music takes its inspiration from the anniversary celebrations of Purcell, Handel and Haydn and looks at lifelines, from the medieval to the Baroque. With a mixture of music and conversation, Catherine meets some of those involved in the festival and introduces live performances from the Cambridge-based Clerks Group and Edward Wickham, the Danish ensemble Baroque Fever and, from Italy, Fabio Bonizzoni and Emanuela Galli from the group La Risonanza. Playlist: Ockeghem: Mort tuas navre The Clerks Edward Wickham (director) Handel: Armida abbandonata La Risonanza Andrew Falconieri: Chaconne Baroque Fever Dario Castello: Sonata Duodecima from Book 2 (1629) Giovanni Ghizzolo: Benedicite Deum caeli (Seconda raccolta de sacri canti, Venezia 1624) Savadi From the group's latest CD Fabellae sacrae Pan Classics PC10208, Tr 1 Dufay: Ave regina coelorum York Early Music Festival. | |||
| 20090718 | Catherine Bott explores the composers and the musical climate of Venice around the time of Vivaldi's birth there in 1678. Playlist: Vivaldi: Concerto, Op 4 No 8 Rachel Podger (violin) Arte Dei Suonatori Channel Classics CCS 19598 CD 2, Trs 5-7 Legrenzi: La Cornara Parnassi musici CPO 777 0302, Tr 1 Monteverdi: Prologo (L'incoronazione di Poppea) Ensemble Openhaus Zurich Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) TELDEC 0630100272 CD 1, Tr 1 Cavalli: Canzona a 4 Seicento Parley of Instruments Peter Holman (conductor) HELIOS CDH 55193, Tr 6 Giovanni Rovetta: Salve Regina The Parley of Instruments Robin Blaze (conductor) HYPERION CDA 67225, Tr 1 Francesco Gasperini: A voi, piante innocenti La Venexiana: Rossana Bertini (soprano) Claudio Cavina (alto) OPUS OPS30182, Tr 10 Corelli: Sonata in D minor, Op 5 No12 (La Folia) The Locatelli Trio HYPERION CDA663812 CD2, Tr 23 Vivaldi: Sonata in G minor, Op 1 No 1 London Baroque Charles Medlam (conductor) EMI CDC7479732, Trs 10-14. Catherine Bott explores the city of Venice before the birth of Antonio Vivaldi in 1678. | |||
| 20090719 | Catherine Bott presents a performance of John Taverner's Missa Corona Spirea by the Tallis Scholars, directed by Peter Phillips, given as part of the York Early Music Festival 2009. The ensemble also perform the winning two entries of the 2009 National Centre for Early Music's Young Composers' Award - Arise by Elizabeth Edwards and God by Michael Perrett. Catherine introduces the music, meets the composers and talks to Peter Phillips about the work of the Tallis Scholars and about the competition. For more information about the competition go to: http://www.ncem.co.uk/cgi/projects/projects.cgi?t=template.htm&a=66 Playlist: All music performed by The Tallis Scholars, directed by Peter Phillips, recorded at the York Early Music Festival 2009. John Taverner: Leroy Kyrie; Gloria (The Crown of Thorns mass/Missa Corona spinea) Elizabeth Edwards: Arise (winner in the NCEM Young Composers' Award younger category) Taverner: Sanctus (The Crown of Thorns mass) Michael Perrett: God (winner in the NCEM Young Composers' Award category) Taverner: Agnus Dei (The Crown of Thorns mass) Further details of the 2010 National Centre for Early Music Composers' Award to be published in 2009. A performance of John Taverner's Missa Corona Spirea by the Tallis Scholars. | |||
| 20090725 | Catherine Bott presents highlights of a concert in the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall in the University of York, given as part of the York Early Music Festival 2009. Fabio Bonizzoni directs La Risonanza in a programme of music by Handel and his Italian contemporaries including Stradella, Marchitelli and Porpora. Playlist: Alessandro Stradella: Sistite sidera Emanuela Galli (soprano) Pietro Marchitelli: Sonata No 2 a 3 violini e basso Niccolo Porpora: Or si m'avveggio, oh Amore Handel: Armida Abbandonata, HWV105 Fabio Bonizzoni directs La Risonanza in a programme by Handel and his contemporaries. | |||
| La Ciaccona/york Early Music Festival Young Artists | 20090801 | Catherine Bott introduces highlights of a concert given in the Castle in Grandson, Switzerland, by recorder ensemble La Ciaccona. It features music by Vivaldi, Merula, Albinoni and Veracini. The programme also includes a feature showcasing some of the finalists in the Young Artists' Competition at the York Early Music Festival 2009. Playlist: Vivaldi: Concerto in G minor for recorder, oboe, bassoon and continuo - arranged for recorder, violin, cello and harpsichord Merula: La Pighetta, canzon for recorder and continuo; La Ciaccona, for recorder, violin and continuo (Canzoni overo sonate concertate per chiesa e camera, a 2-3 - libro terzo) Albinoni: Baletto No 3 in G for recorder, violin and continuo (Balletti a tre) Veracini: Sonata No 1 in G minor (12 sonatas for violin and continuo), arranged for A minor recorder and continuo Fasch: Sonata a 4 in B flat (excerpt) Telemann: Paris Quartet No 6 in E minor (excerpt) Telemann: Vivace (Trio in F) Ensemble Meridiana (recorded at the York Early Music Young Artists Competition final on 18th July 2009) Anon: Stetit Jesu Anon: Ic heb gheiaecht mijn leven lang Anon: Verbliit uw lieve susterkyn Grand Desir With Catherine Bott. Recorder ensemble La Ciaccona perform Italian baroque repertoire. | ||
| Ton Koopman | 20090802 | Lucie Skeaping presents a concert of organ music recorded at Stift Zwettl Abbey in Lower Austria. Ton Koopman performs solo works by Bach and Spanish composer Pablo Bruna, as well as two concertos by Handel and Haydn, with the orchestral accompaniment provided by Koopman's own ensemble - Amsterdam Baroque. Stift Zwettl Abbey is part of a sprawling Medieval Cistercian monastery that nestles in the bend of the river Kamp. Over the centuries it's been plundered and rebuilt many times, and now houses a huge collection of manuscripts and artefacts looked after by the 23 or so monks who live there, and who still manage the surrounding agricultural land, fish farm and vineyards. Each summer they play host to an annual organ festival - the occasion for this recording. In the second part of the programme, Catherine Bott presents the second of her features from the Young Artists' Showcase at the 2009 York Early Music Festival. Playlist: Bach: In dulce Jubilo Pablo Bruna: Tiento sobre la letania del la Virgen Ton Koopman (organ) Handel: Organ Concerto in G minor, HWV289 No 1 Haydn: Keyboard Concerto in C, H XVIII 1 Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra Louis-Antoine Travenol: Sonata No 3 in D (excerpts) Michele Mascitti: Sonata No 3 in G minor (excerpt) Le Tic Toc Choc (recorded at the York Early Music Festival's Young Artists competition final on 18th July 2009) Tarquini Merula: La Lusignuola Sweelinck: Mein junges Leben hat ein End Anon (14th century): Estampie (Robertsbridge Codex) Purcelli Abubu Lucie Skeaping presents Ton Koopman playing the organ in Stift Zwettl Abbey in Austria. | ||
| Helsinki Baroque Orchestra/york Early Music Young Artists Finalists | 20090808 | Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a concert given by the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, directed by Aapo Hakkinen, in the Palace Theatre in Schwetzingen as part of the 2009 Schwetzingen Festival. The music includes a Sinfonia by Johan Helmich Roman, a violin concerto by Agrell, played by violinist Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen, and a symphony by Stamitz. Plus profiles of two more young early music groups who were finalists at 2009's York Early Music Young Artists Competition - the Marian Consort from the UK and Metromania from Belgium. Playlist: Johan Helmich Roman: Sinfonia No 6 in E minor Helsinki Baroque Orchestra Aapo Hakkinen (conductor) Johan Joachim Agrell: Violin Concerto in D Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen (violin) Jan Vaclav Stamitz: Symphony in A, Op 3 No 5 Palestrina: Tu es Petrus Philippe Rogier: Agnus Dei (Missa Philippus Secundus Rex Hispaniae) Pierre de Manchicourt: Gaudeamus et exultemus The Marian Consort (recorded at York Early Music Festival's Young Artists Competition final on 18th July 2009) Solage: Helas, je voy mon cuer Anon: A mon pouir Borlet: He, tres doulz roussignol ioly Metromarina Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a concert given by the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra. | ||
| Amarcord/york Early Music Competition | 20090809 | Catherine Bott presents a programme in which two members of German a capella group Amarcord talk about their work, illustrated with highlights from a concert they gave at the 2009 Schwetzingen Festival in Germany. Amarcord came together as students of Thomas School in Leipzig, an institution famous for its associations with Bach. However, the five members of Amarcord became fascinated in early music from the centuries before Bach, and in the early 1990s they formed a vocal group which combined the great musical traditions of their schooling with some of early music performance methods that were starting to cross into Eastern Europe from the West. The result is a very distinctive sound that has won them a lot of critical praise, especially on the continent. Plus a chance to hear two more of the finalists from the 2009 York Early Music International Young Artists Competition. It is a major platform for emerging talent in the early music world and has attracted a variety of ensembles from afar afield as the USA, Belgium, France, Austria and Switzerland, as well as the UK. Playlist: Anon: Veni, mater gratia (Alleluia V) Stephen Langton: Veni, sancte spiritus (Pentecost Sequence) Johannes Ockeghem: Credo Josquin Desprez: Motet: Magnus es tu, Domine Gregorian chants: De Profundis clamavi (Offertory Moosburg Gradual); Amen dico vobis quidquid (Communion - Moosburg Gradual) Pierre de la Rue: O Salutaris hostia (Missa de Sancta Anna) Amarcord Giovanni Paolo Cima: Sonata a 2 (Concerti Ecclesiastici) - excerpt Giovanni Battista Fontana: Violin Sonata No 2 in D Concitato Ensemble (recorded at York Early Music Festival's Young Artists Competition final on 18th July 2009) Anon: Verbliit uw lieve susterkyn (excerpt) Grand Desir Telemann: Distrait (Paris Quartet No 6 in E minor) Meridiana Catherine Bott presents music from German-based a capella group Amarcord. | ||
| David Mcguinness At The 2009 Mananan Festival | 20090815 | Catherine Bott presents a concert of French and Scottish keyboard music, given by harpsichordist David McGuinness at the 2009 Mananan International Festival of Music and the Arts, in Port Erin, on the Isle of Man. The programme includes works by well-known composers such as Rameau and Couperin, as well as some intriguing lesser-known musicians like Alexander Reinagle, Jacques Duphly, Duncan Burnett and Christoph Schetky. Playlist: Duncan Burnett: Pavin Rameau: La Poule Claude Balbastre: Suite de clavecin - Book 1 (excerpt) Jacques Duphly: La De Drummond (Pièces de clavecin - Book 4) Johan Christoph Schetky: Sonata in D, Op 9, No 1 Couperin: La Passacaille (Pieces de clavecin - Book 8) Alexander Reinagle: The East nook of Fife Rameau: Gavotte avec 6 doubles (Nouvelles Suite de pieces de clavecin ou 2nd livre) Jacques Duphly: Rondo (Pièces de clavecin - Book 1). Catherine Bott presents a concert of harpsichord music performed by David McGuinness. | ||
| Thomas Ravenscroft - Harmony To Please, Varietie To Delight | 20090822 | Lucie Skeaping explores the life and music of Thomas Ravenscroft - an English composer who aimed to produce 'harmony to please, and varietie to delight'. An English musical prodigy, in 1609, he was editor of Pammelia, the earliest English printed collection of rounds and catches. Playlist: Ravenscroft: The marriage of the frogge and the mouse The Consort of Musicke Anthony Rooley (director) VIRGIN CLASSICS VC 7912172 Tr 15 Ravenscroft: New Oysters; Come follow me merrily; New Oysters (reprise) Circa 1500 with Redbyrd CRD CRD3487 Trs 1, 14, 22 Ravenscroft: Three Fantasias for viol VIRGIN CLASSICS VC 7912172 Trs 11-13 Ravenscroft: Three Blind Mice; Browning Madame VIRGIN CLASSICS VC 7912172 Trs 9, 8 Segue to: Ravenscroft: Who liveth so merry; Give us once a drink Pro Cantione Antiqua Mark Brown (conductor) Ian Partridge (director) TELDEC 843443 Trs 6, 13, 16 William Parsons: The Lamentation His Majestie's Clerkes Paul Hillier (conductor) HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907128 Tr 3 Dowland: All people that on Earth do dwell... (Psalm 100) L'OISEAU-LYRE 452 5632 CD7 Tr 4 Ravenscroft: Laboravi in gemitu meo; Ne laeteris inimical mea VIRGIN CLASSICS VC 7912172 Trs 17, 18 Ravenscroft: Remember O Thou Man (Anthem from Melismata) The Sixteen Harry Christophers (conductor) COLLINS CLASSICS 14922 Tr 9 Ravenscroft: We Be Soldiers Three City Waites REGIS RRC 1275 Tr 5 Ravenscroft: Cryers Song of Cheape-Side VIRGIN CLASSICS VC 7912172 Tr 1. Lucie Skeaping explores the life and music of 17th-century composer Thomas Ravenscroft. | ||
