This Week’s Links
John Dryden: A SONG FOR ST. CECILIA’S DAY
History of the Guitar (for International Guitar Month)
LAGQ (Los Angeles Guitar Quartet)
First Hour
Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300-1377), Lasse! je sui en aventure, The Hilliard Ensemble, ECM 1823, GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT MOTETS
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), Anacreon Suite, Capella Savaria, Mary Terey-Smith, Naxos 553746, RAMEAU ORCHESTRAL SUITES
Anonymous, Robin is to the green wood gone, Fortune my Foe, Bonny Sweet Boy, Rowland, & Kemp’s Jig, Les Witches, Dorian 93182, FORTUNE MY FOE: MUSIC OF SHAKESPEARE’S TIME
Giovanni Antonio Guido (c.1675-after 1728), Concerto #1 SPRING, The Band of Instruments, Roger Hamilton – harpsichord, Caroline Balding – violin, Divine Art dda 25072, GIOVANNI ANTONIO GUIDO * THE FOUR SEASONS
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Song for St.Cecilia’s Day:From Harmony, tenor & chorus:The trumpet’s Loud Clangor, final chorus: As from the pow’r of sacred lays, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, Richard Croft – tenor, Lisa Crowe – soprano, Naive 5183, TO SAINT CECILIA
Second Hour
William Byrd (1543-1623), Woods so Wild, Ayreheart, Sono Luminus DSL-92203, BARLEY MOON
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Concerto in A “Coucou” RV335, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Shlomo Mintz, Shlomo Mintz – violin, Music Master 67179, VIVALDI COLLECTION VOL.IX
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), Suite in e: Le rappel des oiseaux, Angela Hewitt – piano, Hyperion 67597, JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU KEYBOARD SUITES PIECES DE CLAVECIN
Jean-Fery Rebel (1666-1747), The Elements (premiered 1737), Palladian Ensemble, Pamela Thorby – recorders, Rodolfo Richter – violin, Susanne Heinrich – bass viol, William Carter – theorbo, Linn 221, LES ELEMENS
James Oswald (1711-1769), Narcissus (Spring) & Crocus (Spring), Broadside Band, Jeremy Barlow, Dorian 80164, AIRS FOR THE SEASONS
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Concerto in A for FROGS, Berliner Barock Solisten (Berlin Baroque Soloists), Rainer Kussmaul – violin, Rainer Kussmaul – violin, EMI 57232, TELEMANN: CONCERTOS * UNKNOWN WORKS
John Dowland (1563-1626), Frogg Galliard, Hopkinson Smith – lute, Naive 8896, A DREAM
Third Hour
Giovanni Gabrieli (1554/7-1612), Canzon XI & Sonata XIII, LAGQ (Los Angeles Guitar Quartet), Delos 3132, DANCES FROM RENAISSANCE TO NUTCRACKER
Marin Marais (1656-1728), First Suite in D: tks 1-4,7,10, Music’s Re-creation, Centaur 2334, SUITES EN TRIO: PIECES DE VIOLES, 4E LIVRE
Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Suite of dances, Andres Segovia – guitar, MCA 42070, THE BAROQUE GUITAR
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Concerto for 4 guitars in b RV580 from L’ESTRO ARMONICO, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Los Romeros, Iona Brown, Celedonio Romero – guitar, Celin, Pepe and Angel Romero – guitars, Celin, Pepe and Angel Romero – guitars, Philips, 412624, VIVALDI GUITAR CONCERTOS LOS ROMEROS
Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764), Scylla et Glaucus OP.II (1746): suite, Tempesta di Mare, Chaconne CHAN 0810, COMEDIE ET TRAGEDIE VOLUME TWO
Fourth Hour
Traditional (arr by Edward Miller), The Braes of Ballandyne
James Oswald (1711-1769), The Braes of Ewes, Alison Melville – traverso and recorder, Charlotte Nediger – harpsichord, Kirk Elliott – harp & guitar, Mary-Katherine Finch – cello, Ben Grossman – percussion, Early Music 7761, SHE’S SWEETEST WHEN SHE’S NAKED: FLUTE MUSIC OF 18TH C. SCOTLAND
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
Pierre Attaignant (c.1494-c.1551), Au bois joli PRETTY WOODS, College de Cuivres de Suisse Romand, André Besançon, Cascavelle 1015, CUIVRES EN FETE
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
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Grillensymphonie (Cricket aka Whimsical Symphony) in G, Ensemble Caprice, Analekta AN 2 9919, TELEMANN THE BAROQUE GYPSIES
Jacob Clemens non Papa (c.1510-c.1556), Ego flos campi (motet), Stile Antico, Harmonia Mundi 807489, SONG OF SONGS
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