This Week’s Links
Ballet – Louis XIV and the French Influence
First Hour
Jean-Joseph Cassanea de Mondonville (1711-1772), Grand Motet: DOMINUS REGNAVIT: chorus: Gloria Patri / Sicut erat in principio, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir, Ivars Taurins, Tafelmusik Media TMK1029, BEST OF FRENCH BAROQUE
Pierre Attaignant (c.1494-c.1551), Pavane 3/Anonyme, 1547 & Two Dances: Pavane & Allemande, Doulce Memoire (Sweet Memory), Astree 8545, CHANSONS NOUVELLES & DANCERIES
Louis Couperin (c.1626-1661), Passacaille en sol mineur, Gustav Leonhardt – harpsichord, Alpha 026, GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI – LOUIS COUPERIN
Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764), Deuxieme (2nd) Recreation de Musiq
ue 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
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755), Concerto pour Zampogna, Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet, Naxos 554456, BOISMORTIER FRENCH SERENADES
Second Hour
Guillaume Dumanoir (1615-1697), Suite in Fa/Do major: excerpt, Concert of Nations, Jordi Savall, Auvidis 9908, SUITES D’ORCHESTRE
Jean-Henry D’Anglebert (1635-1691), Prelude in C
Ennemond Gaultier (1575-1651), Chaconne du Vieux Gautier
Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687), Gigues
Andre Campra (1660-1744), Entree Espagnole, Andrew Lawrence King – harp, Harmonia Mundi 907335, CHOREGRAPHIE: MUSIC FOR LOUIS XIV’S DANCING MASTERS
Marin Marais (1656-1728), Alcione: Suite #4, Concert of Nations, Jordi Savall, Auvidis 8525, ALCIONE: SUITES DES AIRS A JOUER
Jacques Martin Hotteterre (1674-1763), Suite #3 in D, Philippe Allain-Dupre – baroque transverse flute, Laurence Pottier – baroque recorder, Philippe Pierlot – viola da gamba, Yasuko Uyama-Bouvard – harpsichord, Naxos 553708, MUSIC FOR FLUTE VOLUME 2
Jean-Francois Dandrieu (c.1682-1738), Rondeau, English Chamber Orchestra, Anthony Newman, Wynton Marsalis – trumpet, Sony 66244, WYNTON MARSALIS – IN GABRIEL’S GARDEN
Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729), Trio Sonata in D (c.1695), Frances Conover Fitch – harpsichord, Robert Mealy – baroque violin, Jane Hershey – viola da gamba, Centaur 2781/2782, PROTEGEE OF THE SUN KING: MUSIC BY JACQUET DE LA GUERRE
Third Hour
Francois Francoeur (1698-1787), Simphonies pour le Festin: gavotte, Ensemble Stradivaria, Daniel Cuiller, Cypres 1626, SUITES DE SIMPHONIES
Michel Corrette (1707-1795), Concerto “Le Phenix”, Mary Springfels & Craig Trompeter – viols, Michael McCraw, Keith Collins & Anna Marsh – bassoons, Adam Wead – theorbo, Barbara Weiss – harpsichord, Centaur 2704, “BASS”ICALLY FRENCH
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704), Prelude from Te Deum in D, Empire Brass Quintet with William Kuhlman – organ, Telarc 80614, BAROQUE MUSIC FOR BRASS AND ORGAN
Antoine Forqueray (1671-1745), Première suite – 1. Allemande LA LABORDE & 4. La Bellmont, Nima Ben David – basse de viole, Jonathan Rubin – theorbo, Sophie Bauchet – basse de viole, Alpha 007, COUPERIN & FORQUERAY – PIECES DE VIOLES
Jean Baptiste Antoine Forqueray (1699-1782), Pieces a trois violes par Monsieur Forcroy: courante & allemande, Vittorio Ghielmi – viola da gamba, Rodney Prada – viola da gamba, Luca Pianca – archlute, Lorenzo Ghielmi – harpsichord, Passacaille 995, FORQUERAY LE DIABLE
Michel Richard Delalande (1657-1726), Suite #10 for the King’s Suppers, La Simphonie du Marais, Hugo Reyne, Harmonia Mundi 901337, DELALANDE SYMPHONIES FOR THE KING’S SUPPER
Fourth Hour
Jean-Fery Rebel (1666-1747), Violin Sonata #5 in D: sarabande and gigue, Andrew Manze – violin, Richard Egarr – harpsichord, Jaap ter Linden – viola da gamba, Harmonia Mundi 907221, REBEL VIOLIN SONATAS
Henry Desmarest (1661-1741), La Diane de Fontainebleau: Suite, La Simphonie du Marais, Hugo
Reyne, Astree 8633, LA DIANE DE FONTAINEBLEAU
Francois Couperin (1668-1733), Troiseme Lecon de Tenebres, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen – organ, Katherine Watson – soprano, Anna Dennis – soprano, Thomas Dunford – lute, Anne-Marie Lasla – viola da gamba, Hyperion CDA68093, FRANCOIS COUPERIN – L’APOTHEOSE DE LULLY
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), Temple of Glory: Suite, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan, Harmonia Mundi 907121, RAMEAU.LE TEMPLE DE LA GLOIRE.NAIS