{"id":43973,"date":"2024-06-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/11f70460-ff35-41d7-98bb-ae9474108b7b"},"modified":"2024-06-11T10:36:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T08:36:07","slug":"the-muses-restord-review","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/the-muses-restord-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Muses Restor’d (Review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Published: Tuesday, 11 June 2024 at 08:00 AM<\/p>

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The Muses Restor’d (Chamber Choice \u2013 July 2024)<\/h2>
Kate Bolton-Porciatti enjoys The Muses Restor’d<\/em>, Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque\u2019s congenial take on sparkling early English works…<\/p>
The Muses Restor\u2019d<\/strong>Works by Blow, Handel<\/a>, Locke, Purcell<\/a> et al Rachel Podger<\/a> (violin); Brecon BaroqueChannel Classics CCS46324\u00a0\u00a0\u00a080:42 mins\u00a0<\/em><\/p>
This is a captivating programme offering proof, if it were needed, that England is far from \u2018a land without music\u2019. In a generous album, violinist Rachel Podger and her period ensemble Brecon Baroque journey through 17th-century English consorts to virtuosic solo music from the early Georgian period.<\/p>
‘These are friends who evidently relish the art of musical conversation’<\/p><\/blockquote>
The ensemble is a coterie of some of the finest early musicians on the scene today \u2013 friends who evidently relish the art of musical conversation, the guiding ethos of the English consort tradition. <\/p>
Matthew Locke\u2019s\u00a0Little Consort<\/em>\u00a0\u2018for several friends\u2019 encapsulates the essence of this congenial idiom, with its fleeting musical dialogues, light and transparent as sparkling crystals, all eloquently rendered. <\/p>
Lovely, too, is the discreet give and take between the instrumentalists in Lawes\u2019s\u00a0Fantasia-Suite<\/em>\u00a0No. 8. They weave a more intricate discourse in the A minor\u00a0Fantasia-Suite<\/em>\u00a0by John Jenkins, whose virtuosic passagework prefigures the Baroque style<\/a>. Indeed, the album makes a chain of interesting connections between genres, styles and periods.<\/p>
Among the Baroque works are two violin sonatas by Purcell and Handel. Podger and her continuo players capture the pathos and quasi-operatic quality of Purcell\u2019s G minor work and they give a radiant account of Handel\u2019s D major Sonata in which harpsichordist Marcin \u015awi\u0105tkiewicz\u2019s inventive realisations shine.<\/p>
The programme also unveils\u00a0\u00a0less familiar pieces: Johann Schop\u2019s wistful\u00a0Lachrimae<\/em>, recalling Dowland\u2019s celebrated \u2018Tears\u2019, and a work by the shadowy but brilliant composer Richard Jones, man of the theatre and demon violinist, to whose luscious\u00a0Chamber Airs<\/em>\u00a0in A minor the musicians bring passion and rhetoric.\u00a0Kate Bolton-Porciatti<\/em><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n
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