| Ich Bin Ein Hamburger | 20090823 | Catherine Bott presents a programme of music written by composers who were native to, or resident of the German city of Hamburg. Pieces include works by Praetorius, Weckmann, Scheidemann, Conradi, Handel, Telemann and C.P.E. Bach. Producer: Les Pratt BBC Manchester Playlist: H. Praetorius – Joseph lieber, Joseph mein The Tallis Scholars Directed by Peter Phillips GIMELL CDGIM 010 Track 14 J Praetorius – Magnificat Primi Toni (first part) Kristian Olesen (organ) PRIORY PRCD 444 Track 6 (excerpt) segue Scheidemann – Pavana Lachrymae in D minor Andreas Staier (harpsichord) HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901898 Track 18 Weckmann – Canzon in D Jan Katzschke (harpsichord) CPO 777 185-2 Track 9 Conradi – “Gute Nacht, ihr Anverwandten”; “Geneigte Liebe beglucke die Lust” (Ariadne) Karina Gauvin (soprano – Ariadne) / Barbara Borden (soprano – Phaedra) / Matthew White (countertenor – Evanthes) / Jan Kobow (tenor - Pamphilius) / James Taylor (tenor – Theseus) / Julian Podger (tenor – Pirithous) The Orchestra of the Boston Early Music Festival Directed by Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs CPO 777 073-2 CD2 Tracks 25-26 Mattheson – Der Ober-Classe Dreizehntes Prob-Stuck Handel – Oboe Concerto in G minor HWV 287 Frank de Bruine (oboe) The Parley of Instruments Directed by Peter Holman HYPERION CDA 67053 Tracks 14-17 Telemann – Der Geduldige Socrates Joszef Gregor (bass – Socrates) Capella Savaria Conducted by Nicholas McGegan HUNGAROTON HCD 12957-60 CD1 Tracks 1-2 C.P.E. Bach – Mein Heiland, meine Zuversicht H.830 Himlische Cantorey / Les Amis de Philippe Conducted by Ludger Remy CPO 777 108-2 Track 16 C.P.E. Bach – Leite mich nach deinem Willen H.835 Track 1 Music by composers who were native to or residents of the German city of Hamburg. | ||
| Stradivarius | 20090906 | 20100207 | Lucie Skeaping travels to Cremona in Italy to explore the city's violin making heritage. Lucie Skeaping travels to Cremona in Italy to explore the place where the Amati, Guarneri and Stradivari families gave birth to a new instrument - the violin. She talks to luthier Christopher D'Guerro about the craft of violin making, explores the Stradivari museum and meets Professor Andrea Mosconi, curator of Cremona's violin making heritage. All of the music featured is played on original instruments from Cremona's famous maker. Playlist: Tartini: Sonata No 22 in A minor Andrea Cappelletti (violin) KOCH 311262 Trs 17-20 Vivaldi: The Four Seasons - Concerto No 2 in G minor (L'estate) - excerpt Nigel Kennedy (violin) English Chamber Orchestra EMI CDC 7495572 Tr 6 Vivaldi: The Four Seasons - Concerto No 2 in G minor (L'estate) - complete EMI CDC 7495572 Trs 4-6 Bach: Partita No3 in E, BWV1006 (excerpts) Arthur Grumiaux (violin) PHILIPS 438 7362 Tr 15 Handel: Larghetto Ruggiero Ricci (violin) Leon Pommers (piano) BRUNSWICK AXA 4521 (LP) Side 2, Band 4 Bach: Partita No 3 in E, BWV1006 (Preludio) PHILIPS 438 7362 Tr 10 Corelli: Concerto grosso, Op 6 No 3 (excerpt); Concerto grosso, Op 6 No 2 (excerpts from 1st mvt) La Petite Bande Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor) DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI GD77007 CD1 Trs 10, 5 Bach: Partita No 3 in E, BWV1006 (Menuet I-II) PHILIPS 438 7362 Tr 13. | |
| Vivaldi Concertos | 20090906 | Catherine Bott talks to Adrian Chandler about his recordings of Vivaldi concertos. Catherine Bott talks to the violinist and director of the ensemble La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler, about his recordings of some of Antonio Vivaldi's lesser-known concertos. Vivaldi wrote over five hundred concertos, including many for his own instrument, the violin, along with some for larger and grander ensembles. Adrian Chandler has long been a champion of Vivaldi as a composer, and is keen to demonstrate some of his less popular works in the concerto idiom. The programme will include complete performances of the Concerto for violin, 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 horns and timpani RV562a, and the violin concerto in F major RV292. Including: VIVALDI Concerto III con violino solo obligato in G, Op.3 RV.310 (1st movement) La Serenissima Directed by Adrian Chandler AVIE 2106 Track 34 VIVALDI Concerto senza cantin, for violin, strings and continuo RV.243 (1st movement) AVIE 2128 Track 13 VIVALDI Concerto for violin, strings and continuo in E flat, RV.254 (2nd movement) Track 19 VIVALDI Concerto for violin, 2 cellos, strings and continuo in C, RV.561 (1st movement) Track 7 VIVALDI Concerto for violin, cello, organ, strings and continuo, RV.554a AVIE 2063 Tracks 23-25 VIVALDI Concerto for violin, 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 horns, timpani, strings and continuo, RV.562a (3rd movement) AVIE 2154 Track 20 VIVALDI Concerto for violin, strings and continuo in F, RV.292 Tracks 1-2 BYRD Venite from The Great Service The Tallis Scholars Directed by Peter Phillips GIMELL CDGIM 011 Track 1 | ||
| Jean-marie Leclair | 20090912 | Jean Marie Leclair's story is one of the most mysterious of the French baroque. He began life as a lacemaker before finding a career as a dancer, and eventually as a virtuoso violinist and composer, he became so celebrated that he was known as, "The French Corelli". He quickly came to the attention of the King and his compositions became justifiably popular. Then, in 1758 his story takes a sudden twist. Leclair's marriage broke up and he chose to live in a hovel, in a dangerous area of Paris just east of the city walls. Why, nobody knows. He didn't need to live in such circumstances. One morning, his gardener, suspicious that Leclair's garden gate had been left open, ventured within and discovered the famous Leclair lying murdered in a pool of blood in the vestibule of his house. He had been stabbed three times. The Parisian police under the auspices of the celeberated French Lieutenant General of Police, Antoine de Sartine, held a thorough investigation. So what did happen to Leclair? Had his jealous nephew, Francois, killed him in a fit of pique. Could it have been his impoverished wife, Louise? Did the gardener, Paysant, do it or might it have been a psychopathic stranger? Lucie Skeaping outlines the grisly story with actors taking the parts of the various supsects in the case. The whole programme is illustrated with a selection from some of Leclair's marvellous music. Producer: Chris Wines Playlist: Sonata 6 in B minor: “Le Tombeau” Mvts 1 &2 Les Folies Francoises/Patrick Cohen-Akenine Alpha 083 Tracks: 9-10 Sonata for two violins Op 3/3 Chiara Banchini/John Holloway ERATO 2292 45013-2 Track: 7 “Viens Amour, quitte Cithere” Act 5 Scene 2 “Scylla et Glaucos” Catherien Dubosc (Sicilienne) Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists/ John Eliot Gardiner ERATO ECD 75339 CD 3 Track 26 Concerto in A minor Opus7/5 – mvt 1 Vivace Simon Standage/Colleium Musicum 90 CHANDOS CHAN0551 Track: 4 Sonata in F Opus 4/4 – iv Presto Musica Alta Ripa WDR GL 3428 Track: 17 Sonata in G minor Op 13 No 3 – iii. Aria London Baroque Harmonia Mundi 901646 Track 23 Deuxieme recreation de musique d’une Execution Facile in G minor op 8 – Menuets 1 et 1/Badinage Les Nieces de Rameau PIERRE VERANY PV794011 Track: 12 & 13 Concerto in D Major Op7/2 – mvt 2 Adagio Track: 2 Mvt: (3) & 4 Tracks: (11) & 12 Lucie Skeaping considers the evidence concerning the murder in 1764 of Jean-Marie Leclair. | ||
| Milton's Comus | 20090913 | Comus (A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634) was a masque written by John Milton in honour of chastity and it was first presented on Michaelmas, 1634, before John Egerton, Earl of Bridgewater at Ludlow Castle in celebration of the Earl's elevation to President of Wales with music by Henry Lawes. Milton and Lawes had a close friendship and collaborated on a number of works, but Lawes was not the last composer to write music for this masque. In Milton's 400th anniversary year, Catherine Bott travels to Ludlow Castle to explore the occasion of that first performance and the music which Comus went on to inspire. The programme includes excerpts from Comus and Milton's sonnet to Lawes: To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires read by Robert Glenister. PLAYLIST: HENRY LAWES Sitting by the Streams Consort of Musicke/Anthony Rooley Hyperion CDA 66135 Track 17 John Milton (father) Fair Oriana in the morn I Fagiolini Chandos CHAN 0682 Track 23 HENRY LAWES Sweet Stay Awhile The Consort of Musicke/Anthony Rooley Track 3 MAZZOCCHI La Catena d’Adone Les Arts Florissant/William Christie Virgin Classics 3381542 Track 2 HENRY LAWES From the heav’ns now I fly; Robin Blaze (countertenor)/Elizabeth Kenny (theorbo) Hyperion CDA 67589 Track 9 Segue to: WILLIAM LAWES Country Dance; Elizabeth Kenny (lute) Track 12 HENRY LAWES Sweet Echo… Rebecca Outram (soprano)/Elizabeth Kenny (theorbo) Track 11 THOMAS ARNE By the Rushy-fringed bank/ Brightest Lady Emma Kirby (soprano)/Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood Decca 470 372-2 Track 13 (CD2/2) THOMAS ARNE Fame’s an Echo/ Not on Beds of Fading Flowers Julianne Baird (soprano)/Colin Tilney (harpsichord)/Alison Mackay (viola da gamba) Dorian DOR 90105 Tracks 7, 8 HANDEL Comus Patrizia Kwella (soprano)/Margaret Cable (mezzo)/David Thomas (bass)/Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood OISEAU LYRE 421 479-2 Tracks 20-25 Catherine Bott explores John Milton's masque Comus. | ||
| The Huelgas Ensemble At The 2009 Edinburgh Festival | 20090919 | Lucie Skeaping presents a concert given by the Huelgas Ensemble under their music director Paul van Nevel at Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, as part of the 2009 Edinburgh International Festival. The ensemble, which is named after a Cistercian monastery near Burgos in Spain, has been established since 1970 and has carved a reputation as one of the leading vocal ensembles in Europe. The group is particularly famous for its pioneering recordings of music by composers from the Franco-Flemish school, such as Nicholas Gombert and Pierre de Manchicourt. This concert juxtaposes sacred music by two composers of different generations - Michael Praetorius and Bach. Arguably the most famous composers of the German chorale tradition, they based many of their compositions on the same basic material. Here, the eight voices and seven instrumentalists of the Huelgas Ensemble show how both composers treat the same texts, in very different ways. Playlist: Gallus: Obsecro Domine (In adventu Domini nostri Jesu Christi) Huelgas Ensemble Paul van Nevel (conductor) SONY CLASSICAL SK 64305 Tr 2 Gombert: Tous les regretz SONY CLASSICAL SK 48249 Tr 4 Praetorius: Ach, Gott, vom Himmel sieh' darein Bach: Ach, Gott, vom Himmel sieh' darein Praetorius: Das Silber durchs Feur siebenmal Bach: Du stellst mein Jesu, selber dich BBC RECORDING Praetorius: Mitten wir im Leben sind Bach: Mitten wir im Leben sind Praetorius: Aus tiefer Noth schrey ich zu dir Bach: Ob bei uns ist der Sünden viel Lejeune: O roze reyne des fleurs SONY CLASSICAL SK 68259 Tr 3 Praetorius: Christe, der du bist Tag und Licht Bach: Wir bitten dein' gottliche Kraft De Rore: Mia benigna fortuna HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901760 Tr 3 Praetorius: Mit Fried' und Freud' ich fahr' dahin Bach: Mit Fried' und Freud' ich fahr' dahin Praetorius: Denn hast du allen furgestelt The Huelgas Ensemble performs chorales by Bach and Praetorius at 2009's Edinburgh Festival | ||
| Domenico Zipoli | 20090920 | Catherine Bott explores the life and music of the composer Domenico Zipoli, a contemporary of Bach and Handel who seemed to disappear from European musical life just as he was making his mark with the publication of his first work, the Sonate d'intavolatura per organo e cimbalo. Did his early promise fade and leave him resigned to a life of obscurity? No. Scholars had known for a while that there was another Domenico Zipoli, active just after this time in Paraguay, but it wasn't until the 1950s that it was realised that the two composers were in fact one and the same. He had joined the Jesuit reductiones and gone to South America - music played a pivotal role in in the missions, fulfilling the Jesuits' aim of transmitting the idea of God to the natives. The music he composed there was thought to be lost, until at the beginning of the 1960s when a mass for three-part choir (without bass), soloists, two violins, organ and continuo was located, reading: 'copied in Potossi, in the year 1784', that is 58 years after the composer's death. The fact that over half a century after Zipoli's death his works were still performed in Argentina and in Higher Peru clearly reflect his importance. Then, in 1972, 5000 pages of manuscript music were accidentally discovered in East Bolivia, among them a large number of complete works by Zipoli. They were being used as toilet paper in the bathroom of the church sacristy. Playlist: Zipoli: Sonate d'intavolatura: Toccata Dominique Ferran (organ) K617037 Tr 2 Zipoli: Sonate pour Violon et basse continue Les Soloists de l'Ensemble Elyma K617037 Tr 10 Zipoli: Partite (do maggiore) - Sonate d'intavolatura per cimbalo Sergio Vartolo (harpsichord) TACTUS TC682602 Tr 14 Zipoli: Deus In Adjutorium - Domine Ad Adjuvandum Coro de Ninos Cantores de Cordoba Ensemble Elyma Gabriel Garrido (conductor) K617027 CD 2 Tr 1 Zipoli: Beatus Vir K617027 CD 2 Tr 4 Zipoli: Kyrie (Misa Brevis) Cristina Garcia Banegas (organ) Affetti Musicali Buenos Aires K617036 Tr 1 Zipoli: Letania I En Do K617036 Tr 7. Catherine Bott explores the life and music of the composer Domenico Zipoli. | ||
