Recordings of concerts in the Netherlands, made by the Concertzender. Recordings of early music concerts. Two concerts of the Utrecht Festival Early Music 2015: Cappella Amsterdam led by Daniel Reuss and Vittorio Ghielmi, viola da gamba & Luca Pianca, lute.
A) The concert ‘Out of Handel’s Shadow: Funeral music for the Duke of Marlborough’, recorded during the Early Music Festival 2015.
Cappella Amsterdam led by Daniel Reuss performs works by Henry Purcell, Maurice Greene, Georg Friedrich Händel and Giovanni Bononchini.
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
1. My heart is inditing Z30
Maurice Greene (1696-1755)
2. Anthem: Lord let me know mine end
Georg Friedrich Haendel (1685-1759)
3. From: Chandos Anthems: As pants the heart
Giovanni Bononchini (1670-1747)
4. Funeral Anthem for the Duke of Marlborough 1722: When Saul was King over us
Cappella Amsterdam led by Daniel Reuss
The Northern Consort: Hanneke Wierenga and Sara Decorso, violin. Arwen Bouw, viola. Barbara Kernig, cello. Tis Marang, double bass. Vincent van Ballegooijen, oboe. David Jansen, organ
Recording: Geertekerk, Utrecht on 6 September 2015
Technique: Frans de Wolff. Production: Wijnand de Groot
B) Simpson: upon a Ground – Vittorio Ghielmi and Luca Pianca
This concert explores one of the most beloved English improvisation forms: the ground.
Daniel Norcombe (1576 – 1653)
5. Tregian Ground
Anonymous, 17th century
6. Barrow Forsters’s dreame
Thomas Robinson (1589 – 1609)
7. Twenty ways upon the bells
Tobias Hume (1579 – 1645)
8. Harke, Harke!
Alfonso Ferrabosco (1543 – 1588)
9. Pavin and gigue
Christopher Simpson (ca. 1602/6 – 1669)
10. Prelude and division upon a ground
Vittorio Ghielmi
11. Three pieces in the style of the old lyra-viol composers:
– Slow Ayre (the hidden rabbit)
– The jumping rabbit
– A springlike rain
Solomon Eccles (ca. 1617 -1682)
12. A new ground
John Playford (1623 – ca. 1686)
13. The duke of Norfolks ground
Matthew Locke (1621 – 1677)
14. Almand, Courant Ayre
Carlo Zuccari (1704 – 1792)
15. Solo per la viola da gamba: Adagio – Presto – Andante un poco allegretto
Encore: Louis Caix d’Hervelois
16. Plainte
Vittorio Ghielmi, viola da gamba. Luca Pianca, lute
Early Music Festival 2015
Recording: 1 September 2015 in TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht
Technique and Production: Wijnand de Groot
