This Week’s Links
First Hour
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), Zephyre: air & menuets, Les Arts Florissants (Flourishing Arts), William Christie, Erato 85774, RAMEAU LA GUIRLANDE ZEPHYRE
Marin Marais (1656-1728), Alcyone (1706): Prologue: Ouverture, Acte I: Premier Air pour les Eoliens and Deuzieme Air. Sarabande pour les memes, & Acte II: Deuxieme Air pour les magiciens, Tempesta di Mare, Chandos CHAN 0805, COMEDIE ET TRAGEDIE VOL.1
Scotland, In a Garden so Green, David Tayler – archlute, Voices of Music 16516, IN A GARDEN SO GREEN
Pierre Attaignant (c.1494-c.1551), Au bois joli PRETTY WOODS, College de Cuivres de Suisse Romand, André Besançon, Cascavelle 1015, CUIVRES EN FETE
Johannes Schenck (1660-c.1720), Sonata Ottava in C, La Suave Melodia (The Suave Melody), Etcetera KTC1356, IL GIARDINO ARMONICO (WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING)
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)
Second Hour
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764),, La Poule (The Hen), Igor Kipnis – harpsichord, Sony 45524, GREATEST HITS OF THE HARPSICHORD
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Grillen-symphonie (Cricket aka Whimsical Symphony), Apollo’s Fire (Cleveland Baroque Orchestra), Jeannette Sorrell, Henry Peyrebrune and Tracy Rowell – contrabasses, Koch International 7576, DON QUIXOTE: CONCERTOS AND SUITES BY TELEMANN
Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina (1525-1594), Super flumina Babylonis, The Sixteen, Harry Christophers, CORO 16133, PALESTRINA VOLUME 6
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Concerto in A “The Frogs”, New London Consort, Philip Pickett, L’Oiseau Lyre 455621, TELEMANN:WASSERMUSIK*ALSTER OVERTURE NEW LONDON CONSORT/PICKETT
James Oswald (1711-1769), Narcissus (Spring), Broadside Band, Jeremy Barlow, Dorian 80164, AIRS FOR THE SEASONS
Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri (1690-1764), Concerto #12 in G Tempesta di Mare, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Gottfried von der Goltz, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77352, ZAVATERI CONCERTI DA CHIESA E DA CAMERA
Improvisation, Canarios, Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall, Alia Vox 9820, OSTINATO
Third Hour
John Christopher Smith (1712-1795), Suite from THE ENCHANTER: excerpt, Capella Savaria Baroque Orchestra, Mary Terey-Smith, Dorian 93251, SYRENS, ENCHANTERS AND FAIRIES * CAPELLA SAVARIA/M. TEREY-SMITH
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Organ Concerto in g #5 op.7, Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr, Richard Egarr – organ, Harmonia Mundi 807447/48, HANDEL ORGAN CONCERTOS OP.7
Giovanni Battista Bononcini (1670-1747), Sinfonia #10 in D, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner, Philips 422287, SOUND THE TRUMPET
Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667-1752), Concerto for violin, strings and basso continuo in A, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Ramee RAM1109, JOHANN CHRISTOPH PEPUSCH CONCERTSO AND OVERTURES FOR LONDON
Nicola Porpora (1686-1768), Cello Concerto in G, L’Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini, Gaetano Nasillo – cello, Zig Zag 50302, CONCERTI NAPOLETANI PER VIOLONCELLO
Fourth Hour
William Byrd (1543-1623), Woods so Wild, Ayreheart, Sono Luminus DSL-92203, BARLEY MOON
Marin Marais (1656-1728), The Labyrinth, Paolo Pandolfo – viola da gamba, Paolo Pandolfo – viola da gamba, Mitzi Meyerson – harpsichord, Thomas Boysen – theorbo, Glossa 920404, LE LABRYNTHE ET AUTRES HISTOIRES
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Concerto #5 RV253 Tempesta di Mare, Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi – violin & leader, Virgin 45465, CONTEST BETWEEN HARMONY & INVENTION FROM ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS
John Christopher Smith (1712-1795), Suite from THE TEMPEST, Capella Savaria Baroque Orchestra, Mary Terey-Smith, Dorian 93251, SYRENS, ENCHANTERS AND FAIRIES * CAPELLA SAVARIA/M. TEREY-SMITH
Andre Cardinal Destouches (1672-1749), The Elements – opera-ballet (1721), Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood, L’Oiseau Lyre 4759100, LES ELEMENS