Early music on TTN

[AuntDaisy]

Off-switch and watching the countryside go by another alternative?

I don't drive and the driver has priority. Parts of Ian Skelly's EC weren't too bad, but bitty and it did jump around. CFM seemed to be top-of-the-pops.

[AuntDaisy]

The Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, in a programme of Handel and Bach from the 2021 BBC Proms. Jonathan Swain presents.
BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, Handel and Bach from the 2021 BBC Proms

Thanks, I enjoyed that concert and most of the subsequent pieces.

Tonight there's a 40min Stradella-ganza... Recommended by doversoul1 in 2015.

02:31 AM
Alessandro Stradella (1639-1682)
L'anime del Purgatorio (1680) - cantata for 2 voices, chorus & ensemble
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Evelyn Tubb (soprano), David Thomas (bass), Richard Wistreich (bass), Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (director), Anthony Rooley (lute)

Tiny bit more information from a 2010 TTN / Notturno
Emma Kirkby (soprano: Angelo), David Thomas (bass: Lucifero), Evelyn Tubb (soprano: Un'anima), Richard Wistreich (bass: Un'anima), The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (director & lute)

John Shea had this to say...
"Now for the next 40 minutes, an oratorio from 17th century Italy. Stage works outnumber Oratorios four times over in Alessandro Stradella's work-list and "L'anime del Purgatorio", "The Souls of Pergatory", features some highly theatrical treatment of the Devil; he's sung by David Thomas, with Dame Emma Kirkby as the Angel. Anthony Rooley directs the Consort of Musicke."


The Norwegian Notturno webpage (19/6/2010) had more information... I wish TTN would go back to giving more complete listings.

Emma Kirkby (Soprano: Angelo), David Thomas (Bass: Lucifero), Evelyn Tubb (Soprano: Un'Anima), Richard Wistreich (Bass: Un'Anima), the Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (Director & Lute) (Recorded May 1984 Forde Abbey, Dorset, Uk) - L'Anime Del Purgatorio (1680) - Cantata For 2 Voices, Chorus and Ensemble
(1. Sinfonia In D Major; 2. Esule Dalle Sfere; 3. Da Mostri Sì Crudeli; 4. Troppo Avari Siete O Cieli; 5. Non Ancor Abbastranza; 6. Crude Voragini; 7. Carnefici Spietati; 8. Mi Consola Amica Spene; 9. Sù Sù Spariscono; 10. Fiero Dolor; 11. a Cor Supplicante; 12. E Sì Brevi Dolori; 13. Alle Gioie, Ai Contenti)

[AuntDaisy]

Saturday's "The Tears and Fire of the Muses" TTN looks interesting...

The Tears and Fire of the Muses - Through the Night
Soloists from La Capella Reial de Catalunya with Hespèrion XXI perform Monteverdi, Dowland and Holborne in Tarragona, directed by Jordi Savall. Presented by Jonathan Swain.

12:31 AM Samuel Scheidt; Paduan and Courant Dolorosa Cantus V-IX
12:39 AM Claudio Monteverdi; Lamento d'Arianna, a 5 (SV 107); Anna Piroli (soprano), Maria Chiara Gallo (mezzo soprano), Ferran Mitjans (tenor), Mauro Borgioni (baritone), Salvo Vitale (bass)
12:53 AM Anthony Holborne; The image of Melancholly
12:57 AM Anthony Holborne; The Tears of the Muses
12:59 AM Claudio Monteverdi; Lagrime d’amante al sepolcro dell’amata (SV 111); Anna Piroli (soprano), Maria Chiara Gallo (mezzo soprano), Ferran Mitjans (tenor), Mauro Borgioni (baritone), Salvo Vitale (bass)
01:16 AM John Dowland; Lachrimae gementes (pavan)
01:20 AM John Dowland; The Earle of Essex Galiard
01:22 AM Claudio Monteverdi; Qui rise, o Tirsi (Madrigal concertato, a 5); Anna Piroli (soprano), Maria Chiara Gallo (mezzo soprano), Ferran Mitjans (tenor), Mauro Borgioni (baritone), Salvo Vitale (bass)
01:29 AM Anthony Holborne; Lachriae antiquae (pavan)
01:33 AM Giacomo Gorzanis; La Barcha d’amore (gallarda)
01:35 AM Claudio Monteverdi; Tirsi e Clori

A little more information from this webpage.

