Your Sunday repose with pleasant early music; special delights from 5 centuries of music history. Music by Buxtehude, Philidor and Kapsberger, and music for viola bastarda as well as from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.
1. Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707).
– Kantate ‘Drei schöne Dinge sind’.
Greta de Reyghere, soprano. Max van Egmond, bass. Ricercar Consort.
(Ricercar RIC 094076, 1991)
2. Music for Viola Bastarda from the late 16th and early 17th centuries:
Sig. Orattio Bassani.
– Tocata per b quadro.
Hernando Cabeçon.
– Dulce memoria.
Girolamo dalla Casa.
– Petit Iacquet.
Sig. Orattio Bassani.
– Così le chiome rotto.
Roberto Gini, viola bastarda. Mara Galassi, arpa doppia. Giovanni Togni, harpsichord and organ. Il Concerto delle Viole.
(Olive Music OM 010, 2007)
3. Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger (1580-1651).
– Occhi soli d’amore.
– Ite sospiri miei.
Pino de Vittorio and Hans-Jörg Mammel, tenor. L’Arpeggiata led by Christina Pluhar, harp and theorbe.
(Alpha 012, 2001)
4. Pierre Danican Philidor (1681-1731).
Sixième Suitte (Premier oevre).
– Lentement.
– Rondeau (Gavotte, gayment et gracieusement).
– Sarabande (Lentement).
– Rigaudon.
– Gigue (Gayment).
Hans Olav Gorset, transverse flute. Rolf Lislevand, theorbe. Paolo Pandolfo, viola da gamba.
(Simax classics, PSC 1129, 1997)
5. Music from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book:
John Dowland (1563-1626).
– Come when I call.
Richard Alison (-ca.1609).
– Goe from my window.
Alfonso Ferrabosco Junior (ca.1572-1628).
– Heare me, O God (Four-Notes Pavan).
John Dowland/ Thomas Morley (1557-1602).
– Galliard Can she excuse.
Nathalie Marec, soprano. Bruno Boterf, tenor. Les Witches.
(Alpha 063)
Flutists, Watteau
