As you can see I'm getting up later and later everyday, turning into a night owl by necessity, just like my touring days in Chanticleer.
Last night we drank champaigne (sparkling apple cider for the singers... two more days of recording) to celebrate the end of the Pergolesi sessions.
Now we move on to record French cantatas by Elizabeth Jacque de la Guerre, and Andre Campra. Elizabeth was one of the first (if not THE first) woman composers to get published
in France and recordings of her music are scarce to say the least, so it's kind of exciting to be getting her music out there on a recording. Andre is not the most recorded guy either, and the pieces are all quite lovely.
We'll be recording all of these with just continuo, which means cello, and the Kevin Fryer harpsichord that arrived yesterday. It's the most gorgeous harpsichord I've ever heard, refined yet round and full bodied at the same time. Our harpsichord player, Bradley, is on cloud nine everytime he plays it, and I can hear why! One of our donors who visited the rehearsal yesterday said, "Wow! It doesn't sound tinny!" Indeed it doesn't.
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