| The Story Of Ann Cargill | 20090920 | 20100307 | Lucie Skeaping vists the Scilly Isles to trace the life of the notorious actress and singer, Ann Cargill, who drowned in a dramatic shipwreck there in 1784, and whose ghost is said to have haunted Rosevear Island ever since. Ann Cargill, made her London stage debut in 1771 at the tender age of eleven, playing the role of Titania in George Coleman's Covent Garden production of Thomas Arne's opera "The Fairy Prince". She soon became a huge box office hit as a child star, and took on more and more roles as she grew into womanhood. By the time she was fifteen, she was a very attractive young lady indeed, and used her feminine wiles to attract a string of rather undesirable suitors. After she eloped with a married man eighteen years her senior, her father eventually washed his hands of her. She continued to be a popular draw at Drury Lane, in productions of John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera" and Thomas Linley's "The Duenna", but her love-life became more and more scandalous as the years progressed. She married the son of a wealthy diamond merchant, but they separated after just three days, when she discovered he was flat-broke and evading his creditors! Eventually, she fell in love with a handsome merchant seaman - Captain John Haldane - and, carrying his illegitimate child, left London altogether to start a new life with him in India. In Bombay, however, she received a mixed reception. Some were delighted that such a charming and talented young woman was providing entertainment by giving performances of her famous arias; others, however, were distinctly unimpressed that an English strumpet was parading around far-flung corners of the Empire, flaunting her bastard son and bringing shame and embarrassment to the nation. One such, was the Prime Minister, William Pitt the Younger, who sent word via the East India Company that Mrs Cargill and Captain Haldane should return to Britain forthwith. So, in December 1783, they boarded their ship - the Nancy Packet - and set sail for London once again. The journey was long and arduous, and they finally arrived in British waters in February 1784, amidst a horrific gale. In the middle of the night, the ship became hopelessly lost, and struck one of the many treacherous rocks off the western reaches of Scilly. Ann Cargill, still wearing her nightclothes, managed to scramble into a lifeboat with her infant son, heading for Rosevear Island, which appeared to be the nearest safe haven. The Nancy Packet broke apart and sank in the tumult, and it wasn't for another seven days that the weather abated enough for locals to venture out to the wreck site to see if there were any survivors. They discovered the upturned lifeboat just off a small bay on Rosevear Island, and underneath, found Ann Cargill, floating in her nightgown, with her head resting on her baby's, as if in sleep. It was a melancholy scene to break any heart. All the dead were buried in makeshift graves on top of Rosevear Island, until a wealthy businessman offered to pay for Ann Cargill, John Haldane and their son to have a proper burial at the Old Town Church on St. Mary's. It's said that those who have visited Rosevear Island since the disaster struck, have heard an unearthly singing. Lucie Skeaping meets Todd Stevens, a wreck-diver and treasure hunter, who found the wreck of the Nancy Packet in 2007, and has since written a book about his findings and about the life and death of Ann Cargill. Playlist: Thomas Arne: Seek you Majesty (The Fairy Prince) Rachel Nicholls (soprano) Robin Tritschler (tenor) Pawel Siwczak (harpsichord) BBC recording Thomas Arne: Melt earth to sea (The Fairy Prince) SEGUE Thomas Arne: Nay, nay, you must not stay (The Fairy Prince) Thomas Arne: Airs 37, 38 & 39 (The Beggar's Opera) Bronwen Mills (Polly) HYPERION CDA 66591 Disc 2 Trs 16 - 19 Frederick Lampe: The Coquet Emma Curtis (contralto) The Frolick AVIE 2102 Disc 1 Tr 8 Thomas Arne: The charge is prepared (The Beggar's Opera) Adrian Thompson (Macheath) HYPERION CDA 66591 Disc 2 Tr 48 Purcell: Celia has a thousand charms (excerpt) AVIE 2102 Disc 1 Tr 2 Henry Holcombe: The Syren of the stage AVIE 2102 Disc 1 Tr 15 Thomas Linley: By him we love offended (The Duenna) Thomas Linley: When Sable night (The Duenna) Thomas Linley: Adieu, thou dreary pile (The Duenna) Anon: Scilly Rocks (excerpt) Tony Snell (vocals) FOREST TRACKS FT 3016 Side 2 Tr 7. Lucie Skeaping visits the Scilly Isles to learn about the 18th-century singer, Ann Cargill | |
| Machaut | 20090926 | Catherine Bott explores one of the deadliest pandemics in human history - the Black Death in the 14th century - via the music of the composers who lived through the time. They include Guillaume De Machaut, who wrote of the plague in his poem The Judgement of the King of Navarre. Playlist: Guillaume De Machaut: Introitus: Gaudeamus omnes in Domino from Messe de Nostre Dame Taverner Consort/Taverner Choir/Andrew Parrott EMI CDC 7 47949 2 Track 1 Guillaume De Machaut: Quand je sui mis au retour Early Music Consort of London/Martyn Hill/David Munrow VIRGIN VERITAS VED 5 61284 2 CD1 Track 9 Philippe de Vitry: Apta caro/ Flos virginum Orlando Consort AMON RA CD-SAR 49 Track 3 Segue to: J de Porta: Alma polis religio/Axe poli cum artica Gothic Voices/Christopher Page HYPERION CDA 66463 Track 5 Landini: Abbonda di virtue Micrologus OPUS 111 OPS 30-112 Track 14 Anon: Lamento di Tristano/La Rotta Dufay Collective CONTINUUM CCD 1042 Tracks 7-8 P des Molins: Amis tout dous vis (rondeau) The Early Music Consort of London/David Munrow CD1 Track 5 Giovanni da Firenze: Quand'Amor Track 2 Gherardello de Florentia: De poni amor a me Track 12 Guillaume De Machaut: Sanctus et Benedictus from Messe de Nostre Dame Track 13. Catherine Bott on the Black Death's impact on early music. Including works by Machaut. | ||
| 16/11/2008 | 20090927 | A portrait of the Italian composer, Alessandro Stradella. Lucie Skeaping presents a programme featuring the music of the Italian composer, Alessandro Stradella. Born in the 17th century into a noble family in Tuscany, Stradella was a much-respected composer in his day and capitalised on his family connections with noble patrons. Although he seemed to have led a charmed life, it was also peppered with various scandals, and ended tragically early at the age of 42, stabbed by an assassin for reasons which are still not clear. Lucie Skeaping plays a selection of Stradella's music, including part of his oratorio San Giovanni Battista. including: STRADELLA Opening Sinfonia from Oratorio San Giovanni Battista Academia Montis Regalis Alessandro de Marchi, conductor Hyperion CDA67617 track 2 STRADELLA Sacred cantata: Crocifissione e morte di N.S Giesu Christo Gérard Lesne, alto Il Seminario Musicale Virgin Classics VC5451752 tracks 1 – 3 STRADELLA Sinfonia no 12 Ingrid Matthews, violin Mary Springfels, viola da gamba Barbara Weiss, harpsichord Harmonia Mundi HMU907192 track 6 STRADELLA Duet: Fulmini quanto sa Emma Kirkby, soprano David Thomas, bass Alan Wilson, harpsichord Jakob Lindberg, lute Anthony Rooley, lute Musica Oscura 070984 track 16 STRADELLA Sinfonia in D major from Serenata Il barcheggio (1681) Crispian Steele-Perkins, trumpet The Parley of Instruments Hyperion CDA67359 tracks 21 – 24 STRADELLA Extract from Part II San Giovanni Battista Recit Deh, che piu tardi a consolar - Sinfonia a 3 (Lelio Colista) Anke Hermann, Salome (soprano) Martin Oro, San Giovanni Battista (counter-tenor) Antonio Abete, Herode (bass) tracks 25 – 29 | ||
| Alla Francesca At The 2009 York Early Music Festival | 20090927 | In a programme exploring the impact of the Black Death on early music, Catherine Bott introduces highlights of a concert given in the Chapter House of York Minster by the ensemble Alla Francesca as part of the York Early Music Festival 2009. The music includes settings of Hebrew prayers, anonymous songs from the Jewish community, and sequences of instrumental and vocal music by Machaut. All music performed by Alla Francesca: Helene Decarpignies (voice) Brigitte Lesne (voice, harp, percussion) Emmanuel Vistorky (voice) Marco Horvat (voice, lute) Vivabiancaluna Biffi (vielle) Pierre Hamon (recorders, bagpipe) Ovadia Hager: Barukh Hagever (Hebrew prayer) Segue to: Moniot de Paris: Shalfu tzarim (Hebrew elegy) Machaut: Comment qu'a moy/Douce dame jolie (virelais) Machaut: Puis que ma dolour (virelai) Machaut: Honte, paour et doubtance (diminution from Codex Faenza) Machaut: Mors sui se je ne vous voy (virelai) Machaut: De toutes flous n'avoit et de tous fruis (ballade) Machaut: Dame a vous sans retollir (virelai) Anon: Nu tret herzuo der boessen welle (penitent's song for the Black Death) Anon: Maria unser frowe kyrie eleyson (penitent's song for the Black Death) Anon: Mamenyu, lyubenyu (song) Anon: Graff von Rom (song) Anon: Tif in veldele vakst a beymele (song) Anon: Unter a kleyn beymele (song). A concert of music for the Black Death from the 2009 York Early Music Festival. | ||
| Renaissance Polyphony | 20091003 | 20100131 | Lucie Skeaping explores the mysteries of renaissance polyphony with Peter Phillips. Lucie Skeaping is joined by Peter Phillips and the Tallis Scholars to explore some of the defining qualities and the ethos of Renaissance polyphony. She asks what has prompted their enthusiasm for it and learns how working with this music has encouraged the group to find a distinctive sound and performing methodology. Including excerpts from some of the Tallis Scholars many recordings. Peter Phillips and his group have specialised in the performance of Renaissance polyphony since 1973. They have built a reputation for bringing some of the greatest European church music of the 16th and 17th centuries onto the concert platform. Playlist: Tallis: O Sacrum Convivium Tallis Scholars Peter Phillips (conductor) GIMELL CDGIM 998 Track: 6 Taverner: Western Wind Mass - Sanctus and Benedictus GIMELL CDGIM 027 Track: 3 Palestrina: Surge, illuminare GIMELL CDGIM 994 Track: 2 Tallis: Lamentations 1 GIMELL CDGIM 996 Allegri: Miserere Roy Goodman (treble) Choir of Kings College, Cambridge David Willcocks (conductor) DECCA 466 373-2 Track: 1 Tallis: Salvator mundi Clerkes of Oxenford David Wulstan (conductor) CALLIOPE CAL9623 Track: 7 Palestrina: Gloria (Missa Papae Marcelli) GIMELL CDGIM 041 Track: 4 William Mundy: Adolescentulus sum ergo Victoria: Sanctus and Benedictus (Requiem) GIMELL CDGIM 012 Elizabeth Edwards: Arise (excerpt) (BBC recording from York Early Music Festival 2009). GIMELL CDGIM 998 Tr 6 GIMELL CDGIM 027 Tr 3 GIMELL CDGIM 994 Tr 2 GIMELL CDGIM 996 Tr 2 CALLIOPE CAL9623 Tr 7 Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli - Gloria GIMELL CDGIM 041 Tr 4 GIMELL CDGIM 998 Tr 7 Victoria: Requiem - Sanctus and Benedictus GIMELL CDGIM 012 Tr 6 | |
| 18/01/2009 | 20091004 | Simon Lole explores the Mulliner Book, a collection of Tudor keyboard music. Organist Simon Lole explores the Mulliner Book, one of the most important collections of Tudor keyboard music. It was compiled in the 1560s by Thomas Mulliner, an organist at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and it now resides in the British Library. Assumed by some to have been used for training choirboys, the book contains 121 keyboard works, of which over half are based on liturgical chants. The collection contains works by Thomas Tallis, John Redford, William Blitheman, John Taverner and Christopher Tye as well as several anonymous works. Anon: Galliard (Mulliner Book) Joseph Payne (organ) Naxos 8.850718 Track: 1 Newman: Pavan (Mulliner Book) Paul Wolfe (harpsichord) Lyrichord LEMS8033 CD 1 Track: 1 Thomas Tallis: Remember Not, O Lord (Mulliner Book) Naxos 8.550719 William Munday: Tres Partes in Una (Mulliner Book) CD 1 Track: 3 Anon: Felix Namque (plainchant) Anonymous 4 Harmonia Mundi HMU 907080 Track: 14 Anon: Gloria Tibi Trinitas (plainchant) The Sixteen/Harry Christophers Helios CDH 55052 John Taverner: Missa Gloria Tibi Trinitas: Sanctus and Benedictus The Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips Gimell CDGIM 004 Track: 5 Thomas Tallis: In Nomine II Charivari Agreable Signum SIGCD 042 CD 1 Track: 2 William Blitheman: Gloria Tibi Trinitas iii (Mulliner Book) CD 1 Track: 7 William Blitheman: Gloria Tibi Trinitas iv (Mulliner Book) CD 1 Track: 8 John Redford: O Lux with a meane (Mulliner Book) Track: 4 John Redford: Salvator with a meane (Mulliner Book) Track 7 Dur: 0.47 John Redford: Lucem tuam (Mulliner Book) Naxos 8.550718 Thomas Tallis: Like as the doleful dove (song) Stephen Taylor (counter tenor) Lynda Sayce (lute) CD 1 Track: 21 Thomas Tallis: Like as the doleful dove (Mulliner Book) Laurence Cummings (harpsichord) CD 1 Track: 9 Thomas Tallis: O ye tender babes (song) CD 1 Track: 22 Thomas Tallis: O ye tender babes (Mulliner Book) CD 1 Track: 10 Thomas Tallis: Per haec nos (Mulliner Book) Rachelle Taylor (organ) ATMA Classique ACD2 2349 Anon: La Shymyze (Mulliner Book) The Folger Consort BARD BDCD 9510 Anon: La Doune Celle (Mulliner Book) Track: 2 Anon: La Bounette (Mulliner Book) Track: 3 Skip Sempe (harpsichord) ASTREE NAIVE E8841 Track: 10 The programme also features under speech: Thomas Tallis: A Point (Mulliner Book) CD 1 Track: 13. | ||
