Winter Solstice

Playlist 2019-12-15

This Week’s Links

Sunday Baroque 2019 Holiday Gift List

Stephen Cleobury obituary

Pelham Humfrey

First Hour

John Taverner (c.1490-1545), Audivi vocem de caelo, Stile Antico, Harmonia Mundi 807517, PUER NATUS EST: TUDOR MUSIC FOR ADVENT AND CHRISTMAS

Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri (1690-1764), Concerto #10 in D PASTORALE, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Gottfried von der Goltz, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77352, ZAVATERI CONCERTI DA CHIESA E DA CAMERA

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Cello Suite #5 in c BWV1011: courante, Yo Yo Ma – cello, Sony 190758 54652, YO-YO MA – SIX EVOLUTIONS

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben BWV147: chorale Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury, Alison Balsom – trumpet, Warner Classics 925116, JUBILO

Johann Ludwig Bach (1677-1773), Overture in G, Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Naive OP30578, JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH – COMPLETE OUVERTURES FOR ORCHESTRA

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Double Concerto in F for alto recorder & bassoon, Les Elements Amsterdam, Ricardo Kanji – recorder, Donna Agrell – bassoon, Globe 5104, TELEMANN: OVERTURE – CONCERTI/LES ELEMENTS

Second Hour

Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611), Motet: O magnum mysterium (Venice 1572), Stile Antico, Harmonia Mundi HMM 902312, A SPANISH NATIVITY

Gottfried Finger (c.1655-1730), Sonata in Bb a 5 (oboe, strings and b.c.), The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson, Ramee RAM1802, MUSIC FOR EUROPEAN COURTS AND CONCERTS

James Oswald (1711-1769), The Laurel (Winter), Mindy Rosenfeld – flute, Ronn McFarlane – lute, Dorian Sono Luminus DSL-92169, NINE NOTES THAT SHOOK THE WORLD

c.1500 Ritson MS, Nowell, nowell: The boares head, The Sixteen, Harry Christophers, CORO 16027, CHRISTUS NATUS EST: AN EARLY ENGLISH CHRISTMAS

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Concerto #4 in f op.8 WINTER RV297, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Sarah Chang – violin, EMI 394431, THE FOUR SEASONS

John Playford (1623-1686), Drive the cold winter away (jig), Les Witches, Alpha 502, NOBODY’S JIG: MR PLAYFORD’S ENGLISH DANCING MASTER

Johann Schickhardt (c.1682-1762), Concerto in g for flute & 2 oboes, Musica Ad Rhenum (Music on the Rhine), Jed Wentz – flutist & conductor, Jed Wentz – flute, oboe, oboe, NM Classics 92037, BAROQUE CONCERTI FROM THE NETHERLANDS

Third Hour

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Cantata #36: Swing joyfully aloft.., Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, Deutsche Grammophon 463588, CANTATAS FOR THE 1st SUNDAY IN ADVENT

Francesco Manfredini (1684-1762), Concerto Grosso in C op.3 #12 CHRISTMAS, Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan, Deutsche Grammophon 449924, CHRISTMAS ADAGIO

Anonymous 16th c. Czech, Poslan jest od Boha andel (Sent Down by God is an Angel), The Rose Ensemble, Rose, 00003, SLAVIC HOLIDAY – LEGENDS FROM ANCIENT CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND POLAND

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Concerto in b RV389, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone, Alessandro Tampieri – violin, Naive OP7078, CONCERTI PER VIOLINO VII “PER IL CASTELLO”

Pelham Humfrey (1647-1674), Hear my crying, O God, Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Romanesca, Nicholas McGegan, Donna Dean – soprano, Drew Minter – countertenor, Rogers Covey-Crump – tenor, John Potter – tenor, David Thomas – bass, Harmonia Mundi HMX 2908552.53, MUSIQUE & MUSICIENS A WESTMINSTER

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Sonata in e BWV1034 (orig for flute), Avi Avital – mandolin, Ophira Zakai – theorbo, Ira Givol – cello, Shalev Ad-El – harpsichord, Deutsche Grammophon 483 6590, J.S. BACH – AVI AVITAL

Fourth Hour

Anonymous, There is no rose, The Hilliard Ensemble, ECM New Series 2408, TRANSEAMUS: ENGLISH CAROLS AND MOTETS

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Concerto in b for 2 Flutes and Calchedon, Akademie Fur Alte Musik Berlin, Michael Freimuth – lute, Christoph Huntgeburth – flute, Andrea Theinert – flute, Harmonia Mundi HMM902261, TELEMANN: CONCERTI PER MOLTI STROMENTI

Philip Heinrich Erlebach (1657-1714), Overture #4, Akademie Fur Alte Musik Berlin (Academy for Ancient Music), Harmonia Mundi 901852, OUVERTUREN: MUSIC FOR THE HAMBURG OPERA

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, Frederic Chiu – piano, Harmonia Mundi 907054, VIRTUOSO PIANO TRANSCRIPTIONS

Chant, Veni, veni Emmanuel (O Come Emanuel), Taverner Choir (women’s voices), Andrew Parrott, EMI 490809, THE CAROL ALBUM: SEVEN CENTURIES OF CHRISTMAS MUSIC

Antonio de Cabezon (1510-1566), Differencias sobre el canto llano de cavallero & La dame le demande
Santiago de Murcia (1673-1739), Folias Gallegas & Seguidillas manchegas, Piffaro Renaissance Band, Navona Records NV5875, PIFFARO LOS MINISTRILES IN THE NEW WORLD

 

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