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A crate of flowers, which experts assure me are very choice and of admirable rarity: Ensemble Hesperi's crowdfunder for their disc themed on Telemann's love of gardening
[…] only composer who Telemann wrote to about his plants, and Johann Gottlieb Graun too sent him specimens from Berlin where Graun was in the service of Crown Prince Frederick (later Frederick the Great). And Telemann declared in one letter to another friend: 'I am insatiable where hyacinths and tulips are concerned, greedy for ranunculi, and especially for anemones’Telemann and his passion for his garden is the theme for the new CD from Ensemble Hesperi (Magdalena Loth-Hill, Baroque violin, Mary-Jannet Leith, recorders, Florence Pitt, Baroque cello, Thomas Allery, harpsichord). This will be the ensemble's second CD, following their debut, Full of the Highland Humours [see my review]. The new disc, A Gift for your Garden will be appearing on BIS records and will feature music by Telemann, including one of his Paris Quartets and a solo flute fantasia, Handel and Graun, along with three of Scottish composer James Oswald's floral airs.Read more and support Ensemble […]
2023-11-10 08:21:00
[…] to be a bit more creative, to explore the highways and byways.Two discs came to my attention this year, both exploring repertoire that is not always obvious. On Exploration from Hungoroton, flautist Noémi Győri and pianist Suzana Bartal present pieces by Beethoven and Schubert alongside works by Leopoldine Blahetka and Francois Borne. Whilst To the Northern Star on Resonus Classics from duo Flauguissimo (Yu-Wei Hu flute, Johan Löfving theorbo & baroque guitar) and friends (Magdalena Loth-Hill violin, Emily Atkinson soprano, Henrik Persson viola da gamba) explores the chamber music of the 18th-century Swedish composer Johan Helmich Roman.Győri and Bartal's disc is deliberately playful and light, involving the variation form in all its guises. They begin with Schubert's Introduction and Variations on 'Trockne Blumen' from Die schöne Müllerin, op. posth. 160, D. 802, written in 1824 for a flute-playing friend, Ferdinand Bogner, a professor at the Vienna conservatory and back in […]
2021-11-30 09:34:20
A snapshot of London musical life in 17th and 18th centuries from Ensemble Hesperi at Temple Church
[…] musicians. During the 1640s, John Playford opened a music shop by Temple Church and his business would remain in the area, whilst John Walsh would open his music shop in the nearby Strand in the 1690s. Other musicians lived in the area also, and it was this web of connections that Ensemble Hesperi explored in their concert in Temple Church on Monday 29 November 2021 for Temple Music. The ensemble, Mary-Jannet Leith (recorders), Magdalena Loth-Hill (baroque violin), Florence Petit (baroque cello), Thomas Allery (harpsichord), has become known for its exploration of Scottish 17th and 18th century music, and their Temple Church programme included some of James Oswald's music from their recent disc Full of the Highland Humours [see my review] alongside music by Purcell, Handel, Farinel, Pepusch, Finger, Blow and Matteis plus tunes from Playford's A Collection of Original Scotch Tunes and the English Dancing Master. […]
2021-11-15 09:22:38
From 'The Poppy' to 'Hit Her on the Bum': Ensemble Hesperi's debut disc, Full of the Highland Humours
Full of the Highland Humours; Ensemble Hesperi; EM Records Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 12 November 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Ensemble Hesperi turns its attention to London, to celebrate the Scottish music popular in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century LondonEnsemble Hesperi is a young quartet of performers (Mary-Jannet Leith - recorders, Magdalena Loth-Hill - Baroque violin, Florence Petit - Baroque cello, Thomas Allery - harpsichord) who are shedding new light on Scottish Baroque music and their innovative performances have included collaborations with a Highland dancer [see my interview]. For their debut disc on EM Records, Full of the Highland Humours, Ensemble Hesperi turns its attention to London, to celebrate the Scottish music popular in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century London - by Scottish composers who spent most of their career there, and by Italian composers inspired by traditional Scots melodies. So we have a disc which mixes music by such London-based […]
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