Aboard the Sunday Afternoon Flagship
CBC Radio 2's flagship live classical music performance show is Sunday Afternoon In Concert. Funny, every time the expression "flagship" pops up in this context I picture some massive ocean going vessel transporting whole orchestras, choirs, maybe a dozen chamber ensembles. But that's beside the point, really.
What is the point is what they are broadcasting this Sunday, and it looks like a nice lineup. From the Scotia Festival of Music, Anonymous 4, four women who perform chants and songs from a rare illuminated manuscript that was recently rediscovered -- choral music has not been performed in over four hundred and fifty years. Musicologist Jennifer Bain transcribed the music for the performance, and the manuscript itself is undergoing conservation work in Ottawa. Host Bill Richardson finds out about the history of the score -- and how it came to Halifax.
Then, from the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, a performance of Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird, among other selections.
And a visit from the indefatigable Alex Ross, music critic for New Yorker magazine, whose recently published book The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century seems to be knocking everyone's socks off.
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Dear Bill.
With great expectation I sat today to listen to your program “Sunday Afternoon in Concert”. The first time I heard Isabelle Bayrakdarian’s new CD “Tango Nocturno” was last week on Studio Sparks. Eric Friesen played two tangos, one in German, the other in Argentinean Spanish. He also mentioned that the CD would be played on your program.
I was extremely surprised how well Isabelle pronounced the Buenos Aires Spanish (“porteño”) in “¡Ché Bandoneón!” So I sat, hoping to hear it again. To my disappointment, you played everything else, but this one. So I have to buy her CD.
I enjoyed very much the interview. Congratulations to Isabelle, and good luck with the baby!
By the way, I am Argentinean. “Che” is “Lunfardo”, i.e. Buenos Aires argot (or slang) and means literally “hey you”.
Thank you very much for the program. I truly enjoyed it.
Sincerely,
Carmen Heller
Posted by: Carmen Heller | November 19, 2007 02:48 PMDear Bill,
I was also very impressed with one of the songs performed by Isabelle Bayrakdarian, which, I believe is included in the album "Tango Nocturno".
I heard that song last Friday, preceding another orchestral work I really liked.
I went to get the CD right away, after work. Couldn't get any information at the major music stores. So I tried the CBC Booth at Square One. They didn't have it there.
How can I get it?
Thank you,
Gabriel Cortez
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Hi Gabriel -- are you thinking of TANGO NOTTURNO -- it's on CBC Records and is available at the CBC shop. (Li)
http://www.cbcshop.ca/CBC/shopping/category.aspx?catalogName=CBCBase&CategoryName;=music_root⟨=en-CA
Posted by: Gabriel Cortez | November 26, 2007 12:20 PMComment on this post