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The Early Music Show

Music: Classical: Early Music

Performance and news from the world of early music.

An exploration of early music, looking at early developments in musical performance and composition in Britain and abroad. UK only: please note that not all episodes are podcast.

The Early Music Show: Art and Early Music Month

The Early Music Show: Art and Early Music Month: Episode 1: Art and Early Music

Art and Early Music

Episode 1

Episode 1: Art and Early Music

Art and Early Music Month

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Art and Early Music Month, Art and Early Music

Catherine Bott and Lucie Skeaping begin a series on links between art and early music.

Catherine Bott and Lucie Skeaping begin a series exploring some of the many links between art and early music. They examine some of the wider connections between the two.

"Art and Early Music Month". In the first of the Early Music Show's eight-programme series exploring the links between Art and Early Music, Catherine Bott and Lucie Skeaping look forward to the next month of programmes.  Catherine expores the subject by looking at some of the wider connections between the two subjects, whilst Lucie meets up with experts to discuss the Beverley Minstrels; why certain works of art are used to complement early music CD sleeves and examine how music is used in the art of Vermeer.

PLAYLIST:

HAYDN Symphony No.92 in G H.I:92 [Menuet] (excerpt)
Orchestra of the 18th Century
Conducted by Frans Brüggen
PHILIPS 446 677-2
Track 11 

NANINO Adoramus te, Christi (excerpt)
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/ Cleobury
EMI CDC 7470652
Track 1 

TELEMANN Fantasia No.7 in F major (excerpt)
Peter Holtslag (recorder)
GLOBE GLO 5117
Track 17 

ANONYMOUS Mein Hertz in Freuden sich erquicket (excerpt)
Il Curioso
Bernhard Böhm
NAXOS 8.557138
Track 1 excerpt

ZACH Sinfonia in G [1st movement – Allegro non tanto] (excerpt)
Capella Sancta Caecilia
ARTA F10033
Track 12 

NICHOLAS LANIER Love and I of late did part
Julia Gooding / Carole Cerasi / Christopher Wilson
METRONOME METCD 1051
Track 11

ANONYMOUS 14th Century English Dance
- from CD of “Medieval / Renaissance music”
CARLIN PRODUCTION MUSIC 215
Track 17 

ANONYMOUS 15th Century – Ey Ey Aetas Iam Aurea
- from CD of “Medieval / Renaissance music”
CARLIN PRODUCTION MUSIC 215
Track 20

VIVALDI Final Allegro from Concerto in E minor Op 4 No 2
Rachel Podger / Arte dei Suonatori
CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS 19598
Track 6

HAYDN Piano Trio in D major Hob. XV:24 [2nd movement] (excerpt)
Florestan Trio
HYPERION CDA 67719
Track 2

VAET Missa Ego flos campi [Kyrie] (excerpt)
Cinquecento Renaissance Vokal
HYPERION CDA 67733
Track 2

SHEPPARD The Second Service [Magnificat] (excerpt)
The Choir of Westminster Abbey
Robert Quinney (organ)
Conducted by James O'Donnell
HYPERION CDA 67704

Intermedi music from 1539: Le force d’Hercole; Ballo di Satiri et baccante
Centro di Musica Antica Di Generva/ Studio Di Musica Rinascimentale Di Palermo/ directed by Gabriel Garrido
TACTUS RECORDS TC 53012001/Track 11; 21

TELEMANN Fantasia No.1 in C major
Peter Holstag (recorder ca. 1700 by Peter Bressan)
GLOBE GLO 5117
Tracks 1, 2

FRANCOIS DUFAUT Allemande (excerpt)
Julia Gooding / Carole Cerasi / Christopher Wilson
METRONOME METCD 1051
Track 4 

FROBERGER Courante (excerpt)
Julia Gooding / Carole Cerasi / Christopher Wilson
METRONOME METCD 1051
Track 19

FROBERGER Gigue (excerpts)
Julia Gooding / Carole Cerasi / Christopher Wilson
METRONOME METCD 1051
Track 18

FAYRFAX Gloria (from Missa ‘Regali ex progenie’)
The Cardinall’s Musick / Andrew Carwood
ASV CDGAU 185
Track 3

Picture: detail from "A Young Woman seated at a Virginal" (about 1670-2) by Johannes Vermeer
© The National Gallery, London

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