Early music on TTN

[doversoul1]

Monteverdi's Vespers: Monday 16 February

12.31
Jonathan Swain presents a performance of Monteverdi's Vespers (1610) from Poland.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b052gnm4

Interspersed with plainchant sung /chanted (or joined) by the audience. The performance is nothing as polished as JEG & Co. but that, to me, makes this a rather moving listening.

[doversoul1]

Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (Italian version): Wednesday 4th

A brilliant performance of an early Handel cantata

12:56 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]; Giuvo, Nicola [1680-1758] (librettist)
Aci, Galatea e Polifemo HWV 72, serenata

Roberta Invernizzi (soprano),
Sonia Prina (contralto),
Christopher Purves (bass),
Krystian Adam (tenor),
Wroclaw Philharmonic Chorus, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05405y0

[aeolium]

Yes, I heard this, ds and also thought it a superb performance of a lovely work, one new to me.

[doversoul1]

(re: Aci, Galatea e Polifemo )

I’ve just found the libretto with English translation.

http://tempestadimare.org/enews/TempestaWebImages/AciTranslationWeb.pdf

[doversoul1]

Ennemond Gaultier　（1575 –1651）

Saturday 21:
3:01 am (approx. 01.57)

20 minutes of French lute music. A new name to me. Gaultier was apparently the first composer to write a ｔombeau.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05205cd

[doversoul1]

Caldara and CPE Bach

Thursday 2 April
12:34 AM
Caldara, Antonio
Morte e sepoltura di Cristo - Oratorio (Part 1)
Maria Maddalena ..... Maria Grazia Schiavo (soprano), Maria di Giacobbe ..... Monica Piccinini (soprano),Giuseppe d'Arimatea ...... Martina Belli (contralto), Nicodemo ..... Carlo Allemano (tenor), Centurione ...... Ugo Guagliardo (bass), Europa Galante , Fabio Biondi (director/violin)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05nsf7y

Sunday 5 April
1:01 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu (Wq.240) (The Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus): Oratorio for 3 solo voices, four-part chorus and orchestra
Barbara Schlick (soprano), Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max (director)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05pqr6h

[doversoul1]

Music for vihuela: Wednesday 29 April

2:31 AM
Narvaez, Luys de (fl.1526-1549)
Los Seys libros del Delphin de musica - excerpts
Hopkinson Smith (vihuela)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05s3mqv

vihuela
a guitar-shaped string instrument from 15th and 16th century Spain, Portugal

https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=vihuela

Half an hour of quintessential Spanish late Renaissance music. More interestingly, according to Catriona Young, this is the earliest set of purely instrumental variations.

[DracoM]

Tonight: 1st May:

3:35 AM
Ockeghem, Johannes (c.1410-1497)
Missa prolationum
The Hilliard Ensemble: David James & Ashley Stafford (altos), Rogers Covey-Crump, John Potter & Mark Padmore (tenors), Gordon Jones (baritone), David Beavan (bass), Paul Hillier (bass/director)

[Roehre]

WEDNESDAY 06 MAY 2015
00:30 Through the Night (b05sy417)
Proms 2014: Baroque Greek Legends
Jonathan Swain presents a concert of baroque music
reflecting Greek myths and legends from the 2014 BBC Proms,
including Handel, Gluck, Lully and Hasse, performed by
Armonia Atenea.

and

1:44 AM
Gesualdo, Carlo (c.1560-1613)
Tenebrae responses for Good Friday for 6 voices (Omnes amici
mei; Velum templi; Vinea mea electa; Tamquam ad latronem;
Tenebrae factae sunt; Animam meam dilectam; Tradiderunt me;
Caligaverunt oculi mei; Jesum tradidit impius)

[Serial_Apologist]

WEDNESDAY 06 MAY 2015
00:30 Through the Night (b05sy417)
Proms 2014: Baroque Greek Legends
Jonathan Swain presents a concert of baroque music
reflecting Greek myths and legends from the 2014 BBC Proms,
including Handel, Gluck, Lully and Hasse, performed by
Armonia Atenea.

and

1:44 AM
Gesualdo, Carlo (c.1560-1613)
Tenebrae responses for Good Friday for 6 voices (Omnes amici
mei; Velum templi; Vinea mea electa; Tamquam ad latronem;
Tenebrae factae sunt; Animam meam dilectam; Tradiderunt me;
Caligaverunt oculi mei; Jesum tradidit impius)

This will fit in nicely with my current Frescobaldi listening at the mo.

[Richard Tarleton]

Half an hour of quintessential Spanish late Renaissance / early Baroque (?) music. More interestingly, according to Catriona Young, this is the earliest set of purely instrumental variations.

Indeed - some of these Narvaéz pieces have also always been popular with guitarists, especially the lovely Canción del Emperador, and the Diferencias [variations] sobre Guárdame las vacas [Look after my cows], the first allegedly Charles V's favourite and based on Josquin's Mille Regretz, the latter from a poem by court poet Cristobál Castillejo -

Guárdame las vacas carillejo y besarte he.....

Apparently the variation form arose in Spain through the necessity to vary the accompaniment during the singing of sometimes lengthy romanesca epic songs, which in turn led to the development of purely instrumental variations by the likes of Narvaéz and Mudarra. H Smith has also made a fine album of Mudarra's 1546 Tres Libros en cifras para vihuela which I strongly recommend.

I don't listen in the small hours so probably miss a lot!

PS not "Baroque" surely? This is music that if anything looks back to an earlier age.

[doversoul1]

Thank you, Richard. I thought you’d be able to tell us (me) more about the music.

P.S. I have deleted Baroque. Tahnk you, too, for pointing out.

[Richard Tarleton]

Julian Bream brought the vihuela to a wider audience through his 1985 BBC2 series (still available on DVD) "Guitarra - The Music of Spain". On it he plays instruments mande for him by José Romanillos, who for a while was his resident luthier at his home in Wiltshire. As well as books on the history of the guitar Romanillos has made a DVD on how to build a vihuela

[doversoul1]

Monday 4 May

3:06 AM
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594)
Missa in duplicibus minoribus II for 5 voices
Maîtrise de Garçons de Colmar, Ensemble Giles Binchois, Ensemble Cantus Figuratus der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Dominique Vellard (director)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05sy2yw

[Roehre]

Monday 4 May

3:06 AM
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594)
Missa in duplicibus minoribus II for 5 voices
Maîtrise de Garçons de Colmar, Ensemble Giles Binchois, Ensemble Cantus Figuratus der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Dominique Vellard (director)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05sy2yw

A Mass which is broadcast on TtN with some regularity