This hour features a new, special CD with early music. This time, the new ‘L’Alessandro Amante’ CDs by countertenor Xavier Sabata with Vespres D’Arnadi led by Dani Espasa and ‘Calling the Muse’ by Bruno Helstroffer on theorbo.
Georg Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
1. From Poro, re dell’Indie (London 1731): Se passo tanto due luci vezzose aria
Giovanni Batista Pescetti (1704-1766)
2. From Alessandro nell’Indie: Serbati a grandi imprese aria
Agostino Steffani (1654-1728)
3. From il zelo di Leonato (Hannover 1691): Sinfonia
– Lentement
– Allegro
Giovanni Battista Bononcini (1670-1747)
4. From L’Euleo festegiante nel ritorno d’Alessandro Magno dall’Indie (Wenen, 1699):
Chiare faci al di cui lume’aria
Francesco Mancini (1672-1737)
5. From Alessandro il Grande in Sidone (Napels, 1706): Sinfonia
– Allegrissimo
– Larghetto
– Allegro
Leonoardo Leo (1694-1744)
6. From Alessandro in Persia (Londen (1741): Dirti, ben mio, vorrei’aria
Xavier Sabata, countertenor. Vespres D’Arnadi conducted by Dani Espasa
(CD L’Alessandro Amante, Aparte Music AP 192)
Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger (1580-1651) 
7. Toccata nona
8. Bergamasca
9. Toccata Undicesima
Alessandro Piccinini (1566-1638)
10. Partite variate sopra quest’aria Francese detta L’allemana
Bruno Helstroffer
11. Perivoli Blue
Bruno Helstroffer, theorbo
(CD Calling the Muse, Old & New pieces for theorbo, Alpha Classics ALPHA 391)