| Les Arts Florissants | 20091004 | Catherine Bott presents a celebration of the 30th anniversary of Les Arts Florissants, who under their founder-director William Christie have been largely responsible for the revival of 17th-century French repertoire in France. Catherine talks to soprano Sophie Daneman about her close associations with the ensemble and plays a selection of their famous recordings. Playlist: Etienne Moulinie: Il est temps que l'ennuy face place a la Joye (Cantique de Moyse) Agnes Mellon, Birgit Grenat (soprano) Guillemette Laurens (mezzo-soprano) Dominique Visse (countertenor) Josep Benet (tenor) Michel Laplenie Phillipe Cantor Gregory Reinhart (bass) Les Arts Florissants William Christie (director) HARMONIA MUNDI HMX 2901055 Tr 1 Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie (Act 2, Sc 5) Pluto....Nathan Berg Mercury....Yann Beuron Trio of three fates: (to 'inspire fear and dread'!) Christopher Josey (tenor) Matthieu Lecroart (baritone) Bertand Bontoux (bass) ERATO 0630 15517 2 CD 2 Trs 9, 10 Lully: Sangaride and Doris (Atys - Act 1, Sc 4) Agnes Mellon, Francois Semellaz (soprano) HARMONIA MUNDI HML 5901257.59 CD 1 Trs 14, 15 Lully: Sleep Scene (Atys - Act 3, Sc 4) Sleep....Gilles Ragon Morpheus....Jean-Paul Fouchecourt Phobetor....Bernard Deletre Phantasmus....Michel Laplenie HARMONIA MUNDI HML 5901257.59 CD 2 Tr 15 Philidor: C'est vous, mon pere; Le Jardin des Voix (Tom Jones) Amel Brahim Djelloul Xavier Sabata Andrew Tortoise Judith Van Wanroij Andre Morsch Konstantin Wolff Claire Debono VIRGIN CLASSICS 338 1542 Tr 13 Mondonville: Gloria Patri (Dominus regnavit - grand motet) ERATO 0630 17791 2 Tr 6 Handel: Recit: Ye verdant plains and woody mountains; Aria: Hush, ye pretty warbling quire! (Acis et Galatea) Sophie Daneman (soprano) ERATO 3984 25505 2 CD 1, Trs 3 and 4. Catherine Bott celebrates 30 years of the work of Les Arts Florissants. | ||
| Carl Heinrich Graun | 20091010 | Catherine Bott delves into the life and the intriguing music of mid-18th century German composer Carl Heinrich Graun - not necessarily a famous name these days, but in his time, along with Hasse, considered to be the most important German composer of Italian opera. As a young man, Graun had his fingers in many musical pies, and by the time he reached his early 20s, was an accomplished singer, cellist, keyboard-player and composer. He spent nine happy years in the service of the Duke of Brunswick, where, in 1733, he came onto Prince Frederick of Prussia's radar, and before long, Graun was given a plum job at Frederick's court. Soon after that, the music-loving Prince Frederick acceded to the throne, and, as Frederick the Great, began to challenge the world on all fronts. While the new emperor prepared his armies to invade Silesia, his trusty Kapellmeister Graun set off to scout the opera houses of Italy and bring back the best talent to Berlin. Frederick was an ardent opera enthusiast and was determined to turn Berlin into an international operatic centre. To that end, he commissioned two new stages from architect and painter George Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, both inaugurated within 12 months of one another, with new productions of operas by Graun. The first was Graun's setting of Rodelinda for the theatre at the royal residence in the Berliner Stadtschloss, and the second, in December 1742, was for the opera house in central Berlin, at Unter den Linden, which opened to huge critical praise with Graun's magnificent Cleopatre et Cesare. Graun's music expresses the moving, the tender and the imploring; his simplification of certain aspects of the operatic structure, like the arioso (a style of singing somewhere between aria and recitative) and even ballet, point to the next generation of composers, especially the most famous 18th-century musical reformer of all - Gluck. Playlist: Graun: Herr, ich habe lieb die Statte deines Hauses L'arpa Festante Basler Madrigalisten Fritz Naf (conductor) CPO 777 158-2 Tr 12 Graun: Trio in C for viola da gamba, keyboard and continuo (3rd mvt) Philippe Pierlot (viola da gamba) Ricercar Consort RICERCAR RIC 047025 Tr 12 Graun: Pompe vane di morte (Rodelinda) Nathalie Stutzman (contralto) The Hanover Band Roy Goodman (director) RCA 09026 61903-2 Tr 4 Graun: Overture (Cleopatre and Cesare) Concerto Koln Rene Jacobs (director) HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901561.63 Disc 1 Tr 1 Graun: Ecco mio Ben l'istante (Cleopatre and Cesare) Cleopatra....Janet Williams Cesare....Iris Vermillion Rene Jacobs (conductor) HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901561.63 Disc 3 Tr 14 Graun: Sonata in G for flute (3rd mvt) Barthold Kuijken (transverse flute) Wieland Kuijken (cello) Bob van Asperen (harpsichord) SONY CLASSICAL SK66267 Tr 15 Graun: Der Tod Jesu (Nos 23 and 24) Klaus Mertens (baritone) Kammerchor Cantamus Halle Capella Savaria Pal Nemeth (director) QUINTANA (HARMONIA HUNDI) QUI 903061 Trs 23-24 Graun: Montezuma (Ah sol per te) Encarnacion Vasquez (Montezuma) Dorothea Wirtz (Eupaforice) Deutsche Kammerakademie Johannes Goritzki (conductor) CAPRICCIO 60 032-2 Disc 2 Tr 14. Catherine Bott explores the life and music of German composer Carl Heinrich Graun. | ||
| 11th-century Fraud - Ademar's Apostolic Mass | 20091011 | 20100314 | Exploring the extraordinary story of 11th-century French monk Ademar de Chabannes. Lucie Skeaping explores the extraordinary story behind the earliest-known medieval composer for whom a compositional autograph survives: Ademar de Chabannes and his 11th-century Mass for St Martial. Playlist: Ademar de Chabannes: Troped Apostolic Mass for Saint Martial, 1029 New York's Ensemble for Early Music Frederick Renz (director) EX CATHEDRA EC-9002 All music excerpts taken from the above CD: Introit Plebs devota Deo; Sanctus Martialis Trs 1 and 5 Introit Christi discipulus Tr 6 Kyrie; Gloria Trs 7-8 Alleluia; Sequence; Offertory Trs 10-12 Sanctus; Agnus Dei; Comunion; Ite Missa Est Trs 14-17. | |
| Christopher Hogwood | 20091011 | Catherine Bott talks to conductor, keyboardist and musicologist Christopher Hogwood. Catherine Bott talks to distinguished conductor, keyboardist and musicologist Christopher Hogwood about his career as one of the major proponents of the early music movement. Included in their discussion is Christopher's early work with David Munrow in the Early Music Consort of London as well as the orchestra he founded in 1973, the Academy of Ancient Music, of which he is Emeritus Director. The music featured is from his celebrated collection of recordings, including a work from Byrd's My Ladye Nevell's Booke, vocal music by Purcell, a keyboard fantasia by CPE Bach and part of Handel's opera Rinaldo. Playlist: Anon (French): Chevalier, mult estes guariz Second Crusade (1147) The Early Music Consort of London: Christopher Hogwood (tabor) Geoffrey Shaw (baritone) Chorus David Munrow (recorder) Eleanor Sloan (treble rebec) Oliver Brookes (bass rebec) DECCA 430 264-2 Tr 4 Purcell: An Evening Hymn Christopher Hogwood (organ) Emma Kirkby (soprano) Anthony Rooley (lute) L'OISEAU-LYRE 417 123-2 Tr 16 William Byrd: The Carmans Whistle Christopher Hogwood (Flemish harpsichord) L'OISEAU-LYRE 430 484-2 CD 3 Tr 4 Vivaldi: Cello Concerto in D minor, RV 406 (Allegro/Adagio/Allegro) Christophe Coin (cello) The Academy of Ancient Music Christopher Hogwood (director) L'OISEAU-LYRE 433 052-2 Trs 1-3 CPE Bach: Fantasy in C Christopher Hogwood (fortepiano) L'OISEAU-LYRE 433 189-2 Tr 7 Handel: Mori svenata - O Numi! (Rinaldo - Act 3, Sc 3); Nella guardata soglia come osaste portar sicuro il piede?; Sorge nel petto certo diletto; Al trionfo s'affretti senza ritardo il corso!; E' un incendio fra due venti (Rinaldo - Sc 4) Armida....Luba Orgonasova (soprano) Almirena....Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) Rinaldo....David Daniels (countertenor) Goffredo....Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano) Eustazio, Daniel Taylor (countertenor) DECCA 467 087-2 CD 3 Trs 6-10. | ||
| Lully Lullay | 20091017 | Lucie Skeaping explores the tender art of the lullaby, from ancient melody to Elizabethan song, and discovers how this most intimate of forms offers inspiration to the world of early music. The act of rocking a child to sleep with a gentle tune is one of our most simple and natural forms of music-making. They are common to all cultures and ages, and though they are varied, they all share remarkable similarities. Their words are soothing, using onomatopoeic and nonsense sounds, like the 'ninna nanna' of Italy and the English 'lulla lulla'. Often these lullabies are passed down from generation to generation and are known throughout regions and countries. But they are also transformed by this oral transmission. Many look outward to nocturnal themes, or to daily chores and the baby itself. Religious themes are also widespread. By its very nature, the lullaby has a certain gentle spirituality and its serenity is particularly suited to the Nativity. It reminds us of Mary's pure devotion to the baby Jesus, her gentle care and the universality of this particular kind of miracle. Many Christmas carols incorporate gentle rocking rhythms, simple structures, repetitive motifs or common phrases, like the 'Lully Lullay' of the well-known Coventry Carol. Many were also well-known secular tunes that were given devotional subjects in an attempt to lead audiences away from profane subjects. Others depict holy figures in easily-recognised scenes from daily life - Joseph rocking the cradle or Mary washing nappies. As well as featuring traditional music, and anonymous composers from around the world, the programme features pieces by English composers Anthony Holborne, William Byrd and John Bennet. Playlist: Anon: My Sweet Little Darling (England c.1580 - though often attributed to Byrd) Alain Zaepffel/Eugene Ferre/Les Elements ADDA 581033 Tr 1 Anon: Lullay - I Saw A Swete Semly Syght Anonymous 4 HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907099 Tr 9 Trad: Turkmen Lullaby BBC archive recording Holborne: The Fruit of Love The King's Noyse HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907238 Trs 12 (Fruit) and 15 (Lullabie) Segue: Holborne: Pavan The Cradle The York Waits AMON RA CDSAR 62 Tr 27 (Cradle) Holborne: Galliard Lullabie HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907238 Tr 15 Byrd: Lullaby, my sweet little baby David Cordier/Tragicomedia HYPERION CDA 66307 Tr 9 Song of the Nuns of Chester Alfred Deller/The Deller Consort VANGUARD CLASSICS 08506571 Tr 23 Anon: Swete was the song the Virgine soong Taverner Consort and Players Andrew Parrott (conductor) EMI CDC 7498092 Tr 13 Anon: Lullaby, lullow Taverner Consort VIRGIN CLASSICS VC 5451562 Tr 15 (instrumental) Anon: Coventry Carol Sneak's Noyse AMON RA CDSAR 62 Tr 5 Anon, arr J Savall: Cancao de embalar - Jose embala o menino Montserrat Figueres Hesperion XXI ALIA VOX AV 9826 Tr 1 Anon: Berceuse - Noumi, noumi yaldati ALIA VOX AV 9826 Tr 11 John Bennett: Venus' Birds David Cordier Tragicomedia Stephen Stubbs HYPERION CDA 66307 Tr 19 Anon: Baloo, my babe Evelyn Tubb (soprano) Michael Fields (lute) MUSICA OSCURA 070980 Tr 18. Lucie Skeaping explores the art of the lullaby and its inspiration to early music. | ||
| Handel's Borrowing | 20091018 | Catherine Bott explores Georg Friedrich Handel's controversial musical 'borrowings', which in today's world of music copyright is likely to have been plagiaristic. Playlist: Handel: His yoke is Easy (Messiah) Dawson/ Denley/ James/ Davies/ George (soloists) The Sixteen Choir and Orchestra Harry Christophers (conductor) Hyperion CDD22019 CD1 Tr 22 Handel: Italian Duet: Quel fior che all'alba ride, HWV192 (1st mvt) Patricia Petibon Anna Maria Panzarella Le Concert d'Astree Emmanuelle Haim (conducto) Virgin Classics 5455242 Tr 9 Handel: Pastoral symphony/Pifa (Messiah) Hyperion CDD22019 CD 1 Tr 13 Segue to: Playford: Parthenia (The Dancing Master) The Broadside Band Amon Ra CDSAR28 Tr 6 (excerpt) Telemann: Musique de table - concerto for threeviolins (excerpt) Camerata of 18th Century Konrad Hunteler (conductor) MD&G MDG31105802 CD 3 Tr 5 (excerpt) Handel: Sinfonie: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon) Gabrieli Consort Paul McCreesh (conductor) ARCHIV 459688-2 CD 3 Tr 1 Telemann: Flute Sonata (Musique de Table) MD&G MDG31105802 CD 2 Tr 5, 8 Handel: Organ Concerto HWV 304 (1st and last mvt) Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Bob Van Asperen (conductor) Virgin Classics VCD5452362 CD 2 Tr 15, 17 Gottlieb Muffat: Trio (II componimenti musicali) Ruso (harpsichord) TREC40005 Tr 14 Handel: Theodora (trio from Ouverture) Les Arts Florissant William Christie (conductor) ERATO 0927431812 CD 1 Tr 2 Handel: Egypt was glad (Israel in Egypt) The Sixteen Orchestra of the Sixteen COLLINS CLASSICS 70352 CD 1 Tr 2 Kerll: Fourth Canzona Haselbock (organ) NOVALIS 1500942 Tr 13 Handel: Concerto grosso, HWV327 (final gigue) Concentus Musicus Wien Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) TELDEC 835603 CD3 Tr 6 Corelli: Concerto grosso No 12 (giga) Modo Antiquo Federico Maria Sardelli (conductor) Tactus TC 650308 Tr 37 Handel: The Ways of Zion do Mourn (Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline): II The Ways of Zion do Mourn Alsfelder Vokalensemble Barockorchester Bremen Wolfgang Helbich (conductor) CPO 9992442 Tr 2 (excerpt) Mozart: Requiem (Introitus) Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor Vienna Philharmonic Georg Solti (conductor) DECCA 4336882 Tr 1 (excerpt) Articles on Handel's borrowings: The Case for Handel's Borrowings: the Judgement of Three Centuries George J Buelow Why Did Handel Borrow? John H Roberts Both articles are compiled in: Handel: Tercentenary Collection (Ed Stanley Sadie and Anthony Hicks) Published 1987 Boydell & Brewer ISBN:083571833 Another Handel Borrowing from Telemann? - Capital Gains Ian Payne The Musical Times, Vol 142, No 1874 (Spring, 2001), pp. 33-42 (article consists of 10 pages). Exploring Handel's controversial and frequent musical 'borrowings'. | ||
