Early Delights, an hour of early music on Sunday. Special delights from the Middle Ages up and to High Baroque. A medieval song of the monk of Salzburg, a lute piece of Kapsberger, consort songs of Gibbons and a symphony of C.Ph.E. Bach.
Der Mönch von Salzburg (late 14th century)
1. Das guldein vingerlein des münchs / Mein trost Maria raine mait
Ensemble Leones conducted by Marc Lewon
(CHR 77396, 2015)
Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger (1580-1651)
2. Aria di Fiorenza
Francesco Romano, chitarrone
(AM 271-2, 2012)
Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
3. Dainty fine bird
4. How art thou thral’d / Farewell all joys
5. O, that the learned poets of this time
6. Ah, dear heart why do you rise?
7. Nay, let me weep / Ne’er let the sun with his deceiving light / Yet if that age had frosted over his head
Claron McFadden and Aleksandra Anisimowicz, soprano. The Spirit of Gambo
(CD The Silver Swan, SFR 357.4061.2, 2014)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
8. Symphony in D Major, Wq. 183.1 / H.663
– Allegro di molto
– Largo
– Presto
Collegium Musicum Den Haag conducted by Claudio Ribeiro
(CMDH 2014)