This Week’s Links

Memorial Day

Flowers of the Forest

National Poppy Day – May 23, 2025

In Flanders Fields – John McRae

“Albinoni” Adagio by Remo Giazotto

Gregorio Allegri’s MISERERE and the myth about Mozart

The Cellist of Sarajevo

First Hour

Bonaventura Rubino (1600-1668), Messa di morti a 5 concertata (1653) – Sanctus & Agnus Dei, Namur Chamber Choir, Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Ricercar, RIC 353, MARIO CAPUANA BONAVENTURA RUBINO REQUIEM

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Heroic Marches: La Grace, La Vaillance (Valor), La tranquilité (Tranquility), L’armement (Armament), &: L’espérance (Hope), Hakan Hardenberger – trumpet, Simon Preston – organ, Decca, B001612A96, HARDENBERGER – THE ART OF THE TRUMPET

James Oswald (1711-1769), Poppy (Summer), Broadside Band, Jeremy Barlow, Dorian, 80164, AIRS FOR THE SEASONS

Francois Couperin (1668-1733), Book 4: 27th Ordre: Les Pavots (the poppies), Angela Hewitt – piano, Hyperion, 67480, COUPERIN KEYBOARD MUSIC – II

Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652), Miserere Psalm 51, Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips, Gimell, 339, ALLEGRI MISERERE

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Cello Suite #2 in d BWV1008: sarabande & gigue, Yo Yo Ma – cello, Sony, 190758 54652, YO-YO MA – SIX EVOLUTIONS

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Concerto #2 Summer, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Christian Li – violin, Decca, 00028948518241, VIVALDI: THE FOUR SEASONS

Second Hour

John Dowland (1563-1626), Lachrimae Gementes, B-Five Recorder Consort, Coviello Classics, COV91415, IN SEARCH OF DOWLAND

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) & Philip Lasser (B.1963), In the Air (reimagining of Air on the G String), Baroklyn, Simone Dinnerstein – piano, Supertrain, COMPLICITE

Tobias Hume (c.1569-1645), A souldiers Galiard, I am falling, & A Souldiers resolution, Nima Ben David – basse de viole & director, Aiane Maurette & Andreas Linos – violes, Pascale Boquet – tenor & basse de luth & theorbe, Pascal Gallon – basse de luth, Alpha, 61, THE PASSION OF MUSICK

Tomas Luis de Victoria (c.1548-1611), Requiem: lux aeterna, Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips, Gimell, CDGIM 012, VICTORIA REQUIEM ALONSO LOBO: VERSA EST IN LUCTUM

William Lawes (1605-1645), Royall Consort Sett #1 in d, Consort Les Voix Humaines, ATMA Classique, ACD2 2373, THE ROYALL CONSORTS

Georg Muffat (1653-1704), Armonico Tributo: Sonata #5 in G, La Stravaganza Koln, MD+G, 3459, ARMONICO TRIBUTO (1682)

Third Hour

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Ich ruf zu dir, herr jesu Christ – Chorale Organ Prelude in f BWV639, Paul Galbraith – guitar, Mashulka Productions, 2010, PAUL GALBRAITH PERFORMS MOZART, BACH & BRTTEN

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Violin Concerto in a op. 9 #5 RV358, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Christian Curnyn, Nicola Benedetti – violin, Decca, B0016412-02, ITALIA

Scotland, A New Scots Measure & A Scots Tune, David Tayler – archlute, Voices of Music, 16516, IN A GARDEN SO GREEN

Cantiga #11, Instrumental #11: Fantasia, Ensemble Alcatraz, Dorian, 90285, CANTIGAS DE AMIGO: 13TH C. GALICIAN-PORTUGUESE SONGS & DANCES

Remo Giazotto (1910-1998) (misattributed toTomaso Albinoni), Adagio in g, I Musici, Philips, 410606, PACHELBELCANON MOZART EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK ALBINONI * ADAGIO

Pietro Antonio Locatelli (1695-1764), Concerto Grosso #6 op.7 in Eb “Il pianto d’Arianna” for violin, strings and continuo, Il Giardino Armonico (Harmonic Garden), Giovanni Antonini, Enrico Onofri – violin, Naive, 30399, LA CASA DEL DIAVOLO (HOUSE OF THE DEVIL)

Fourth Hour

Antonio de Cabezon (1510-1566), Pur un plaisir & Je prens en gre la dure mort I, Doulce Memoire (Sweet Memory), Denis Raisin Dadre, Ricercar, RIC 335, OBRAS DE MUSICA

Antonio Bertali (1605-1669), Ciacona in C, Freiburg Baroque Consort, Carus, 83.303, TAUSEND GULDEN: SONATAS FROM THE HABSBURG COURT

Scottish traditional, The Flowers of the Forest, Kim Robertson – harp, Dargason Records, TREASURES OF THE CELTIC HARP

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Chaconne, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Joshua Bell – violin, Sony, 88843, JOSHUA BELL BACH

Jean Mouton (1459-1522), Yours is the power…, Pomerium, Alexander Blachly, Glissando, 779001, MUSICA VATICANA: MUSIC FROM THE VATICAN MANUSCRIPTS 1503-1534

Nicola Porpora (1686-1768), Cello Concerto in G, L’Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini, Gaetano Nasillo – cello, Zig Zag, 50302, CONCERTI NAPOLETANI PER VIOLONCELLO

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