| Brighton Early Music Festival 2009 | 20091024 | Lucie Skeaping presents a special programme from the Sallis Benny Theatre as part of the 2009 Brighton Early Music Festival. She is joined by its directors Deborah Roberts and Clare Norburn to discuss some of the highlights of the festival, and also introduces music from three exciting young early music groups: Tempus Fugit, Triologue and the 1607 Ensemble. Lucie Skeaping presents a special programme from the 2009 Brighton Early Music Festival. | ||
| The Elizabethan Stage Jig | 20091025 | 20100221 | Lucie Skeaping explores bawdy musical comedies from 16th and 17th century England. Lucie Skeaping explores the often forgotten world of the Elizabethan stage jig - a popular form of bawdy musical comedy from the 16th and 17th century. The crowds who flocked to the London playhouses in the late 16th and early 17th century expected to be amused and amazed. Mostly, they got their money's worth because not only could they see a drama, a comedy or some great tragedy, but if they stayed on after the play had ended, they would also be treated to a short farce - a rude, lewd and outrageous musical entertainment known as a jig. Playlist: Trad: Jog on The King's Noyse HARMONIA MUNDI HMU907101 Tr 7 William Kemp (?): Singing Simpkin: Blind Cupid hath made City Waites HYPERION CDA67754 Tr 13 Playford: Goddesses/Jamaica Dufay Collective CHANDOS CHAN9446 Tr 15 Trad: As ye came from Walsingham (The Black Man jig) HYPERION CDA67754 Tr 4 (excerpt) Segue: Byrd: Walsingham variations Davitt Moroney HYPERION CDA66558 Tr 14 John Johnson: Galliard to the Flat Pavan Shirley Rumsey (lute) NAXOS 8550776 Tr 21 Robert Johnson: Hark Hark the Lark The Gesualdo Consort CANTORIS CRCD6017 Tr 8 Robert Johnson: Full Fathom Five Julianne Baird/Ronn McFarlane (lute) Dorian DOR90109 Tr 9 Robert Johnson: Where the Bee Sucks The Broadside Band SAYDISC CDSDL409 Tr 2 Trad: Stingo Musicians of Swan Alley VIRGIN CLASSICS VC7907892 Tr 4 Trad: Pell Mell (playford) CHANDOS CHAN9446 Tr 21 Trad: The Black Man (cont...) HYPERION CDA67754 Trs 7-11 Jan Janz Starter: Zingende klucht van Lijsje Flepkous (excerpt) Camerata Trajectina GLOBE GLO 6062 Trs 26-29 Jan Janz Starter: JJ Starter Zingende klucht van Lijsje Flepkous (excerpt) Camerata Trajectina Trs 26-29. | |
| Ensemble Inegal At Cesky Krumlov | 20091107 | Lucie Skeaping presents a concert given by the Czech soprano Gabriela Eibenova with the Prague-based Ensemble Inegal under the baton of their founder Adam Viktoria. The concert was recorded at the astonishing castle at Cesky Krumlov in southern Bohemia, near the Austrian border. It features one of Vivaldi's 230 violin concertos, performed by the ensemble's leader Adela Stajnochrova as well as his beautiful setting of the Salve regina. The main focus of the concert is music by local composer Johann Brentner, whose name has all but dropped out of the repertoire outside his native Bohemia. Gabriela Eibenova performs five of Brentner's 12 sacred arias, published in 1720 as his Op 3 (Hymnodia divina). Johann Brentner: O beata, per quam data (Hymnodia divina, Op 3); Cor aude ad arma; In te confido (Hymnodia divina, Op 3); Concerto No 4 in G (Horae pomeridianae, Op 4) Vivaldi: Salve Regina, RV617; Violin Concerto in B flat, RV383 Adela Stajnochrova (violin) Brentner: Parce mihi Domine (Hymnodia divina, Op 3); Sine te, O Jesu (Hymnodia divina, Op 3). A concert given at Cesky Krumlov Castle by soprano Gabriela Eibenova with Ensemble Inegal. | ||
| Dom Dinis - King Of Portugal | 20091114 | Catherine Bott explores the musical legacy of King Dinis I of Portugal. He was a remarkable man, born in the year 1261, and ruled Portugal for 46 years during which time he consolidated both his country's economy and its frontiers, limiting the powers of the aristocracy and resolving conflicts in the church. He was known for his wisdom, prudence and passion for justice, and not only was his court a refuge for poets and minstrels from all over the Iberian peninsula and beyond, he also joined them with his own poetry and music. Alfonso X of Castille: Entre Av'e Eva Brigitte Lesne (hurdy-gurdy, voice) OPUS OPS30134 Track 20 Anon: Cantiga 320 (Cantigas de Santa Maria) Clemencic Consort Rene Clemencic (director) HARMONIA MUNDI HMX290152427 CD 4 Track 8 Dom Dinis: Levantous' a velida (text - King Dinis, melody - Higginson) Ensemble Alcatraz DORIAN DOR 90285 Track 8 Martin Codax: Cantiga: Mandad'ei comigo Brigitte Lesne (voice and harp) OPUS OPS30134 Track 5 Dom Dinis: Cantigas 1 and 2 Theatre of Voices Paul Hillier (conductor) HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907129 Tracks 8, 9 Dom Dinis: Cantiga 3 HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907129 Track 10 Dom Dinis: Cantiga 4 and 5 HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907129 Tracks 11-12 Dom Dinis: Cantigas 6 and 7 HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907129 Tracks 13-14. Catherine Bott explores the musical legacy and life of King Dinis of Portugal. | ||
| Handel The Gourmand | 20091115 | Lucie Skeaping talks to chef ClarisSa Dickson Wright about Handel's love of food. Contemporary pictures and biographers depicted the composer as being over-interested in food, and having a 'great appetite'. From the famous London chop houses and al fresco picnics along the Thames to new spices and curries, Lucie and Clarissa explore eating and drinking habits in Handel's day. Handel: A Sinfony - Allegro Postillions (Belshazzar's Feast) The English Concert Trevor Pinnock (conductor) Archiv 4770372 CD 3 Track 1 Handel: Chorus: Ye tutelary gods of our empire; Air: Let the deep bowl thy praise confess (Belshazzar's Feast: Act 2 Sc 2) Belshazzar....Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) Choir of the English Concert Archiv 4770372 CD 2 Tracks 13, 14 Handel: Recit: Romilda infida; Aria: Troppo oltraggi la mia fede (Serse) Nuria Rial (soprano) Lawrence Zazzo (countertenor) Kammerorchester Basel Laurence Cummings (harpsichord/conductor) Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 88697214722 Tracks 2, 3 Handel: Recit: Me infelice; Arietta: Del mio caro Bacco amabile (Serse) Elviro....Antonio Abete (baritone) Les Arts Florissants William Christie (director) Virgin Classics 5457112 CD 2 Tracks 33, 34 Handel: Country Dance I; II Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord/director) Archiv 423 1501 CD 1 Track 18 Handel: Rigaudon (Water Music Suite in D/G, HWV 349/350) Archiv 423 1501 CD 1 Track 13 Richard Leveridge: The Roast Beef of Old England Lucie Skeaping (mezzo-soprano) The Broadside Band Jeremy Barlow (director) Saydisc Records CD-SDL 400 Track 7 Handel: Alexander's Feast: Bacchus, ever fair and young Michael George (bass-baritone) The Sixteen Harry Christophers (director) Collins Classics 70162 CD 1 Track 12 Handel: Dixit Dominus (1st mvt) Harry Christophers (conductor) Coro COR16076 Track 13 Handel: Organ concerto, Op 7 No 3 (1st mvt - Allegro) Ton Koopman (organ) Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra Erato 88137 CD 1 Track 11 Handel: Messiah: His Yoke is easy Taverner Choir and Players Andrew Parrott (director) Virgin Veritas 5 61330 2 CD 1 Track 19. | ||
| Purcell's Organ Music | 20091121 | Purcell Weekend As part of BBC Radio 3's 2009 Purcell celebrations, Lucie Skeaping presents a programme of organ music by Purcell and some of his contemporaries, including voluntaries and fantasias by John Blow, Christopher Gibbons and John Bull, performed by BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Mahan Esfahani on the organ of St John's College, Oxford. Purcell: Voluntary in C, 717 Lebegue: Phrygian Verse in A John Bull: Fantasia on a theme by Sweelinck, MB4 Segue to John Bull: Fantasia, MB5 Christopher Gibbons: Voluntary for Double Organ (in A*) (No 1) *an incomplete fragment from MS Purcell: Voluntary in G, Z720 Purcell: Verse in F, Z716 Purcell: Voluntary for ye Double Organ, Z719 John Blow: Voluntary XVIII in D John Blow: Voluntary VIII in G Charles Racquet: Fantaisie, from Mersenne's Traite de l'harmonie universelle (1636) Purcell: Voluntary on the Hundredth Psalm Tune (in A), Z 721. Lucie Skeaping presents a programme of organ music by Purcell and his contemporaries. | ||
| Purcell Symphony Songs | 20091122 | Purcell Weekend Catherine Bott presents highlights from a concert featuring some of Purcell's rarely performed symphony songs and court odes given at London's Wigmore Hall by the ensemble Concordia, with singers Sophie Daneman, James Gilchrist and Roderick Williams. The focus of the recital is mainly on vocal music, which for its sheer quantity and quality is significant. Purcell's solo songs, once mainly used as token warm-up numbers in recitals, are now being explored and relished as never before, and his big dramatic works, full of songs and ensemble numbers, are performed everywhere. But between those two extremes, there is a wealth of duets and trios which are rarely performed today. These ensemble songs by Purcell were once catalogued as chamber cantatas, but in a pleasing symmetry with Purcell's sacred symphony anthems, they are now referred to as symphony songs. Most of these symphony songs were found in a manuscript in the composer's own hand - likely to have been compiled between 1681 and 1690 - which also contains a number of court odes. It is believed that they were originally performed in the royal apartments at Whitehall Palace - most likely by the King's Private Music - a specially chosen group of favourite singers and instrumentalists. Purcell: Oh! What a scene does entertain my sight, Z506 James Gilchrist (tenor) Roderick Williams (baritone) Concordia Mark Levy (director) BBC RECORDING Purcell: Hark how the wild musicians sing, Z542 Sophie Daneman (soprano) Purcell: Hark, Damon hark! Purcell: Sonata No 9 in F in Four Parts, Z810 (Golden Sonata) Purcell: See where she sits Purcell: If ever I more riches did desire A concert of Purcell's little-known symphony songs given by Concordia at Wigmore Hall. | ||
| John Stanley | 20091128 | Lucie Skeaping explores the life and music of John Stanley who, despite a tragic accident that left him blind at the age of two, became very successful in the 18th-century music world, partly thanks to his remarkable memory. As a composer he wrote numerous concertos, sonatas, cantatas and anthems; as a player of both the violin and the organ he attracted listeners from far and wide - and he directed several Handel cantatas and the Messiah from memory. Stanley: Organ Voluntary in A minor, Op 7 No 8 Richard Marlow (organ) CHANDOS CHAN 0639 Tracks 1-3 Stanley: Organ Concerto No 2 in D Northern Sinfonia Orchestra Gerald Gifford (organ/director) CRD CRD 3365 Tracks 3, 4 Stanley: Concerto for strings, Op 2 No 4 Collegium Musicum 90 Simon Standage (conductor) CHANDOS CHAN 0638 Tracks 15-18 Maurice Greene: Anthem: Lord Let Me Know Mine End Choir of New College, Oxford Edward Higginbottom (conductor) CRD CRD 3484 Track 1 Handel: Streams of Pleasure (duet from Theodora) Carolyn Sampson (soprano) Robin Blaze (countertenor) Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Nicholas Kraemer (conductor) BIS BISSACD1436 Track 8 Stanley Cantata: The choice of Hercules (overture and march) The Wallace Collection English String Orchestra William Boughton (conductor) NIMBUS NI 5155 Tracks 6, 7 Handel: All we like sheep have gone astray (chorus from Messiah) Academy and Chorus of St Martin in the Fields Neville Marriner (conductor) Philips 454 4132 Track 13 Stanley: Arcadia/Shepherd's Wedding (excerpt) Andrew Knight (baritone) The Parley of Instruments Roy Goodman (director) BBC recording. Lucie Skeaping profiles the blind 18th-century organist and composer John Stanley. | ||
| Renaissance Swansongs | 20091129 | Catherine Bott introduces highlights of a concert given by Stile Antico in the Chapter House of York Minster in the 2009 York Early Music Festival. With Renaissance swansongs and memorials, including works by Gombert and Alonso Lobo, by John Sheppard. Nicols Gombert: Magnificat on the First Tone Plainchant; Josquin Desprez: Bone et dulcissime Jesu Alonso Lobo: Versa est in luctum John Sheppard: Media vita. Stile Antico perform Renaissance swansongs at the 2009 York Early Music Festival. Catherine Bott introduces highlights of a concert given by Stile Antico in the Chapter House of York Minster as part of the 2009 York Early Music Festival. Including works by Gombert and Alonso Lobo, and the epic motet Media vita by John Sheppard. | ||