Berkeley audiences adore Jordi Savall for his limitless curiosity, supreme musicality, and remarkable gift of connecting people, places, and eras through fascinating repertoire. In his latest program, the musical polymath and virtuoso viol player traces the influence of Claudio Monteverdi—innovative composer, opera pioneer, and brilliant music theorist—through his sacred and secular works, as well as those of John Dowland, Anthony Holborne, Samuel Scheidt, and Giacomo de Gorzanis in England, Germany, and Italy. This season marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of Savall’s esteemed early-music ensemble Hespèrion XXI, joined here by the glorious vocalists of La Capella Reial de Catalunya.

[oddoneout]

Saturday's "The Tears and Fire of the Muses" TTN looks interesting...



A little more information from this webpage.

Why does none of this repertoire ever get an airing during the day? It would only take up a third of a typical afternoon slot - and it's lots of short pieces which would tick one of the now supposedly important tick boxes ...
I suppose the combination of "early" and not "live"(aka "specially recorded") rules it out.

[AuntDaisy]

Why does none of this repertoire ever get an airing during the day? It would only take up a third of a typical afternoon slot - and it's lots of short pieces which would tick one of the now supposedly important tick boxes ...
I suppose the combination of "early" and not "live"(aka "specially recorded") rules it out.

Yes, it would make a wonderful change... I've given up on the Afternoon slot, apart from the odd Wigmore Hall concert.

I think this concert was originally from the 2023 "Jordi Savall Festival", probably "Les llàgrimes i el foc de les muses" in Reial Monestir de Santes Creus, Spain, 12/8/2023.
It matches the information on this webpage.

Hespèrion XXI and friends perform Scheidt, Monteverdi, Dowland and more in Santes Creus

Jordi Savall Festival. Anna Piroli, soprano. Maria Chiara Gallo, mezzo-soprano- Ferran Mitjans, tenor, Mauro Borgioni, baritone, Salvo Vitale, bass, and Hespèrion XXI conducted by Jordi Savall perform:

Samuel SCHEIDT: 'Paduan & courant dolorosa', Cantus V-IX from 'Ludi musici'.

MONTEVERDI: 'Lamento d'Arianna a 5', madrigal ('Il sesto libro de madrigali a cinque voci'), SV 107 No. 1.

Anthony HOLBORNE: 'The image of melancholly', pavane ('Pavans, Gaillards, Almains and other Short Aeirs' No. 27)/ 'The teares of the Muses', gallard ('Pavans, Gaillards, Almains and other Short Aeirs' No. 2).

MONTEVERDI: 'Lagrime d'amante', madrigal (Book VI), SV 111 No. 5.

DOWLAND: 'Lachrimae gementes', pavana for consort ('Lachrimae or Seaven Teares')/ 'The Earl of Essex Galliard'.

MONTEVERDI: 'Qui rise, o Tirsi a 5', madrigal concertato ('Il sesto libro de madrigali a cinque voci'), SV 113 No. 7.

HOLBORNE: 'Paradizo', pavana ('Pavans, Gaillards, Almains and other Short Aeirs' No. 17).

Giacomo GORZANIS: 'La barca d'amore', pavana/ 'Tirsi e Clori a 5. Ballo concertato con voci e istrumenti' ('Concerto: settimo libro de madrigali'), SV 145 No. 29.

MONTEVERDI: 'Qui rise, o Tirsi a 5', madrigal concertato ('Il sesto libro de madrigali a cinque voci'), SV 113 No. 7.

Recorded 12 August 2023.

[Frances_iom]

Please don't publicise TTN - it is just about the last part of R3 that is still listenable to (the Wigmore concerts being ruined by the new packaging) - it seems to be running under the radar of the current 'improver' (aka as wrecker) as well as blessedly free of those b*dy trails.

