radio broadcast alert

Edit2: Another Bach St Matthews Passion, this one from Budapest, with René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, K.Hammarström, Saturday 15/Apr at 1730GMT , 1830 London, 1930 CET, 1330 EST.
In addition, there’s this one (video) from München on 12/April/2017 with Concerto Köln and Karina Gauvin. I quite like the sound of this more than the one from Rotterdam, but I think it’s the difference between having a baroque (here) versus modern (Rotterdam) orchestra? Also, this is quite a tighter group than what N. Stutzmann has. I found the sound there a bit “diffused” and some of the musical phrasing by the soloists “blurry”. It could just be what i’m “used” to hear, but i quite like the version from Munich. The “evangelist” and “Jesus” were quite focused in sound.
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Edit: for an informed note, please refer to Anik’s live experience of Vivaldi’s work in the form of a live concert. That concert resulted in a cd, which is also available on yt (very easily searchable by the work’s title.)
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Today, Thursday, 13.Apr.2017

1800 GMT, 2000 CET, 1400 EST
From Torino, Vivaldi’s L’incoronazione di Dario, with Mingardo and Galou, on (expected to be) suspicious quality Rai radio. link.

1730 GMT, 1930 CET, 1330 EST,
From Rotterdam, N. Stutzmann conducting Bach Matthews Passion. link.

2300 GMT 0100+1 CET 1900 EST,
From the MET, Rosenkavalier, with Garanca and Flemming. link.

Friday, 14.Apr.2017
1830 GMT
From Rome, Bach’s St. Johns Passion, with A.Hallenberg. link.

Sunday, 16.Apr.2017
0000 GMT (This means it’s Saturday night for us in the US)
From Boston, Mitsuko Uchida plays Mozart piano concerto No.20. link.

1800 GMT
From Chicago, V. Genaux’s Vivaldi, Porpora and Broschi recital. link. (But I’m confused.  She’s at Opera du Rhin now singing in Cavalli’s La Calisto.. so either she’s jetting over or this is likely a rebroadcast? ahh, ok, no no, Calisto won’t start until 26/apr, so this should be a live concert, i think.)



117 responses to “radio broadcast alert”

  1. Do you have your machine on alert today? 😉 I’m at work all day so no contraltos in the woods just yet but luckily I might catch Garanca!! All is good in the world 😉

    1. just have to set alarm.. coz it’s *very* early here for me.. and i have a meeting at 3pm, which means i have to wake up 1hr *before* the start of the contralto show and come to office.. but i’ll prevail (i hope!)

  2. ps: what a great cast for St John Passion! Hope all goes well, I’m free tomorrow 😀

  3. Great, Rosenkavalier should fit right in after Dario tonight, then. Thanks for the alerts!

  4. the capturing is up and going.. after mad dash to the office.. while milk tea still missing… I’ll have to delay N.Stutzmann’s broadcast and hope it’ll be available for later listening.. now Dario is running..

    1. oops, the headset is on, and down goes the sound quality.. at least the harpsichord is not suffering.. but both Mingardo’s and Galou’s voices suffer

      1. I’ll have to file a complaint: the opening contralto’s duet is missing!? Either that or it happens while I was saying hi to colleague who was surprised i in office so early.

      2. the microphone is right next to the prompter 😀
        Oh, this must be Galou’s first aria:

        D’un bel viso in un momento, si fe’ il core prigionier:
        so che il laccio dà tormento, ma non è senza piacer.

      3. onto Mingardo’s Starira’s aria: (at some point i should find out their meaning…)

        In petto ho un certo affanno, che va togliendo al cor
        la cara pace.
        Se questo è forse inganno
        del traditor d’amor
        quanto mi spiace.

        1. basically she’s falling in love.

      4. now, Flora, Statira also makes her case. This was orginally sung by Giuseppina Bridelli in Bremen, but now that she’s prepping for Nerone, they’re bringing in another mezzo. THe aria has some really nice low sections:

        Arma il cor di bel coraggio
        quella semplice donzella,
        che seguire amor non sa;
        che d’amor chi adora il raggio,
        perde pace, e libertà.