| Giovanni Croce | 20091205 | Robert Hollingworth explores the life and work of Venetian composer Giovanni Croce, a priest and choirmaster at St Mark's, and a 16th-century contemporary of Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli. Including sacred music recorded by the BBC Singers conducted by Robert Hollingworth, as well as some of Croce's more satirical compositions for the Carnival masquerades. Robert Hollingworth explores the life and work of Venetian composer Giovanni Croce. | ||
| Instrumental To The Baroque | 20091206 | Catherine Bott chairs a round-table discussion about how period performance practice, and our perception of it, has developed since the somewhat experimental days of the early music 'revival' in the 1960s, and on the impact it has had on music-making across the board. She She is joined by violinists with very different musical backgrounds: Alison Bury, who has been a member, leader and soloist with some of the best-known ensembles on the circuit, including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the London Baroque Solists; Bjarte Eike, a Danish musician whose own ensemble, Baroque Fever, has performed to great acclaim all over Europe; and Daniel Hope, a very experienced international soloist and chamber musician, who has performed and recorded a huge range of repertoire from Schnittke to Bach. With many examples taken from CD, Catherine also asks how the ideas of early music practitioners and ensembles have developed in recent years. Just how far have ideas about performance style grown since the 1960s and what impact have these ideas had on non-period instrument performers? Catherine Bott chairs a talk about the past, present and future of period performance. | ||
| The Vivaldi Revival | 20091212 | Using landmark recordings, Lucie Skeaping charts the rediscovery of Vivaldi in the late 19th century. His music, now so familiar, had lain in virtual obscurity for more than 150 years. In the late 19th century, Vivaldi had begun to creep back into the standard repertoire after an absence of more than 150 years. After his death in 1741, many dismissed Vivaldi as a second-rate composer; Charles Avison declared that Vivaldi lacked 'both harmony and invention', and the popularity of his music fell into a steady decline. Some 30 years later, on one of his grand musical tours, the musicologist Charles Burney was unable to collect any evidence, either direct or indirect, of Vivaldi's existence in Venice. In the early 1800s, after it was discovered that Bach had based a number of his own great works on Vivaldi models, interest in the latter's music began to grow. Elgar admitted that he had learned the art of figured bass from a copy of Vivaldi's concertos; Fritz Kreisler published a concerto under Vivaldi's name and only admitted the false authorship after 22 years. In the 1930s, Ezra Pound hailed Vivaldi as a champion of 'Italian musical autarchy', and he and his violinist mistress Olga Rudge sponsored a number of performances of his music in America and Europe. The earliest recording of The Four Seasons was made in 1942 by Bernardo Molinari and the Orchestra dell'Accademia di S Cecila, and those four concertos have since become arguably some of the most recognisable pieces in the world. Lucie charts this remarkable revival of a once forgotten master, using some of the landmark recordings in the Vivaldi catalogue, and explores some of the most interesting recent discoveries of Vivaldi scores. Vivaldi: Concerto in E, RV269 (La Primavera) Alice Harnoncourt (violin) Vienna Concentus Musicus Nikolaus Harnoncourt (director) TELDEC 0630-13572-2 Disc 1 Track 1 Vivaldi: Concerto for four violins (L'Estro Armonico, Op 3 No 10) - 3rd mvt La Serenissima Adrian Chandler (director) AVIE 2106 Track 39 Bach: Concerto in A minor for four harpsichords and strings, BWV1065 (3rd mvt) Trevor Pinnock, Kenneth Gilbert, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Nicholas Kraemer (harpsichords) The English Concert Trevor Pinnock (director) ARCHIV 413 634-2 Disc 3 Tracks 1-3 Vivaldi: Concerto in B flat for violin and strings, RV362 (La Caccia) TELDEC 0630-13572-2 Disc 2 Tracks 10-12 Vivaldi: Concerto in E, RV267 (L'Inverno) - 1st mvt Hugh Bean (violin) New Philharmonia Orchestra Leopold Stokowski (conductor) DECCA VIV 3 Side 2 Band 3 Kreisler: Concerto in C (in the style of Vivaldi) Fritz Kreisler (violin) Victor String Orchestra Donald Voorhees (conductor) NAXOS 8.110922 Tracks 8-10 Vivaldi: Concerto in G for bassoon and strings, RV494 (1st mvt) Tamás Benkocs (bassoon) Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia Bela Drahos (conductor) NAXOS 8.557829 Track 16 Vivaldi: Sonata No 10 in B minor for violin and continuo (Manchester) - 1st mvt Romanesca: Andrew Manze (violin) Nigel North (lute) John Toll (harpsichord) HARMONIA MUNDI HMX 2907342.43 Disc 2 Track 13 Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus, RV803 (1st and 7 mvts) Carolyn Sampson, Tuva Semmingsen (sopranos) Hilary Summers (mezzo-soprano) Katherine McGillivray (viola d'amore) King's Consort Robert King (director) HYPERION CDS 44181 Tracks 13-14. Lucie Skeaping looks at the Vivaldi revival that began in the late 19th century. | ||
| Claudio Scimone | 20091213 | Catherine Bott travels to Padua to meet Italian conductor and pioneering champion of the baroque Claudio Scimone, of I Solisti Veneti. Founded in 1959, they were one of the first groups to give performances of the 18th-century music from the Veneto region of Italy. They made some of the first recordings of many concertos and opera by Vivaldi as well as music by Tartini and Albinoni. As Scimone marks his 75th birthday, Catherine pays tribute to the conductor and his group, which is still actively engaged in Baroque research and still touring all over the world. For many people, Scimone offered their first experience of this repertory, and with a catalogue of more than 350 recordings and numerous awards to his credit, he and I Solisti Veneti still provide the only recording option in the catalogue for many important baroque works. Scimone talks about how and why he established I Solisti Veneti back in 1959; about his ideas on interpretation; and about the fruits of some of his research, such as the re-discovery of important Italian scores by Albinoni and Tartini. Vivaldi: Concerto in A minor for oboe and orchestra, RV461 (3rd mvt: Allegro) Pierre Pierlot (oboe) I Solisti Veneti Claudio Scimone (conductor) ERATO ECD 55025 Track 15 (excerpt) Vivaldi: Concerto in E for volin and orchestra, RV271 (2nd mvt: Cantabile) Piero Toso (violin) ERATO 4509 97452-2 Track 8 Vivaldi: Concerto for two Mandolins, two theorbos, two flutes, two salmo, two tromba marina, cello and Orchestra, P16 (1st mvt: Allegro) ERATO 2292 45946-2 Track 7 Vivaldi: Concerto for violin and orchestra, Op 8 No 4 (Winter - 2nd mvt: Largo) ERATO 2292 45945-2 Track 11 Vivaldi: Concerto in D minor for viola d'amore and orchestra, RV394 (2nd mvt: Largo) Nane Calabrese (viola d'amore) ERATO 4509 92190-2 Track 8 Tartini: Concerto in E minor for violin and orchestra, D56 (1st mvt: Allegro) Uto Ughi (violin) ERATO 4509 92188-2 Track 1 Albinoni: Questa Fronda (Il Nascimento dell'aurora) June Anderson (soprano) ERATO 4509 96374-2 CD 2 Track 22 (recorded at a public performance at the Teatro Olympico di Vicenza) Vivaldi: Concerto in E for violin and orchestra, RV271 (2nd mvt: Cantabile) Catherine Bott meets pioneering conductor Claudio Scimone, founder of I Solisti Veneti. | ||
| La Fenice | 20091219 | Catherine Bott presents highlights from a concert given in 2008 in Villars-sur-Glane in Switzerland, featuring the ensemble La Fenice directed by Jean Tubery, with soprano Nuria Rial. Music includes Monteverdi's Exulta filia Sion and works by Tarquinio Merula, Bonifazio Graziano and Jacob van Eyck. Catherine Bott presents highlights from a concert featuring the ensemble La Fenice. | ||
| An Early Music Christmas | 20091226 | Catherine Bott and Lucie Skeaping introduce a selection of their own favourite Christmas music from centuries past as they celebrate an Early Music Christmas. Anthony Holborne: As it fell on a Holy Eve (galliard) Hesperion XXI Jordi Savall (conductor) ALIA VOX AV 9813 Track 25 Segue to: Trad: Verbum caro: Y la virgine Taverner Consort, Choir and Players Andrew Parrott (conductor) EMI CDC 7498092 Track 7 Traditional: Sainte Nicholaes; And whanne oure Lorde lust to take Seint Nicholas... Anonymous 4 Harmonia Mundi HMU 907232 Tracks 16, 21 Henry VIII: Tandernaken Quintessential David Skinner (conductor) OBSIDIAN CD705 Track 6 Traditional: The Boar's Head Carol The Sixteen Harry Christophers (conductor) HYPERION CDA 66263 Track 7 Praetorius: Christmas Mass: Introit and final hymn (Musae Sioniae V and VI) Gabrieli Consort and Players Paul McCreesh (conductor) ARCHIV 439 2502 Tracks 8, 21 Traditional: Awake Awake Ye Mortals All Mellstock Band and Choir SAYDISC CDSDL360 Track 9 Peerson: Upon My Lap Red Byrd and the Rose Consort of Viols AMON RA CDSAR46 Track 4 Purcell: The Cold Song Sting DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 06025 270 1743 Track 7 Bach: Chorus: Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage (Christmas Oratorio) Monteverdi Choir English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) ARCHIV 4276532 Track 1 Traditional: Thys Endere Nyghth EMI CDC 7498092 Track 9. Catherine Bott and Lucie Skeaping introduce a selection of their favourite Christmas music | ||
| Christmas Carols | 20091227 | Catherine Bott looks back on the origin of the Christmas carol and roots out some of the original versions of some of today's popular tunes. Carols appeared in Europe thousands of years ago, but they weren't originally the Christmas fare we know today. They were pagan songs for the Winter Solstice and people would sing them as they danced around stone circles. The word 'carol' suggests a dance-song expressing praise or joy. Early Christians took over the pagan solstice celebrations and so the link was established between carols and Christmas. More often than not Christmas carols were popular tunes to be performed in gathering places or in the streets, only slowly did they start to find there way into the church. Some of the melodies for today's popular carols are very old, and through the course of this programme Catherine draws on some of the original versions of the carols, for songs such as Ding Dong Merrily On High and Good King Wenceslas. She explores some of the ways in which early composers have brought carols into the body of the church service. John Foster: While shepherds watched their flocks Taverner Consort and Players Andrew Parrott (conductor) VIRGIN CLASSICS 503680 CD 1 Track 2 Trad: Gabriel fram heven-king (Angelus ad virginem) Andrew Parrott (tenor) Dorren Muskett (hurdy-gurdy) EMI CDC 7498092 Track 17 Trad: Peperit virgo (The Red Book of Ossory) Holly Cluett (soprano) Andrea Budgey (harp) AMON RA CD SAR 63 Track 5 Trad: Verbum caro: In hac anni circulo Taverner Consort EMI CDC 7498092 Track 21 Segue to: Trad: Now may we singen Oxford Camerata Jeremy Summerly (conductor) NAXOS 8.550751 Track 13 Trad: Nova Nova Pro Cantione Antiqua ALTO ALC 1004 Track 15 Trad: Goday my Lord Syre Christemasse ALTO ALC 1004 Track 16 Trad: Nato canunt omnia - Sequentia ad Misam in gallicantu in Nativate Domini Bruno Turner (conductor) DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 05472 77446-2 Track 5 Trad: Jhesu, fils virginis DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 05472 77446-2 Track 6 Richard Smert: Nowell, Nowell DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 05472 77446-2 Track 9 Trad: In Dulci Jubilo NAXOS 8.553578 Track 9 Trad: Branle de l'Officiel EMI CDC 7498092 Track 24 Trad: Tempus adest floridum NAXOS 8.553578 Track 3 Trad: Gaudete Stephen Charlesworth (baritone) EMI CDC 7498092 Track 20 Trad: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen The Mellstock Band THE SERPENT PRESS SER008 Track 14. Catherine Bott looks back on the origin of the Christmas carol. | ||
