Emma Kirkby - The South Bank Show (5)

Emma Kirkby: The Unsung Heroine
The South Bank Show
ITV Productions
22.07.2007.
Presented by: Melvyn Bragg
Produced and directed by: Mathew Tucker

A documentary about my favorite singer, Dame Emma Kirkby, the artist who almost single-handedly changed the way we listen to voices in early music. Her pure soprano features on almost 200 studio recordings and she is well known to almost every admirer of medieval, renaissance and baroque music for her beautiful voice and amazing artistry. The show features works of Henry Purcell, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Jean-Baptiste Boësset, Claudio Monteverdi, Hildegard Von Bingen and John Dowland.

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[lasalleman]

Seems more 16th Century, the song around 5:50. Familiar, can't place it. Used to sing madrigals at University. Great work.

[lalagonegaga]

I'm not sure but I believe it's early Monteverdi...

[johnstdominic]

What's that piece they're singing at 5.50ff? It's awesome!

[lalagonegaga]

Yes, I know, it is positively mesmerizing... Unfortunately, I haven't got the fainthest idea what the piece is. I am pretty sure it's Monteverdi, but other than that, I'm clueless.

[radiofriendly]

I had to rescue you! It's one of the best laments - my favorite monteverdi:

"lamento della ninfa" - search for it

[lalagonegaga]

LOL! Thank you, I am very grateful. Now that you've mentioned it, I think I even have it somewhere on CD. Shame on me. :)

[palfab962]

lala ace post

i had this on video when it showed on

TV in UK  but lost it

magical to see this again

luv the hurdy gurdy in the hildagard von Bingen item - a very calming drone

of the enjoyable kind !!!

[johnstdominic]

I Googled the English text and it's 'Volgendo il Ciel'.