This Week’s Links

Black History Month

Valentine’s Day traditions

History of Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day & Birds

Laura Jeppesen (viola da gamba) & Daniel Stepner (violin)

Cupid

First Hour

Jacob Praetorius (1586-1651), Quam pulchra es (How beautiful and fair you are, my beloved), Balthasar-Neumann Choir & Ensemble, Pablo Heras-Casado, Archiv 479452, PRAETORIUS

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788), Flute Sonata in a, WQ 128, Masahiro Arita – flute, Chiyoko Arita – harpsichord, Tetsuya Nakano – viola da gamba, Denon 75025, 18TH CENTURY “NEW GENERATION” GERMAN FLUTE MUSIC

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Concerto in e for Recorder, Traverso & Strings TWV52:e1, Rebel, Jorg-Michael Schwarz, Matthias Maute – recorder, Sophie Lariviere – traverso, Jorg Michael Schwarz & Karen Marie Marmer – violins, Risa Browder – viola, Bridge Records 9421, G.P. TELEMANN DOUBLE CONCERTI FOR WINDS & STRINGS

Henry Purcell (1659-1695), If music Be the Food of Love, Kathleen Battle – soprano, Anthony Newman – harpsichord, Myron Lutzke – cello, Sony 53106, IN CONCERT: KATHLEEN BATTLE & JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL

Martin Codax (c.1230), Quantas sabedes amare (Cantiga de amigo V), Montserrat Figueras – voice, Arianna Savall – harp & voice, Ferran Savall – voice, Jordi Savall – vielle, Alia Vox AV 9841, DU TEMPS & DE L’INSTANT

Mexican (17th c.), Diferencias sobre la Guaracha, Alia Vox, AV 9841,, DU TEMPS & DE L’INSTANT

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Concerto in g for 2 Cellos and Strings RV531, Voices of Music, Hanneke van Proosdij & David Tayler, William Skeen – baroque cello, Tanya Tomkins – baroque cello, Voices of Music, CONCERTO BAROCCO

Second Hour

Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764), Scylla et Glaucus OP.II (1746): sarabande, air des silvains, & symphonie pour exprimer l’aboiement des monstres, Tempesta di Mare, Chaconne CHAN 0810, COMEDIE ET TRAGEDIE VOLUME TWO

Johann Sebastian Bach (168501750), Partita #6 in e BWV830: toccata & corrente, Rochelle Sennet – piano, Albany Troy 1910-12, BACH TO BLACK SUITES FOR PIANO VOLUME II

Francois Couperin (1668-1733), Les Goûts-Réünis, IXe Concert intitulé Ritratto dell’amore, Luis-Otavio Santos – violon, Emmanuel Balsa & Jerome Hantai – basses de viole, Elisabeth Joyé – harpsichord, Alpha 062, FRANCOIS COUPERIN: LA SULTANNE, PRELUDES & CONCERTS ROYAUX

Elisabetta de Gambarini (1731-1765), Lover go and calm thy sighs, Audacium Baroque Ensemble, Gabriella di Laccio – soprano, drama musica, donne barocche, DONNE BAROCCHE

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Concerto #10 in E RV271 THE LOVER (L’AMOROSO), Brecon Baroque, Rachel Podger – violin, Channel Classics 40318, VIVALDI – LE QUATTRO STAGIONI

Third Hour

Marin Marais (1656-1728), Suite à deux violes en sol majeur (Premier livre, 1686) – Gavotte, Gavotte en Rondeau, & Menuet, A 2 violes esgales, Jonathan Dunford – basse de viole, Sylvia Abramowicz – basse de viole, Thomas Dunford – archilute, Musica Ficta MF8024, MARIN MARAIS SUITES A DEUX VIOLES

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Sonata #1 in C RV2 “a Pisendel”, Boston Museum Trio, Daniel Stepner – violin, Laura Jeppesen – viola da gamba, John Gibbons – harpsichord, Harmonia Mundi 901088, VIVALDI SONATES A PISENDEL

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Concerto-Suite TWV54:F1, Tempesta di Mare, Chandos CHAN 0821, GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN – THE CONCERTI-EN-SUITE

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Concerto in g RV812, European Union Chamber Players, Julian Lloyd Webber – cello, Jiaxin Lloyd Webber – cello, Naxos 8.573374, VIVALDI CONCERTOS FOR TWO CELLOS

Fourth Hour

Sebastian Duron (1660-1716), Vuelo de amor (Flight of Love), La Grande Chapelle, Lauda LAU003, EL VUELO DE ICARO

Thomas Morley, It was a Lover and his Lasse, The Baltimore Consort, Danielle Svonavec – soprano, SONO Luminus DSL-92234, THE FOOD OF LOVE: SONGS, DANCES, AND FANCIES FOR SHAKESPEARE

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Concerto in D Il Gardellino (Goldfinch) for flute, str, b.c. RV428, Arco Baleno, Peter Verhoyen – flute, ETCETERA KTC1278, ANTONIO VIVALDI CONCERTOS

Francesco Mancini (1672-1737), Sonata #6 in d AMOROSO, Musica Pacifica, Dorian 93209, CONCERTI DA CAMERA

Rene de Bearn, Marquis de Brassac (1699-1771), The Empire of Love, Chatham Baroque, Dorian 90272, DANSE ROYALE

Michele Mascitti (1664-1760), Psyche op.5 #12, Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi – violin, Virgin Veritas 45588, ITALIAN VIOLIN SONATAS

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