Live recordings of early music concerts.
The baroque concert ‘O Fortuna Crudele’ organised by Music on Chairs featuring baroque oboist Marcel Ponseele and soprano Henriette Feith, and the concert ‘The Delights of the Bottle’, a performance by Eveline Juten and Arwen Bouw during the 2018 International Lute Event.
O Fortuna Crudele – Music on Chairs
On Sunday 9th February the Amersfoort concert organisation Music on Chairs presented the fabulous concert ‘O Fortuna Crudele’. It was a mixed baroque concert, with the world famous baroque oboeist Marcel Ponseele, soprano Henriette Feith, baritone Robbert Muuse, harpsichordist Kathryn Cok and horn player Wouter Verschuren. They played vocal and instrumental music by J.S. Bach, Händel, Telemann, Scarlatti, Thiel and Platti.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
1. Duet uit cantate BWV 140 “Wachet Auf ruft uns die Stimme”: “Mein Freund ist mein”
Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697-1763)
2. Trio Sonata
– Largo
– Allegro
– Largo
– Presto
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
3. From: HWV 132 b: “Mi palpita il cor, ho tanti affanni in petto”
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
4. From: Sonata in D (K.492) for solo harpsichord: Presto
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
5. From: Harmonischer Gottesdienst,TWV 1:1732: Solo Cantata for bass “Zischet nur, stechet, ihr feurigen Zungen”
– Aria
– Recitatief
– Aria
Johann Georg Thiel (1671-1743)
6. Sonate voor klavecimbel en fagot
Georg Friedrich Händel
7. Duet HWV 184 “Che vai pensando”
Georg Philipp Telemann
8. Trio Sonata in E flat major for oboe, featuring harpsichord and bassoon, TWV 42: Es3
– Largo
– Vivace
– Mesto
– Vivace
Henriette Feith, soprano. Robbert Muuse, baritone. Marcel Ponseele, baroque oboe. Kathryn Cok, harpsichord. Wouter Verschuren, baroque bassoon
Recorded on 9 February in the St. Aegtenkapel in Amersfoort
Technique and production: Wijnand de Groot
B) The Delights of the Bottle – Eveline Juten en Arwen Bouw
2018 International Lute Event
Anonymous
9. Stingo or Oil of Barley or a Cup of Old Stingo (<1650)
Matthew Locke
10. The Delights of the Bottle/Town-Gallants Declaration for Women and Wine (1676)
Dirck Pieterszn. Pers (1581-1659)
11. De Dronkaert / Bredaas Biertje (1621)
Anonymous
12. A Health to all Good Fellowes etc. (1615-1640)
13. A pleasant new song In Praise of a Leather Bottle (1678)
Henry Purcell
14. If Wine be a Cordial (1719)
Gerbrand Bredero (1585-1618)
15. Boeren Geselschap / Dronkenen Boeren Dans (1622)
Eveline Juten, vocals, zither and lute. Arwen Bouw, baroque violin
Recorded on 31 August 2018 in the Lutherse Kerk in Utrecht
Technique: Dirk Winkel
Production: Wijnand de Groot
Additional:
Theodor Schwartzkopff (1659-1732)
16. Sonata a tre
– Grave – Allegro – Adagio
– Aria
– Bourée – Aria – Gigue Presto
Concerto Delaborde: Wouter Verschuren, baroque bassoon. Robert Smith, viola da gamba. Kathryn Cok, harpsichord
Georg Philipp Telemann
17. Sonata a 4 TWV.43:d1 in d kl.t.
– Andante
– Vivace
– Largo
– Allegro
Concerto Delaborde
(CD: The Elegant Bassoon, Globe Records GLO 5266)
On the photo: the St. Aegtenkapel (photographer: Jeroen Kuys)