| Composer Profile - Giovanni Pergolesi | 20100102 | Catherine Bott marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of one of the most important composers of opera buffa (comic opera) - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. He was born in Jesi, near Ancona, in January 1710, and studied with local musicians before going to Naples at the age of fifteen, where he quickly made a name for himself as an accomplished musician and composer. Apart from his operas, which caused such a stir in Naples, and, much later, in Paris, Pergolesi also wrote a number of secular instrumental works, including a violin sonata and a violin concerto. A considerable number of instrumental and sacred works once attributed to Pergolesi have since been shown to be falsely attributed. The Concerti Armonici, for instance, are now known to have been composed by Count Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer. Much of Stravinsky's ballet Pulcinella, which ostensibly reworks pieces by Pergolesi, is actually based on spurious works. It is Pergolesi's 1736 Stabat Mater for male soprano, male alto, and orchestra, which is his best-known sacred work. It was commissioned by the monks of the brotherhood of San Luigi di Palazzo as a replacement for the rather old-fashioned one by Alessandro Scarlatti for identical forces which was performed traditionally each Good Friday in Naples. The work has remained incredibly popular, becoming the most frequently printed work of the 18th century, and being arranged by a number of other composers, including Bach, who used it as the basis for his psalm Tilge, Hochster, meine Sunden, BWV1083. Tragically, Pergolesi died from tuberculosis, aged just 26, but his legacy remained, and his comic operas became the subject of the now famous Querelle des Bouffons in Paris in the 1750s, which concerned the relative merits of French and Italian opera, sparked off by a performance of Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona. Catherine Bott delves into the music of Pergolesi, whose 300th anniversary falls in 2010. | ||
| La Querelle Des Bouffons | 20100103 | As part of the 300th anniversary celebrations of the birth of Italian composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Lucie Skeaping considers the background to the historically significant 'musical war' - the 'Querelle des Bouffons'. On August 1, 1752, a performance of Pergolesi's operatic divertimento La Serva Padrona by an Italian troupe of performers in Paris, sparked a great pamphlet war in the capital about the respective merits of Italian and French opera. The debate became known as La Querelle des Bouffons or the Quarrel of the Comedians. On the surface, the 'pamphlet war' seemed little more than a debate about two contrasting operatic genres: the established 'tragedie lyrique' as created in the previous century by Lully and then practised by such as Jean-Philippe Rameau, and the lighter, comic opera that was then the rage in Italy. In reality, the debate had a crucial subtext - a political, philosophical and aesthetic polarisation of the principles of the king of France on one hand and the Queen on the other; of the traditional ideals of society and thinking against the emerging philosophy of the enlightenment; of the desire to create a more immeadiate and less rhetorical art form. At the forefront of the debate was none other than philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Lucie unpicks the story and draws on some of the key music featured in the debate. With operatic excerpts from works by Pergolesi, Lully, Rameau, Mondonville and Dauvergne - and significantly by Jean-Jacques Rousseau himself. Lucie Skeaping considers the background to a significant 'musical war' in the 1750s. | ||
| Le Jardin Secret | 20100110 | Lucie Skeaping presents a profile of the ensemble Le Jardin Secret, the winners of the Early Music Network International Young Artists' Competition in York in 2007, and talks to two members of the ensemble, soprano Elizabeth Dobbin and harpsichordist David Blunden. With examples of their recent recordings of Rossi, Campra and Fux, as well as specially-recorded music including two traditional French songs. Luigi Rossi, arr David Blunden: Mio core languisce Le Jardin Secret From the CD Musique pour Mazarin! CORO COR16060 Track 7 Lully, arr d'Anglebert: Ritournelle des Fees CORO COR16060 Track 5 Campra: Ad un cuore (L'Europe Galante) CORO COR16060 Track 21 Trad French, arr David Blunden: Joseph est bien marie BBC recording Trad French, arr David Blunden: Entre le boeuf et l'ane gris Trad: Sweet was the song (Lute book lullaby) Purcell: The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation/Tell me some pitying angel Leopold I: Ah quanto e vero From the CD Auf Wiener Art CORO COR16074 Track 1 Fux: Rondinella (Orfeo ed Eurice) CORO COR16074 Track 16 Antonio Sartorio: Crude serpe CORO COR16074 Track 8. Lucie Skeaping profiles prize-winning group Le Jardin Secret. Music by Rossi, Campra, Fux. | ||
| Das Partiturbuch | 20100123 | Lucie Skeaping introduces a programme which focuses on a fascinating collection of 17th century German instrumental music known as Das Partiturbuch Ludwig. Assembled by Jacob Ludwig as a birthday present for his patron, Duke August of Gotha, the collection features composers from all over Germany, including Antonio Bertali, Johann Nicolai, Johann Schmelzer, Adam Drese, Samuel Capricornus and Nathanael Schnittelbach. PLAYLIST: Antonio Bertali - Sonata a 3 in G major for 2 violins & bassoon Ensemble Echo du Danube Directed by Christian Zincke NAXOS 8.557679 Track 8 Antonio Bertali - Ciaconna for solo violin in C major Martin Jopp (violin) Track 2 Johann Heinrich Schmelzer - Sonata Variata in D minor Track 6 Nathanael Schnittelbach - Ciaconna in A major for solo violin Track 11 Adam Drese - Sonata a 2 in A minor Track 10 Adam Drese - Sonata a 3 in A minor Track 7 Johann Michael Nicolai - Sonata a 2 in C major Track 4 Samuel Capricornus - Ciaconna in D major Track 9. Lucie Skeaping explores 17th-century German music known as Das Partiturbuch Ludwig. | ||
| Paving The Way For The Red Priest | 20100124 | Catherine Bott explores the city of Venice before the birth of Antonio Vivaldi in 1678. Catherine Bott explores the composers and the musical climate of Venice around the time of Vivaldi's birth there in 1678. Playlist: Vivaldi: Concerto, Op 4 No 8 Rachel Podger (violin) Arte Dei Suonatori Channel Classics CCS 19598 CD 2, Trs 5-7 Legrenzi: La Cornara Parnassi musici CPO 777 0302, Tr 1 Monteverdi: Prologo (L'incoronazione di Poppea) Ensemble Openhaus Zurich Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) TELDEC 0630100272 CD 1, Tr 1 Cavalli: Canzona a 4 Seicento Parley of Instruments Peter Holman (conductor) HELIOS CDH 55193, Tr 6 Giovanni Rovetta: Salve Regina The Parley of Instruments Robin Blaze (conductor) HYPERION CDA 67225, Tr 1 Francesco Gasperini: A voi, piante innocenti La Venexiana: Rossana Bertini (soprano) Claudio Cavina (alto) OPUS OPS30182, Tr 10 Corelli: Sonata in D minor, Op 5 No12 (La Folia) The Locatelli Trio HYPERION CDA663812 CD2, Tr 23 Vivaldi: Sonata in G minor, Op 1 No 1 London Baroque Charles Medlam (conductor) EMI CDC7479732, Trs 10-14. | ||
| Rose Consort Of Viols At The 2009 York Early Music Festival | 20100130 | Catherine Bott presents highlights of a concert given by the Rose Consort of Viols recorded in the National Centre for Early Music as part of the 2009 York Early Music Festival. The concert was entitled Alpha and Omega, and charted the origins and culmination of the English consort music; the music in this programme from the concert includes a work, A Knell of Johnson, by Robert Johnson (c.1500 - c.1560), music by William Byrd and Osbert Parsley, and some of the Fantazias written by Henry Purcell in the summer of 1680. PLAYLIST: Robert Johnson A knell of Johnson a 5 Rose Consort of Viols (BBC recording) PURCELL Fantazia a 4 No.9 in A minor; Fantazia a 4 No.8 in D minor JOHN LLOYD Puzzle Canon 'Tris' a 4 Segue to: JOHN BALDWIN A Browninge a 3 PURCELL Fantazia a 3 No.3 in G minor; Fantazia a 3 No.2 in F major; Fantazia a 3 No.1 in D minor OSBERT PARSLEY The Songe upon the Dyall a 5 William Byrd Browning a 5 FERRABOSCO Four-note Pavan a 5 PURCELL Fantazia a 4 No.12 in D minor; Fantazia upon One Note a 5 GIBBONS In nomine Catherine Bott introduces a concert of English music given by the Rose Consort of viols. | ||
| Monteverdi Book Iv | 20100131 | Robert Hollingworth presents a programme exploring Monteverdi's powerful 4th book of madrigals from 1603. Robert looks at, among other striking features, some of Monteverdi's extraordinary setting of the texts and their emotional impact, and he plays recordings of a selection of these madrigals by Concerto Italiano, the Consort of Musicke, I Fagiolini and La Venexiana. PLAYLIST: MONTEVERDI Fourth Book of Madrigals (1603): Ah dolente partita I Fagiolini Robert Hollingworth (director) - from DVD 'The Full Monteverdi', a film by John La Bouchardiere NAXOS 2.110224 (DVD) MONTEVERDI Fourth Book of Madrigals (1603): Quel augellin, che canta Concerto Italiano Rinaldo Alessandrini (director) OPUS 111 OPS 30-81 Track 14 MONTEVERDI Fourth Book of Madrigals (1603): Volgea l'anima mia The Consort of Musicke Anthony Rooley (director) L'OISEAU-LYRE 414 148-2 Track 5 MONTEVERDI Fourth Book of Madrigals (1603): Luci serene e chiare Track 8 MONTEVERDI Fourth Book of Madrigals (1603): Ohime, se tanto amate La Venexiana Claudio Cavina (director) GLOSSA GCD 920924 Track 12 MONTEVERDI Fourth Book of Madrigals (1603): Sfogava con le stelle Track 4 MONTEVERDI Fourth Book of Madrigals (1603): Anima mia perdona CHANDOS CHAN 0730 Track 3 MONTEVERDI Fourth Book of Madrigals (1603): Io mi son giovinetta Track 13 MONTEVERDI Fourth Book of Madrigals (1603): La piaga c'ho nel core Track 9 MONTEVERDI Fourth Book of Madrigals (1603): A un giro sol Consort of Musicke Track 11 MONTEVERDI Fourth Book of Madrigals (1603): Si ch'io vorrei morire Track 16 MONTEVERDI Fourth Book of Madrigals (1603): Longe da te, cor mio Robert Hollingworth MONTEVERDI Fourth Book of Madrigals (1603): Piagn'e sospira Track 20. Robert Hollingworth explores Monteverdi's powerful fourth book of madrigals. | ||
| Dimitrie Cantemir | 20100206 | Lucie Skeaping profiles the extraordinary life and work of the polyglot Dimitrie Cantemir. Born in Moldavia in 1673, he became one of the foremost intellectuals of Eastern Europe. Scholar, Orientalist, composer, theorist, historian, and fleetingly Prince of Moldavia, he also was a virtuoso played of the tanbur, a long-necked lute. In 1710 Cantemir compiled 'The Book of the Science of Music', a collection of about 355 compositions, 9 of which were by Cantemir himself. This collection charted the theory and forms of 17th century Ottoman music, and was written in a notation also devised by Cantemir. The music in the programme includes several works form this book, and traditional music from the Ottoman world during this time, including recordings by HespÃrion XXI. PLAYLIST: IMPROVISATION: Taksim (Kanun, ViÃle, Oud, Kemence & Tanbur) Hesperion XXI Jordi Savall (director) ALIA VOX AVSA 9870 Track 1 Segue to: ANONYMOUS Der makam-I Uzzal usulas Devr-I kebir (from Mss Dimitrie Cantemir) Track 2 TRADITIONAL (ARMENIAN): Chant et danse (2 duduk & percussion) Track 6 IMPROVISATION: Tanbur taksimi Ihsan Ozgen, tanbur GOLDEN HORN RECORDS GHP 019-2 Track 9 TRADITIONAL (TURKISH) Los Paxaricos (Isaac Levy) - Maciço de Rosas Track 3 IMPROVISATION: Taksim Track 4 (KANTEMIROGLU) DIMITRIE CANTEMIR Der makam-I Muhayyer usules Muhammes from Mss Dimitrie Cantemir Track 5 TRADITIONAL (TURKISH) Madre de al gracia (I. Levy) Track 13 IMPROVISATION: Taksim (Kanun, Tanbur, Santur & oud) Track 14 EDIRME'LI AHMED Der Makam-I (Huseyni) usules Cenber - from Mss Dimitrie Cantemir Track 15 BARDE ASHOT: Lamento: Ene Sarére (2 duduk) Track 12 DIMITRIE CANTEMIR Bouselik Pishref Constantinople / Ensemble En Chordais / Imane Homsy (kanun) ATMA ACD2 2316 IMPROVISATION: Taksim (Kemence, Kanun, Oud & Tanbur) Track 20 ANONYMOUS: Der Makam Huseyni Sakil-I Aga Riza - from Mss Dimitrie Cantemir Track 21. Lucie Skeaping profiles the life and work of scholar and musicologist Dimitrie Cantemir. | ||
| Kudsi Erguner: Islamic Mystics And Mevlevi Sufi | 20100207 | The music of the Sufi tradition in the Ottoman empire is vastly different to Western Classical music with no sense of either harmony or counterpoint. Catherine Bott talks with master of the Ney flute and of traditional Mevlevi Sufi, Kudsi Erguner about this striking musical world. PLAYLIST: SEMAI FERAHFEZA: Taksim Kudsi Erguner (ney flute) UNESCO D8204 Track 3 MAKAM MAHUR: Ney Taksim by Aka Gündüz Kutbay; Pesrev (Gazi Giray Han) Ensemble Ulvi Erguner Enderun. Al Sur ALCD 108 Tracks 4; 1 TRADITIONAL: Ey bulbul-I seydâ (Oh Crying Nightingale from the poems of Niyazi'I Misrî) Fevri Misir & the Kudsi Erguner Ensemble TIMES SQUARE TSQCD9057 Track 5 TRADITIONAL: Taksim Performers not listed (Kudsi Erguner CD) PLAYASOUND PS65120 MAKAM SEGAH: Taksim Kudsi Erguner Track 11 TRADITIONAL: Allah Ya Daim (Eternal God) Track 7 KUDSI ERGUNER: Voyager Kudsi Erguner (Ney) Suleyman Erguner (Ney) CMP CD2101 Track 8. Catherine Bott talks to Turkish musician Kudsi Erguner. | ||
