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Sunday Baroque Holiday Gift List
Handel’s MESSIAH (Foundling Hospital Benefit)
First Hour
Louis-Claude Daquin (1694-1772), Noel provencal, Rene Saorgin – organ, Harmonia Mundi HMX2978223, NOEL – CHRISTMAS – WEIHNACHTEN
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), MESSIAH: sinfony, O thou that tellist good tidings, For unto us a Child is Born, & Pifa (Pastoral Symphony), Gabrieli Consort & Players, Bernarda Fink – contralto, Paul McCreesh, Deutsche Grammophon 453464, HANDEL – MESSIAH
Giuseppe Sammartini (1695-1750), Concerto Grosso in g op.5 #6 CHRISTMAS, Les Violons du Roy (King’s Violins), Bernard Labadie, Dorian 90180, A TREASURY OF BAROQUE CHRISTMAS CONCERTI
Traditional (English), The First Noel
Traditional (English), Wassail Song
Traditional (16th c. English), We Wish You a Merry Christmas, Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Sony 7033, FESTIVAL OF CAROLS IN BRASS
Juan Guttierez de Padilla (c.1590-1664), Voces, las de la capilla (voices of the chapel), The Newberry Consort, EnsAmble Ad-Hoc, Navona NV6375, A MEXICAN CHRISTMAS
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G BWV 1048, Akademie Fur Alte Musik Berlin (Academy for Ancient Music), Isabelle Faust – violin, Antoine Tamestit, Harmonia Mundi HMM90268687, BACH:BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS 1-6/AKADEMIE FUR ALTE MUSIK,BERLIN
Second Hour
Traditional French, Il est ne, le divin Enfant
Traditional, Ding! Dong! Merrily on high, Taverner Consort, Choir & Players, Andrew Parrott, EMI 490809, THE CAROL ALBUM: SEVEN CENTURIES OF CHRISTMAS MUSIC
Anonymous (ca.1640), Greensleeves to a Ground, Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall – viola da gamba, Arianna Savall – harp, Xavier Diaz-Latorre – guitar, Alia Vox 9811, LA BARCHA D’AMORE 1563-1685
Traditional English, The holly and the ivy (a cappella), Anonymous 4, Harmonia Mundi 907325, WOLCUM YULE CELTIC AND BRITISH SONGS AND CAROLS
Pietro Antonio Locatelli (1695-1764), Concerto Grosso in f Op.1 #8 CHRISTMAS, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan, Deutsche Grammophon 449924, CHRISTMAS ADAGIO
Catalan 12th/Dutch 15th/German 16th, Settings of In Dulci Jubilo, Boston Camerata, Joel Cohen, Nonesuch 71315, A Medieval Christmas
Michel Richard Delalande (1657-1726), Simphonies des Noels pour instruments, Masques, Olivier Fortin, Analekta 9908, NOEL BAROQUE (BAROQUE CHRISTMAS)
Third Hour
Traditional Irish, Air:La fuar geimhreadh (instrument), Andrew Lawrence-King – Irish harp, Harmonia Mundi, 907325, WOLCUM YULE CELTIC AND BRITISH SONGS AND CAROLS
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Concerto #4 WINTER, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Christian Li – violin, Decca 00028948518241, VIVALDI: THE FOUR SEASONS
Traditional, Coventry Carol, Taverner Consort, Choir & Players, Andrew Parrott, EMI 490809, THE CAROL ALBUM: SEVEN CENTURIES OF CHRISTMAS MUSIC
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713), Concerto Grosso #8 in g Op.6 CHRISTMAS, Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini, Harmonia Mundi 901406.07, CORELLI. CONCERTI GROSSI OP.6. ENSEMBLE 415,C.BANCHINI
Giovanni Antonio Guido (c.1675-after 1728), Concerto #4 WINTER, The Band of Instruments, Roger Hamilton – harpsichord, Caroline Balding – violin, Divine Art dda 25072, GIOVANNI ANTONIO GUIDO 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
Fourth Hour
Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599), Canite tuba (Sound the trumpet), His Majestie’s Clerkes, Anne Heider, Centaur 2168, NEWS OF GREAT JOY
James Oswald (1711-1769), Golden Rod (Winter) & Heart’s-Ease (Winter), Broadside Band, Jeremy Barlow, Janet See – flute, Matthew Dixon – oboe, Dorian 80164, AIRS FOR THE SEASONS
St. Jean de Brebeuf (1593-1649), Huron Carol, Chanticleer, Joseph Jennings, Teldec 85555, CHRISTMAS WITH CHANTICLEER
Heinrich Franz Ignaz von Biber (1644-1704), Mystery Sonata #3 THE NATIVITY, Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman, Christina Day Martinson – violin, LINN CKD501, HEINRICH BIBER THE MYSTERY SONATAS
Juan Garcia de Zéspedes (1619-1678), Convidando esta la noche, The Newberry Consort, EnsAmble Ad-Hoc, Navona NV6375, A MEXICAN CHRISTMAS
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704), Noels for Instruments, Les Violons du Roy (King’s Violins), Bernard Labadie, Dorian 90180, A TREASURY OF BAROQUE CHRISTMAS CONCERTI
c.1450 Seldon MS, Nowell sing we, both all and some
c.1500 Ritson MS, Nowell, nowell: Dieu vous garde
c.1500 Ritson MS, Nowell, nowell: The boares head, The Sixteen, Harry Christophers, CORO 16027, CHRISTUS NATUS EST: AN EARLY ENGLISH CHRISTMAS
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