Saturday
As Catherine promises on the Handel Bad Guy thread:
Catherine Bott visits the Handel House in London where Ruth Smith has curated an imaginative exhibition on the life of Handel's librettist, Charles Jennens. It was Jennens who created the libretto for Handel's Messiah, he might even have suggested the idea to Handel, and he also furnished the composer with words for several other of his oratorios including Saul, Belshazzar, L'Allegro and perhaps Israel in Egypt […] Not only did he provide Handel with libretti, he was also one of the first to faithfully edit the works of Shakespeare.
Ruth Smith has curated an exhibition about Jennens at the Handel House in London and Catherine Bott visits and Dr Smith to find out more about the man and his achievements.
The exhibition
Sunday
Lucie Skeaping focuses on a refined, intensely expressive 16th century vocal music for connoisseurs known as Musica Reservata.
Musica reservata in this context, sometimes known as musica secreta, was a style of vocal music that first appeared in the 1550s, involving refinement and intense emotional expression. Composers of musica reservata included Nicola Vicentino, Philippe de Monte and, above all, Orlando di Lassus, whose highly chromatic Prophetiae Sibyllarum may represent the style at its peak.
Lucie draws on various recordings illustrating the musica reservata, including a complete performance of Lassus's Prophetiae Sibyllarum
CD Review
2nd in the first section:
PALESTRINA: Stabat mater
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
10.15am
Caroline Gill joins Andrew live in the studio to discuss new recordings of Baroque chamber and vocal music
Max Emanuel Cencic – Venezia: Opera arias of the Serenissima
DAUVERGNE: Hercule mourant:y Les Talens Lyriques, Les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, Christophe Rousset
Bach Flute Sonatas: Andrea Oliva (flute), Angela Hewitt (piano)
J.S. Bach - 6 Sonatas for Harpsichord and Violin: Catherine Manson (violin), Ton Koopman (harpsichord)
Pour passer la melancholie: Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
Bach - Arias with piccolo cello: Sandrine Piau (soprano), Christophe Dumaux (alto), Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (tenor), Ensemble Pulcinella, Ophelie Gaillard (cello piccolo and director)
As Catherine promises on the Handel Bad Guy thread:
Catherine Bott visits the Handel House in London where Ruth Smith has curated an imaginative exhibition on the life of Handel's librettist, Charles Jennens. It was Jennens who created the libretto for Handel's Messiah, he might even have suggested the idea to Handel, and he also furnished the composer with words for several other of his oratorios including Saul, Belshazzar, L'Allegro and perhaps Israel in Egypt […] Not only did he provide Handel with libretti, he was also one of the first to faithfully edit the works of Shakespeare.
Ruth Smith has curated an exhibition about Jennens at the Handel House in London and Catherine Bott visits and Dr Smith to find out more about the man and his achievements.
The exhibition
Sunday
Lucie Skeaping focuses on a refined, intensely expressive 16th century vocal music for connoisseurs known as Musica Reservata.
Musica reservata in this context, sometimes known as musica secreta, was a style of vocal music that first appeared in the 1550s, involving refinement and intense emotional expression. Composers of musica reservata included Nicola Vicentino, Philippe de Monte and, above all, Orlando di Lassus, whose highly chromatic Prophetiae Sibyllarum may represent the style at its peak.
Lucie draws on various recordings illustrating the musica reservata, including a complete performance of Lassus's Prophetiae Sibyllarum
CD Review
2nd in the first section:
PALESTRINA: Stabat mater
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
10.15am
Caroline Gill joins Andrew live in the studio to discuss new recordings of Baroque chamber and vocal music
Max Emanuel Cencic – Venezia: Opera arias of the Serenissima
DAUVERGNE: Hercule mourant:y Les Talens Lyriques, Les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, Christophe Rousset
Bach Flute Sonatas: Andrea Oliva (flute), Angela Hewitt (piano)
J.S. Bach - 6 Sonatas for Harpsichord and Violin: Catherine Manson (violin), Ton Koopman (harpsichord)
Pour passer la melancholie: Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
Bach - Arias with piccolo cello: Sandrine Piau (soprano), Christophe Dumaux (alto), Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (tenor), Ensemble Pulcinella, Ophelie Gaillard (cello piccolo and director)