This Week’s Links
Scary Classical Music for Halloween
First Hour
Orlande de Lasso (c.1532/30-1594), Justorum Animae (The Souls of the Just)
Tomas Luis de Victoria (c.1548-1611), O Quam Gloriosum (O how glorious), Voices of Ascension, Dennis Keene, Delos 3165, BEYOND CHANT: MYSTERIES OF THE RENAISSANCE
Thomas Linley Jr. (1756–1778), Ode on the Witches & Fairies of Shakespeare, Musicians of the Globe, Philips 446689, ODE ON THE WITCHES & FAIRIES OF SHAKESPEARE
Francois Couperin (1668-1733), Les Ombres Errantes, Iddo Bar-Shai – piano, Mirare MIR 195, LES OMBRES ERRANTES
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Flute Concerto #2 in g LA NOTTE, I Musici, Severino Gazzelloni – flute, Philips 454256, COMPLETE FLUTE CONCERTOS
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Toccata in d BWV 565, Ton Koopman – organ, Deutsche Grammophon 413638, J.S.BACH: WORKS FOR ORGAN / WORKS FOR HARPSICHORD
Valentin (Balint) Bakfark (1507-1576), Un gay bergier-intab.on Crecquillon & Si grand e la pieta- intab Arcadelt, Jacob Heringman – lute, Discipline Global Mobile 9906, BLACK COW
John Playford (1623-1686), Virgin Queen, Bobbing Joe, Confess his tune, Nobody’s Jig, Mr Lane’s Maggott, & A Division on a ground, Les Witches, Alpha 502, NOBODY’S JIG: MR PLAYFORD’S ENGLISH DANCING MASTER
Second Hour
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787), Dance of the spectres & the furies, Il Giardino Armonico (Harmonic Garden), Giovanni Antonini, Naive, 30399, LA CASA DEL DIAVOLO
Alfonso Ferrabosco (1543-1588), Fantasia a 4 & A Solfing Song, Phantasm, Laurence Dreyfus – treble viol & director, Wendy Gillespie – treble & tenor viols, Jonathan Manson – tenor viol, Markku Luolajan-Mikkola – bass viol, AVIE 2054, FOUR TEMPERAMENTS
Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613), 8 Caligaverunt oculi mei (My eyes are darkened by my tears), Choir of Clare College Cambridge, Graham Ross, Harmonia Mundi 907616, STABAT MATER DOLOROSA
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Musique heroique: La Tranquilite, La Vigilance, L’Esperance, L’Amour, & La Grace, Ole Edvard Antonsen – trumpet, Wayne Marshall – organ, EMI Classics, 0724358546224, POPULAR PIECES FOR TRUMPET AND ORGAN
Anna Amalia of Prussia (1723-1787), Sonata in F for flute & b.c., Emmanuel Pahud – flute, Jonathan Manson – cello, Trevor Pinnock – harpsichord, EMI Classics 84220, THE FLUTE KING
Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770), Devil’s Trill Sonata, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Christian Curnyn, Nicola Benedetti, Decca B0016412-02, ITALIA
John Adson (c.1587-1640), The Devil’s Dance, Fine Arts Brass Ensemble, Nimbus 5546, MUSIC FROM THE ENGLISH COURTS
Third Hour
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Cantata #147: opening chorus, Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki, Bis 1031, CANTATAS FROM LEIPZIG 1723
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787), Flute Sonata in F, Op.6, #5, Masahiro Arita – flute, Chiyoko Arita – harpsichord, Tetsuya Nakano – viola da gamba, Denon 75025, 18TH CENTURY “NEW GENERATION” GERMAN FLUTE MUSIC
Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750), Suite in d: gigue, Toyohiko Satoh – lute, Miki Satoh – lute, Carpe Diem 16275, BAROQUE LUTE DUETS
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Concerto in c for violin and oboe BWV1060, Akademie Fur Alte Musik Berlin (Academy for Ancient Music), Stephan Mai – violin & director, Midori Seiler – violin, Xenia Loffler – oboe, Harmonia Mundi 901876, JS BACH VIOLIN CONCERTO BWV 1052 & DOUBLE CONCERTOS
Giovanni Gabrieli (1554/7-1612), Canzon V, Canzon VI, & Canzon X, Canadian Brass, Boston Symphony Orchestra Brass, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Sony 44931, ANTIPHONAL MUSIC
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Bassoon Concerto in e RV484, Bach-Mozart Ensemble Tokyo, Kiyotaka Dosaka – baroque bassoon, Denon 75198, CONCERTI FOR A WIND INSTRUMENT
Fourth Hour
Robert Parsons (c.1530-?1572), Domine, quis habitabit, Magnificat, Philip Cave, LINN 417, WHERE LATE THE SWEET BIRDS SANG
Alessandro Stradella (1639-1682), Sonata a 8 viole con una Tromba in D, Tafelmusik, Jeanne Lamon, Crispian Steele Perkins – natural trumpet, Sony 53365, MUSIC FOR TRUMPET & ORCHESTRA
Bellerofonte Castaldi (1580-1649), Quagliotta Canzone, Ludovico’s Band, ABC Classics 4766158, THE ITALIAN GROUND
Carlo Farina (c.1600-c.1640), Pavana 1 Libro II, Il Concerto delle Viole, Olive Music OM 009, PAVANE & GAGLIARDE 1626-1628
Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764), Deuxieme (2nd) Recreation de Musique op.8 (1737), Four Nations Ensemble, Andrew Appel – dir. & harpsichord, Charles Brink – traverso, Krista Bennion Feeney – violin, Loretta O’Sullivan – cello, Orchid 100032, JEAN-MARIE LECLAIR