New music listened to this week - week beginning 18.9.23
Mon Amant de Saint-Jean
Curious and rather entertaining disc exploring the connections between the emerging early music and cabaret scenes in early twentieth-century Paris. Stéphanie d'Oustrac (mezzo), Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre. Music by Cavalli, Marais, Monteverdi, and Johann Vierdanck (c.1605–1646). Disc released August 2023.
¡COLOMBIA VIVA! Volume Two: Piano Music
Piano music of Colombia from a list of composers I had never heard of, namely Amparo Ángel, Maurico Arias-Esguerra, Juan Domingo Córdoba, Juan Antonio Cuéllar, Carolina Noguera, Catalina Peralta, Pedro Felipe Ramírez, and Pedro Sarmiento. Nicely played, but all a bit melancholy to be honest. Mauricio Arias-Esguerra (piano). CD released August 2023.