    2. now two very high voices, both sopranos, sparing I think..: Arpago and Oronte, they’re fighting with swords!! 🙂

      1. and their description, from Anik’s superb linenotes:


        To make matters a little juicier, there are a couple of other applicants for the job of king and royal husband (to Mingardo’s Starira) on the scene: Oronte (who is still not quite over his ex, Alinda the lone soprano, who promptly travels after him) and Arpago, who both sport fierce swagger and mezzo voices.

        In this case, we have the same Lucia Cirillo as Oronte, but Arpago is sung by Veronica Cangemi. That explains the sword fighting scene in the youtube vid from the front page.

    3. The last soprano, Roberta Mameli, has now arrived to try to yank back Ortone, according to the linenote:

      Oronte, eyeing a marriage to a contralto, rebuffs Alinda’s renewed avances – the next time you want to break up with someone, you could always employ a fiery “Lasciami, lasciami in pace”, as was here passionately delivered by Cirillo.

      and that of course, is the aria Oronte currently cycling through:

      Lasciami in pace,
      non tormentarmi, con la tua fede,
      che invan mi chiede, costante il cor:
      non so che farmi,
      sol per un regno,
      ti sembro indegno,
      son mancator.

      1. the next time you want to break up with someone

        … tell them you’ve fallen for a contralto.

          1. any true opera fan would realise it’s game over 😉

    4. Finally, the soprano gets her pining aria:

      Se si potesse amar
      col solo sospirar,
      saria pur dolce amor:
      ma quel ch’è gran martir,
      è quel dover soffrir,
      per riserbar l’onor.

    5. (i’m trying to find a small 15min window to go get my milk tea… perhaps after the next Starira’s super low and nice aria..)

    6. Now Starira, more reading from Anik’s linenote:

      Speaking for said contralto right then is Mingardo’s performance of “Godi pur de’ tuoi diletti”, highlighting the aria’s gentle, flowing pace (the same could be said for the following “L’occhio, il labbro, il seno, il core”).

      Here it is, the first of her 2 arias, accompanied by some serious strings, viola da gamba?

      L’adorar beltà che piace,
      e celar del cor la face,
      è il maggior d’ogni martir:
      chi non scopre il suo tormento,
      nel suo duol vive contento,
      e non merta di gioir.

      1. and onto her 2nd aria, which is to a realllllly nice tune:


        L’occhio, il labbro, il seno, il core,
        se rapir mi vuol lo sposo,
        è un amante traditore,
        né lo sposo fa per me.
        Non può tormi il mio riposo,
        né costanza,
        né speranza
        o d’amore, o di mercé.

        1. non non non non :D, waaaaaaay charming how she does it, you can “see” her facial expression..

    7. oh, now Galou’s Argene’s turn, to a really nice aria, similar to music to another aria later for Mingardo:

      Affetti del cor mio non vi condanno,
      se mi volete rea, ma rea d’amore,
      al regno, ed all’amor serva un inganno,
      se son regno, ed amor pace del core,
      l’affetto che del cor si fa tiranno,
      assolve dal rimorso il traditore,
      se in trono un caro sposo amor si gode,
      lascia d’esser delitto ancor la frode.

      1. along with the liner-note from Anik’s:

        Galou’s Argene decides it’s about time to make her bid for Dario clear to close out the first act and offers a wonderfully scheming, colorful “Affetti del mio cor” with a solo violin in the accompaniment.

    8. *now*, the esccape to milk tea, will be back.. machine still capturing…

      1. (but of course the bass has a very nice aria…)

        1. the bass killed it? haha.

          1. back, the capturing was still going, but i had a very important meeting with the boss. now back, it has just ended? but let me upload somewhere. Was quite fun to listen. am quite looking forward!

          2. was any stage business audible?

          3. ja, was quite fun!! esp the sword fighting scene! hang on, let me embed a vid here, was soooo fun to hear. the prompter was also VERY audible 😉

          4. hehehe, I never hear them, I’m curious if I can pick it up.

          5. and this? Galou in her costume!

          6. a bit overdressed to the point she’s showing curves, haha.

          7. omg, they overdressed SM so much i hardly recognize her!

          8. ps- do you know if it has ended? just got back, not sure if i should kill the capturing yet?