[AuntDaisy]

Please don't publicise TTN - it is just about the last part of R3 that is still listenable to (the Wigmore concerts being ruined by the new packaging) - it seems to be running under the radar of the current 'improver' (aka as wrecker) as well as blessedly free of those b*dy trails.

I suspect that Sam Jackson is tucked up in his little bed when it's on.
Hopefully TTN is safe, I'd be heart-broken if it went.

[AuntDaisy]

Saturday's "The Tears and Fire of the Muses" TTN looks interesting...

If you can't wait, this Jordi Savall concert is available on Catalan radio's 3cat from a 14/6/2024 broadcast...

https://www.ccma.cat/3cat/les-llagrimes-i-el-foc-de-les-muses-monteverdi-a-santes-creus/audio/1199900/

[MickyD]

I suspect that Sam Jackson is tucked up in his little bed when it's on.
Hopefully TTN is safe, I'd be heart-broken if it went.

Nothing would surprise me anymore, they have pretty much wrecked everything else.

[oddoneout]

I suspect that Sam Jackson is tucked up in his little bed when it's on.
Hopefully TTN is safe, I'd be heart-broken if it went.

I don't think anything is safe now - it just takes a bit longer for the wrecking ball to reach its target in some cases...

Perhaps it's already started on TTN - I've just looked at tonight's schedule and see that the Poulenc Mass in G has been deconstructed and subjected to the overfilled sandwich treatment so beloved of the late Afternoon (so-called) Concert format.

[french frank]

I don't think anything is safe now - it just takes a bit longer for the wrecking ball to reach its target in some cases...

I don't think it would make much sense (and so what? you ask) because already it doesn't attract a large 'live' audience. It's comparatively cheap because of all the contributions made by the other EBU broadcasters. It would mean R3 having to produce another 40-odd hours of programming every week to fill the gap, though they could, I suppose, reduce brodcasting hours to 06.30 - 00.30 but they would lose all those On Demand listening hours. Might be cheaper to repeat the 6 hours of TTN three times to fill the airwaves for 24 hours.

[oddoneout]

I don't think it would make much sense (and so what? you ask) because already it doesn't attract a large 'live' audience. It's comparatively cheap because of all the contributions made by the other EBU broadcasters. It would mean R3 having to produce another 40-odd hours of programming every week to fill the gap, though they could, I suppose, reduce brodcasting hours to 06.30 - 00.30 but they would lose all those On Demand listening hours. Might be cheaper to repeat the 6 hours of TTN three times to fill the airwaves for 24 hours.

Sense doesn't seem to figure much these days. In terms of filling the space, that would be a wonderful opportunity for all the dross they have already tried to foist on the late night R3 schedules?

[AuntDaisy]

I don't think anything is safe now - it just takes a bit longer for the wrecking ball to reach its target in some cases...

Perhaps it's already started on TTN - I've just looked at tonight's schedule and see that the Poulenc Mass in G has been deconstructed and subjected to the overfilled sandwich treatment so beloved of the late Afternoon (so-called) Concert format.

Yes, I'm not a fan of mixing old & new in snippets like this.

Oddly enough a very similar concert is being given as part of Kissinger Sommer on the 11th, but the program shows the pieces intact...

Einojuhani Rautavaara - Canticum Mariae Virginis
Tomás Luís de Victoria - Missa Ave Maris Stella - Ave Regina Caelorum
James MacMillan - A Child’s Prayer - für gemischten Chor a cappella
Francisco Guerrero - Ave virgo sanctissima
Francis Poulenc - Messe G-Dur - Kyrie - Gloria
Francisco Guerrero - Regina caeli laetare
Francisco Guerrero - O sacrum convivium à 5
Justin Doyle, Conductor RIAS Kammerchor, Choir

I don't think it would make much sense (and so what? you ask) because already it doesn't attract a large 'live' audience. It's comparatively cheap because of all the contributions made by the other EBU broadcasters. It would mean R3 having to produce another 40-odd hours of programming every week to fill the gap, though they could, I suppose, reduce brodcasting hours to 06.30 - 00.30 but they would lose all those On Demand listening hours. Might be cheaper to repeat the 6 hours of TTN three times to fill the airwaves for 24 hours.

