(in)sight-reading enlightenment/early music podcast

This episode was recorded in the beginning of February 2022 in Norway 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 Dear friends,  Terrible things are happening in the world. After the first week of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we were paralysed and shocked. We did not know what to do and how to go on with publishing a new episode. However after some days we decided to publish an episode with a beautiful person and cello player -...

Let's celebrate the beginning of season 3 in Norway! While participating in an opera production in Trondheim, I met wonderful people, and we recorded this episode and spontaneously read a trio sonata by Georg Philipp Telemann. The setting seemed to be unusual: flute, oboe and theorbo! My guests are: The artistic director of early music in Trondheim ERIK SKANKE HØSØIEN https://www.facebook.com/Baro...

Today we talk with a brilliant clarinet player Francesco Spendolini.  Francesco regularly works with period instrument orchestras and ensembles, such as I Barocchisti, La Cetra Baroque Orchestra, the Venice Baroque Orchestra,Le Concert des Nations, the OCE (Orchestre des champs Élysée), Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, Il Complesso Barocco, the Ensemble Arcimboldo, the Hofkapelle Stuttgart, Capriccio...

In today's episode, we talk to the head of the Department of Contemporary Music at the Musikhochschule Basel, Uli Fussenegger. Uli began his career as a double bass player in the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, but then switched subjects and went into the field of contemporary music, where he became an important figure. Read about Uli here: https://www.fhnw.ch/de/personen/uli-fussenegger The score on...

In this episode we sight read French Christmas songs from the time of Louis XIV. We discuss stories from his private life with our guest, tenor Christopher Wattam. #insightreadingenlightenment #tenor #opera #flute #cembalo #baroque #baroquemusic #podcast #earlymusicpodcast #charpentier #messedininuit #darinaablogina #sebastienmitra #darinaabloginapodcast #merrychristmas

In today's interview, our conversation partner Johannes Keller , teacher at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and musician, will talk about a unique instrument recreated from a coin and historical flyer of the 16th century (!), based on the descriptions of Vicentino. Arciorgano is the only prototype of this instrument in the world which exists within the walls of the Schola. We will learn more about...

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all. We will find out in today's episode featuring the brilliant singer Maya Amir. https://aicf.org/artist/maya-amir/ Maya's album on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1LVvM5W9d9fMPYGD2cvZoD?autoplay=true https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWmJWvGzUx7k05kbgoCuX2A The score on the music stand for today is an early cantata by George Frideric H...

Today's dream guest on our show is medieval flute player, composer and improviser Norbert Rodenkirchen. https://www.norbertrodenkirchen.org https://soundcloud.com/norbert-rodenkirchen https://open.spotify.com/artist/614iE7MR8C3ZEgEoJsRJMb Norbert's latest album: Medieval echoes https://open.spotify.com/album/4B6UfgGZNgiXdJefYojhEb In this episode Norbert tells us about his concert based on the sto...

Our guests on today's episode are members of a unique Renaissance ensemble from Basel.  Together with podcast co-host Darina Ablogina and a few other musicians, they have formed an ensemble called "PHAEDRUS". https://www.ensemblephaedrus.com   https://www.facebook.com/phaedrusensemble/  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVG8GQ6Ih63Vz-xxsOEBKnA  In this episode we talk to the art...

The guest of our episode today is the unique musician, improviser and composer Baptiste Romain.  https://www.baptisteromain.com He is a professor at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in the Department of Medieval and Renaissance Music. In this episode, we talk about the process of improvisation. How does an improvisation begin and what is the prerequisite for people to improvise? We discuss str...

Our special guest in this programme is the great Ludwig van Beethoven with his beautiful little collection of National Airs with Variations, Op.107, which can be played on the piano with flute or violin accompaniment. We will: -talk about the original instruments that were in use in Beethoven's time. -demonstrate a range of different stops on a period piano with 5 pedals -Compare a historical and...

My guest of today's episode is an incredible and important person in the field of contemporary music, a Swiss saxophonist and teacher, professor of the Hochschule für Musik in Basel - Marcus Weiss.  We are talking about a place and a role of musicians in today's world, about curating musical events, projects for biennale for new music and architecture ZeitRäume. If you would like to read abou...