          9. I have no idea, I got back home not that long ago.

          10. here we go. dropbox removed the ability to post mp3 to share in public.. so i’m putting it now on tube, and a chance to incorporate some of those photos..

  5. Ha! Carsen gets vigorously booed at Rosenkavalier curtain. That’s a good sign!

    1. how was it? I was so tired, fell asleep before i even ate dinner.. now done eating, time to zz again 😀 . i put Dario up. perhaps we can exchange DerR?

      1. The things that were really interesting were not the things that are usually interesting. I’ll be curious to hear it again Monday night (post opening jitters) and see what Towanda says about the production.

      2. Did dbox kill mp3 share? bc there shd be m4a’s awaiting you, so let me know if they’re not there or have been rendered non-functional.

        1. thansk. i saw a wave of emailing arriving telling me something waiting :-). you don’t happen to have today’s Hallenberg’s Bach? i wanted to capture, but clearly woke up at the wrong time zone 😀

          1. No, sorry, I was at work. But I will keep an eye out for it popping up elsewhere.

          2. Did I read right on fb that there was video for this as well? In which case it may show up, uh, somewhere.

          3. jesh, vid from rai5, only visible w/in Italy

          4. Damn, as indifferent as they are to sound quality, they have their geoblocking thing in order :-/

          5. oh no, which geoblocking?

          6. I thought I might have a way around the RAI block, bc I have a thing that works nicely elsewhere. But no such luck.

          7. ahh, but A.Hallenberg did say in her post that the TV thing was only avail within Italy..

          8. (oops, dang, forgot about Misuko Uchida..)

          9. A) Yes, but other countries’ state media have similar restrictions and this thing still manages to circumvent them.

            B) check here for Uchida next week (click through the Listen Now link to bso’s Media Center page — they appear to have screwed things up in the last site redesign, so this seems to be the only way to access the broadcast archives right now).

          10. thanks. i trade you for R.Jacobs’s St Matthew Passion, i found they have archive :-), currently wget it..

          11. Whoa, how did that just show up in my itunes? 🙂

            In other news, thanks for Dario, it got me through filing my taxes. I may have done them wrong, but what’s the worst that could happen LOL

          12. i am still in love with the sound from sword fighting scene

          13. ps- it shows up b/c i gave u a mp3 link

          14. alert: video from rai5. seems only 1/3 of it…

          15. Sword fighting scene was probably during the IRA contribution section, which is pointlessly complicated in my tax software this year.

        2. Stray, you might like this performance with K.Gauvin. I like the orchestra A LOT. as well as the evangelist. and the soloists, and choir 🙂 .

          1. Thanks! Lots to listen to while I’m cleaning records today 🙂

  6. I can’t get the thing to work. Is GMT British time or not?

    1. ah, found it, it’s at 8:30pm GMT (I suppose)

      1. 1830, not 2030 according to my post no?

        1. neither! though I don’t quite know what GMT is, I thought it was Greenwich Mean Time but it was 7:30pm here when it started.

          1. that was 1hr ago? 1/2 hr ago?

          2. no clue but you can in at the right time, here she is 🙂

          3. that was super short…

          4. now the new and improved Crowe with the bit hit in this Passion.

          5. ja, am listening now still, 10min to the bus

          6. I really have a new appreciation for Crowe after that Rodelinda. I’m curious to hear her in the house again and see if it translates.

          7. can’t remember where i heard her before…
            they’re also broadcast this on Italian TV, but only can see in Italy

          8. back in business. is it still playing?

          9. no, it ended shortly after you left.

          10. btw, how was Stutzmann’s Matthew? I really wanted to hear that one, see if I like it better.

          11. it’s still available for re-listening! on the dutch radio. i also downloaded it

          12. when i’m at school i’ll send u the link. i was still in cheerful mood from Dario to listen to it last night 😀 (actually i was so tired from waking up so early for Dario, fell asleep before i could even eat…)

          13. hehe, thanks and also thanks for the Dario link, I downloaded it just in case.

          14. i can just give u the mp3 less storage. now waiting at bus, and i figured out what the problem was w my alrm: it was still on PacificCoast time! good thing i didnt need to catch a flight…

          15. it’s not problem, it downloaded very quickly.

