Your Sunday repose with pleasant early music; special delights from 5 centuries of music history. In this episode, funeral music and laments from the Renaissance and Baroque.
1. Cristóbal de Morales (ca.1500-1553).
– Antiphona: "Circumdederunt me".
Alonso Lobo (ca.1555-1617).
– Motectum: "Versa est in luctum".
Gabrieli Consort led by Paul McCreesh.
(Archiv 457 597-2, 1998)
2. Silvius Leopold Weiss (1686-1750).
– Tombeau sur la mort de M. Cajetan Baron D’Hartig arrivée le 25 de mars 1719.
Eduardo Egüez, baroque lute.
(CD EL 982310, 1999)
3. Christian Geist (1650?-1711).
– Vater unser, der du bist im Himmel.
Michael Chance, countertenor. The Purcell Quartet.
(CHAN 0675, 2001)
4. Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643).
– Lamento d’Arianna: Lasciatemi morire.
Montserrat Figueras, soprano. Ton Koopman, harpsichord. Rolf Lislevand, theorbe. Paolo Pandolfo, viola da gamba. Lorenz Duftschmid, violone.
Luigi Rossi (ca.1598-1653).
– Fantasia "Les Pleurs d’Orphée".
Hespèrion XXI led by Jordi Savall.
Nicolò Fontei (ca.1600-ca.1647).
– Pianto D’Erinna.
Montserrat Figueras, soprano. Ton Koopman, harpsichord. Jordi Savall, viola da gamba.
(AV 9815, 2000)
5. Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707).
– Jesu, meines Lebens Leben, BuxWV 62.
Johannette Zomer, soprano. Bogna Bartosz, alto. Jörg Dürmüller, tenor. Donald Bentvelsen, bass. Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra led by Ton Koopman.
(CC 72246, 2008)
Possibly supplemented with:
6. John Dowland (1563-1626).
– Lachrimae Pavin.
Hopkinson Smith, lute.
(Naïve E 8896, 2005)
