Concerts from around the country, recorded by Concertzender (Classical & Early Music). Two recordings from the Early Music Festival 2017: Servir Antico with “Utopia, or the world turned upside down” and Benjamin Alard playing parts of Bach’s Clavier-Übung.
-This is a rerun of Thursday 10 May 2018-
A) Utopia, or the world turned upside down – Servir Antico led by Catalina Vicens
Tudor-composer Robert Fayrfax and philosopher Thomas More shared not only the same critisism on society, but also the same castles in the sky. Fayrfax wrote innovative music, More created a paper Utopia and ended up behind bars.
Servir Antico plays the story of their spiritual journey between dreams and harsh reality.
The world turned upside down
Robert Fayrfax (around 1464-1521)
1. Benedicite
William Cornysh (around 1465-1523)
2. Fa la sol
William Newark (around 1450-1509)
3. What Causeth My Woeful Woe
John Bronwse (around 1480-1505)
4. Jesu Mercy, How May This Be
Down on the Island of Utopia
William Newark
5. Thus Musing In My Mind And Dry In The Sea, And Wet Upon The Strand (instrumental)
S. Thomas More (1478-1535) / Catalina Vicens
6. An Utopian Hymn: Utopus ha Boccas peu la Chama
King Henry VIII (1491-1547)
7. If Love Now Reigned As It Hath Been
William Newark
8. The Farther Go, The More Behynde (Lyrics: John Lydgate)
Anonymous (early 16th century)
9. That Was My Joy / The Words Of Fortune To The People (Lyrics: Thomas More)
Up In The Tower
Robert Fayrfax
10. Somewhat Musing (Lyrics: Anthony Woodville)
Anonymous(mid 16th century)
11. Usquequo Domine, How Long O Lord Wilt Me Forget
Richard Davy (around 1465-1538)
12. Now The Law Is Led
Heinrich Isaac (around 1450-1517)
13. Benedictus
Anonymous(midden 16e eeuw)
14. Benedicite
Servir Antico: Maria Cristina Kiehr, soprano. Tore Tom Denys, tenor. Catalina Vicens, organetto, organ and lead
Early Music Festival 2017
recording: 30 August 2017, Hertz TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht
Technical & production engineer: Wijnand de Groot
B) Clavier-Übung episode 2 – Benjamin Alard
In the French overture and the Italian concerto from Clavier-Übung II, the double keyboard ensures that what is essentially orchestral music is also convincing on a solo instrument.
And from Clavier-Übung III, the French harpsichordist/organist Benjamin Alard plays the two-manual settings of the chorale prelude “Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr”.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
15. Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr BWV 675 (from: Clavier-Übung III)
16. Italian concerto BWV 971 (from: Clavier-Übung II):
– Concerto
– Andante
– Presto
17. French ouverture BWV 831 (from: Clavier-Übung II):
– Ouverture
– Courante
– Gavotte I
– Gavotte II
– Passepied I
– Passepied II
– Sarabande
– Bourrée I
– Bourrée II
– Gigue
– Echo
Benjamin Alard, Flemish harpsichord to Ruckers-Taskin (Sebastián Núñez, 2006)
Early Music Festival 2017
Admission: 27 August 2017, Lutheran Church, Utrecht
Technical engineer: Dirk Winkel, production: Wijnand de Groot
In the highlighted picture: Catalina Vicens (picture: Martin Chiang)