| Mark How The Lark And Linnet Sing | 20100213 | The "freshwater pearl" voice of soprano Tessa Bonner, who died little more than a year ago, lent itself equally to baroque solo repertoire and Tudor polyphony. Catherine Bott pays tribute to a much-missed colleague and looks at the vital role that so called "jobbing" singers make to the early music scene. The programme includes contributions from singers Don Greig, Deborah Roberts and Cecilia Osmond and music by Purcell, Mozart, Palestrina, Bach, Monteverdi and Luzzaschi. PLAYLIST: PURCELL Indian Queen, Act 1: 'Why should men quarrel' The Purcell Simfony & The Purcell Simfony Voices LINN CKD 035 Track 4 VICTORIA: Requiem: 'Libera Me' The Tallis Scholars Peter Phillips (director) GIMELL CDGIM 205 Disc 1 Track 8 THOMAS TOMKINS: O Sing unto the Lord a new Song GIMELL GIMSE 403 Track 18 MOZART: Trio - 'Seid uns zum Zweiten Mal willkommen' (from 'The Magic Flute') London Classical Players Roger Norrington (director) EMI CDS 7 54287 2 Disc 2 Track 13 TRADITIONAL: Splendens ceptigera - from Llibre vermell New London Consort Philip Pickett (director) L'OISEAU-LYRE 433 186-2 Track 7 ANONYMOUS: The Feast of Fools: Gregis pastor tityrus L'OISEAU-LYRE 433 194-2 Track 27 BIBER: Missa Salzburgensis: Kyrie The Gabrieli Consort and Players Musica Antiqua Koln Paul McCreesh (conductor) Archiv 457 611-2 Track 2 ANONYMOUS: Una Stravaganza di Medici: O fortunato giorno Taverner Consort Andrew Parrott (conductor) EMI CDC 7 47998-2 Track 28 LUZZASCO LUZZASCHI: Deh vieni ormai cor mio Musica Secreta AMON RA CD-SAR 58 Track 11 MONTEVERDI: Vespro della Beata Vergine: Laetatus sum L'OISEAU-LYRE 425 823-2 JS BACH: Magnificat in D major, BWV.243: Et Exsultavit Collegium Musicum 90 Richard Hickox (conductor) CHANDOS CHAN 0518 Track 17. Catherine Bott pays tribute to soprano Tessa Bonner, who died in 2008. | ||
| 09/11/2008 | 20100214 | Exploring the history of the Symphonie We all know what is now called a Symphony, but the term has had many varied uses. Lucie Skeaping tracks down the origins of the Symphonie and encounters medieval Hurdy-Gurdys, Spinets and Virginals, a tale that the Dulcimer is as old as the bible and a royal wedding, not to mention a whole host of overtures, interludes, sonatas, canzonas and concertos. With Lucie Skeaping. Including: Wagenseil: Symphony in C major, WV351 L'Orfeo Baroque Orchestra Michi Gaigg (conductor) CPO 999 450-2 Track 7-9 Edi be thu, heven-queenë Sequentia (with Symphonia: Hurdy Gurdy (12th C)) Deutsche Harmonia Mundi GD 77019 Track 3 Farnaby: The old Spagnoletta Martha Gmunder (Spinet) EMI CDM7631442 Track 13 Segue Bull: Galliard [d] Gary Cooper (Virginals) Dervorguilla DRVCD106 Track 20 Devil’s Dream (tune from Playford’s Dancing Master) Jim Couza (Dulcimer) SAYDISC CDSDL335 Track 8 Malvezzi: Sinfonia a 5 from Intermedio II for La Pelegrina Taverner Consort/ Andrew Parrott EMI CDC7479982 Track 7 Gabrieli: Surrexit Christus a 11 from Symphonie Sacrae II The Taverner Choir/ London Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble/ Andrew Parrott OISEAU LYRE 4368602 Viadana: La Romana from Sinfonia Musicali, Op 18 Symposium Musicum Pragense KOCH 3-1620-2 Track 1 Scarlatti: Sinfonia from Griselda Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin/ René Jacobs Harmonia Mundi HMC 801805.07 Torelli: Sinfonia Sandro Verzari/ Ensemble Seicentonovecento (dir. Flavio Colusso) BONGIOVANNI GB1000082 Tracks 14-16 Stamitz: Sinfonia Pastorale in D, Op.4 No.2 Northern Chamber Orchestra/ Nicholas Ward NAXOS 8.554447 Tracks 9-12 Haydn: Symphony 18 (3rd movement) The Hanover Band/ Roy Goodman Hyperion CDA 66533 Track 6 | ||
| Marguerite Of Austria | 20100214 | Catherine Bott presents a programme telling the unfortunate tale of Marguerite of Austria, ill-fated in love and marriage but who was a pre-eminent patron of the arts. At the age of 2, Marguerite was betrothed to the 13-year old dauphin of France, the future Charles VIII, and she moved to France at the age of 3 in 1483. 8 years later though she returned home, humiliated that Charles had married Anne of Brittany instead. In 1497 Marguerite married Juan of Spain but he died 6 months later; after a few years she married Philibert de Savoie but this marriage too ended with his untimely death 3 years later. Soon afterwards Marguerite also lost her brother, Philippe de Beau, leaving 4 children and a mentally ill wife. Music and literature flourished at her court, as well as the visual arts, and Marguerite established a very impressive library of manuscripts and books. Poets and scholars dedicated works to her and she also wrote poetry herself, often lamenting her misfortunes, and titles such as 'regrets' or 'complaintes' dominate her collection of chansons. Several notable composers worked at her court, in particular Pierre de la Rue, and the music in the programme includes compositions that appeared in some of her manuscripts by Ockeghem, Agricola, Josquin and de la Rue. PLAYLIST: PIERRE DE LA RUE: Autant en emporte le vent The Orlando Consort HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907328 Track 10 ANTOINE BRUMEL: Tous les regretz La Morra Michal Gondko & Corina Marti (directors) ETCETERA KTC 4011 Track 9 Segue to: NICOLAS GOMBERT: J'ay mis mon cueur I Fagiolini Robert Hollingworth (director) METRONOME MET CD 1004-01 Track 1 PIERRE DE LA RUE: Pour ung jamais Track 5 ALEXANDER AGRICOLA: Si dedero Track 7 JOSQUIN DESPREZ: Plusieurs regretz Ensemble Clement Janequin & Ensemble les Elements HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901279 Track 3 JOHANNES OCKEGHEM: Petite camusette Romanesque RICERCAR 206302 Track 2 MARGUERITE D'AUTRICHE Dances (from manuscript 9085 'Les Basses Danses de Marguerite d'Autriche') Clemencic Consort Rene Clemencic (director) HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90610 Track 14 PIERRE DE LA RUE: Mijn hert altijt heft verlanghen Track 6 PIERRE DE LA RUE: Secretz regretz Track 16 ALEXANDER AGRICOLA: Je n'ay deuil ANONYMOUS: Soubz ce tumbel Track 11. Catherine Bott tells the unfortunate tale of Princess Marguerite of Austria. | ||
| Andrea Marcon And The Venice Baroque Orchestra | 20100220 | Lucie Skeaping introduces a concert on the Wiegleb Organ in the church of St Gumbertus in Ansbach, Germany, given by organist Andrea Marcon and the Venice Baroque Orchestra. Music comprises pieces by Handel, Storace, Domenico Scarlatti, Pasquini and JS Bach. PLAYLIST: Scarlatti, D - Sonata in G, K.328 Andrea Marcon (organ) Bernardo Pasquini - Variazione capricciose Bernardo Storace - Ballo della battaglia; Ricercar on a theme by Frescobaldi; Balletto Handel - Concerto in D minor for organ & strings, Op.7'4 Andrea Marcon (organ) / Venice Baroque Orchestra JS Bach - Prelude & Fugue in A minor, BWV.543 Lucie Skeaping introduces a concert given by organist Andrea Marcon and Venice Baroque. | ||
| Ebu - Zefiro Ensemble | 20100221 | Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a concert given by Ensemble Zefiro recorded in Prague in 2009. The ensemble take their name from the god of the west wind, and much of their repertoire gives prominence to wind instruments. Ensemble Zefiro is a chamber orchestra who also perform in smaller groups; in this concert the ensemble appear as a quartet: baroque oboe and bassoon, cello and harpsichord, and the music includes chamber works by CPE Bach, Telemann, Handel and two less well-known composers Christoph Schaffrath, and Giovanni Benedetto Platti. PLAYLIST: HANDEL Sonata in F for Oboe and Basso Continuo, HWV 363a TELEMANN Sonata in F minor for Bassoon and Basso Continuo C.P.E. BACH Pastorale in A minor for Oboe, Bassoon and Basso Continuo CHRISTOPH SCHAFFRATH Duetto in G minor for Bassoon and Harpsichord C.P.E. BACH Sonata in G minor for Oboe and Basso Continuo, H. 549 G.B. PLATTI Trio in C minor for Oboe, Bassoon and Basso Continuo. Lucie Skeaping with highlights of a concert given by Ensemble Zefiro in Prague in 2009. | ||
| Robert Carver Profile | 20100227 | Lucie Skeaping presents a profile of 16th-century Scottish composer Robert Carver. | ||
| 15/11/2008 | 20100228 | Catherine Bott investigates the mysterious Muiderkring. | ||
| The Court Of Mary, Queen Of Scots | 20100228 | David McGuinness explores the music which came from the Court of Mary, Queen of Scots. | ||
| Brighton Emf Mantra | 20100306 | MusicalsoavailableontheCD'Mantra:MusicalConversationsAcrossTheIndianOcean',dueforreleaseinMarch2010onKEDArecords,cataloguenumberKEDCD68. | class="blq-clearfix"> Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a concert recorded at the 2009 Brighton Early Music Festival. The Orlando Consort were joined by the tabla player Kuljit Bhamra, Jonathan Mayer on sitar, and the singer Shahid Khan, for a project called "Mantra". The project is inspired by an historical musical encounter 500 years ago when Portuguese missionaries settled in Goa, and introduced western instruments, plainsong and polyphony. In turn, the missionaries had chance to learn about eastern music, and this developed into a remarkable collaboration between the two diverse cultures. The music in the project and from this concert are a mixture of old and new; music by Escobar and Guerrero are examples of the sort of vocal polyphony that travelled East. As there is no precise account of the type of music sung or played during this collaboration in the 16th century, some works in this concert have been written by members of the Orlando Consort and Kuljit Bhamra, Jonathan Mayer and Shahid Khan to explore and imagine how their music-making may have sounded. Lucie Skeaping presents the Orlando Consort at 2009's Brighton Early Music Festival. PLAYLIST: All music performed by The Orlando Consort with Kuljit Bhamra, Jonathan Mayer and Shahid Khan, and recorded at the Brighton Early Music Festival. Chant / procession Segue to: PEDRO DE ESCOBAR (arr. Orlando Consort & Shahid Khan): Absolve TRADITIONAL: Veni bahara FRANCISCO GUERRERO: Quae est ista DONALD GREIG: Pada DONALD GREIG (text: Bobbie Wason): Bhangra limo DONALD GREIG: Salve raga KULJIT BHAMRA: Tabla talum ANGUS SMITH & KULJIT BHAMRA: Henna night. | |
| Freiburg Baroque | 20100313 | Lucie Skeaping visits southwestern Germany to meet members of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. The orchestra was founded in the mid 1980s by a group of musicians who had studied at the university and wanted to continue their tradition of period instrument performance. Since then, Freiburg Baroque has developed a reputation as one of the world's leading early music ensembles, with monthly performances at their recently built home - the Freiburger Konzerthaus - and a touring schedule which has taken them as far afield as the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Peru, Argentina, Japan and South Korea. The orchestra is still run in a very democratic way, with all of the players contributing to its musical development by suggesting new ideas and methods of playing. Lucie is given a guided tour of the Freiburg's musical heritage by the ensemble's artistic director, Hans-Georg Kaiser, as well as talking to one of Freiburg Baroque's longest-serving members - oboist Katharina Arfken, and the soprano Carolyn Sampson, who has recently made her home in the city. The music comes from Freiburg Baroque's extensive discography, and includes works by J.S. Bach, Zelenka, Mozart, Bertali, C.P.E. Bach and Haydn. PLAYLIST: ZELENKA Concerto from 8 Concertanti in G major, ZWV.186 (3rd movement: Allegro) Freiburg Barockorchester Directed by Gottfried von der Goltz DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 05472 77339-2 Track 7 CPE BACH Sinfonie in B minor, Wq.182,5 (H.661) Directed by Thomas Hengelbrock DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI RD 77187 Tracks 14-16 MOZART "Pria di partir, oh dio!" from Idomeneo Act II, scene VII Bernarda Fink (Idamante) / Alexandrina Pendatchanska (Elettra) / Richard Croft (Idomeneo) Conducted by Rene Jacobs HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 902036.38 Disc 2, Track 14 JS BACH Concerto for oboe, violin, strings & continuo in D major, BWV.1060 (3rd movement: Allegro) Katharina Arfken (oboe) / Gottfried von der Goltz (violin) CARUS 83.309 Track 11 BERTALI Sonata a 5 in D "Tausend Gulden" Freiburg Barockorchester Consort CARUS 83.303 Track 12 HAYDN Sonata for violin & orchestra No.1, Hob.VIIa:1 (3rd movement: Presto) Gottfried von der Goltz (violin & director) HARMONIA MUNDI HMX 2962029 Lucie Skeaping visits southwestern Germany to profile the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. | ||
| Marie Salle | 20100314 |
Marie Sallé was one of the most revolutionary and successful dancers of her age. She danced in several Handel Operas and in works by Rebel and Rameau among others, performing expressive, dramatic dances during a period when displays of technical virtuosity were more popular. The first woman to choreograph the ballets in which she appeared, she anticipated the late 18th-century reforms of Jean-Georges Noverre. Catherine Bott explores the life and impact of Sallé and the music to which she danced. PLAYLIST: HANDEL Rinaldo (Act 1, scene 9) Academy of Ancient Music/ Christopher Hogwood/ David Daniels (Rinaldo) DECCA 467 0872 CD1, tracks 28-29 REBEL Les Caracteres de la Danse Les Musicians du Louvre/ Marc Minkowski MUSIFRANCE 2292459742 Tracks 12-25 HANDEL Alcina (dance music from Act 1, scene 2 - gavotte, sarabande, gavotte, menuet, gavotte) Il Complesso Barocco/ Alan Curtis ARCHIV 477 7374 CD1, Tracks 6-13 HANDEL Terpsichore English Baroque Soloists/ Sir John Eliot Gardiner ELATUS 2564 605352 Tracks 15-19 RAMEAU Les indes galante (ballet des fleurs) Orchestre Jean-Francois Paillard, Valence/ Jean-Francois Paillard ERATO 4509 953102 CD3 Tracks 5-12 HANDEL Ariodante (Ballo from Act 2) English Chamber Orchestra/ Raymond Leppard PHILIPS 442 0978 Tracks 19-22. Catherine Bott explores the life and music associated with dancer Marie Salle. |
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