EMS "The Taverner Consort at 50" 27/4/2025 (Repeat)

[AuntDaisy]

A welcome repeat of the 2023 "The Taverner Consort at 50". (Not sure about the Mahler.)

The Taverner Consort at 50 - The Early Music Show

The Taverner Consort and Players emerged in 1973 and has since become a world leader in the period performance of Baroque and Classical music. Hannah French talks to its founder Andrew Parrott about the group's extraordinary five decades of success and discovery.

Music Played
Claudio Monteverdi Dixit Dominus II (1640); The Taverner Choir, Consort & Players; Andrew Parrott.
John Taverner Audivi vocem de coelo
Robert Carver O bone Jesu
Giulio Caccini Io, che dal ciel cader; Sinfonia (Florentine Intermedi, 1589); Composer: Cristofano Malvezzi; Singer: Emily Van Evera.
Claudio Monteverdi Possente spirto (L'Orfeo); Singer: Charles Daniels.
Antonio Lotti Crucifixus for 10 voices
Henry Purcell Man that is born of a woman (Funeral sentences)
Henry Purcell Dido and Aeneas (end of Act 1)
Henry Purcell 'Tis nature's voice (Hail, bright Cecilia); Singer: Rogers Covey‐Crump
Johann Sebastian Bach Cantata No 29 (Sinfonia); Performer: John Toll
Johann Sebastian Bach Mass in B minor (Crucifixus - Et resurrexit); Singers: Emily Van Evera, Christian Immler, Rogers Covey‐Crump, David Thomas
George Frideric Handel Israel in Egypt (Sing ye to the Lord)
Gustav Mahler Symphony No 9; BBC National Orchestra of Wales; BBC National Orchestra of Wales; Thomas Søndergård.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ptv7

[oliver sudden]

Wot no 1610 Vespers?!

[Keraulophone]

Thanks for alerting us to this (frustratingly brief) talk, AD. Andrew Parrott's scholarly interpretations have stood the test of time on record, probably the most well known being the Mass in B minor and the 1610 Vespers. He was fortunate to be able to call upon a group of excellent singing and instrumental friends at Oxford in the early 1970s to form his Taverner Choir, Consort and Players, most notably Emma Kirkby, who was then at Sommerville College, and whom he married.

A choral course that he led in the mid-'70s revealed an instinctive and likeable choir trainer, confident in applying his learning to how the music should sound. He implored us not to pronounce 'Gloria' to sound like our gran's hairdresser! Tomkins's Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom has been a favourite anthem ever since, with its plentiful false relations in the Alleluia.

A different side of AP was witnessed at a Dartington Festival, when it became clear, during a performance of Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, that the choir were not up to the task. He remembered Strauss's dictum 'When you have reached the limits of prestissimo, double the pace!' and went helter-skelter to the end, then made a swift exit.

[oliver sudden]

I thought for a moment: hang on, didn’t he marry Emily van Evera? A bit of googling shows both to have been the case.

Seems as though that might have been awkward from time to time, but what would I know.

[MickyD]

And Miss Kirkby then had a long relationship with Anthony Rooley. Heady days in the early music movement!