I think / hope you're right.

[AuntDaisy]

A Tuesday treat on TTN "A baroque kind of love", courtesy of Herne Early Music Days festival (why can't R3 broadcast more of these?).

A baroque kind of love - Through the Night

La Florida Capella with soprano Federico Fiorio delight at the Herne Early Music Days festival in Germany with a programme of arias, songs and sonatas from Venice to Vienna including Barbara Strozzi’s ‘Lagrime mie’ and ‘Hor che Apollo’. Danielle Jalowiecka presents.

00:31 Giovanni Battista Vitali Sonata III
00:34 Barbara Strozzi Lagrime mie, lament for voice and basso continuo
00:42 Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli Il Drago, capriccetto terzo a 3
00:46 Antonio Cesti Alpi nevose dure
00:51 Bernardo Storace La Follia, for harpsichord
00:56 Barbara Strozzi Hor che Apollo, serenata for voice, two violins and basso continuo
01:08 Maurizio Cazzati Capriccio sopra le sette note, for two violins and basso continuo
01:16 Barbara Strozzi La sol fa mi re do. La mia donna perché canta, for voice and basso continuo
01:21 Bernardo Gianoncelli Tasteggiata, Gagliarda and Corrente, for lute
01:27 Barbara Strozzi La Vendetta, for voice and basso continuo
01:30 Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani Sonata undecima 'La Barbara', for two violins and basso continuo
01:34 Antonio Cesti Non si parli più d’amore, cantata for voice and basso continuo
01:42 Alessandro Stradella Ed io che farò, Zefiro's aria for voice, two violins and basso continuo
Performers for whole concert: Federico Fiorio (soprano), La florida Capella, Marian Polin (harpsichord), Marian Polin (director)

I think this is "TRÄNEN GELACHT" from Tage Alter Musik in Herne 2022, if so, it was also broadcast on WDR3 11/11/2022 & the listing included a photo of La Florida Capella...



DeepL (thanks MickyD) translates the WDR3 listing (which is based on the Festival program) as:

Tears of laughter

The young soprano Federico Fiorio and La Florida Capella from South Tyrol made their debut at the Herne 2022 Early Music Festival with arias, canzonas, capricci and sonatas from the 17th century between northern Italy and Vienna under the title ‘Tränen gelacht’.

Love has never made it easy for people. Particularly Italian Mannerists around the year 1600 were particularly devoted to celebrating the sorrows and joys of love in the arts. But only a few know how to the vicissitudes of emotions as suggestively and multifacetedly as the Venetian as the Venetian Barbara Strozzi in her music. She conveys passion and compassion as well as a good portion of (self-)irony. ‘The cruel one laughs at my lamentations’, says one of one of her most famous creations, which provides the dramaturgical thread of this concert. In addition to vocal works by Barbara Strozzi and and all kinds of bizarre and bizarre instrumental gems by her contemporaries the programme presents solo cantatas by Antonio Cesti, who combines lovesickness with with brooding melancholy, sarcasm, gallows humour and alpenglow.

Arias, canzonas, capricci and sonatas from the 17th century between northern Italy and Vienna by Barbara Strozzi, Antonio Cesti, Giovanni Battista Vitali, Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani and others.

Federico Fiorio, Soprano
La Florida Capella
Conductor: Marian Polin

Recording from 11.11.2022 from the Kreuzkirche, Herne

Not sure what Alpenglow is, exactly, but I do remember breakfast cereal adverts with a radioactive glow from my youth

N.B. WPMT translates the title as "Tears of Laughter, Laughter Through Tears" and gives a list of pieces that matches TTN's.

[MickyD]

I think that was Ready Brek!
Glad DeepL is proving useful.