An incomplete account, by Tweet, of Arcangelo's Monteverdi (Greenberg ?)

Responding, in Tweets, to Arcangelo's concert at Saffron Hall on 19 April

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20 April

A little response, by Tweet, to the worlds within the programme that Arcangelo (@ArcangeloTeam) brought to Saffron Hall (@SaffronHallSW) on Sunday 19 April at 7.30 p.m.

On a technical, performance level, there is so much being said

At @yorkearlymusic, @ArcangeloTeam @SaffronHallSW ? Great wonder in these suspensions, dissonances, closes, bounded / unbounded emotions !
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) April 20, 2015

Palettes of textures, sound-worlds, vocal contrasts are givens, but @ArcangeloTeam runs the gamut from infectious joy to affect-less lulls !
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) April 20, 2015

Concerts as places where we can learn to listen – to living music

Not talking above its head, with techniques, theorbos, Jonathan Cohen helped an audience at @SaffronHallSW listen to @ArcangeloTeam better.
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) April 20, 2015

The English word 'madrigals' could just sound like 'a drag' - but *madrigale*, with a gesture and gusto, soars, sings - as @ArcangeloTeam !
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) April 20, 2015

Why this music matters to us

Monteverdi's music matters, @SaffronHallSW, as communicated by, and within, @ArcangeloTeam, because its humanity is our own - our joys, pain
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) April 20, 2015

With male @ArcangeloTeam singers on the @SaffronHallSW balcony, it made head sense (San Marco), but only 'sound sense' later Context is all
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) April 22, 2015

More Twittering to come...


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Review by Tweet of events on the evening of 5 March 2014

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6 March (updated, with some credits, 8 March)

19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert: The Monteverdi Choir's 50th anniversary concert, featuring Monteverdi's Vespers. http://t.co/w2u8Fn3ESE
— On BBC Radio 3 Now (@onradio3now) March 5, 2014

Martin Handley in Cambridge talks down the line to @BBCInTune with King's College Chapel behind. #R3LiveInConcert pic.twitter.com/yInfDsYgGk
— BBC Radio 3 (@BBCRadio3) March 5, 2014

Heresy, but somehow Sir John E. G. doesn't do it : his @bbcproms Brandenburgssounded fragmented, and Vespers of 1610 disparate, not a whole
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 6, 2014

Are Monteverdi's Vespers 1610 meant to sound like raw baroque mixed with English choral tradition, 19th C oratorio, Brahms German Requiem ?
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 6, 2014

Conducting an instrumentalist (or two) and singer's completely redundant, Sir John E. G. ! In Bach Passions, do you conduct the recitative ?
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 6, 2014

If you parallel-park in Norwich, watch out for directions from Sir John E. G., as he conducts you from a podium in @Kings_College Chapel...
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 6, 2014

If, in all seriousness, you know @Kings_College Chapel, can you imagine someone trying to conduct musicians in the choir through the arch ?
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 6, 2014

Happy 50th Birthday, Monteverdi Choir! @mco_london @BBCRadio3 #KingsCambridge pic.twitter.com/u2EJVWBF71
— Eleanor Minney(@EllieJMinney) March 5, 2014

All part of the threatricality/ spectacle of a 50th anniversary concert, but, with a singer and string-player either side, it sounded grand
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 6, 2014

Just as did, later on, the antiphonal effects, between chapel or side-chapel and antechapel - it felt as though it could be St Mark's, 1610
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 6, 2014

And some wonderful soloists, which one imagined could have been heard in Renaissance Venice, also exploiting positions in the split choir...
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 6, 2014

Superb performances from Silvia Frigato(soprano), EmanuelaGalli(soprano), Alexander Ashworth (bass), Nicholas Mulroy(tenor) ->
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 8, 2014

And, from The English Baroque Soloists, Kati Debretzeni(violin), Anne Schumann (violin), Valerie Botwright(Violone) ->
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 8, 2014

EvangelinaMascardi, JakobLindberg & JosiasRodriguez Gandara(chittarone), & Jamie Savan, Bork-FrithjofSmith, Richard Thomas (cornetti)
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 8, 2014

All in all, lovely for the staging - reminiscent of Robert Hollingworth(@ifagiolini) with Tallis/ Striggiohere - and in places...
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 6, 2014

But, Sir John E. G., just too raggedy in its style to come close to resembling a unity, @THEAGENTAPSLEY regrets having to suggest. :(
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 6, 2014

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