          16. and u get the pix to look at while listening 😉

          17. this one might be of some interest to you, René Jacobs , Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, with K.Hammarström (and a CT of course..), S.Im, etc. I’d be very curious about Rene Jacobs’ take. crazy starting time again, but at least i don’t have to rush to the office today (saturday).

            i was not too impressed with the bass in Rotterdam, too blurry.. i think she deserves better soloists. The mezzo has a very nice tone, but also a bit blurry in music expression. Martina Jankova was quite nice, but her part is quite little… i’m still debating on the take.. it’s a live performance so difficult to compare to my fav take by tonKoopman.. but i’ll listen again another day to see how it flows :-).

          18. ps- while at it, there’s also this one, with K.Gauvin from Munich just 3 days ago. I think you can hear very clearly the difference between a baroque orchestra and modern.. i think N.Stutzmann often ended up with huge modern orchestra (that’s what she’s being invited to do..) and that’s difficult for these intimate pieces.

          19. coming back to tell you, listen to the one in Munich, if you want to check if it can change your mind. the narrator, i now come to the conclusion, is *very* important, and this one is up there. He’s responsible to tell the entire story, and if he’s blurry the whole thing drags.. not here. veery descriptive. same with the superb orchestra.
            (bed time now for me… will see how i can wake up in 6hrs 🙂 )

          20. thanks! Yes, it seems in all these Passions the Narrator is the main role. We had a very good one in London the other year, it was Egarr and the annoying oboist that didn’t work for me.

          21. i’m listening in.. but something doesn’t sound like Bach…

          22. interesting, it sounded very Bach-y to me. Blame Pappano 😉

          23. i know, i was listening to something else, was very non-Bach

          24. sadly i’ll have to run to the bus in 20min to the office… but once there i’ll set up the capture machine so i can listen later… b/c have meetings again..

          25. 🙂 good luck with the meeting/capture!

        2. if it’s any help, Hallenberg didn’t have that much to sing so far. Though she did very nice with some lows, it’s definitely an alto role. The choir is super as well.

    2. good morning. my alarm just sounded. i think in 45min the broadcast will start!

      1. nope, sorry, it was at 7:30pm my time :-p

    3. it is on rai radio so you can always search and go there directly. the worldconcerthall link wont work until it is time.

      1. that’s what I did! worldconcerhall can be unrealiable. I was still 15min in but it’s very high quality.

        1. oh it starts already? ohhhh oops look at the time!! i set alarm two hours ago and only now it rings, oops!!

  7. For some Retro Hallenberg, there’s also St Matthew from Stockholm, 2005 posted up on Sveriges Radio P2’s site for the weekend (if I’m reading that right).

    1. oh cool, i also have her St Matthew from Rome a few years ago 🙂

  8. where do they stock this on Rai? I couldn’t find it. Thanks for including the London time, very nice of you 😉

    1. it is from budapest and hungarian radio not rai. greetings w 1 eye open, i decided not to wake up early and ruin a whole day of work …

      1. I meant the rai one 😉

        1. which rai? they don’t have archive 🙂 . so you can only grab it live. i found a direct mp3 link, which works much better for me. you can bookmark this for your future rai radio? http://icestreaming.rai.it/3.mp3

          1. ah, ok, thanks! for some reason I thought they did archive.

          2. no, if they archive i wouldn’t have to wake up at that ungodly hour last thursday, and now still suffering from it 😉 (thur night i got home and literally fell asleep in the middle of the living room without having eaten anything that day yet, i tell you, the thing we do for the contraltos 😉 )

          3. I once had to choose between food and sleep (sleep won in the middle of eating) so I can only imagine what one would do for a contralto 😉

        2. ps- with that direct link, next time i see you, we could see if we can install mplayer on your laptop, and then it’s extremely easy to capture audio (you don’t have to be present during capture, just 1 command, and you can go off and come back and have it done..)

          1. cheers, that’s extra handy 🙂

        3. u were searchign for this from rai? (video!)

          1. thanks! Italians are pretty generous with these things, I see (after the bits about Dario Teatro Regio put out).

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