Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre87:28Château des Versailles Spectacles CVS145 Those familiar with the life and works of Monteverdi can be forgiven if they feel slightly confused by the title of this thrilling, pulsating issue. They are, of course, likely to be aware that 1643 is the date of Monteverdi’s death, not a date of publication […]
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The Madrigal Reimagined
Hannah Ely, Toby Carr, Monteverdi String Band, directed by Oliver Webber63:41Resonus Classics RES10341 This is an extraordinary CD – an exercise in recreating performance practice for music published around the year 1600, when the seconda prattica was sweeping through the world of song and reinvigorating the old forms with new techniques. Oliver Webber chronicles how […]
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Lodovico Viadana: Sacri Concentus
The Viadana CollectiveMaximilien Brisson75:01Passacaille PAS 1142 This admirable CD from The Viadana Collective offers us a glimpse of a key figure in the background of music-making in the churches of northern Italy in late 16th and early 17th century Italy. One of the chief instructors and a notable composer in his own right was Viadana, […]
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Fasch: Die Vier Tageszeiten
Ulrike Hofbauer, Monika Mauch, Georg Poplutz, Thomas Gropper SATB, L’arpa festante, conducted by Markus Uhl64:54Christophorus CHR 77480 Johann Friedrich Fasch is today arguably best known for something he didn’t do rather than what he did. In 1723, having recently accepted the position of Kapellmeister at the court of Anhalt-Zerbst, he withdrew his application to become […]
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Handel in Rome
Nardus Williams soprano, Dunedin Consort, John Butt60:20LINN CKD747 Handel’s youthful stay in Italy would shape him as a composer in a variety of ways. Not only was it a period that witnessed the defining development of his style and an extraordinary fecundity, but, particularly in the case of the chamber cantatas he wrote, provided a […]
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JS Bach & JC Bach: Motets
Solomon’s KnotProspero PROSP0073 This recording of the Bach Motets (BWV 225-230) also includes Ich lasse dich nicht (BWV 1164 – or Anhang 159) and four by Johann Christoph Bach: Lieber herr Gott, Der Gerechte, ob er gleich, Fürchte dich nicht and Herr, nun lässet du deinen Diener in Friede fahren. These motets from the Alt-Bachisches […]
Andrew McIntosh & Steven VanhauwaertTTOlde Focus Recordings FCR923 According to the briefest of booklet notes, the present performers were looking for “something to do together in video form” at the height of the Covid pandemic. Having played through the three two-movement sonatas of Saint-Georges’ Op. 1b, they “fell in love with them all” and the […]
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Early Days in Orkney
D James Rossat the St Magnus International Festival 2024 This year the relevant concerts for an EMR reviewer at the St Magnus International Festival were grouped together in the middle of the festival week, although it turned out that this was a mixed blessing as the venues in which they took place were scattered across […]
Harmonie Universelle, Florian Deuter, Mónica Waisman 77:21 Accent ACC 24386 It has been some years since a new recording of this set came to the market. It is the first that I have which also includes the trumpet duets, and (I think!) the first that uses a proper church organ in the continuo group. […]
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Apollo’s Cabinet: Musical Wanderlust
Charles Burney’s European Travels in Pursuit of HarmonyApollo’s Cabinet, Alexander Armstrong narratorPrima Classic PRIMA036CDEN What a jolly time Dr Burney must have had! This is a proper romp around Europe – with performances by the children of Red Priest and an excitable percussionist. The musical items include some balletti by Schmelzer, movements from a Vivaldi […]