New CDs with Early Music. Today we focus on the CDs ‘Swithun! Demons and Miracles from Winchester around 1000’ by Dialogos conducted by Katarina Livljanic, and ‘Schmelzer – Violin Sonatas’ by Ars Antiqua Austria conducted by Gunar Letzbor.
Winchester, c. 1000:
1. Aelfeah adest, Ordbirhtus adest, Wulfsinus et Aelfric
Wulfstan of Winchester, Narratio metrica de sancto Swithuno
2. Regem regum Dominum
from: Winchester tropes: Two-part invitatory
3. Gloriosus vir sanctus Swithunus
from: Winchester tropics: Two-part responsorium
4. Quid post evigilans
Wulfstan narratio
5. Auxilium Domine
Alphabetic hymn in acrostic: De Sancto Swithuno
6. Ecce vir prudens Swithunus
from: Winchester tropes: Two-part responsorium
7. Talibus aegrotum
Wulfstan, narratio
8. Alleluia. Via lux veritas
From: Winchester tropes: sequence
Dialogos conducted by Katarina Livljanic
(CD Swithun! Demons and Miracles. Arcana A 491, 2021)
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (ca.1623-1680)
From: Sonatae unarum fidium (Nuremberg, 1664)
9. Sonata 1 (Variazioni)
10. Baletto di Ninfe: Aria. Sarabanda
11. Ciacona in A major
12. From Sonata V: (…) piu Allegro, Adagio
Ars Antiqua Austria olv Gunar Letzbor, violin
(CD Schmelzer – Violin Sonatas. Panclassics PC 10436, 2022)