On today's episode we are revealing the mystery of John Walsh "The Pirate"! What do we know about the engraving in the 18th century? Why the printing technique invented by Walsh was innovative?  There is a "Perfect" Sonata in G major by Georg Friedrich Händel op.1 on our music stand today, that Walsh printed using his new technique in 1732. Adagio-Allegro-Adagio-Bourée Check out the score: ht...

We are back with the 2nd season of our podcast dedicated to sight-reading in music!  It is going to be an exciting season.  Our first guest is Alexis Kossenko.  « Alexis Kossenko is a multi-skilled young genius whose career will take him where he wills. (…) Few conductors are so compelling to watch, whether by his players or we listeners, but there is no 'showing off' to impress an...

Hello dear friends! Today we have a special episode without sight-reading! This episode is dedicated to a concert we performed in May: Lost Paradise. The concert follows the transformation of Lucifer, as written by John Milton and re-formatted as a libretto by John Dryden.   We will be talking to our friend and colleague Chris Wattam, who sang in the concert, and discuss the concept, process and f...

Dear friends!  Today we are presenting a new format and in this episode, you will hear us playing unwritten scores and talking about the improvisation process. We will improvise for you some old renaissance dances with our special guest, a wonderful lute player and a great teacher Peter Croton.  https://peter-croton.com/   https://www.youtube.com/user/pcroton In this episode: ...

The focus of our interest in today's reading session is a beautiful flute or violin sonata H. 542.5 BWV 1020 that was for a long time attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach. We will try to discover the stylistic details and experiment with the instrumentation in this piece. A special instrument that we are using today is a copy of one of the first instruments that was created by Bartolomeo Cristofori...

Hello dear friends! Today we are talking to remarkable people in the early music field: Thomas Höft - author, director, curator, and dramaturge, Michael Hell - musical director, cembalist, recorder player, and Adrian Schvarzstein - clown, actor, circus and theater director. They are performing a concert in the concert series Freunde Alter Musik Basel and we had an enlightening conversation about I...

Hello dear friends! Today our guests are two wonderful people Fiona Kizzie Lee and Amy Farnell, and together they make ensemble "La Fiamma": https://lafiammabasel.wix.com/home https://www.facebook.com/lafiammabasel This ensemble is dedicated to medieval and renaissance music. Check out their Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC23tq5JgRtWhP5CDyvRVN5A We are going to sight-read some m...

Hello dear friends! Today our guest is a unique musician Baptiste Romain https://www.baptisteromain.com/ With great enthusiasm, we discovered pieces written by Baptiste and decided to explore his worlds of composition with early romantic instruments. This instrumentation was unexpected and in a way experimental for us, but the result of our sight-reading session took us to a new galaxy of contempl...

We continue telling the french baroque fairy tale stories and today our guest is Liane Sadler, an australian traverso player currently based in Basel. https://www.lianesadler.com/ Today we are going to explore some flute duos by Jacques-Martin Hotteterre. He was and still remains an important figure in the flute world. Hotteterre owed his fame largely to his talent for playing the flute, an instru...

Today's sight-reading session is dedicated to one of the icons of the high baroque era. Georg Philipp Telemann wrote his famous collection in 1733. More than 200 subscribers were found who were willing to pay the price in advance and whose name, social status, and address were published in the first edition. The illustrious list comprised crowned heads, noblewomen, and merchants as well as German...

Today's guest of our podcast is the "foreign virtuoso Locatelli". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Locatelli He was quite an outstanding figure in the 18th century. Some contemporaries left a notice about Locatelli's performance before Frederick William I, which anecdotally describes the musician's self-assurance and his vanity in wearing gorgeous, diamond-studded clothes. Nevertheless a libra...

Dear Friends! Hello and happy Easter! Today we have some renaissance music for you! In this episode we are going to explore:   - beauty of the high venetian pitch, attention! A=465 Hz    - Historia der frölichen und siegreichen Aufferstehung unsers einigen Erlösers und Seligmachers Jesu Christi by Heinrich Schütz  https://ks4.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/e/ee/IMSLP177883-PMLP...

Hello dear friends! Today we have some French music for you! We are going to: -clarify everything you wanted, but were afraid to ask about the French baroque music, -take a look at the ornamentation table of Jacques Hotteterre Pièces pour la flûte traversiere, op.2 Avertissement, page 5 Sarabande, page 26 https://ks.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/7/7e/IMSLP309660-PMLP126071-hotteterre_suites2.pdf...